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Hi Everyone,
I just finished my 2-week induction on Friday and I did pretty well. My goal was to be at 300 lbs but I missed it by 3 lbs, I ended up at 303…. still pretty happy with what I lost though. I was going to continue to follow the induction for a couple more weeks but I am looking forward to adding some more choices to my WOE.
I weighed myself in this morning and I was down to 302.5! My weekly\mini goal is going to be the infamous 300 lbs mark, I am pretty sure I can loose the 2.5 lbs in a week. I was weighing myself daily on the induction with favorable results but I know as time goes on with any diet weight loss does tend to slow, for some at least. So I made a decision to weigh in on Sunday mornings, yep just once a week! This way if my weight goes up and down during the week I won’t freak out, get depressed and throw in the towel.
However I am never throwing in the towel again, I have lived as a FAT MAN way too long and I have had enough. I have the same feeling about staying on this WOE as I did when I quit smoking over a year ago and I will not fail. Quitting smoking has also helped me realize that temptation will always be there for me! Although the need and want for a smoke is rarely experienced I am still, from time to time, extremely tempted. I defeat those evil habitual temptations with a few triggers I have developed over some time!
What triggers you ask, and how did I create them! Easy, I associated smoking with everything negative! One trick I used was to think of something that made me disgusted, made me feel rotten to the core and then while thinking of those horrible things I would look at my smokes, I would smell them with my eyes closed while still concentrating on the negative images I conjured up. Eventually smoking to me became more and more repulsive until one day I just woke up and quit them.
For my weight, I have a picture in my mind of a show I saw on discovery about a man that weighed over 700 lbs! The images of his bed sores, the rolls of fat and his negative attitude is what I associate with the foods that I sued to love such as sugar laden chocolate, and other high sugar foods that have always tempted me through out my life.
Another tip I use is a little more positive! When I think of myself I picture myself fit, muscular and with a healthy glow about me. I picture the rich delicious food choice that are afforded to me and how satiated they keep me during the day and how at times I have to remind myself to eat! I see my self as upbeat and very personable, ready to take on any challenge that is thrown my way! Finally I see my self running around my yard with my kids without the pain in my knees I get when I have the added weight on my body! That is the kicker for me, my son is 3 ½ years old and he is getting faster and faster by the day. How am I going to keep up with him if I am 333 lbs! I picture myself being fit and chasing after him.
One thing that I have always had an issue with is excessive eating, eating not when I felt hungry but eating to fill some kind of void. I would eat until I made myself sick! Not just 1 sandwich before bed, maybe 2 and a bowl of cereal! The only thing that has helped me here is keeping this FACT of OVER EATING to the forefront of my thoughts daily, reminding myself that when I wake up at 12 AM that it is not time to stuff myself like a pig! I had to make better choices, first of all was deciding or better yet determining if I was in fact hungry at all. If I was then I would eat something Atkins friendly, if not I might have a glass of water or if the craving was really bad I would have a shot of cream ( MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm) or some cream cheese, both curb the cravings for sweets for me!
Anyways, I will check in and let you all know where my weight is in a week. Come on big 300 baby I know I can make it. Oh yeah, this week I have resolved to go back to the gym so I am hoping that will help as well.
Thanks peeps!
Brian – 30 lbs
I just finished my 2-week induction on Friday and I did pretty well. My goal was to be at 300 lbs but I missed it by 3 lbs, I ended up at 303…. still pretty happy with what I lost though. I was going to continue to follow the induction for a couple more weeks but I am looking forward to adding some more choices to my WOE.
I weighed myself in this morning and I was down to 302.5! My weekly\mini goal is going to be the infamous 300 lbs mark, I am pretty sure I can loose the 2.5 lbs in a week. I was weighing myself daily on the induction with favorable results but I know as time goes on with any diet weight loss does tend to slow, for some at least. So I made a decision to weigh in on Sunday mornings, yep just once a week! This way if my weight goes up and down during the week I won’t freak out, get depressed and throw in the towel.
However I am never throwing in the towel again, I have lived as a FAT MAN way too long and I have had enough. I have the same feeling about staying on this WOE as I did when I quit smoking over a year ago and I will not fail. Quitting smoking has also helped me realize that temptation will always be there for me! Although the need and want for a smoke is rarely experienced I am still, from time to time, extremely tempted. I defeat those evil habitual temptations with a few triggers I have developed over some time!
What triggers you ask, and how did I create them! Easy, I associated smoking with everything negative! One trick I used was to think of something that made me disgusted, made me feel rotten to the core and then while thinking of those horrible things I would look at my smokes, I would smell them with my eyes closed while still concentrating on the negative images I conjured up. Eventually smoking to me became more and more repulsive until one day I just woke up and quit them.
For my weight, I have a picture in my mind of a show I saw on discovery about a man that weighed over 700 lbs! The images of his bed sores, the rolls of fat and his negative attitude is what I associate with the foods that I sued to love such as sugar laden chocolate, and other high sugar foods that have always tempted me through out my life.
Another tip I use is a little more positive! When I think of myself I picture myself fit, muscular and with a healthy glow about me. I picture the rich delicious food choice that are afforded to me and how satiated they keep me during the day and how at times I have to remind myself to eat! I see my self as upbeat and very personable, ready to take on any challenge that is thrown my way! Finally I see my self running around my yard with my kids without the pain in my knees I get when I have the added weight on my body! That is the kicker for me, my son is 3 ½ years old and he is getting faster and faster by the day. How am I going to keep up with him if I am 333 lbs! I picture myself being fit and chasing after him.
One thing that I have always had an issue with is excessive eating, eating not when I felt hungry but eating to fill some kind of void. I would eat until I made myself sick! Not just 1 sandwich before bed, maybe 2 and a bowl of cereal! The only thing that has helped me here is keeping this FACT of OVER EATING to the forefront of my thoughts daily, reminding myself that when I wake up at 12 AM that it is not time to stuff myself like a pig! I had to make better choices, first of all was deciding or better yet determining if I was in fact hungry at all. If I was then I would eat something Atkins friendly, if not I might have a glass of water or if the craving was really bad I would have a shot of cream ( MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm) or some cream cheese, both curb the cravings for sweets for me!
Anyways, I will check in and let you all know where my weight is in a week. Come on big 300 baby I know I can make it. Oh yeah, this week I have resolved to go back to the gym so I am hoping that will help as well.
Thanks peeps!
Brian – 30 lbs
and the stickies are great! I am a seasoned low carber and have tried to follow a modified version in the past with no luck! I should have stuck with what worked the first time around, I did loose over a 100lbs before my wife got me pregnanat ;-) 
TWICE!!!! (10/06 and 1/07!!!)
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