Eating yesterday was fun. And yet I knew it wouldn't last, and I'd be back to my old slow-carb eatin' ways today. I made Avanti's bread yesterday, and we had Kashi pizzas with bacon for lunch and spaghetti (my favorite) for dinner. Nom nom nom!
I did weigh myself out of curiosity today. It went up. DIRECT CORRELATION between carbs and weight gain for me. Good information to have. And yet it is promised in the book that these days are actually good for weight loss!
For those of you involved in the weight loss challenge to support Climb For Kids, I am posting my link here again today:
http://climbforkids.org/donate/new?climber_id=50&event_id=14
Most folks are donating $1 - $5 per pound before the climb. I'd also like to encourage people to consider summit bonuses. I intend to go ALL THE WAY UP this year, not just to the Saddle.
I have to say that salsa saves me on this diet. I heart salsa. You need a good condiment to make things pop, and salsa does it for me! It will not replace the peaches and creme ice cream I ate last night, but it will help me enjoy what I'm eating on the other days more. And what I'm doing on the other days allows me the success that I have wanted to for so long! It feels like the beginning of something positive.
I was just noticing, though, that on the day I ate vegetarian (this was the day that I skippied the blog to let others focus on the Japanese tsunami) that I didn't lose any weight. Certainly I know those days are coming and it would only be helpful for me to have days where I don't lose weight, for crying out loud, but that day I didn't. That makes me sad because I love opting for vegetarian food. It's kind of an easy way to lower your carbon footprint. And it is supposed to be way healthier, but maybe for me vegetarianism will be something that I can pull out more often in my cheat days or in my maintenance portion.
I have to say that I am going to have to work on maintaining. I have to check in with myself each day. The old me would let many months go by before getting on a scale, or resuming her exercise, or doing anything except eating ice cream every night. I was just watching The Amen Solution on public television last night, and he was also mentioned by my new psychiatrist (yep - shrinking my head), and lots of what he said made real sense. There is a direct relationship between childhood trauma and how your brain works to give you your relationship with food and your chemical ability to process that food (excess cortisol stores, off-balance endocrine system, etc.). I agree - that has been my experience absolutely, and my experience is that friends that I have who've had similar experiences to me often have these same patterns of weight gain and relations to food. Food for thought for sure!
OK - gotta go. Lots to do (:
I completely agree with your last paragraph, and will shortly be undertaking some of the same kind of shrinking - specifically to address the residual effects of childhood trauma related to food. For me at least, I think this process will be crucial to allowing myself to actually adjust my image to include a healthy me.
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