Wedding Day Diet

[Fayster]

Anyone ever heard of Matt Marshall's Wedding Day Diet Plan? It doesn't negate Atkins or anything...It just advertises all of these big diet secrets that assist low carbing and extremely rapid weight loss....Just curious...kind of sounds fishy but I thought I'd ask.

[not2late]

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Anyone ever heard of Matt Marshall's Wedding Day Diet Plan? It doesn't negate Atkins or anything...It just advertises all of these big diet secrets that assist low carbing and extremely rapid weight loss....Just curious...kind of sounds fishy but I thought I'd ask.

Nope, never heard of it.

The one thing that makes me nervous about these "rapid weight loss"-crash type diets is you run the risk of gaining that weight back after you make goal. Okay, yeah, I get it----you need to lose weight to squeeze into a wedding dress and look good in the wedding photos and the honeymoon photos. But what good is that when you'll just blow back up to whale-size proportions afterwards??? Wouldn't the better wedding gift to yourself is being able to fit into that wedding dress and looking as good as that everyday?

[cleochatra]

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I think it's sexist and opportunistic, myself.

What's a man doing intimating we aren't good enough to fit into that wedding dress and that HE can help us in a way we can't?

Rubbish and piffle I say!

Don't buy into that crock-o-crud.

Until he dons a strapless and looks hot, he's just another guy trying to live off of the work of Dr Atkins and the inadequacy he hopes we feel as women.

[sadie147]

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Any weight loss plan that includes:

big diet secrets and extremely rapid weight loss

is a fad diet..and is most likely unhealthy, possibly dangerous and should be avoided.

[Isabeau]

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I think it's sexist and opportunistic, myself.

What's a man doing intimating we aren't good enough to fit into that wedding dress and that HE can help us in a way we can't?

Rubbish and piffle I say!

Don't buy into that crock-o-crud.

Until he dons a strapless and looks hot, he's just another guy trying to live off of the work of Dr Atkins and the inadequacy he hopes we feel as women.

Yeah, Sister!!!

[Fayster]

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You gals are Hysterical!

And I totally agree.

I have been away from ADBB for a WHILE because I just couldn't commit. I had about 20 lbs to lose to get back to my early dating weight…you know, the number I had BEFORE my adoring hunnybun came into my life and insisted on gourmet meals every night (blah!). Well, I have been working out regularly and I have maintained a good 5-6lb loss, but we finally set the church date for 2-25-06 and I just want to feel like the trying to lose weight crud is over with...I want to be maintaining already and I finally feel some motivation (err ACK) to stick with something!



I had been bouncing around VERY briefly with Weight Watchers, and I hated it because the points system is so anti-fat that it drives me crazy!!! I can't STAND low fat anything, thanks to my fat-loving days on Atkins. One GREAT thing that I gained on Weight Watchers was a more realistic sense of portion control. I sabotaged myself on Atkins because my portion control and self-control were non-existent. I have struggled with them for years as a result of battling bigger eating disorders. Now, however, as I think of what I must do to be healthy and HAPPY, I am looking back to realistic portions and yummy food on Atkins and wondering if I shouldn't try just one more time...for GOOD!





I have one small confession to make though. I want to set cheat dates...no kidding. Not a bunch of them, but special days...like Wedding, Christmas, etc. I plan to actually mark it on the calendar and enjoy. I think that this may allow me to plan and curb my anxiety (a MAJOR factor in eating disorders and self-sabotage) because I will allow myself to see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel occasionally. I know that this isn’t going to be popular with anyone on the board. I remember the way cheaters were treated during my last go-around with ADBB, and I understand that cheating is a stupid idea for most people who are on Atkins. I think my case is a little special though. For most people, the idea of portion control doesn’t mean years on eating disorders.



I know this is a lot for me to spill to you guys, but let me know honestly…I think that LOW CARB in GENERAL is exactly where I need to be…no bread, no pasta, no starchy stuff on a daily basis. BUT, life is too short for me to wrap myself up into a tiny ball and freak out every time I see a cookie. And that it what I do. Freak out, then eat every piece of meat in sight and puke. You tell me which is worse?

