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Re: Sick of being strong.
HEy Jacqui, I was thinking about what you said about availability. Can you order books by American authors online and have them shipped to you? If you can't and would like someone to mail you a book it is easily done my friend. But check this out first. Go to a book selling website (like ebay or Amazon, chapters, etc) and put in this guys name. His name is George Stella and he has two cook books out. One is called "Living Low Carb" and the other one is called "Eating Stella Style". My favorite one is Living Low Carb, but the other one is awesome as well. The one zi like has recipes for thinks like bbq sauce and soy flour muffins (rung 6 on Atkins) and thinks like crepes (induction friendly) and there is a recipe for onion rings and breakfast ideas and pizza made with soy flour crust and all kinds of stuff that are really tastey and low carb.
I noticed in youe previous post that you are on extended induction. I stayed on induction for a month and my taste buds got very bored as well. I know everyone seems to say this and induction people get kind of freaked out about it, but try moving up the rungs of OWL. I know it doesn't make sense. You may ask yourself how can I lose weight if I am eating more carbs and things with more natural sugar in them? Well, I'm not exactly sure why it works but it does.
At the end of February this year I had stalled out and the scale hadn't moves. The first month I was on Atkins I had lost about 30 lbs and then it stopped for a full month. I was frustrated and hated that I was not eating some of the low carb foods I loved because I was afraid I would stall even worse. But some great ladies on here gave me some very valuable advice. So I made a goal for myself for the month of march and called it my own March madness challenge. The point of the challenge was that I needed to have faith in the Atkins aproach even if I didn't see anyresults right away. So these are the things that I did. I drank 64oz of water a day (most days
) I exercised at least 5 times a week for about 45 minutes. I recorded every morsel of food that I ate in a program called fitday for the first fw weeks. (after I got the hang of how much to eat I stopped) I ate as close to my Basal Metabolic Rate as I could to about 200-300 calories above that number. Your BMR is the number of calories your body needs to stay perform all of it's functions if you slept all day long and didn't move. Mine is about 1900 calories so I ate as close to 2100 calories a day as I could. (sometimes it was hard to eat that much believe it or not!) I took my measurements and did so every saturday. Today is the last day of my challenge and if you'd like to see my results go to my journal I will post them there. But I guess the point of this really long post is to give you some ideas. When the going gets tough the tough get going. Figure out what you can do, that keeps you on a path towards your goal. No matter what the scale is saying. And make it something you can live with. If you had diabetes and had to eat a lower sugar diet what kinds of foods would you find where you live? Get creative, go to pharmacies and ask the drugest for Ideas on where to get sugar free diabetic foods. Many things like syrup for diabetics isn't available at grocery stores, so ask about them elsewhere. There is also sooooo many low carb recipes on line that can keep you satisfied. Like low carb ketchup for dipping those onion rings in I mentioned above! And low carb crepes for that syrup! Go to the recipe forum on this board for some member tested foods as well!
Jacqui, I know it is tough going some times and believe me I am not a woman made of willpower. But when you think of the alternative, there really is no choice. Unless you want to gain back 6 kilos.......which I am sure you don't want to do. So have faith in the science of Atkins and listen to your body as you add back foods (slowly) to see if they cause you to have cravings or reactions that aren't good. Kick up the exercise. Move your body, that is all it takes. Walking, swimming, riding a bike, anything that you can do and as long as there a kilometers of road out your front door you don't need a gym membership. And if there are no roads then hills are better! LOL Drink your water, take your vitamins, get good sleep and make your health a priority. A year from now you will be a lot further along than if you quit or give up and you'll kick yourself for not riding the momentum you've built up if you do quit or cheat.
Oh, just to let you know how crazy I am, this morning my one year old son was trying to feed me his oatmeal, so i let him put it in my mouth and I had a napkin in my hand under his highchair tray. When he'd give me a bite, I'd spit it out and wipe my tounge off where he couldn't see what I was doing and then say *peek a boo* and make him laugh when I popped my head up. He has no idea that his cereal is death to mommy right now! LOL SO just step away from the bunnies and eat some strawberries with whipped cream instead! Have a lovely easter and enjoy your dinner.
