Im a failure.

[Rayley]

Re: Im a failure.

and i don't believe im setting myself up for failure, and i really don't need somebody telling me that im doing that. everybody has slip ups. and yes, i really do think in this case it was a good thing for me. this however does not mean im going to cheat all the time, because im not gonna cheat at all, i got right back on the wagon and im doing great! i follow atkins to the T except for those few slip ups which everybody does, so if you really think im setting myself up for failure because i cheated once and could have lost weight from it, you need to start telling everybody else to prepare for failure also. I'm doing nothing wrong. thanks.

[Georgiana]

Re: Im a failure.

I didn't put words in your mouth. You were the one who wrote:

like iv said before this "cheat" was not intentional, but my own mistake. i didn't cheat just to see if i could get over that plautau and i didn't cheat, just because i had NO self control at all or anything like that I simply made the choice too and regreted it that night, but in the end the cheat ended up being a good thing for me and got the scale moving again. i wouldn't suggest it to anybody by all means, because everybody is different' but in my case, cheating and feeling really guilty and mad at myself for it, turned into me losing the first 4 pounds iv lost in four weeks. i don't want people coming here and turning my original post into im bragging because i cheated and still lost weight! thats not it at all!
but yes jimmie48 i got back on track immediatly! i really had no trouble at all getting back on the wagon, it was easier than i thought, and i felt great the next morning!!

Analyzing your sentence:
The cheat
(1) "ended up being a good thing for me"
(2) "got the scale moving again"

What did the cheat do? It "got the scale moving again". You wrote this, not me.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear you are, in fact, not sure what got the scale moving. As you said, it could have been a bunch of other things that caused you to lose 4 lbs of (mostly) water (since one cannot lose 4 lbs of fat in one day). This means you burned the fat while you were sticking to your clean Induction eating.

[Georgiana]

Re: Im a failure.

and i don't believe im setting myself up for failure, and i really don't need somebody telling me that im doing that. everybody has slip ups. and yes, i really do think in this case it was a good thing for me. this however does not mean im going to cheat all the time, because im not gonna cheat at all, i got right back on the wagon and im doing great! i follow atkins to the T except for those few slip ups which everybody does, so if you really think im setting myself up for failure because i cheated once and could have lost weight from it, you need to start telling everybody else to prepare for failure also. I'm doing nothing wrong. thanks.

That's not what I wrote. Read again:

If you continue your Atkins journey thinking a cheat is a good thing for you, I'm afraid you're just setting yourself up for failure.

So, imo, you are setting yourself up for failure not because you cheated (that's done and in the past now), but because you continue your Atkins thinking a cheat is good for you.

[Rayley]

Re: Im a failure.

hahah. well it wasn't bad for me was it? i don't think so. you maye think so, but i don't. did i gain water weight? nope. did i get kicked out of ketosis? nope. well do you know what got the scale moving again doctor? i don't think you do! Even if it wasn't the cheat that got the scale moving, the scale still moved after i cheated, didn't go up now did it? i totally disagree with everything you say 100% i have my own opions and im sticking to them, i don't need people telling me im setting myself up for failure because im not so if your gonna continue to say that, Don't reply to my post. thank you!!!

[Georgiana]

Re: Im a failure.

hahah. well it wasn't bad for me was it? i don't think so. you maye think so, but i don't. did i gain water weight? nope. did i get kicked out of ketosis? nope. well do you know what got the scale moving again doctor? i don't think you do! Even if it wasn't the cheat that got the scale moving, the scale still moved after i cheated, didn't go up now did it? i totally disagree with everything you say 100% i have my own opions and im sticking to them, i don't need people telling me im setting myself up for failure because im not so if your gonna continue to say that, Don't reply to my post. thank you!!!

Was it bad for you. If you only care about the number on the scale, I don't know, because one's weight on a particular day is not necessarily determined by what he/she ate the day before, unless one gained/lost a lot of water weight. On the other hand, if you care about your health, then it was probably not good for you, because a high carbohydrate meal after a period of low carbing will falsely (i.e. temporarily) classify you as having impaired glucose tolerance. The longer you eat low carb, the worse your GTT results will be. So for a few hours, while your body is fighting the sugar, the carb load you had is free to cause eye damage, kidney damage, nerve damage, blood vessel damage, etc. Sounds bad enough to me.

[Rayley]

Re: Im a failure.

I'm still kickin. so im not too concerened about it hah. pretty sure doing that once isn't going to kill me or my kindeys or my eyes.. I've done worse.

[jimmie 48]

Re: Im a failure.

since the last two posts were deleted [yes, i read them via my email] i figure what was asked had been answered, support given in different forms and either taken or not and i think to keep things from boiling over, it is safe to close the thread.

have a good one, peeps!