Back to square one...AGAIN!

#41

I feel your pain!! I too have fallen down a very deep crappy food and wine hole (family problems don’t help). But if you can do it maybe I can too :thinking:

(Nick Eagle) #42

You can TOTALLY do it!

(Teresa) #44

Thanks for sharing even if it was about a month ago. I to am starting a second round sad to say, I didn’t gain all my weight back but did gain 50 lbs of it back. You are also right, it makes you feel so much better, makes us wonder why we do what we do, I guess carbs our are addiction. :open_mouth:

You mentioned accountability, I actually have two accountability partners who, I hope, help me stay on track. It’s not up to them to do it but me, but being accountable makes a difference. Hoping being on this forum is another area of accountability too.

#45

I got a sage piece of advice last year that may help others.

Weigh your self EVERY DAY!!! (or close to it) and track it.

Ignore the daily fluctuations and focus on the trend. I use an android App Monitor Your Weight to track it but there are others. This has helped me reign in major weight excursions. So far I have lost 72 lbs since just starting Keto just over a year ago on my 60th birthday. Last fall starting at about Labor day I did have a +15 pound upward excursion but tracked it anyway. Turns out I can’t have pretty much any carbs to speak of and not pack it on!!! Now I know this because I did weigh every day and have taken off that 15 lbs plus another 5 since Dec 1. Working to lose another 30 total to be at a BMI of 25.

Thank you Richard, Carl and dozens of others who donate their time, energy, experience and knowledge. Without this I would most definitely not be enjoying the life I do now. Just pissed the FDA, AHA, big Agra and drug companies have totally taken us for a ride the last 40 years though to be totally honest I had a weight problem prior to the 1977 food pyramid. Love those carbs…

#46

Not an idiot! We are many struggling under the sneaky addictive properties of carbs. I have identified, and made plans for handeling stress, emotional highs and lows, family. But I just recently pinpointed maybe my most dangerous trigger: success!

When im full keto for a few weeks, feeling great, weight slowly going down, energy is top, my mind says: “Hey, now you fixed it, everythings under control, have a chockolatebar…!”

Now Im aware of this being a pattern, Ive resisted the last couple of situations like this. And im so happy to get the results I want, instead of trading it for some candy.

(Michele) #47

I really feel for you. This is the story for so many of us. That success and then return to old ways of eating and weight gain. I’m glad that there is now more scientific evidence and writing about why keto works and it’s readily available to the public. I have yo-yo’d a lot of times over the last 42 years. My mother took me to weight watchers in the 70’s as a 12-13 year old. (All of my maternal female relatives were very overweight.) Over the years I have gone up and down so many times. Last year I read a book written and published here in New Zealand that made me feel like giving up. I concluded there was nothing I would be able to do because my genes were against me. Thankfully my sister decided to start keto and she told me about it after about a month (September 2017) I read Dr Fung and converted the household and we have never looked back. What was missing from my prior experiences of changing my eating style was how carbs have such a devastating effect. Now with all the information available I understand this is a lifetime process so won’t be deviating (hopefully :crossed_fingers:). I will still need to understand by experimenting with my levels of carbs for maintenance so I don’t spend the rest of my life recording what I eat. Carb creep could still happen even with keeping the obvious culprits of the cupboards. Being well informed and continuing to read well written material is crucial to our collective success. We’ve got your back.