HEy Jacqui, I was thinking about what you said about availability. Can you order books by American authors online and have them shipped to you? If you can't and would like someone to mail you a book it is easily done my friend. But check this out first. Go to a book selling website (like ebay or Amazon, chapters, etc) and put in this guys name. His name is George Stella and he has two cook books out. One is called "Living Low Carb" and the other one is called "Eating Stella Style". My favorite one is Living Low Carb, but the other one is awesome as well. The one zi like has recipes for thinks like bbq sauce and soy flour muffins (rung 6 on Atkins) and thinks like crepes (induction friendly) and there is a recipe for onion rings and breakfast ideas and pizza made with soy flour crust and all kinds of stuff that are really tastey and low carb.
I noticed in youe previous post that you are on extended induction. I stayed on induction for a month and my taste buds got very bored as well. I know everyone seems to say this and induction people get kind of freaked out about it, but try moving up the rungs of OWL. I know it doesn't make sense. You may ask yourself how can I lose weight if I am eating more carbs and things with more natural sugar in them? Well, I'm not exactly sure why it works but it does.
At the end of February this year I had stalled out and the scale hadn't moves. The first month I was on Atkins I had lost about 30 lbs and then it stopped for a full month. I was frustrated and hated that I was not eating some of the low carb foods I loved because I was afraid I would stall even worse. But some great ladies on here gave me some very valuable advice. So I made a goal for myself for the month of march and called it my own March madness challenge. The point of the challenge was that I needed to have faith in the Atkins aproach even if I didn't see anyresults right away. So these are the things that I did. I drank 64oz of water a day (most days
) I exercised at least 5 times a week for about 45 minutes. I recorded every morsel of food that I ate in a program called fitday for the first fw weeks. (after I got the hang of how much to eat I stopped) I ate as close to my Basal Metabolic Rate as I could to about 200-300 calories above that number. Your BMR is the number of calories your body needs to stay perform all of it's functions if you slept all day long and didn't move. Mine is about 1900 calories so I ate as close to 2100 calories a day as I could. (sometimes it was hard to eat that much believe it or not!) I took my measurements and did so every saturday. Today is the last day of my challenge and if you'd like to see my results go to my journal I will post them there. But I guess the point of this really long post is to give you some ideas. When the going gets tough the tough get going. Figure out what you can do, that keeps you on a path towards your goal. No matter what the scale is saying. And make it something you can live with. If you had diabetes and had to eat a lower sugar diet what kinds of foods would you find where you live? Get creative, go to pharmacies and ask the drugest for Ideas on where to get sugar free diabetic foods. Many things like syrup for diabetics isn't available at grocery stores, so ask about them elsewhere. There is also sooooo many low carb recipes on line that can keep you satisfied. Like low carb ketchup for dipping those onion rings in I mentioned above! And low carb crepes for that syrup! Go to the recipe forum on this board for some member tested foods as well!Jacqui, I know it is tough going some times and believe me I am not a woman made of willpower. But when you think of the alternative, there really is no choice. Unless you want to gain back 6 kilos.......which I am sure you don't want to do. So have faith in the science of Atkins and listen to your body as you add back foods (slowly) to see if they cause you to have cravings or reactions that aren't good. Kick up the exercise. Move your body, that is all it takes. Walking, swimming, riding a bike, anything that you can do and as long as there a kilometers of road out your front door you don't need a gym membership. And if there are no roads then hills are better! LOL Drink your water, take your vitamins, get good sleep and make your health a priority. A year from now you will be a lot further along than if you quit or give up and you'll kick yourself for not riding the momentum you've built up if you do quit or cheat.
Oh, just to let you know how crazy I am, this morning my one year old son was trying to feed me his oatmeal, so i let him put it in my mouth and I had a napkin in my hand under his highchair tray. When he'd give me a bite, I'd spit it out and wipe my tounge off where he couldn't see what I was doing and then say *peek a boo* and make him laugh when I popped my head up. He has no idea that his cereal is death to mommy right now! LOL SO just step away from the bunnies and eat some strawberries with whipped cream instead! Have a lovely easter and enjoy your dinner.
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