Dieting :P

Hey everyone! Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I thought I'd update you all on my current state of being :P

So I tried doing your basic calorie counting diet awhile back, upon inspiration from my sister. And honestly.....

Yeah, didn't work. :( The temptation to eat chocolate & other junk was just too great.

Different diets work for different people. Some people do fabulously on a raw foods diet, some people do well with low-fat diets, some do best with low-calorie diets. I've learned that honestly, I do best with the low-carb stuff.

There are any number of reasons for this, but the one that seems to apply to me is that I have a carbohydrate addiction. It's not really an "addiction" per se, just an imbalance in my insulin production that makes me go all hypoglycemic sometimes (I get shaky & cranky & I'm just a mess x-X no fun to be around at all), and I just can't stop eating if there's food in front of me o_O. It's not that I don't feel satisfied, I just... like eating the food too much. It doesn't occur to me that I should stop. Especially if there's chocolate or any kind of bread product involved - even if I'm filled to the brim, there's still always more room in my tummy for chocolate or bread. Sometimes I go eat just cuz I'm bored & can't think of anything else to do. I can't count how many times I've opened up the pantry or the fridge when I wasn't the slightest bit hungry.

So I tried Atkins when I was about 13 or 14 (on my mom's recommendation, after she saw a co-worker lose all kinds of weight on the diet), and it worked like a kind of detox for me, on top of fixing my pudgy tummy. I had ALL these other digestive issues before doing the diet that all got fixed when I started eating low-carb. I eventually (slowly) slipped off the diet... I still ate relatively healthfully, but then.... i had a baby x_X

For the first time in my life, no one was saying "don't eat all that cake!" I wasn't saying it to myself either, unfortunately, and I gained TONS of weight between the time I got pregnant and about a year ago. Not cool. :(

My boyfriend and I both have gained a boatload of weight since he moved in here (we're not totally sure what happened exactly, but it happened, so, time to fix it). We tried cutting calories recently, but it didn't work out - we succumbed too easily to temptation.

So over the past week, we've been eating ALL our carby foods - fruit, ice cream, snacks, bread, cereal, everything. We've kept a little bit of it for the little one, like the fruit & cereal & milk (probably not healthy for her to cut back so much on carbohydrates), but most of it is gone.

My boyfriend is starting the diet tomorrow (he didn't want to waste his Lean Pockets), and I've started today. I found a bunch of recipes (really creative ones too) on Atkins.com and other low-carb diet websites. The last time I was on this diet I felt about a million times better and I got pretty thin... hopefully it'll still work out for me now!

Wish me luck everyone! :)