I could certainly be labeled a Turtle!!
Here’s my story of how I got to his web site: For the last 3 months I have been doing a typical “grocery” diet, 1500 calories a day. Low fat, moderate proteins and high carbs. Well in those 3 months of being hungry, working my way up to 3.5 miles of running, crying, being frustrated I lost was 3 pounds. Big WHOOP, right? It was a lot of work.
So a few weeks ago I decided to do a low carb 'test'. In a week I lost 6 pounds then the PMS monster reared its ugly head and I ate just about everything I could get my hands on. If I have my druthers, I’m not a big meat eater, I like it but I’ll choose carbs over meat any day. So during this 3 days of carb/PMS binging I gained 9 pounds. So now I’m 3 pounds heavier that I was 10 days ago. Which was last Thursday a.m. So I said oooohhhh no! I’m not doing this. I had regained everything that I lost in the 3 months of high carb dieting.
So that very morning I decided that I was going to stick to low carb. I’m still not back to where I was before I did my week of low carb, but I am on my way. I've got 1.3 more to go to get back to my pre low carb 'test'.
I need help with 2 things:
1.) I get bored. I don’t have much of a low carb cooking imagination and can’t think of things to eat. I work and I’m busy so I need take along things too. So I need to hit the boards for recipes.
2.) I need to get over my embarrassment about what and how much I eat. I have a fairly new SO and he is naturally thin. The problem is I’m fat so I eat more than he does. I usually eat smaller meals because of the absence of carbs but I need to eat more often than he does and I feel awkward about it.