Hi Everyone.
First day of P1 reboot. So far so good.... I was pretty cranky about it all this morning but once I'm determined I'll just muscle my way through it. I had to leave mid-morning from work to do an office supply run so that I didn't go crazy - that helped just to have something outside to do, and then time for lunch. I forgot how much I like the IP food - I only have eaten alternatives, and not many (mostly protein bars) since IP because it's so expensive, but I wanted and needed my coach's support so wanted to buy some of my food at the clinic.
That put my day in a positive because it gave me something to look forward to...
so I convinced myself that IP P1 will be great when I do it because it's the only time I'll splurge on the food (hey I'm kind of faking it but why not fake it until I make it
Now I have a raging headache and I'm moody and low energy but that's OK, just two more hours then I'll go home and watch a movie and sleep. I just had some salt and lemon water and that helped. And I'm spending my afternoon break writing this post....
My coach of course was great -
she said:
1. It's totally fine to need to do a P1 round, and I might want to just include in my head that I'll do it once a year or so, so that it doesn't feel like a problem when I need to do it. Esp. in the first year or two - figuring out what works and doesn't work in maintenance for my particular body.
2. In her experience personally and in their clinic, they have actually found the people lose weight faster the second time around and have an easier time the first week going into ketosis, if they haven't regained a lot, because they have less insulin in their body to burn up (I might not have worded that properly). She said the reason that people think the weight loss is slower the 2nd time around is that most people are not so strict the 2nd time for lots of different reasons.
I don't know if any of that is true, but I'm holding onto it this week, as I do want to feel better and not lose slowly, and also it gives me an excuse to be strict, as I can tell already I want to add a little extra milk to my coffee or a little extra oil or things like that, that I never did the first time around.
3. I shouldn't feel weird at all about needing/wanting the support of a coach - she said a year after she finished P1 she ended up about 15 lbs up (same as me) and she kept thinking "I'm a coach, I know how to do this, I should be able to do it on my own" but she could never quite get started. After going to the coach for two weeks she finally felt like "oh, I got this now" but it took some time.
So that made me feel better.
Somehow I just needed the extra support and the commitment of saying out loud "I'm going this even when I don't feel like it" to someone else in person helped.
4. I asked her "I know it's hard to say, but do you have a ballpark of about how long I will need to do P1?" - I don't know what I was thinking, but I was hoping two or three weeks like a bozo
... she said "Oh, not long Amber, maybe 6 to 8 weeks, maybe longer".
Boooooo
..... but then I thought about it and of course she's right. It just all came on so fast! Ah well, live and learn....
I'll need to go a few lbs under to account for the glycogen restore, but I'll feel good about it all when I get there.
And, for the first time in two years, I decided for dinner as my "last supper" to eat more tortilla chips with dinner than I wanted, rather than listen to my body, and now my stomach is like wtf dude, what was that?
So again, live and learn. There was no pleasure in it. Wasn't worth it. I rarely eat carbs and if I do, I just have a bite or two just for the pleasure of it, not several big handfuls
5. And, speaking of which, she said it's clear I'm just esp. carb sensitive and likely will need to be careful and a little under normal calories daily in maintenance, esp. during periods when I'm not exercising. The lack of exercise and a glass of wine here and there was how the 10lbs jumped on so fast in this last month. Prior to that I was just hovering in the 5 lbs over and under zone.
Sooooooo that's my story
Thanks guys!!! I'm glad a few of us
Steph, Hawaii etc. are in this together... it helps a lot actually.
