herselfNYC
Fri, Nov-16-07, 12:48
Hello!
I intro'd myself in the main thread for the forum and Judynyc steered me here. So hello again!
I found my way to this forum after spending the last couple days reading Dr Michael Eades' blog (which was prompted by reading and being ELECTRIFIED by Gary Taubes' book GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES). I'm not new to low-carbing but have returned to it recently after some time in the wilderness of my lamentable sugar addiction.
About me: I'm a Manhattanite and a writer by vocation, single, 46, not yet menopausal but may be on the cusp.
I've got a checkered and lifelong relationship with disordered, compulsive, addictive eating, spiraling weight gain, resentment about dieting, you name it. I've done every diet out there at one time or another. About 10 years ago I'd spent some time low-carbing, achieved a unique sense of peace in the quieting of my food cravings, lost 45 lbs, but like so many of us, I stopped and the weight came back on. (I was subjected, again like many of us, to much negative feedback about the alleged unhealthfulness of the eating plan, including from my mother, who is, heaven help me, a dietician.)
Three years ago I had a gastric bypass. At that time my weight was 315. I got down to a low of 219 after the surgery, but quickly bounced back up a bit, and then, as my eating habits in terms of sugar/carbs slid back to what they'd been before, I regained about 30 lbs. (Sugar addiction is real and it's serious! For me, anyhow.)
As of today I'm at 247 and would like, as my short-term goal, to just be able to get back into all the gorgeous clothes in my closet that are now a leeeeetle too tight, and beyond that ultimately would like to weigh less than 200 lbs, but am less concerned with that than with keeping myself from reverting to the sugar addiction. I'm no longer fixated as I was when younger on being <i>thin</i>. I want to be sugar-free and healthy and energetic. Though I love clothes, too ....
As for the plan I'm doing, since I'd ditched all my low-carb books a while ago, I bought a copy of Atkins recently to refresh my memory on just what to do, but I'm also awaiting a new copy of Protein Power, and probably will settle more into following that one (which I'd read and loved before and then somehow forgot about).
What I'm doing on the day-to-day now is eating meat/eggs, a little cheese, half & half in my coffee (probably too much), and some salad a couple of times a week (I don't really like vegetables and since Dr Eades says they're not strictly necessary, I'm not worrying about eating them daily.) I've also been eating an Atkins granola bar each day, though am prepared to give those up if they make me stall down the line. I also take an array of post-WLS vitamin supplements, and have added krill oil recently. And I drink a low-carb protein shake each day, which is part of the post-WLS instructions.
By the way, the instructions for eating I was given after the surgery, while rather sketchy, were essentially a low-carb diet--I was told to drink a protein shake daily, eat protein first at every meal, abstain from sugar, and limit other carbs as much as possible, while eating vegetables and some fruit. My mistake was in getting cocky and starting to creep -- and then fling myself -- back into sugar and starches and snacks. (Of course we all know how a steady diet of carbs makes us WANT to snack all the time.)
http://homepage.mac.com/herself_nyc/gastricbypasspage.html
Before/after surgery pics. Not updated lately but I still pretty much look like the more recent of them.
I intro'd myself in the main thread for the forum and Judynyc steered me here. So hello again!
I found my way to this forum after spending the last couple days reading Dr Michael Eades' blog (which was prompted by reading and being ELECTRIFIED by Gary Taubes' book GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES). I'm not new to low-carbing but have returned to it recently after some time in the wilderness of my lamentable sugar addiction.
About me: I'm a Manhattanite and a writer by vocation, single, 46, not yet menopausal but may be on the cusp.
I've got a checkered and lifelong relationship with disordered, compulsive, addictive eating, spiraling weight gain, resentment about dieting, you name it. I've done every diet out there at one time or another. About 10 years ago I'd spent some time low-carbing, achieved a unique sense of peace in the quieting of my food cravings, lost 45 lbs, but like so many of us, I stopped and the weight came back on. (I was subjected, again like many of us, to much negative feedback about the alleged unhealthfulness of the eating plan, including from my mother, who is, heaven help me, a dietician.)
Three years ago I had a gastric bypass. At that time my weight was 315. I got down to a low of 219 after the surgery, but quickly bounced back up a bit, and then, as my eating habits in terms of sugar/carbs slid back to what they'd been before, I regained about 30 lbs. (Sugar addiction is real and it's serious! For me, anyhow.)
As of today I'm at 247 and would like, as my short-term goal, to just be able to get back into all the gorgeous clothes in my closet that are now a leeeeetle too tight, and beyond that ultimately would like to weigh less than 200 lbs, but am less concerned with that than with keeping myself from reverting to the sugar addiction. I'm no longer fixated as I was when younger on being <i>thin</i>. I want to be sugar-free and healthy and energetic. Though I love clothes, too ....
As for the plan I'm doing, since I'd ditched all my low-carb books a while ago, I bought a copy of Atkins recently to refresh my memory on just what to do, but I'm also awaiting a new copy of Protein Power, and probably will settle more into following that one (which I'd read and loved before and then somehow forgot about).
What I'm doing on the day-to-day now is eating meat/eggs, a little cheese, half & half in my coffee (probably too much), and some salad a couple of times a week (I don't really like vegetables and since Dr Eades says they're not strictly necessary, I'm not worrying about eating them daily.) I've also been eating an Atkins granola bar each day, though am prepared to give those up if they make me stall down the line. I also take an array of post-WLS vitamin supplements, and have added krill oil recently. And I drink a low-carb protein shake each day, which is part of the post-WLS instructions.
By the way, the instructions for eating I was given after the surgery, while rather sketchy, were essentially a low-carb diet--I was told to drink a protein shake daily, eat protein first at every meal, abstain from sugar, and limit other carbs as much as possible, while eating vegetables and some fruit. My mistake was in getting cocky and starting to creep -- and then fling myself -- back into sugar and starches and snacks. (Of course we all know how a steady diet of carbs makes us WANT to snack all the time.)
http://homepage.mac.com/herself_nyc/gastricbypasspage.html
Before/after surgery pics. Not updated lately but I still pretty much look like the more recent of them.