The Dog Food Diet
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We're happy to support you. If dog food helps you reach your goals, then long live dog food.
But the lesson some of us learned the hard way is that treating this as a short-term weight-loss diet doesn't work very well.
I was very successful in 2004. That's why I tried low carb again in 2014.
But between 2004 and 2014, I didn't stay low carb, and my health reflected that. The light bulb finally went on. It's a lifestyle, not a diet!6 -
Thank you. I promise that if it seems I'm harming my body in any way to achieve this goal, I will stop. I'm almost 55 yrs old and have learned that if I don't listen to my body, it will throw a temper tantrum & show me why I should have listened to it!
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Good luck to you! I hope you will post updates!2
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Good luck. Cheering you on.1
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Good luck! When I saw the thread title, I immediately thought somebody had reposted this:
Yesterday I was buying 2 large bags of dog food at Wal-Mart. I was about to check out when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had – an elephant?
Since I had little else to do, on impulse, I told her that no I didn’t have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn’t because I ended up in the hospital last time. On the bright side though, I had lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of every hole in my body and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to give it a try again. (I have to mention here that everyone in the line was enthralled with my story by now.)
Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food had poisoned me. I told her no; I had stopped in the middle of the parking lot to scratch my fleas and a car hit me.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard.
Wal-Mart won’t let me shop there anymore.14 -
That's a great story, Twibbly!!!
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Best of luck to you!
I can understand struggling w/the motivation to stick to it. I have done a lot of yoyoing in the past for various reasons. I had gotten to a my lowest adult weight a few years ago but gained about 23 lbs after a medication change. I also struggled with sticking to Dukan (my previous diet/low carb low fat) so I just kept gaining instead of losing over the course of a year or so.
I signed up for a Transformer DietBet. FWIW, it worked great for me because (a) it's a little more long-haul and sustainable than their 4-week Kickstarter DietBets and (b) I did NOT want to just throw away $25 every month for 6 months, so it helped motivate me. I struggled the first two months but then I started LCHF and lost closer to 15% of my body weight than the 10% goal. Now I'm trying to figure out true long-term maintenance with no more yoyo'ing, which is challenging in its own right.2 -
This makes me sad
Isn't there some other less degrading and negative thing you can do? Why do you feel the need to punish yourself? Maybe I'm reading to much into it and it's just a funny thing for you..idk. Best of luck on your goal.4 -
Good luck! When I saw the thread title, I immediately thought somebody had reposted this:
Yesterday I was buying 2 large bags of dog food at Wal-Mart. I was about to check out when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had – an elephant?
Since I had little else to do, on impulse, I told her that no I didn’t have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn’t because I ended up in the hospital last time. On the bright side though, I had lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of every hole in my body and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to give it a try again. (I have to mention here that everyone in the line was enthralled with my story by now.)
Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food had poisoned me. I told her no; I had stopped in the middle of the parking lot to scratch my fleas and a car hit me.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard.
Wal-Mart won’t let me shop there anymore.
OMG totally stealing this!!
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tinywonder25 wrote: »This makes me sad
Isn't there some other less degrading and negative thing you can do? Why do you feel the need to punish yourself? Maybe I'm reading to much into it and it's just a funny thing for you..idk. Best of luck on your goal.
I am not going to punish myself, because I am not going to fail
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Good luck! When I saw the thread title, I immediately thought somebody had reposted this:
Yesterday I was buying 2 large bags of dog food at Wal-Mart. I was about to check out when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had – an elephant?
Since I had little else to do, on impulse, I told her that no I didn’t have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn’t because I ended up in the hospital last time. On the bright side though, I had lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of every hole in my body and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to give it a try again. (I have to mention here that everyone in the line was enthralled with my story by now.)
Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food had poisoned me. I told her no; I had stopped in the middle of the parking lot to scratch my fleas and a car hit me.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard.
Wal-Mart won’t let me shop there anymore. Funny. 0 -
tinywonder25 wrote: »This makes me sad
Isn't there some other less degrading and negative thing you can do? Why do you feel the need to punish yourself? Maybe I'm reading to much into it and it's just a funny thing for you..idk. Best of luck on your goal.
I am not going to punish myself, because I am not going to fail
but yet in another topic you say you can't stay away from the potluck going on in your office, even knowing that dog food faces you if you do not!0 -
tinywonder25 wrote: »This makes me sad
Isn't there some other less degrading and negative thing you can do? Why do you feel the need to punish yourself? Maybe I'm reading to much into it and it's just a funny thing for you..idk. Best of luck on your goal.
I am not going to punish myself, because I am not going to fail
but yet in another topic you say you can't stay away from the potluck going on in your office, even knowing that dog food faces you if you do not!
EXACTLY!!! I'm seriously messed up.0
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