Easter break

[maxima]

We were out of state for Easter, in a home that didn't have anything atkins friendly so I decided to just forget about it for two days rather than making it a big deal.

Yes, I gained two pounds, but I know that is just water weight - what I think is really significant is that I was actually kind of happy to be home and back on Atkins. Yes, I admit to enjoying those bunny ears and dinner rolls and sugared ham.

But not like I would have thought I would have. It really wasn't that big of a deal, not like I would have thought it would have been once I gave myself permission for a two day break. It was just junky food, just like it has ALWASY been just junky food - the difference was that I felt sluggish within 12 hours and kind of down emotionally. I think that sugar and flour is NOT my friend. I have lived my life on that type of food. Enough is enough.

I got home and made up some sugar free jello and put it into my fancy dessert dishes I love to use and covered it up for later couple of days enjoyment, filled my veggie bin with all my yummy veggies for the next five days, made up a week's worth of my revolution rolls and froze them up in paper bags to just grab and go, made up and froze a bunch of my (missed!) Deli Delux cheese "crackers" I munch on every single night, baked a whole bunch of chicken and froze it into individual servings and then was all set up to forge onward and downward!

Everything is a learning experience and a good one, I have found, if I let it be. I'm settled back in to my Atkins way of life and am very, very comfy with the idea and the way of life.

I'm also extremely happy with my weight loss - 25 pounds to date. It's much slower than most of you, but it's steady for me and I have yet to miss my strict monthly goal of 4-5 pounds a month loss, I"ve been consistently much more than that - so it's all win-win for me. I started this diet sometime in late Jan. I think, I really can't remember, it might have been in early to mid Feb! I am amazed that I can't remember when I started.

Tonight we go to cracker barrel for dinner. I'm bringing 2 of my revolution rolls in a paper bag and ordering off the low carb menu: the grilled chicken with cheese and bacon and a side of green beans, (I only eat half the green beans, that serving is too big for the carb count listed, I believe) - I also tell them only one slice of cheese with that chicken so that I can still have my cheese crackers that night along with some more cruchy veggies with my mayo/spicy brown mustard dip.

Yum - what more could I want? I have found that honestly, I don't want more than that. It's good. It's enough. Enough is enough.


I hope my thoughts can maybe help some out there who are struggling. Once you make the mental adjustment, this is a very comfortable and easy way to live.

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Easter break

I've heard tell they put brown sugar in the green beans. At least one copycat recipe has it that way.

As to eating "off plan" ... yep, it's going to happen sometime. The trick, in my experience, is to mitigate the damage. Try to stick to real, whole food as much as possible. I'm not familiar with "bunny ears" (unless you mean the ears off a chocolate bunny), but I'm guessing that eating those was a different choice than eating the ham.

[blueberrylady]

Re: Easter break

Good for you for getting right back on plan! I know what you mean about being happy on Atkins after going off of it for awhile because I always feel so much better once I'm back on track. Flour and sugar make me sluggish too and I hate that feeling.

Congrats on your loss so far. I'm glad to hear that you are losing consistently because that is always a great incentive to keep going.

[maxima]

Re: Easter break

Oh yeah, the chocolate bunny ears off a small chocolate bunny. But I quit after the ears - that's a huge first for me *LOL*

Yes, I could have made "different" choices when going off but I did what I did and learned from it. Next time the circumstances happen, I will consider that "choices" idea you offered, it's actually a very good idea that curiously didn't enter my mind at the time. I will have to think about why it never occured to me, it's interesting to me that it didn't.

What pleased me about the experience was that it wasn't what I imagined it would be - "water found in the desert by a thirsty woman" is what I had assumed I would feel. It simply was what it had always been, junk food with the natural effect on me that junk food has always had.

I'm GLAD to be back on this way of life, I was very happy to discover that about myself. I may be on a quest to lose weight, but I'm no longer on a "diet." This is how I live - and that discovery on Easter weekend was simply wonderful!

I hope that others here who struggled with the "bunny ears" type of wishes on this diet can find solice that this type of thinking can fade away if they give it enough time and enough thought about the toxic results of "bunny ears" type of of living. They won't chase you, they will fade away if you give it the time to do so - a wonderful thing!

I never thought I could reach this type of thinking, I thought I would miss sugar and bread forevermore - cleaning out that stuff from my system for a long enough period of time seems to have helped me in living differently and thinking differently and even wanting differently. That is just AMAZING to me.