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I can’t believe it’s been over a week without NRT. Granted, I don’t think I’ve been doing myself any favours with the sugar-free gum, but if it gets me through it, I am willing to deal with the side effects.
I haven’t “cheated” (eaten offplan, blown my diet, whatever) for over two weeks, but I am still having problems losing weight. I might be down a pound one morning and up two the next. It’s all very frustrating because I still have so much to lose. I am going to switch plans in a month or so if things don’t change (not off low carb, but something that sort of changes what I am eating entirely).
After I finish this post, I am working on the book again. Two hours, non-stop. I can aim for that, I suppose. How realistic is up to debate, considering my reaction to sugar-free gum.
I have a Twitter now, because everyone needs to know what I am doing at all times. I am not sure why I really signed up for it considering my family won’t bother getting one, and my friends don’t bother with the net as much as I do. Still, now everyone can read about my life’s minutiae. Damn it, I am going to Twitter hard core.
When weighing this morning, I was up a pound from yesterday, and back into a different “decade” of weight (you know the second number in your weight). It might have been Nobby’s Nuts from a few nights ago, because yesterday I IF’ed until dinner (intermittent fasting). Maybe I just ate too much at dinner.
It’s times like these I have to avoid my own ability to sabotage my weight loss. It usually takes a while, but if the scale doesn’t move for a few weeks (or even worse, goes up), I get doubts about our way of eating. It inevitably ends up with a trip to Pizza Hut, me with sauce from a profiterole on my chin, and the two of us rubbing our bloated carb guts.
Maybe my body knows this and really wants profiteroles. That’s why it’s doing this crap with the weight gain. Ugh.
Mr. Yumicho and I have been off sugar, starches, and grains for almost two months. It’s been great. I’ve dropped 28 pounds, and Mr. Yumicho has lost around 23. Both of us have maintained our lean muscle mass. We decided to have a planned cheat day. Because I was feeling so depressed yesterday, I asked if we could start it early by going out for pizza. By the time we left the restaurant, we were both bloated and felt sick. Sure, there’s a bit of a shock from switching from one diet to another so quickly, but I also remember that I felt that way after eating high carb foods a lot. Maybe not every day, but a few times a week. How can we see eating that way as being healthy when it can make us feel that way so often? Are we blind? I never felt that way in the past couple of months, even after having a huge meal. Not to mention the food tasted awful and overly sweet.
And can we talk farts for a moment? I have farted once, and only once since going off grain and sugar. It’s not like we haven’t eaten the usual culprits like cruciferous vegetables. Since last night, I have farted no fewer than 50 times. I am full of gas and I am looking forward to cutting out the baddies again come tomorrow.
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