Change your thinking patterns!!!
Dave! Change the mindset...you're not "attempting" to do Atkins, you're "doing" Atkins. When one makes an "attempt," what, in fact does that mean? "I attempted to climb the mountain." Does that mean that you just looked at it? If you actually began to scale its' sides, you didn't "attempt" to climb it, you climbed it! You may not have reached the top, but you still climbed the mountain. Do you see what I'm talking about? Often, it's the very subtle, almost unnoticed things we say and do, that defeat us. Today, you're on the Atkins WOE and WOL. Do it for 90 days, and I can guarantee that you will lose weight and feel much better about yourself (mind and body). If you "fall off the wagon" a few times, so what? This is a Way of Life...LIFE... Just get right back on. Don't beat yourself up about it. Face it. Like the rest of us, you're a "carboholic." Besides, the deeper into this WOE you get, the less difference it will make if you "fall," once in a while.
Thinny is right. Get a couple of good LC cookbooks and teach yourself to cook. That way, when a craving starts, you can take the time to get out the book, read a recipe, and make the concoction...all of that takes time...and the preparation takes your mind off your craving and helps to set your mind to a healthy choice. Another thing to do, is to take water with you, wherever you go. Whenever you get a craving, take a swig of water...it really does work to alleviate that craving for a small time...besides, you'll be irrigating your system of toxins, and hydrating yourself, to boot! Recent research shows that overweight people are usually more dehydrated than non-overweight people. They think they are hungry when, in fact, all they really need is water! Pure water...not diet soda, or lemonade...or even tea...Pure water. Our systems got so polluted with toxins, and so mishaped by carbohydrate cravings that we forgot about the one most-necessary ingredient in our bodies...pure water.
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) Best wishes, Dave, you CAN do it.
I have really cute jeans from before I had kids that I will fit into again. I want to love clothes shopping with the girls again!
... I want to run with my kids and play baseball and coach soccer and all that stuff!
... I worship the man. He loves me no matter what and doesn't care what I do or don't do, look or don't look like. He wants me to be happy.
I keep saying things like;i used to be a knock-out.I want to be that again. I want to be a clothes horse.I want to enjoy my middle and old years.I want to look sexy again.I want people to stop saying she's fat BUT she's got a nice personality.I want to be taken seriously for who I am. The weight (in skinny people's eyes) diminishes all that I am and all that i hope to be !
I don't want to seem like I hate life. I love it. I have a great husband and wonderful kids. I am blessed. However, I'd enjoy all this much more if I were in shape. I want to wish each and everyone of you good luck with your WOE. My prayers are with you all. I need all I can get too!
I hate being fat because of all the reasons before (I read everyone with tears in my eyes)........But the #1 reason why I hate being fat is because it hurts . I am sure that you all experience this pain on a daily basis. It hurts so much to experience all these "side effects" of being over weight. It hurts my soul, it hurts my spirit , it hurts my heart. It hurts that people don't see me as a real person. It hurts that they can't see that I am wearing a $200 outfit, that am carrying a "TOMMY" purse and that I have on KSwiss tennie shoes. It hurts that they don't notice that I spent an hour on my hair and makeup. Would they notice if I had the 1 kt diamond on my finger. Do you think that they might try to start a conversation with me while we stand in line or are waiting in a lobby or waiting room etc....NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!You see I am from another planet. The "FAT" one. Worst of all I bet that they could care less that I am smart and I have big heart, that I love animals and I am probably the best freind that they could ever have. Do they care that without knowing them and regardless of what they looked like that if they stopped me out on the street and needed my help, I would be willing to lend them some money or give them cables or loan them my cell phone. Do they notice that I have three gorgeous kids and that my husband is a handsome man. Now don't get me wrong. I speak not of the people that are our friends and our family who love us no matter what. I am talking about the Uneducated person that Whispers behind our back, or even in front of our faces. They think that since we are from another planet we don't know what they are talking about or don't care. I bet they don't even know that when I lose weight and they find out that I am from earth I will befriend them and help them. You see they must be in pain as well, they too are from a different planet, the "UNEDUCATED" one.
. Sigh, such is life. Your post has given me the reminder of all I have to gain by losing. I am back in the battle once again thank-you so much !
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