Killing Carbs - Episode 2
So the truth of the matter stares us in the face. But hey, we usually just ignore it until we can't see around it anymore. What am I talking about? Well CARBS of course! The fiction is that we can go low-carb no-carb and lose just as quickly as we did when we had just undergone surgery. That cutting out all the bread, crackers, rice, etc. will just magically make the pounds melt away. THE TRUTH is that this isn't going to happen. We are now at that time in our lives that we faced BEFORE surgery. We are NORMAL. Losing weight is a battle that requires diligence... exercise... not eating trash... all the stuff that wasn't required right after surgery. Man, what a drag! So here i am... having just eaten like 5 tater tots and 2 bits of hamburger.... feeling sick because I usually don't eat fried anything... especially potato... and thinking to myself.... "gee Sabre, maybe you should go to the gym" Bah... this life bites! Who wants to go to the gym!!!! But alas, I must go... the tater tots are making me today...
ANYWAY, I guess the point of my rant is this: don't take weight loss surgery for granted... a couple years down the road you will look at dieting through the same eyes you did pre-surgery. It bites, it is unfair, uncomfortable and there will always be that one skinny chick that eats Reese's Pieces (i love those) and drinks Dr. Pepper (i love that too) and never gains a pound. And we, well, we will be eating chicken, fish and salad greens and drinking 15 gallons of water while walking our butts off on the treadmill... Its just life. So remember what you were supposed to do after surgery and stick to it!
But to make this post more lively: What do YOU do to make sure you DON'T fall off the wagon?
I agree to all of that but what keeps me happy and smiling is that for the first time I feel like I stand a chance battling the food. Before my WLS I just gave into failure. Now I fight it. "I get knocked down, but I get up again" I love that song!
I exercise alot and that keeps me on the wagon. I also track my calories on living strong/daily plate. I know that carbs don't make me fat. More calories in than burned off make me fat. Carbs however create bad cravings which make me eat more so I limit them. I know my calorie burn and I stick with it Mon-Fri. (Sat and Sun I cheat a bit) For me when I was subscribing to the eat only 3 times and only eat protien plan I felt like a failure because I couldn't stick to it. Now that I eat whatever I want as long as I track it, I don't have the guilt or the feeling of falling off the wagon. That is just what works for me and I have been doing that for a year now and have lost 55 lbs since this time last year.
190 lbs lost
VSG 07/2008
lower body lift 10/2010
upper body lift 11/2011
on 3/16/10 10:11 am
I'm hoping I can begin riding again soon-I'm still a bit gimpy and I want to heal before I do work out. For me, diet alone cannot do it.
I love the energy I have on the no carb plan, and I find it just isn't worth adding them back to my diet, now that the habit is gone. Very few of them will taste as good as I remember them, and at 51 I know this is my opportunity to be healthy for life and I don't intend to blow it!
Just my $.02.
Cathy
I have cousin's on my mom's side of the family that have ALWAYS been skinny stick figures and can eat any damn thing they want! UGH!! But they are oh so sweet and supportive as well! I can only hate them silently! hehe
I use my daily affirmation to help me deal with issues when I'm struggling. I also pray and meditate on how I see myself and my life in a positive manner.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
My Goals:
1) 200lbs ACCOMPLISHED
3) 170lbs
4) Run 5K
"Unneeded food is not any less wasted in a body that doesnt need it, than it is in the trash." ~Brandilynn
"Those that will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." ~William Penn
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