Chasing away Chubby

My diet plan reviewed, explained, and defended!

Posted lodyangel on July 12th, 2007 | Filed under General

I was up bright and early dropped DS off at kids college. I met Sis at park and we walked/ran.  My knees are killing me know, especially my left one.  I am gonna ice them for a few minutes.  I have to run back to town in a few minutes to pick up DS.  I really hope my paycheck comes today so I can have some money. 

The plan today is to stay OP.  I weighed in a pound lower than my lowest weight so far this week, so perhaps that suggests a beginning to a loss for next week too.  I think I am on the right track with this.  Yes, I am hungry sometimes but I have learned there are worse things then being hungry for awhile…like heartattacks, not being able to run, getting winded walking uphill, not having the energy to play with my kids.  If the hunger is actual hunger…signified by a growling stomach, lightheadedness, sugar crashing, I eat, but most of that has not happened yet.  I feel really good too.  Much of the time after I would eat I would feel bad.  My stomach would hurt, I would get sleepy and lazy feeling.  I don’t get that way on this…my own individual plan.  I have finally renamed my “diet”.  It is called the “cold turkey diet.” I always said if I could stop eating “Cold turkey” I could lose weight, unfortunatey I have to eat to survive.  For years I have had stomach pain and I would try to eat away my pain.  I would hurt extremely bad if my stomach got empty so I lived in fear of that happening.  I have been trying to lose weight since January and in April after having tried to eat healthy and still no change in my weight, I went back to my doctor and made them run tests to figure out what is wrong with my stomach.  They ran a bunch of tests, did an endoscopy and a colonoscopy, and still don’t really know what is wrong with it. I have gastritis an inflamation of my stomach lining and my nodes are swollen and inflamed.  So after doing a liquid diet for an entire day and then nothing at all for 17 hours, I knew i didn’t have to eat my pain away.  I could do it if I was allowed to drink.  I am a binge eater, and once I start eating I can not stop. So this works out perfectly for me.  I drink liquids all day.  Usually V8, juicy juices, iced tea, water, and eat S/F jello.  I could drink broth if I wanted but haven’t done that yet.  So I drink all day and eat one meal a day.  Usually it is Dinner. I can manage my eating this way because I can’t over eat if I don’t start.  Sometimes I will eat lunch or grab a snack if the hunger gets too be too much, or I just can no longer control the urge to shove something in my mouth.  I am losing weight, which is a good thing.  So I am going to keep at this until I just slip off the wagon…which I do sometimes, or it becomes obvious to me that I need more calories.  I am working out and if I feel like I am not eating enough to sustain my workouts, then i will change my plan.  I figure eventually after I get used to listening to my body’s cues that I will eventually go to a “eat only when you are hungry” plan.  But right now…until I can get control, this is the way for me.  I know many of you have concerns, but I am truly being careful and listening to my body, and I have been doing this since July 4th? and I am doing very well so far.  I am taking a multi-vitamin and calcium and I am going to discuss my new diet with my Doctor on the 16th when I go back to check in with him.  I am hoping to have lost some weight when I step on those scales. 

Well I am off to pick up DS. Everyone have a great day!