I feel awful!!

[akwebb3]

Hello all,
I feel awful today. I feel like a drunk who is coming off a week long drinking binge. I really screwed up my progress and totally fell off the Atkins wagon. It all started around Valentine's Day (of course). I am hypo-glycemic so for me it is really bad. For the next two days I will feel awful. But I am happy to be back on track now. I am glad that I have this forum to vent also. I realize how stupid I am and believe me I feel like such a dumb ***. I can't believe that I screwed up this bad. I was doing well and now I have to start all over. Sometimes I just wish someone would smack me upside the head and tell me to straighten up. Of course I say that now but at the time that I want that sugar I may just kill you to get it. Ok maybe that is a bit of an exageration. Well anyway like I said I am back and going for it again. Here we go for round two. Hopefully I do not end this Battle of The Bulge with me being the one who gets TKO'd.
Today is a new day right?

[MelissaF_07]

Re: I feel awful!!

I've started over more times than I can count. It helps to remember that this is a journey and no one is expected to be perfect right out of the gate. We learn something every time. It helps if it's not a 'cheat' and rather a choice. Work on it if it's emotional eating. Find substituions so next time you are tempted by something you have a safe LC alternative. www . genaw . com/lowcarb is a great resource. I will also recommend the Chocoperfection bars - I buy them at netrition . com. They don't do that bathroom visiting thing to me like other sugar-free treats do. I'd also journal about this so it's in ink for the next time you are tempted - you can remind yourself of just what the backlash was and will be. You'll know next time if it's really worth it to go off plan for that treat or that meal or that celebration. Or can you find a substitution.

[kristi2578]

Re: I feel awful!!

You hang in there. At least you came back to try it again! Planning is the key.

[bust1er]

Re: I feel awful!!

Okay, you fell down. Ever watched a kid trying to learn to walk. Well that is where we are. We are trying to learn to walk, in our case to eat properly. It is not going to be an overnight miracle. We are in it for the long haul, so we pick ourselves up and take another step. If we slip and fall, or stagger back a step or two, we just keep moving forward and eventually you get there.
I love ice cream, and chocolate. Guess what, it loves me too, in fact it hangs with me around my waist, thighs, etc. So now, I say, NO MORE. Sure I will eat some down the road , once in awhile, but the big things is, Once In Awhile, and a very small portion. Right now, I am going to avoid it all together. I don't want DIABETES, and I want TO LOSE WEIGHT. I can't fall back into that trap. I am sure you don't want too either.

Don't beat yourself up, there are plenty of others who will do that for you. Just get started again, know where the tempation is, and make the change.
Go for it!

[canIdoIT]

Re: I feel awful!!

hey!!

for starters, i have to say, NO ONE is perfect- i could place money on the fact that no one who has been on atkins was/is perfectly doing the diet- everyone has relapses, what is important is that we don't quit.
also, your not a dumb @$$ or anything else! something that helps me is positive self talk. For example- how strong willed you are to pick yourself back up and not give up- your not a quitter, and your very pretty- your pics are nice one other thing- you fell off the band wagon and if you notice- it was not the end of the world!! your still alright.

just stay positive- and yep, vent to us- but don't put yourself down!! Your fabulous- no need to beat yourself up over spilled milk. just clean it up and its like it never spilled