RE: I need support and help!!

[Guest guest]

> Hi everyone,

> I have been so discouraged. I have been off and on of this diet for the past

> two months. Everytime I start again, I stay on it for 2 dyas then I go off

> again.

The first few days of induction are hardest for me, too. Usually when I'm

on induction it's because I've been in the naughty corner and so add guilt

to the frustration... also if you haven't been on the diet for a long

time, those momentary impulses can really get the better of you. After

all, you wouldn't be here if there weren't a lifelong pattern of such

impulses getting the better of you!

For me, it's really a matter of commitment. If I am committed to having

better health, then it really doesn't matter how good that

strawberry-glazed donut looks... it just isn't worth the damage it causes

me. People might say " oh, one bite won't kill you " ... and it won't, but

it will demoralize you and start a cascade of naughty behavior that will

spiral into a guilt-induced feeding frenzy that just gets more and more

extreme until you pull yourself out of it and by then you're feeling

rather sick to your stomach and your blood sugar level is making your

pulse pound in your ears and you feel hot and weak and tired and you don't

want to do anything so if you'd managed to start exercising with the extra

energy from doing well, that falls by the wayside too, and then you have

to go through induction *again* and... well... I've done that enough to

have learned not to by now. Think before you take that first bite, and

never turn one bite into two. If you're eating bad food, don't stock that

food in your kitchen so it sits around and tempts you or worse, makes you

feel guilty because you start the diet again and have to throw it out--

that'll stall a restart fast (though I hear used cat litter is a proven

cure).

I guess I had a lot of health problems at the beginning of this diet that

I don't have now, so I have a little bit of fear of a known evil driving

that commitment. But you wouldn't be here if you didn't have something

motivating you to make a difference... the trick is remembering what that

is at the moment that you're reaching for the forbidden food. And

remembering that it's important to you, and to your family, and that's why

you don't want that.

Someone brought in some beautiful fresh fruit to the office and offered it

rather insistently, and I said to her, " Well, I don't get to have

everything that I'd like to eat, but I do get to say I've lost 60 lbs! "

That shut her up.

--jen

284/222/160

[Guest guest]

Oh I just LOVED that one!!!

-Marlena

>

I said to her, " Well, I don't get to have

>everything that I'd like to eat, but I do get to say I've lost 60 lbs! "

>That shut her up.

>

>--jen

>284/222/160

>

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[Guest guest]

naughty behavior that will

> spiral into a guilt-induced feeding frenzy that just gets more and more

> extreme until you pull yourself out of it and by then you're feeling

> rather sick to your stomach and your blood sugar level is making your

> pulse pound in your ears and you feel hot and weak and tired and

I have that pusle pounding in my ears and I thought it was because I had

high collestral (sp). Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and

can hear my heart beat and I lay there and think I am going to have a heart

attack.

Then some days it goes away and I don't hear it for a while. Could this be

my blood sugar going up and down? TIA

Diane In Calif

[Guest guest]

> >

People might say " oh, one bite won't kill you " ... and it won't, but

> it will demoralize you and start a cascade of naughty behavior that

will

> spiral into a guilt-induced feeding frenzy that just gets more and

more

> extreme >

Very true.

I have a sign on my fridge.

NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS THIN!

I often have to remind myself of that.

It didn't seem to help last weekend though.

And you know what - the stuff I was pigging out on didn't even taste

good to me.

Tania