A refreshing slap in the face!

[Effie]

Hello all,
This will be day 2 of induction for me. I explained in another post that this is my second time doing Atkins -- first time was a year and a half ago. Already, after 2 days, I can see clearly what I had "forgotten".

For the past few months, I've been eating out of control. I would buy a 12 pack of Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies and eat them, one by one, in my car on the way home from the grocery store. I knew this was horrible behavior, but I blamed it all on emotional eating. I've been through a lot of job related stress for the past year, and that's how 20 pounds came piling on (in addition to the 20 or so I gained immediately after I fell off the Atkins wagon).

Now, I'm not saying that I wasn't stressed out or that emotional eating wasn't my problem, but it's so clear to me, after only TWO DAYS, that CARBS are the problem. I really am a horrible sugar addict, and I was feeding my addiction until it got worse and worse. Did I know this a year and a half ago? Yes. For some reason I feel like I just discovered this fact, and it's like a whole new world has opened up. I think carbs made me crazy, and put me in denial. Man oh mighty... I feel so much more in control already and I'm probably not even in full ketosis yet.

I'm loving this!

[tickletussler]

Hi Effie,

A very WARM welcome from all of us at ha

This is such a cool board with such a friendly bunch of people - I think most of us have made ourselves at home in no time.

Any questions, either do a "Search" or if you can't find what you are looking for, just post - there's heaps of us with answers.

Welcome and lots of :hug :hug :hug :hug :hug :hug coming your way!

Cheers.[/b]

[cleochatra]

Hi there, effie! When the fog lifts and our minds are able to function because our blood sugars aren't telling us what it wants us to hear, you're already making fantastic progress!

Clarity is something that is easy to have on Atkins when our bodies are being fed the way nature has dictated they be fed.

And it's amazing she's Little Debbie. One might think she'd be Obese Debbie. She must not eat her own snacks... and what does that say about her?

She must be on Atkins.

:joy

[Moochiecat]

'Obese Debbie'...lol

I have learned an incredible amount about myself and my relationship to food in the year+ that I've been on Atkins.
I never ever thought of myself as an emotional eater because I rarely ever went overboard with food...my way of emotional eating was to obsess over that one chocolate bar, or piece of cake or whathaveyou that I had in the house, and I'd gobble down dinner so I could have my dessert. At parties my evening centered around the food and not the social aspect. I used to say (and believe) that "if I didn't have chocolate in the house I get anxious"
I used to wonder why I could eat a big bowl of popcorn in the evening and then an hour later want something else to eat.

It's all so clear now what the foods were doing to me and how unhealthy it was the role I allowed them to play in my life.

Atkins is way more than just a list of Acceptable Foods and Rules...it goes a lot deeper than that, doesn't it?

All the best to you! :hug

[Peytonn]

ah... another little debbie junkie... I could eat a whole box of pecan swirls on the way home.... or the little white square coconut cakes or.. (well you get the picture)

sugar is hard to give up for me.. but I'm working on it!

[pluorvee]

welcome! you sound just like me when it comes to eating a ton just on the way home.

WELCOME and get ready to lose weight!