Cripes...I know the feeling. I do online shop's when I am on the straight and narrow. I just can't cope otherwise, I would end up mugging some poor old nan for her digestives. Plus, I have a toddler and going shopping with her is a nightmare. Best all round if I just do an online shop. I spend less too.
I had a massive thing on my old cambridge diary, about week 4 my DH and I went for a day trip and ended up in some cutsey cafe in wales. There they were in all their beautiful glory. Cream Tea's. My bloody husband only ordered me one too...obviously, let it be known that he is a FEEDER but oddly has serious issues with people being fat, so he feeds you and then rags on at you for eating it.... Anyway, I digress, I had half. It wasn't as nice as I thought it would be. I was gutted. So....let that be a lesson for you. Its never as nice as you imagine it will be. Dream about crystal clear sparkling water, hmmm the way is fizzes on your tongue....ooooooo-weeee!
I read a lot and I was reading about something which became known as the "stillman diet" or Dr's quick diet as it was in the 60's. It was allegedly what led Karen Carpenter to lose so much weight before the anorexia kicked in..... It was designed to get peoples weight down to perform surgery or improve their health. Anyway, one thing really jumped out at me and that was "every mouthful of food off plan you eat sets you back one week on your plan" now, this may or may not be true, but it's a sobering thought when I start fondly caressing the malted milk...
Paleo/primal eating is really a way of life, rather than a diet. It's basically taking it back to what we ate before we evolved. So much of the modern food pyramid isnt that great for us. Especially processed grains and sugar. This is why I am now obese. I have faced up to it. Having tortured myself with endless three day restarts at a VCLD. I always knew that I would go back to eating those sugary treats and hunks of baguette with lashings of butter. Why? Well, it was my coping mechanism for the crap that happens AND it was all I knew. This time. I can feel change is in the air.
I hate it when you have a blip and the inner demon comes out....Lock yourself in the bathroom and tell it to F off.
Mel - you know what. I was shocked when I read that, but equally aware of how quick it goes back on if you dont step up properly. (Only too aware) I think if you make good food choices you wont do badly, plus swim in the sea as much as you can, the salt draws fluid retention out - but obviously stick with your 4 ltrs of water a day, we dont want to find out you come home like a sundried tomato. I know you are on holiday and the temptation is to go "to hell with it I'm on holiday" but that's the kind of attitude that got us on this crazy train in the first place. Dont scupper your hard work. It's not worth how shi*t you will feel after you come home and all that fits you is sweat pants.
(and yes, I have been there too)
Day 3 - Is it too early to say I am feeling fine fresh and fierce? I am just starting to feel that buzzy feeling. I didn't have much glycogen in my system I dont think, so I could be approaching ketosis. Last night I had a headache like my face was going to cave in, yes I know that sounds all wrong, and it was. BUT HONESTLY it was the worst headache I have had in a LONG time and I get some killer migraine. So, today I am feeling ok. Not hungry, but I have that grumbly belly thing going on. I stepped on the scales, yes I know I shouldn't. But already 2.3lbs seem to have got lost somewhere. Encouragement enough methinks.
How's it going for you hun? How much did you lose in your first week?
