Slipfree - I'm stuck in the snow with you! I think we're somewhere in the range of 5-7 feet. It just won't stop. And you're right - I am stressing. It's hard to complain about a two pound gain, I think I'm just shocked it feels like so much more. I felt smooth and svelte before the holidays. Now I look lumpy in clothes (which still fit, at least - but I don't like to show off my muffin top).
PishPosh &
Catlady - so sorry you ladies are in pain. I've struggled with a chronic pain issue off and on for years and it is no bueno. Cortisone shots are livesavers, though.
canadjineh - I'm glad to be back! I shouldn't have stopped checking in, but with school full time, work part time, and running a business part time, it's been busy. I also never feel like I have anything to add
I do think sugars are a huge problem for me right now, and things I did in P1 previously are holding me up now (like using regular low-carb salad dressings, etc. because I can't handle WF products). Today I'm going to try and cut all the sugars I can and see what happens. And I have some news in the allergy arena; I think I may have a bromated flour allergy, not a gluten allergy. I was talking to a guy my mother works with last time I was in her office (they all know about my crazy allergies) and I was telling him how sometimes I'm fine with gluten items, and sometimes I'm really NOT fine. He mentioned that his sister in law thought for years she had a gluten allergy but it turned out she had a bromated flour allergy. So I did a little test - I found a thin, low-carb pizza crust that specifically listed UNbromated flour... and I ate it. And nothing happened! No epic sprint to the bathroom! So if this holds, it makes sense that I have reactions to some things and not others. But, I still would basically have to eat gluten free because out of all the labels I read, that pizza crust was the FIRST to specifically call out that the flour was unbromated, so I think especially in restaurants where they just won't know, it's easier to stick to GF free.
evemomma - I'm extremely hard on myself. But if I'm not, who will be?
I have been yo-yo-ing with calories like crazy lately. I don't want to lose my hair again since it's just starting to grow back, and I don't want to shock my body, so I'm staying around 1200 right now (was 1560 in maintenance). But it seems nothing I do is helping and I just feel hungry all the time because I'm not into ketosis. I think I need to commit to P1 100% - by the time I phased off P1 I had adapted certain things and while I wasn't 100% I was still losing weight. But for the first 8 weeks I was in P1 I was 100% all the way. Maybe that's the only way to properly reset?