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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / March 2004HELP! Growing in Inches and Depressed
Couple O questions: I've had a couple of tough months and I backslid quite a bit.... Nothing horrific but I got into the habit of using a lot of fake low carb crap (no offense) which is something I just haven't done. I guess I was trying to comfort a broken heart with food which is not exactly healthy. The only good thing I can say is that I cheated on REAL SUGAR very few times in this period. However, I was still cheating with the low carb stuff as far as I'm concerned and I think maybe I put on about five lbs or so. I'm up from 144 to 153 and I realize part of that gain is water. However, I was also ZERO on the exercise for the past few moths.... excuses after excuses. I've just been a plain old slug, basically. Anyway, I decided I'd better really take a look and see what the damage has been because... well, frankly my old clothes are just really tight (even after being back on full force for the past four days). I got out the tape measure and to my horror, the inches gained were way worse than the weight. We're talking hips that went from 36 1/8 to 38 1/4 and a waist that went from 28 to 31. I am REALLY REALLY scared. I know what I have to do but I've just had no motivation as of late because of personal things. I do have to say that the inches in black and white scared the crap out of me and I know I need to get with it or I'm just going to get fat again and I know how that feels. I guess I'm just wondering if you think any of the water weight adds to the inches or is that just fat? Thanks! Mostly just the fat adds inches.  SignatureMost of us probably aren't in danger of eating too little. :) Becky P. > Couple O questions: > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Thanks! > Couple O questions: > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Thanks! It's probably both, but a couple of months of backsliding is definitely long enough to gain fat. I don't know your situation and what's been going on lately to make you depressed, but one thing I do know is that losing control of your eating and skipping exercise will NOT help you to feel any better. Whatever else is going on in your life, no matter what it is, you need to take care of yourself first and foremost. Make today a new start, get back to doing what you need to do. You can do it. SignatureMichelle Levin http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws. << I don't know your situation and what's been going on lately to make you depressed, but one thing I do know is that losing control of your eating and skipping exercise will NOT help you to feel any better. Whatever else is going on in your life, no matter what it is, you need to take care of yourself first and foremost. Make today a new start, >> Thank you for the words of advice -- all things I realize and will get back to (and for the most part, have all week long). Today will be the hardest day and then I'm hoping to close the book on this section of my life and start again. You see, I am still in love with someone who broke my heart into a million pieces last year and today he is getting married. As much as I tell myself it's for the best that it didn't work out, it still hasn't sunk in completely -- It's like all those pieces of my heart keep trying to come up into my throat and get out of my body but somehow they don't make it that far. I have great friends and a good support system and I know I'll live. I know it will get easier. Things always do. But I also know that this loss I feel is very real and unfortunately it's affected my health in evey way (including my food issues that I thought were gone forever). Thanks again everyone and sorry to sound whiny... Timber 285 burbled across the ether: > Thanks again everyone and sorry to sound whiny... Can I say something? I don't get why people have to apologize for being human. You are in pain, and in the past you've coped by eating badly. Now you have a support group to go to to avoid that frankly very bad coping mechanism. I'm sure that there are people who look at the name of the group and miss the point. There is more to losing weight and keeping it off successfully than the nuts and bolts, or hints and tricks of a diet. A large part of the reason why many of us here are here is because we do have trouble with stress. Not everybody does, yes, but a lot of us do, and I don't think that those folks should be discriminated against (I've read several times over the last two years from posters--usually men-- who complain about whiny people garbaging up the newsgroup with their crying and could we please get back to how to make a lowcarb barbeque sauce and you whiners take it somewhere else and stop ruining my newsgroup? Or words to that effect) because they are not the type to pigeonhole every aspect of their lives. Well, ahem. Getting off my soapbox now. Don't apologize. P.S. {{{Timber285}}} I know the pain in your heart exactly. Sucks. But you will survive. Signaturerevek www.geocities.com/tanirevek/LowCarb.html lowcarbing since June 2002 5'2" 41 F 165+/too much/size seven petite please Revolvers are for people who believe that more than six holes in an assailant is excessive. >Timber 285 burbled across the ether: >> Thanks again everyone and sorry to sound whiny... [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >P.S. {{{Timber285}}} I know the pain in your heart exactly. Sucks. >But you will survive. Thank you, Revek. This is a support group and some of us offer support, or attempt to. I cordially invite those who disagree to kiss my tush or jump off a short pier. ;-) None of us here is perfect. We all have demons to contend with. I believe that when others share both their successes and failures, we can learn from them. -- Jean M. New food of the week: black olives. > P.S. {{{Timber285}}} I know the pain in your heart exactly. Sucks. > But you will survive. Been there. When it happened, I finally understood why it was described as "a knife in the heart". It just takes time and that's all there is to it. SignatureSaffire 205/166/125 - 5'2.5" Atkins since 6/14/03 Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333 > << I don't know your situation and what's been going > on lately to make you depressed, but one thing I do know is that losing [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Thanks again everyone and sorry to sound whiny... You don't sound whiny to me at all! You can google some of my old relationship posts if you want to see what REAL whining is like! Anyway, I got my heart broken too, and he's now living with the girl he cheated on me with. Actually she was the 3rd one that I knew about, but there could have been others. Here's the one, main, most important thing that has helped me to cope: giving myself permission to feel everything I feel, whether it's logical or not. I kept trying to tell myself not to have feelings for him anymore, that it made no sense to wish I was still with him because he was such a scumbag, etc, and that arguing with myself was tearing me up even more than the breakup was. But as soon as I said to myself "Ok, fine. I still love him. I'm not going to act on it, not going to dwell on it, but for now, yes, I still have feelings for him, and I am just going to accept that it's a part of who I am at this point in time" as soon as I said that, I felt this huge relief. I could stop fighting with myself, and concentrate on more important things. And once I stopped the internal fighting, the feelings started to fade too, because I wasn't paying as much attention to them. They're still there. They may always be there. But they're not a big deal anymore. All the energy I put into trying to make things work with him, I now channel into making myself better. It's a much more rewarding and interesting project, imo. SignatureMichelle Levin http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws. Thanks so much you guys. This was the hardest weekend of my life to get through and your posts really helped. Best regards, Timber > Thanks so much you guys. This was the hardest weekend of my life to > get through and your posts really helped. You got thru it though. See how strong you really are? {{{Timber285}}}. -- revek A monk was traveling and came to a fork in the road. He stopped, looked at it and decided to leave it there for someone else to ponder, someone who may need it, for his own spoon was quite sufficient. |
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