2007 Read The Book Challenge

[jimmie 48]

Re: 2007 Read The Book Challenge

Well knowing that most of us have a food addiction of one kind or another it seems like with all addictions acknowledgement is the first step to getting past it huh????? Even with Atkins it comes up again and again .......... Acknowledge you have a problem and them implement the steps to resolve it ....... we know the steps ......... it's all laid out for us so now we just have to keep on doing what we know!!!!!

It's so simple isn't it? Why do we make it so dang hard??????

Heidi

yep, until we implement something we're going to be spinning our low carb wheels.

why do we make it so hard? because we aren't willing to give up our thick crust white flour pizza, our candy, our trigger foods even the legal ones. i just have to say . .. if it's a trigger food, it ain't legal for you, me, whoever, imho.

i'll use member chocolatelover for an example.
this member was consumed with every fiber of her being with chocolate. it triggered things in her and although we all realized the impeding doom and
damage by flirting with disaster, she would edge ever closer and every single time, failed to stay on plan. no sugar added hot chocolate was one of the things i remember. sugar or not, chocolate, in any form, was a recipe for failure. sad part is, she wouldn't acknowledge that and therefore never implemented a course of action, which would have been STAY AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE IN ANY FORM.

[hrgillespie]

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Funny I just wrote somethign very similar on the trigger thread . for me it's anything sweet and I have acknowledged it and know full well I just have to stay away from sweet stuff legal or not it just is doom for me!

[brandywine1241]

Re: 2007 Read The Book Challenge

Finished Part iv and homework.

[SunnySmile501]

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I'm going to bury my head in DANDR in just a minute. I'm about a hairs-width of needing to be talked down off the carb addict binge-ledge. I am so much in control so much of the time, then another medical disaster over at UVA and I'm ready to just stand in front of the fridge and eat it empty. I made it through the entire Thanksgiving holiday cheat-free and with a pound loss. I don't have any illegal food in the house, but I do have legal, but only once in a while treats in the house. I made do with a legal, but not very healthy/nutritious lunch and should have stopped sooner, but better than an all-out binge. I ate homemade pimento cheese on legal homemade grain free crackers (they are just plain too good, cheesy and crunchy). Then I ate some deli ham with sf Mt. Olive gherkin pickles rolled up inside, dipped in mustard. THEN, I had made some low carb pizza crust and had some of the leftover pieces with salsa on them. I made myself stop.

This medical blunder has me off my exercise plan, which I just started back up and now I'm not supposed to lift anything at all or drive for several days. The nurse even dressed me so I wouldn't do more damage and made my brother carry my purse to the car. I just get so tired of spending half my life at that hospital--even when treatments are going right, but that is now about one appointment out of 10. We just made this wasted 80-mile round-trip on the 16th, now I'm scheduled to go back on 12/7 to let them have another go at maybe paralyzing me for sure. That's what they did today, tore my spinal cord and injected the contrast dye directly into my spinal fluid. The spinal fluid will continue to leak until it heals.

I'm going to bed and cry myself to sleep. Yes, I read that part about crying not burning many calories! For some reason, he says I have to push fluids and caffeine. He had the nurse get me coffee right away and made me drink it. He wanted me to drink Coke or Mt. Dew, but when I told him I hate sodas, he asked how much coffee I drink a day and said 2 cups wasn't enough--I had to drink at least 4.

Thank goodness I have you guys for support and the Atkins Bible to see me through.

Sunny!

[jimmie 48]

Re: 2007 Read The Book Challenge

Finished Part iv and homework.

got it, brandy! good girl!

[jimmie 48]

Re: 2007 Read The Book Challenge

I'm going to bury my head in DANDR in just a minute. I'm about a hairs-width of needing to be talked down off the carb addict binge-ledge. I am so much in control so much of the time, then another medical disaster over at UVA and I'm ready to just stand in front of the fridge and eat it empty. I made it through the entire Thanksgiving holiday cheat-free and with a pound loss. I don't have any illegal food in the house, but I do have legal, but only once in a while treats in the house. I made do with a legal, but not very healthy/nutritious lunch and should have stopped sooner, but better than an all-out binge. I ate homemade pimento cheese on legal homemade grain free crackers (they are just plain too good, cheesy and crunchy). Then I ate some deli ham with sf Mt. Olive gherkin pickles rolled up inside, dipped in mustard. THEN, I had made some low carb pizza crust and had some of the leftover pieces with salsa on them. I made myself stop.

This medical blunder has me off my exercise plan, which I just started back up and now I'm not supposed to lift anything at all or drive for several days. The nurse even dressed me so I wouldn't do more damage and made my brother carry my purse to the car. I just get so tired of spending half my life at that hospital--even when treatments are going right, but that is now about one appointment out of 10. We just made this wasted 80-mile round-trip on the 16th, now I'm scheduled to go back on 12/7 to let them have another go at maybe paralyzing me for sure. That's what they did today, tore my spinal cord and injected the contrast dye directly into my spinal fluid. The spinal fluid will continue to leak until it heals.

