Starting over again, 1 year later.
kilosierra83
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So, I got all excited about dropping more weight and eating better etc after putting on 20 pounds of the 35 I had lost, then we get into summer.... Summer means Vacation Bible School, where for one week all the workers who pick up kids on the vans and bus are fed dinner at the church. Wonderful meals made by the best cooks I know, followed by deserts.... Then there is a week or two break before Church Camp, were the snacks are abundant, food is Cafeteria food, but good, just not at all healthy. I could (and should have) planned better packed healthy snacks and skipped sides like mashed potatoes or the skipped cobbler, ate just the eggs and not the biscuits and gravy, etc etc....
Maybe next year I will, but this year I didn't so instead of losing I gained a few, and didn't log anything.... Now I am getting after it, With my job summer should be a fat loss paradise, sweat and exertion are practically in the job description, so here goes. I am going to go really strict on "Carb Nite" and see what happens, my job plus weight training and eating better, well no reason I shouldn't be able to shed the leftovers of the last time I quit eating right. I started almost exactly this time last year at 239, and not in very good shape, I have made significant gains in muscle, but am back up to almost 225 after being 204 on my 30th B-day in December. One year later this is not where I wanted to be, but enough excuses, time to grow up and eat right, and set a good example for my kids to follow in ALL areas of life.
Maybe next year I will, but this year I didn't so instead of losing I gained a few, and didn't log anything.... Now I am getting after it, With my job summer should be a fat loss paradise, sweat and exertion are practically in the job description, so here goes. I am going to go really strict on "Carb Nite" and see what happens, my job plus weight training and eating better, well no reason I shouldn't be able to shed the leftovers of the last time I quit eating right. I started almost exactly this time last year at 239, and not in very good shape, I have made significant gains in muscle, but am back up to almost 225 after being 204 on my 30th B-day in December. One year later this is not where I wanted to be, but enough excuses, time to grow up and eat right, and set a good example for my kids to follow in ALL areas of life.
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It can me hard at times, I had a rough weekend with the 4th and put on a few myself. Keep up the good work.0
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I find it interesting how some can handle the carb night, and others don't. I fall into the very seldom do I do a carb night, like once every month to two months. It sure can mess me up that is for sure.
Positive moment.. you stopped and got back with it BEFORE you gained it all back and then some.
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Hang in there. Things happens. The most important thing is that you get right back at it.
I'm doing carb nite. Though I got off it during the July 4th weekend. I like it and its something I can sustain.
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I am not reveling in your predicament but it IS comforting to see that I'm not the only one who has been derailed for a while and now ready to get back at it. I just had several weeks of steadily gaining 2-3 lbs per week. I was close to goal weight so it is awful to see that scale moving in the wrong direction over and over again. And worse when you know what you're doing wrong and you just keep doing it! CarbNite has been effective for me if I don't go crazy on the nuts and very highly caloric snack foods. I decided to hire Jef Fry (www.jeffrynutrition.com) because I know his advice is aligned with Keifer's work. We are in our first week and I've dropped some water weight and I feel SO much better already. You will also get that burst of motivation as soon as you see results. Keep it up!! It is a journey!!0
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Well, unlike Carol, I'm totally reveling in your predicament. (Sorry) I'm actually right there/here with you! I get fat quite fast and it doesn't come easy or cheap. I can drop lots of money in just a couple of weeks in all kinds of awesome tasting foods and drinks to shove down my trap...like that red velvet cheesecake that I had yesterday. I always have so much fun eating and drinking absolutely anything that I feel like eating, until it catches up with me. Well, yesterday I dropped about $200 at the freaking Spanx store. I'm going to a wedding in two weeks and don't want all of my hard (fun and expensive) earned bulges to be showing the whole time. If you don't know what spanx are, they are super duper tight fitting under garments that squeeze lots of your fat rolls and bulges back into and around your organs. That's not how they are marketed but I'm sure that's what's really happening.
Anyway, I'm back to eating NSNG (No Sugar No Grains) since that's so easy for me to do. I gave Carb Nite a shot and I love the idea of it, but that dang actual Carb Nite really sets me off. Bingeing on crap one night a week really turned in to a two to three day crap binge. I suppose if I could do a clean CN, that would work much better. That was actually what my intentions were when I planned on doing CN, but it just looked and sounded like so much more fun to eat all the sugary/carby stuff that I was watching everyone in the CN FB groups post about all the time.
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Sounds like a lot of us are in the same boat... I am up nearly 9 pounds since last year. Not a lot, but I was at goal last year, so it's very frustrating to me.
My husband and I are thinking of doing a strict 30 day Paleo Fat Loss plan, but I'm not sure I could stick to it for that long. So we decided that we would do a 4 day test run to see how goes. On day two now and I've done pretty good so far. My only transgression from the plan is Big Red chewing gum... and that is to keep me from eating out of habit since I haven't really been hungry. Was amazing to me that yesterday I went the whole day without snacking, just kept to the three meals. I'm a big snack person, especially in the evenings after dinner, so it was a huge deal to go the whole day without snacking.
I think doing the strict Paleo is helping to get me back on track and helping me to realize how much I was eating just because I had the calories left. But I have to say, I'm totally convinced that eating so much high calorie food (no matter how natural and/or organic it may be) will help me lose weight. Guess only time will tell...
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