Monday morning and the number is up again, but I am not freaking out at all. Thank you Eileen for reminding me that I have to do what makes me feel right/works for me, and that is low-carb. The last time I did atkins for about a year I lost weight and I felt great. Looking back I don’t understand why I stopped, or rather, slipped away. I know I love bread, and all things baked. I probably talked myself into ‘a little of this and a little of that’ and boom, back on the upward trend. Plus I do drink wine regularly, as part of a wine club and at home, and have pretended that doesn’t have any affect on my body. Hah! Says my gut. Just look down, says my gut. Oy.
So, breads are gone from my home. Crackers are gone. I have re-read the atkins book. I have started back on the podrunner5k podcasts. (I want to run a 10k trail by the end of the summer.) Yesterday I covered almost 5k and I was surprised how good I felt. I am still in the early days so it is walk-run-walk but now that I know I can run outside in the cold and the snow without killing myself I will do it every second day, when I am not snowshoeing.
This makes so much more sense to me than what I have been doing the last couple of years, which has been: keep eating whatever you want, just less of it, once in a while.
That strategy has not done anything except drive me totally nuts.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:22 am
You sound so much more positive today and it sounds like you know what works for you. The goal of a 10K should be motivating and how fantastic that you’re already halfway there!!