I am going through a similar problem at the minute - I seem to do really well for a few months lose a decent amount of weight then start to self sabotage myself - I am starting to think that although I want to lose the weight somewhere inside me is struggling with the thought of actually being a normal weight as I have been heavy for most of my adult life - I don't want to allow myself into that cycle again of bingeing and then hating myself and bingeing more - I have really enjoyed this WoE and it has helped me feel so much better in myself so far losing 42lbs of the 140lb I need to lose.

daylitemag wrote: »

I have noticed that many of us post various food confessions from time to time (i.e. I just ate an entire bag of Oreos and now I hate myself). I know that personally it can be helpful if I say outload or in print my struggle. For one thing it is a distraction from whatever is concerning me and secondly the support of others is powerful.

I don't expect that everyone should suddenly drop everything to come support me, but just writing it out I find helpful.

I will start off. I adopted this WOE a little over six months ago. I've lost 70 lbs and feel great. However, recently I have had some "slippage" in my resolve. I'm not right off the rails but I'm struggling a bit. I have been eating too many nuts of late. Lots of peanuts and cashews. I know these are good choices from a carb perspective, but too many is not good. I'm eating them at night when I'm not hungry and for me this is a bad sign. It represents a slide back to bad habits. So, tonight I am NOT going eat any nuts and instead I'm confessing here my weakness. I'm going to try to re-commit and get back on plan. Hope you all are having a good keto-day. Cheers, Greg

Am I contagious?
The saying, "It all started with the nuts..." came from me.
Or at least I say it a lot. A large sigh usually follows. It helps though that my quite recent bout of food poisoning...well it began to manifest finally (food poisoning can take up to 72 hours to finally wreck us) after I had eaten a bunch of peanuts and cashews. I don't think I'm going to eat them again too soon. The lava burps tasted like them. I'm sure I'll find something else to get in trouble with.

daylitemag wrote: »

@Sandee_Bee I think I have to stop buying them too. I find myself justifying it because I need more sodium in my diet and I try to buy the salties nuts I can find. LOL!

I'm actually pretty sure that I am some sort of addict who can't control what he eats. It's the only logical explanation for a lifetime bad eating decisions that seem to control me rather than the other way round.

There are definitely addictive personalities. My mother has one. And I do. I got rid of, mostly, the sweets (I seriously go into a fog where I see myself grabbing and stuffing stuff in my face, hiding the eating and wrappers--addictive behavior without a doubt), so then I use the nuts, if I manage to kick the nuts for a time, it's then the booze. I was addicted to social media, broke away, then I read free Kindle books until my eyes about fell out and my husband about ripped his hair out. Now I low-carb/nutrition/fitness obsess. At least with this last one, it has a positive side that spils over into my family. And I've instituted a NO books or screens after the kids go to bed, so hubby is happy.
I do have a point. People like us need to find somewhere to channel our addiction tendencies that not only contains it, but makes it net a positive. I'm still working on the food part. I think that I'm working it out, though. It's a process.
But the other part, I've got a handle on.

We have to figure out how to hack our brains so that it's not "the House" that always wins; it's US. You not buying the nuts at all, that's a brain hack. One of mine is that I pre-log my entire day the night before. I find I just follow the easy path right in my face. And then if I get "hungry" after I've eaten it all, then I chew gum. Gum in the mouth avoids hand-stuffing-food-in-the-mouth. Bedtime is a cup of stevia sweetened Sleepytime Tea or Cinnamon Apple Spice (brain thinks I've had a sweet). Once I'm in bed, I'm good. I'm not going to go downstairs and risk ridicule from the other-half to raid the kitchen. It takes being crafty and ruthless with ourselves, and being willing to try different strategies. Thinking outside the box will reward you with greater mastery of parts of yourself you thought were going to rule you forever. It takes time, and some failure then regrouping, but it's so worth it.

Humans are going to screw-up. It's what we do best. But it isn't the mistake that defines us, it's how we recover from it and what we do with the aftermath that makes us.