I'm going to bed and cry myself to sleep. Yes, I read that part about crying not burning many calories! For some reason, he says I have to push fluids and caffeine. He had the nurse get me coffee right away and made me drink it. He wanted me to drink Coke or Mt. Dew, but when I told him I hate sodas, he asked how much coffee I drink a day and said 2 cups wasn't enough--I had to drink at least 4.

Thank goodness I have you guys for support and the Atkins Bible to see me through.

Sunny!

sunny, everything i try to write comes out dorky or stupid.

i'll stick with this...

[jimmie 48]

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Funny I just wrote somethign very similar on the trigger thread . for me it's anything sweet and I have acknowledged it and know full well I just have to stay away from sweet stuff legal or not it just is doom for me!

something about great minds thinking alike comes to mind...

i would suppose this dual idea posting is because of our reading. also good to have ideas in more than forum.

[SunnySmile501]

Re: 2007 Read The Book Challenge

Originally Posted by hrgillespie
Well knowing that most of us have a food addiction of one kind or another it seems like with all addictions acknowledgement is the first step to getting past it huh????? Even with Atkins it comes up again and again .......... Acknowledge you have a problem and them implement the steps to resolve it ....... we know the steps ......... it's all laid out for us so now we just have to keep on doing what we know!!!!!

It's so simple isn't it? Why do we make it so dang hard??????

Heidi

yep, until we implement something we're going to be spinning our low carb wheels.

why do we make it so hard? because we aren't willing to give up our thick crust white flour pizza, our candy, our trigger foods even the legal ones. i just have to say . .. if it's a trigger food, it ain't legal for you, me, whoever, imho.

i'll use member chocolatelover for an example.
this member was consumed with every fiber of her being with chocolate. it triggered things in her and although we all realized the impeding doom and
damage by flirting with disaster, she would edge ever closer and every single time, failed to stay on plan. no sugar added hot chocolate was one of the things i remember. sugar or not, chocolate, in any form, was a recipe for failure. sad part is, she wouldn't acknowledge that and therefore never implemented a course of action, which would have been STAY AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE IN ANY FORM.

When I started posting on the "How Long Can You Go" cheat-free thread, I had the hardest time explaining this, especially newbies. I went back to zero when I ate peanut butter and nuts. They said I was being too hard on myself, because I had certainly been on Atkins long enough to eat nuts and peanut butter. I've been on Atkins long enough to know I am a peanutaholic and I can't stop until I am at the bottom of the jar, most of the time--unless I squirt dish detergent into it and then throw it in the trash. Same with nuts out of hand. I can use nuts in recipes and that doesn't trigger me, but take the first bite, and I'm a gonner. I have tried to reintroduce both several times, and I do good for a couple of days, then it's binge 'til I drop. I can have the nuts in the freezer just to use in cooking, but I can't have peanut butter in the house.

I couldn't sleep and I'm still really upset, but the urge to soothe myself with food is gone. I had a very nutritious dinner and feel satisfied, now. I had sliced turkey, turnip greens with butter, and I warmed some canned pumpkin with butter, added a little salt & pepper and 1/2 a packet of Splenda and it tasted quite a lot like baked sweet potato. That's the first time I had pumpkin as a veggie. I don't like pumpkin pie, so I never thought of eating it at all.

Sunny!

[jimmie 48]

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[QUOTE]but the urge to soothe myself with food is gone. [/QUOTE]

nicely done, sunny! i was just commenting to another member how good it was the she didn't give in to the emotional eating pattern. hurdle jumped and cleared!

you explained it very well, sunny. there are just some things that some peeps won't be able to add. oh, yeah, we could add the things the trigger and upset our bodies but to what end? a continuing act of yo yo dieting and bad health?

you know something else i've just thought of? with member xyz, maybe he can't have _______________ but i'll bet there's a food he hasn't tired yet or one that he THOUGHT he didn't like that he would really take to now. he might be losing _________________ but he gained something else.

[jimmie 48]

Re: 2007 Read The Book Challenge

i have finished part four, finished the homework. i feel some relief.

a couple more notes from the protect your heart chapter:

i underscored a couple of the Food for Thought things, page 355,356. i've been wondering about my protein levels lately. just being curious and running numbers.
i have underlined part of what was found out in 1966

......found that people with a dietary protein intake of thirty percent above the average had lower blood pressure than people with a lower intake of protein

i was thinking i was actually taking in more than should at times but i'm rethinking that position. again i underlined the 1999 study. that study showed higher fat = lower strokes and lower fat = higher strokes.

i'd like to get my cholesterol checked again. this may be something i decided to do as a news years resolution. get confirmation by the numbers that i am much healthier now than i was 5 years ago.

i felt good for myself that i was an early Atkineer. i gained so much weight with my second child, i had to do something. i was upwards of 170 AFTER i had him. yikes.
and then imagine me seeing 168 again before making this my woe/wol again.

a little bit of discussion and possible helpful to us and the ones that lurk by here is HOW CAN WE BE ATKINS REVOLUTIONARIES? some of us might be able to do some of the things dr. atkins suggests but i would imagine not many of us will be most of them. but what can we do?

here's something i've thought of. i see posts concerning this all the time.
1. quit being embarrassed that we do Atkins. what's to be embarrassed about? we're losing weight, our health numbers are better, we're exericing and taking care of ourselves. put that up against a nay sayer who's holding a doughtnut in one hand and a snickers in the other as he sits on his sofa complaining of his aching joints.

