The slippery road to perdition

[Belfrybat]

It started innocently enough. Monday I was standing at the meat counter waiting for the butcher to cut the meat I'd ordered. The bakery counter abutts the meat counter. The baker took white chocolate chip and pecan cookies from the oven and broke one as she was transferring it to the tray. "Here", she says as she handed it to me, "I can't sell this one". Three or four bites of pure heaven is all it took to undo four months of NEAN eating. That evening it was an extra dollop of LC ice cream. Tuesday it was an added apple with peanut butter followed by a block of LC chocolate-- not bad choices, but too many carb on top of what I'd already eaten. Yesterday I was restless and prowled all afternoon -- a nibble of this, a bite of that. All "legal", you understand, but still too much on top of everything else. Today I decided to whip myself into shape and have a "recovery" day of shakes only. Lasted until mid-afternoon when a friend brought by the last of this summer's peaches so ripe they were bleeding juice. <sigh>

So... the lesson is don't take even a nibble if it's not on plan. Four days of pain, elevated blood sugars, and a four pound gain is not worth the 2 minutes of pleasure.

Thankfully tomorrow starts another day and I know I can get back on plan and stay on it.

[SherryJ]

(((((Oh, BC...))))) I can SO totally relate... sigh...

I'm totally proud of you for FOUR MONTHS of NEANing, though... WHOO!!! :) (My longest time has been three months...)

Sherry

[LisaS]

it must be the week for it - today a friend in the office brought by little tins http://www.mymms.com/images/custom_print/silver_tin.gif of M&Ms to celebrate the birth of his daughter (2 colors of pink with her name written on them). Sometime during the day all the M&Ms in my tin disappeared - and no one else was in my office today. Tis a mystery for sure.

[Billie]

Lisa I just hate when those M & M fairies come and eat those darn things up and then we get blamed for them.....was you tongue pink? :D

Belfrybat, somedays it is not fun being human! But get back right on it, you know you will feel better and let that guilt go too. We can beat ourselves up and over better than anyone. Weight you eat didn't cause a 4 lb weight gain, probably a 4 lbs water gain and that will quickly subside. Drink lots of water today!

[gitfiddle]

Lisa, you are a hoot! BC, before I read your post I was thinking of "allowing" myself a serving of 80% chocolate, which I don't even like, because I'm put out about somebody's behavior. I think I won't. Thanks for the poke. I know you, and I'm confident that you'll climb back on that wagon today. :nod: Now I'm off to drink some water. :D

[hawk]

Belfrybat... I have finially found out what is feels like NOT to have cravings. I must have never gotten my carbs low enough. I do around 30-40 a day.. Right now I am doing 0. It took a week and a half to stop the feeling of hunger. I cannot believe how relaxed I feel. I LOVE this feeling. I do not EVER remember this... it is a content feeling. I don't ever want it to stop.

[Mitra]

I'm in the process of readjusting after a week of brown rice and lots of fruit (and veg). I know I'll be back to normal in a day or two, and what I'm feeling isn't strong enough to call a craving, but I'm definitely having starchy thoughts - every time I think what to cook or eat, bread/rice/potatoes keep popping up in my thoughts. And I seem to be hungry all the time. Amazing what this stuff can do to your brain. I do feel very well though, with lots of energy, so it isn't all bad news :).

[Jackie]

Hawk, if you don't mind me asking. You said you arn't consuming any carbs. I am curious as to what you eat in a day?? Just a little noisy, hope you don't mind.

[hawk]

I eat two or three eggs and three strips of bacon. Then at luch I eat a chicken breast grilled outside. If I am hungry later I have a few turkey pepperoini and a 1/2 teaspoon cream cheese on them. At dinner I have a chicken breast, or a few slices of no carb meat loaf, or steak or fish or what ever. I am allergic to sea food. Not that I don't love it. At night I had more pepperoni or turkey or anything meat wize. One night I made a dozen deviled eggs. They just taste better thatn cold hard boiled eggs. I had one when ever I felt like it. The monster was still there so I was hungry all the time. I did have a tablespoon of plain whole yogurt a couple tmes a day. I am fighting a yeast infection. I lost 7 pounds during this time .

[Jackie]

Thanks Hawk, I was just curious.

[Belfrybat]

Great going, Hawk, at finding what works for you. It's amazing how hunger and cravings disappear when we eat very low carbs, isn't it? And how quickly they come back when we suddenly up our carbs. For me, it's the sudden increase of carbs that does me in. I don't do well on less than 50 ECC a day except for a short time. But eating only 25 - 30 certainly cuts my appetite to zero. That's what I did the past two days to tame the carb beastie. But this morning I am experiencing mild tacchycardia due to the low carbs. But at I'm back on track and can now gradually increase carbs to continue losing weight but not trigger tacchycardia episodes. It's a narrow band I have to stay in (50-55 ECC) to keep both issues balanced.

[Mitra]

I don't find that one dose of carby food sets off hunger/cravings, but more more than that starts to get disruptive. I didn't particularly notice the effect while I was away - because there was plenty of food and it was all carby. It's only now I'm home that it's noticeable how much I think about bread :o .

Like BC, I don't do well on very low carb levels either, so it's a question of following the narrow path between too much and too little.

[cmcole]

Yes, it's difficult to find the right trail, when too few and too many lead to problems. I am not sure I've found the "ideal" yet, but I keep experimenting; hence, my quest to enter things in fitday again.

[Mitra]

I had a few days of being hungry all the time. On Sunday I just kept eating - I kept to my usual carb level, but just ate until I wasn't hungry any more - even though it seemed like way too much food. Monday I felt quite normal again - even a bit less hungry than usual, so I think it's finished now, but it's alarming how much effect those sugar-rushes have :eek: