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course its awfully hard to have so much will power when you get no benefits immediately.
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You said it Lady V! I know I *should* be a great person with iron will power and stick this out. Then I think about some of the people on the boards who have gone through 6 month or 9 month stalls. I'm sooooo not prepared for that! My will power is intact now. I don't crave carbs and I'm really happy with this WOE. I'm very proud of how I've done so far and I have not cheated since I started. My entire family is eating this way now and we plan on keeping it up for the long haul. But with a few months of NOTHING (not to mention the holidays coming up
) I will be tempted to cheat eventually-- I KNOW me (that's how I got heavy in the first place!).
I don't think I could fight the leptin thing in the long term. I've been hungry lately. Not for sweets or anything in particular -- just wanting food. The kind of mindless munching you do in front of the TV. Although I don't actually have hunger pangs, I just want to eat constantly lately. I've been fighting it but it's getting harder. I have NEVER felt like that on this WOE before -- I'm usually quite satisfied. I've read being low on leptin can do that. It makes your brain want to keep eating because it's getting signals that your body is starving. I really think the best thing for me is to nip this in the bud before it gets the best of me.
I'm scared to do the refeed because of cravings. The way I look at it though, I'm going to have cravings either way. I could ignore it and just loose control one day, going off to the carby dark side never to return. Or I could plan this out in a very methodical fashion. I'm not doing this to satisfy the senses (except for pizza . . .), I'm doing it to help my body. Also, if I eat myself silly with carbs hopefully I'm make myself so sick that I won't want to do that again for quite some time (I'm planning on a lazy sleep day for the day afterwards!). Even if I'm playing head games with myself trying to rationalize what I'm doing -- as long as I believe it and I successfully fool myself into not making a regular thing about "cheating," that's what counts.
So I'm on the last lap -- this week I'm getting a lot of exercise and eating well. I'm going to try to do what I can to loose weight under natural circumstances so I don't have to resort to the refeed. Come Sat morning I'll weigh and measure before breakfast. If nothing, I'll break out the Trix.
George, thanks for the tip on the licorice. GREAT idea. The family and I are planning on going to the movies that afternoon and Twizzlers will be the perfect thing to snack on (along with a big ol' coke!). I know the pizza isn't the best choice but if there is anything I miss it's pizza-- I had to figure out a way to fit it in! Bad thing is, I bet by the time dinner rolls around I'll feel so awful that I probably won't even enjoy it! I'll keep you guys posted. . . . .