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Weight Loss Forum / General Topics / January 2007First week of diet
Well I've been dieting 8 complete days now. Lost 7 lbs. I was really hungry one day and it was awful. I think maybe the grapefruit juice made me extra hungry. Still trying to figure it out. It seemed to go away. C. > Well I've been dieting 8 complete days now. > Lost 7 lbs. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > It seemed to go away. > C. There are very few hard and fast rules to dieting, other than calories do count, but one thing most dieters do is stay away from fruit juice. It is loaded with sugar, even the 100% pure juice. Much better to eat a grapefruit where you get the fiber. The first days are hardest. Your stomach growls, and you think of food almost constantly. Then you start fantasizing about food....calorie free foods or if you could only eat anything for 2 minutes and it wouldn't count as calories, and dreams about food....unfortunately, I still have these thoughts after 3 years of weight loss and control. My stomach doesn't growl though. People are all different of course, but it could be that you will always have to struggle to not overeat. I know I do, but I absolutely refuse to regain weight. NEVER under any circumstances. Hang in there. dkw <dkw12002@yahoo.com> wrote > > The first days are hardest. Your stomach growls, and you think of food > almost constantly. Then you start fantasizing about food.... LOL!!!! I'm almost four months into what-has-to-be-the-LAST diet of my life, someone at work yesterday asked me how I was feeling, I said "Except for the food fantasies, just great". > but > it could be that you will always have to struggle to not overeat. I > know I do, but I absolutely refuse to regain weight. NEVER under any > circumstances. After a life-time of eating issues, including starving, pill-popping and frenetic exercise, backed with times of carefully planned and compulsive over eating, binging and puking (or, as I called it, Scarf and Barf), I'm now on the third "diet" in seventeen years where I had to lose over sixty pounds (and closer to 100) This has to be it, I'm lucky I haven't seriously hurt myself yet. But I will always have to fight to not over eat. I know that. I've been searching for a support site-- this one seems to be well attended and <relatively> spam free. I think I'll be happy to be here....  SignatureXXXXXXgizzieXXXXXX ******************************************************************************* "God, remember the Prom? You got so thin by then." "Oh, I know--I was so lucky getting mono, that was, like, the best diet ever." Romy and Michele's High School Reunion ******************************************************************************* > <dkw12002@yahoo.com> wrote > > The first days are hardest. Your stomach > growls, and you think of food [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > attended and <relatively> spam free. I think I'll be happy to be > here.... Are you following a particular eating plan? And getting the results you would like to see? I have been following my new way of eating since May 12, 06 (when the doctor told me I would have a stroke if I didn't get my blood pressure down--quite an incentive). I have found this group to be very encouraging--I hope you do, too. I'm also trying to get my BP down. Am following a 2001 Dash 1500 mg sodium diet. Calories I'm keeping around 15-1600. Had to change cereals, dressings, cut out processed meats like pre-cooked meatballs and sausages and hot dogs i liked. I'm cutting way back on diet sodas. C. > I'm also trying to get my BP down. Am following a 2001 Dash 1500 mg > sodium diet. Calories I'm keeping around 15-1600. > Had to change cereals, dressings, cut out processed meats like > pre-cooked meatballs and sausages and hot dogs i liked. > I'm cutting way back on diet sodas. > C. I completely dropped diet sodas (or any sodas)from my eating plan. I drink a lot more water now. I'm very careful about my sodium intake also. I take coenzyme Q10 supplements, which is supposed to be helpful. Since May I have lost nearly 80 pounds, and my bloodpressure is dwon to 120s over 65 or 70 most of the time. It was at 142/78 yesterday evening--not sure why. I do know that my new way of eating--which eliminated junk food and relies on fruits veggies, whole grains, chicken fish--has helped me feel like a new person! How is your blood pressure doing? Any things you do that might be helpful for me? > "XXXXgizzieXXXX" <xxgizziexx@comcast.net> wrote in message This has to be it, I'm lucky I haven't >> seriously hurt myself yet. But I will always have to fight to not over >> eat. I know that. >> I've been searching for a support site-- this one seems to be well >> attended and <relatively> spam free. I think I'll be happy to be >> here.... > Are you following a particular eating plan? And getting the results you > would like to see? If I had to give it a name, it's closest to South Beach, which I told people years ago, when it hit as The New Big Diet Thing, that it's sensible, old-time dieting--no refined sugars, white starches or fatty foods. I eat mostly big bowls of greens with a lean protein for diner, and I've learned to take advantage of yummy healthy add-ins, like almonds and crumbled turkey bacon and fruit. I make dressing with olive oil and apple cider vinegar and herbs. I have sushi once a week, and sometimes a Lean Cuisine meal. I'm big on meal replacement nutrition bars and high protein drinks for lunch, and usually breakfast on finger-friendly whole grain cereal and cut up fruit while driving to work. I'm eating three actual **meals** a day, which is WAY diffrent than I've ever eaten. I'm also drinking a protein supplement "shake" or smoothie in the evening. I've lost 39 pounds since October 1--this is actually the slowest I've ever lost, averaging 1-2 pounds a week (and the holidays were an intereting battle), but also the best I've ever felt. I don't feel driven, or high, or edgy, or even hungry (much) I fight appetite all the time, but when I do have my weekly "cheat meal", I'm finding I really don't even enjoy it, and the last few weeks, have eaten very little of it. I don't know if this is in my head--in the past disordered eating days, anything that was "real food" tasted like guilt--or if I am truly so cleansed, I'm losing my taste for fat/salt/sweet--all I know is it's working, I feel great, and I have not even started my work out yet-- a new, bare-bones fitness center opens walking-distance from my house February 12, unless they put the equipment in my back yard, I have NO excuse to not go. Meantime, me and the fatdog go for walks. He's looking pretty fine these days, too ;) > I have found this group to be very encouraging--I hope you do, too. I've been hanging out on the Biggest Loser website, there are some amazing people there, but it's kinda petering out now, between "seasons", and is really geared to the whole tv show thing. I wanted to find a place that was actually weight-loss friendly, and I got a LOT of good links here today. The Hungry Girl site rocks. SignatureXXXXXXgizzieXXXXXX ******************************************************************************* "God, remember the Prom? You got so thin by then." "Oh, I know--I was so lucky getting mono, that was, like, the best diet ever." Romy and Michele's High School Reunion ******************************************************************************* |
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