[not2late]

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Fayster, after you finish with Induction, move to OWL, find your CCLL and go through the carb ladder. I found my CCLL and have gone through the ladder so I can eat a wider variety of foods. For example, I know that I can eat some popcorn tonight if I want, just like I know I can eat apples. The diet is easier to stick to when you move to OWL because of the wide variety of foods. Plus, you still lose weight during OWL, which means you can eat a greater variety of food and lose the pounds.

[sallyseachange]

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Yes... the sooner you get to OWL and are able to increase your food choices, things become so much easier.

[Fayster]

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That kind of does and kind of doesn't answer the CHEAT question...I understand that OWL is ongoing weight loss, but it is much slower, right? DOn't I belong on something more flexible throughout like a general low-carb option diet? I don't really want to climb a ladder...

[cleochatra]

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Fayster-- I'll be wholly honest with you. If it's tweaking this WOE you want, you run a very real risk of falling off the wagon.

We are all adicted to carbohydrates, because they are like powerful drugs. When we hit detox during the 14-day induction period, a lot of us feel so miserable that we begin to understand what a powerful grasp carbs really have on this society and on us.

You will succeed on this way of eating because you are limiting the amount of carbohydrate-drugs you are allowing into your body.

Now you wonder about overdosing on drugs once a month when you're a carb-addict in recovery.

I'll say don't do it or you'll regret it, but if you plan to do it, you will do it. I just know, first-hand, what those once-a-month cheats do. Because last year I took that road. I'm never going to travel that road again. I hope I've made your mistakes for you and that you can learn to stay away from those things which made you miserable in the first place.

I want that for you more than anything else!

[not2late]

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That kind of does and kind of doesn't answer the CHEAT question...I understand that OWL is ongoing weight loss, but it is much slower, right? DOn't I belong on something more flexible throughout like a general low-carb option diet? I don't really want to climb a ladder...

Re: "slower" weight loss---that really depends on your metabolism. I think some folks get scared of OWL because Dr. Atkins wrote weight loss might slow to 1-2 pounds per week. Objectively speaking, 1-2 pounds lost per week is pretty good and that rate is generally regarded as "safe weight loss". It translates to 4-8 pounds month. That's one of the bad things about Atkins, everyone expects to lose at the same rate (or faster) as they did during the first 2 weeks, without realizing that some of the weight lost during Induction is water weight. Same thing with the "whoosh" weight loss you read about in low carb boards, like this one. That "whoosh" is water weight, not fat weight.

As for "cheating", again it depends on what the "cheat" is. During Induction, eating a pear or a handful of popcorn is "cheating" because those foods aren't on the list. However, those foods are perfectly okay during their specific OWL rungs. That's why OWL and Pre-Maintenance are easier phases---you can eat within your own carb level, not the magic Induction 20, and you can eat a wider variety of foods without "cheating".

[Fayster]

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Grrrrr!

I am so lost. I'm not stupid and I know that this isn't worth doing if not attempted to be done right...maybe I'm just looking for something else and I keep trying to call it Atkins?!

I just know that I can stick to it for the most part, but that days like Xmas aren't days to be spent wishing for a bite of dessert that is right in front on me.

You know what it is??? I honestly don't think that I have yet figured out how to handle making mistakes on any diet. I keep thinking I'm going to do this right with NO mistakes, or give in all togther. I thought that if I accepted and set up a few days, it would take the pressure off of regular days...I would relax a little about food and making mistakes on this WOE.

[cleochatra]

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Geez, fayster! I hope you didn't think I was thinking you're stupid. I know you're not.

I think we all have a tendency to do what we find to be comfortable and then want to call it something else.

I believe that a book that will really help is Dr Phil's Weight Loss Solution book. It delves into the reasons we want to lose weight, why we keep ourselves overweight and why we do so much of what we do.

It really helped me. You could borrow it from the library or get it at amazon.com used. It really was a lifesaver.

Your post is really a good one because it does delve into some issues you know you have regarding weight loss, and a lot of people have the same issues... me included.

[Fayster]

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You are a sweetheart! Thanks for the book name. BTW, you look MARVELOUS darling!

[Elizellen]

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I just know that I can stick to it for the most part, but that days like Xmas aren't days to be spent wishing for a bite of dessert that is right in front on me.

The way I get round having that temptation is make sure it is me doing the cooking and make most food expecially the desserts lowcarb.
No-one can tell unless I tell them (except of course people who know I am on Atkins know that if I am eating it then it must be lowcarb) and everyone has no problem in finishing them off!!