[sallyseachange]

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I'm going to bury my head in DANDR in just a minute. I'm about a hairs-width of needing to be talked down off the carb addict binge-ledge. I am so much in control so much of the time, then another medical disaster over at UVA and I'm ready to just stand in front of the fridge and eat it empty. I made it through the entire Thanksgiving holiday cheat-free and with a pound loss. I don't have any illegal food in the house, but I do have legal, but only once in a while treats in the house. I made do with a legal, but not very healthy/nutritious lunch and should have stopped sooner, but better than an all-out binge. I ate homemade pimento cheese on legal homemade grain free crackers (they are just plain too good, cheesy and crunchy). Then I ate some deli ham with sf Mt. Olive gherkin pickles rolled up inside, dipped in mustard. THEN, I had made some low carb pizza crust and had some of the leftover pieces with salsa on them. I made myself stop.

This medical blunder has me off my exercise plan, which I just started back up and now I'm not supposed to lift anything at all or drive for several days. The nurse even dressed me so I wouldn't do more damage and made my brother carry my purse to the car. I just get so tired of spending half my life at that hospital--even when treatments are going right, but that is now about one appointment out of 10. We just made this wasted 80-mile round-trip on the 16th, now I'm scheduled to go back on 12/7 to let them have another go at maybe paralyzing me for sure. That's what they did today, tore my spinal cord and injected the contrast dye directly into my spinal fluid. The spinal fluid will continue to leak until it heals.

I'm going to bed and cry myself to sleep. Yes, I read that part about crying not burning many calories! For some reason, he says I have to push fluids and caffeine. He had the nurse get me coffee right away and made me drink it. He wanted me to drink Coke or Mt. Dew, but when I told him I hate sodas, he asked how much coffee I drink a day and said 2 cups wasn't enough--I had to drink at least 4.

Thank goodness I have you guys for support and the Atkins Bible to see me through.

Sunny!

Oh Sunny! I'm really sorry to hear this; it sounds awful. Do hope the healing time is very speedy.
Sending "get better quickly" vibes over the ocean to you.

[hrgillespie]

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Thank goodness I have you guys for support and the Atkins Bible to see me through.

Sunny!

Sunny I'm so sorry to read about your doctors appointment and how down you are feeling. I wish I had some brilliant words to comfort you or lift you up. You have so often been an inspiration to me and now I feel at a loss to return the same to you. I will keep you in my prayers as you go through this process. I do know in the depth of my heart no matter how difficult the circimstances there is always a reason for the things we go through good or bad. Perhaps you are to be a shining example to those who need it to show that no matter what the circumstance you can continue on and persevere. You are a very stong woman Sunny and such a support here on the boards. Big Big( but ever so gentle) Hugs to you!

[jimmie 48]

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i'm just making a visual point for myself. i've gone threough the thread, post by post and made sure i had everyone x'd in.
i've discovered that Dr. Who is no longer Dr. Who but Stryker2008. when you see the name change on the chart, that's the reason.
okay, i'm off to update the 2 charts.

[SunnySmile501]

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Sunny I'm so sorry to read about your doctors appointment and how down you are feeling. I wish I had some brilliant words to comfort you or lift you up. You have so often been an inspiration to me and now I feel at a loss to return the same to you. I will keep you in my prayers as you go through this process. I do know in the depth of my heart no matter how difficult the circimstances there is always a reason for the things we go through good or bad. Perhaps you are to be a shining example to those who need it to show that no matter what the circumstance you can continue on and persevere. You are a very stong woman Sunny and such a support here on the boards. Big Big( but ever so gentle) Hugs to you!

This is exactly what my pastor told me a while back when things were really rocky (as they always are). He is my rock, and prays for me daily. Thank you so much for your prayers. I know prayer works, maybe not the way we THINK it should, but the way it is should work for the good of all.

Thank you all for your concern, prayers and good thoughts--they surely help and give me comfort.

I am still on complete bedrest. I found out why he was pushing caffeine and they might end up giving me a huge dose intravenously. The doc has been calling every hour or so and I may have to go back to have an epidural blood patch to close the hole and stop the leaking of cerebral spinal fluid.

Caffeine - Caffeine has been suggested as a mode of therapy to help constrict the vasodilated cerebral vessels. It is best administered early in the day so that the patient can sleep at night. The dose of caffeine sodium benzoate is 500 mg intravenously which can be repeated once; two hours later, if the first dose does not have the desired effect.
Can't stay up long, so I should finish the book today and get my homework done--barring another catastrophe.

Sunny!

[sillygirl]

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Sunny, I'm so very sorry to hear of your difficulties. Please take care and do everything they tell you to!