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Originally Posted by ShepherdGirl42
Thanks, kellythecat! I just weighed myself and I'm down another 1.6 pounds! I really hope that everyone here finds the plan working as well for them as it is for me. I'm trying so hard to stay motivated but it's tough. My friends are all so fit and into clean eating but aren't very encouraging to me. I think they've just gotten used to me being the 'fat friend'. My family just refrains from commenting, unless it's to tell me it's a stupid diet and to eat some real food. My mom actually came over with bags loaded full of junk food and carbs yesterday, leaving me with all the types of food I had already thrown out. And a left a big bowl of hot spaghetti and meatballs. Instead of being tempted to cheat I just focused my energy on laughing... Who does that to someone having success on a diet? She also keeps calling with high carb recipes to read to me. That's something she's never done before and there is something humorous in her attempt to throw me off plan. I never would have guessed that strangers at the gym and on forums would be more helpful and supportive than my family and friends.
More progress!! I weigh myself tomorrow, so I'm interested to see what I'm at. It'll have been a week tomorrow morning, and when I weighed myself on Monday, I was down 5 pounds. So we'll see!
And it's funny that you say that about your mom, because my mother was doing pretty much the same thing today..she keeps talking about all of these carb-heavy dishes. Now, I'm not feeling hungry on this diet, and I am pretty much okay with everything. But the few things I'm craving are definitely full of carbs! She actually had a bunch of boxes of dry pasta on the table, and she started asking me how many of them I wanted. She did stuff like this all morning, following each comment with something like, "Oops, I forgot you're on a diet." Then when I told her that tomorrow it'll be one week since we started, she asked if we're planning on going out to eat to celebrate. She even ate a bean, corn, and cheese-stuffed quesadilla in front of me (a craving I'm having) this morning! Why?!
Now, my mom did Medifast several times in the past, so she knows what it's like to be on a diet like this. When I told her that I was always supportive of her when she did Medifast, she told me that she had to be around food that tempted her and she didn't complain. I was in my teens and living at home (because I was still in school) when she was on most of her Medifasting, so it's not like I visited her and brought delicious foods to tempt her with! Just boggles my mind.
A few years ago, I had about a year where I couldn't swallow foods (some weird medical thing that we never figured out). Even though I literally couldn't eat food, and I was wasting away from starvation, she would basically do the same thing--talk about food in front of me or ask me out to eat, and then say something like, "Oh, I forgot that you can't eat." My mother is not a sociable person with me, so it's really a stark contrast since she only asks me to come over and eat or go out to eat when I am unable to do so or on a diet.
Whew, sorry for the manifesto--but yeah, I can relate and it's annoying to deal with. Hang in there! We support you and you rock!
Sidenote: my boyfriend still seems to not be doing as well on this diet as I am. He's sticking to plan, but I'm having him add foods because he's still feeling really weak and getting headaches. I've been having him have an extra cheese stick with his meals, and I'm trying to get him to maybe up his carbs a little bit. He won't go to a doctor so I'm not really sure what else to do. I'm actually worried that he's going to develop some kind of eating disorder, because when I ask what his weight loss goal is, he says that he just wants to lose as much as he can until he can't anymore. That doesn't seem healthy to me at all. Well, we'll see what happens over the weekend.
Have a great day, everyone!