IrishLaura
Silver Member
You've got some good points there laura but this diet isnt intended to be stopped and started cuz of a meal or whatever. Its intended to lose weight and also, like you said help battle our eating problems.
Which is why for me i just dont get why some people chose to come off for a meal/one day when clearly this isnt meant to happen. Surely youd want this diet over with so you can carry on and eat and will have changed your train of thought on food?
To me, taking a day off is pointless and defeats the object of the point.
I am not criticising anyone nor am i calling those who do have a day off etc weak im merely just interested into reasons why as this topic irks me!!!
I have never been advised by my pharamcist that this diet was not intended to be stopped and started, she just said that it was up to what suited me. My I also add that this diet was not intended for people who were not morbidly obese.
LT will help you loose the weight, it will not help you change your eating habits etc, because if you dont address these habits etc, it will be all to easy to fall back into the same rut when you come off LT.
Opinions are like noses, everyone has one, and everyone is entitled to air theirs, as you and I are doing. The thing is that everyone is different and what works for you will not work for someone else, this is something that has got to be respected. I have never at any stage came of LT for a day and have never thought about doing so, but for those people who have, fair play to them, the maybe have a special event and instead of saying "oh I will take the whole week off" they say one day and straight on the wagon! One day off in my opinion would be a hell of alot harder than one week off.
Being on LT is more than just not eating, for me its a lot more. I miss grocery shopping, days out for lunch, Sunday lunch at my parents. These are not just about eating but about spending time with people and doing things that are normal all around the world.
In our house as there is just the two of us, there is no grocery shopping, no cooking, this might seem like nothing, but from the moment we are born we are surrounded by food, and taught how important it is to eat, then nothing.
LT is a diet that I am truely thankful for finding and it has given me a whole new lease of life, it has given me hope when I had lost hope.
I dont need someone questioning anything that I do while on LT. As you are on LT you know how hard it can be, you should just accept how people manage their weight loss journey, as it is that a long journey, and get on with yours. Its great that you can stay on it for a a long time without stopping, but some people such as myself, want to have fun on that journey. Loosing all the weight wont happen over night if your obese, the trick is to make a start, have a break and tell yourself its time to being the other legg of the journey, in my opinion and its what works for me.
Rome was not built in a day.