Public weight loss diary (I'm pregnant so I need to get serious)

[CraterCove]

Those are some great tips. I definitely need to reduce my eating capacity. I can put away a whole lot before feeling full. I am not exaggerating to say I can eat an entire large pizza on my own... and its not because I feel hungry. In fact, I hardly ever feel hungry.

Simply putting on one's plate what they would usually have and cutting it in half sounds like a good tip!

[CraterCove]

Check in for Monday August, 26th, 268 lbs. Not losing anything yet but I am really trying hard to keep the soda at bay. I haven't had any so far... but I am not eating correctly yet. Cutting things out and back but not really on track yet.

[Doug Hodges]

HMR. It's healthy.

[Doug Hodges]

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[CraterCove]

Yeah, that system is too high carb for me. If I go low calorie instead of low carb well, let's say life gets really unpleasant for people around me. I can't handle it and it puts a strain on my system. I can't do a diet with things like english peas or carrots or potatoes in it. Too many empty calories, I end up feeling like I am starving. And that leads to binging.

It's the low carb whole food route for me!

[KeepingItAtHome]

You need to be very careful with weight loss while pregnant. It's important that you are getting enough calories to sustain the pregnancy (2000-3000 depending on activity level). Your plan of low carb whole food is good, though remember you do still need carbs, just not the empty processed kind. Fruits and veggies are carbs.
I would suggest increasing the number of times you eat a day (6-8) and that everything you put in your mouth be a protein, a fruit or a veggie, rare treats of whole grains. Make sure you are getting plenty of good fats, avacodos, nuts, fish, grass fed beef. When you cut something out like coke you need to replace it with a healthy alternative or you'll just continue to crave it. Sugar cravings usually mean you're not getting enough protein or fat. If your mood starts getting erratic you're probably not getting enough fat. Protein is the building block for everything, you're baby's over all health depends on you getting enough protein to take care of you both.
A food diary may help with the binging, often there is emotional ties to binges and keeping a diary can help you identify those so you can short circuit them in the future.

[Doug Hodges]

Originally Posted by CraterCove

Yeah, that system is too high carb for me. If I go low calorie instead of low carb well, let's say life gets really unpleasant for people around me. I can't handle it and it puts a strain on my system. I can't do a diet with things like english peas or carrots or potatoes in it. Too many empty calories, I end up feeling like I am starving. And that leads to binging.

It's the low carb whole food route for me!

If you are speaking of gas. Well that is a side effect of this diet. If you can make it two weeks, then you can make it 13. Its a lot of fruits, veggies, shakes, and entrees. The shakes can have diet rootbeer and diet orange. I love the shakes. You can eat all you can hold of fruits and veggies and lose weight. The slogan is more is better. If you are hungry then eat something and drink plenty of water. But eat whats allowed. Its called staying in the box. Its one of the healthiest diets Ive ever done and I did low carb too. I lost my energy on it. This diet gives you energy. It has a lot of bean content. Best thing about it. I know several people that did it and everyone lost dramatic amounts of weight. Several got off their high blood pressure meds and the ones that were diabetic got tons better. I don't know of anyone that gained weight or wasn't healthier.

[CraterCove]

No, not really considering gas, I mean I get murderous on low calorie diets.

I am just the opposite, when I go strict low carb and I am riding the ketosis wave I have too much energy to sleep. I go from being the type of person who can sleep for 14 hrs a day to barely needing 5 hrs. I am definitely a carnivore, if my meat intake is restricted I get really mean. To note, it is absolutely necessary to drink lots of water and you should not stay in ketosis for extended periods of time, it is meant as an emergency fuel source not a long term thing-- one hardly wants to contract gout or increase the chance of damaging their kidney function. However, it is, in my opinion, the most efficient means of fast weight loss.

On another note, if I was pregnant I'm not anymore. I was about two weeks late but my cycle has now restarted. Took the opportunity to have a couple of glasses of wine but it's actually made me feel more determined to lose weight. What if me being this overweight would make it more difficult to even conceive?

I'd like to have another child. I'd like to have two more, I kind of feel like 5 is my limit though. I have three now and I enjoy the boys every day, I love watching them grow and learn and play. There is nothing that gives me more satisfaction. And the days when I stare into the abyss it's their need of me that keeps me firmly planted on this side.

[CraterCove]

Wow, okay so I broke down and had a Coke today. The feeling I have is akin to euphoria. It has been just over a week and having a 12 oz Coke... let me try and explain to you what it does to me.

I'll admit to being a generally negative person. I spend a lot of time considering the swirls as the water circles the drain. I have played with nihilism and I think I've won, most of the time. But that manner of thinking, it sinks it from time to time and you feel dishonest not to consider it. Most days I find a Nihilistic approach freeing. If there really is nothing but what I decide is important, well, what do i consider important?

My children. They are foremost in my mind. I want for them to be cared for and to know love and to be encouraged towards independent thought and to hold free will to be of import above all else.

Beyond that, beyond my progeny what do I consider important? That is a difficult question. Who am I? Who do I believe god is? Do I believe in anything besides serendipity? Is there, in the higher purpose any room for me once my children are self sustaining? Do I believe I am capable of looking upon the face of god? Am I ready for what I will see there?

Tommy do you hear me? Tommy do you see me?

Who am I? Is that important? Why? Why is my outlook so bleak? Why is my outlook so free? Am I Agori? Am I nihilist? Am I a follower of Crowley or Levin? Am I Christian and considering all of those other values at the same time? Or am I simply stupid.

Stupid is easier. Stupid is at least sound and trustworthy. Stupid is safe.

Maybe I would just like to resign. Maybe I don't want to be a part of the grand experiment of Yahweh. Maybe I'd rather be a mudperson.

[Doug Hodges]

And all this because 12 ozs of coke? You sure it wasn't 12 grams?

[CraterCove]

Originally Posted by Doug Hodges

And all this because 12 ozs of coke? You sure it wasn't 12 grams?

Is there a difference? IS THERE?!

Seriously I am no longer certain.

[CraterCove]

Well I will be busy over the long weekend so I'll likely not get to the computer again until Monday evening. I think I'll be just fine, my motivation seems to be enough that I don't feel like having any more soda today. Maybe I am on the verge of convincing myself it can actually be just an occasional treat?

[CraterCove]

So still at 168. Today is Wednesday and I want to really try and see what I can do in a week. Weighing daily is making my charting too jagged I need to restrict myself to a weekly weigh and judge progress from there.

No sodas, no bread, no pasta... Why on earth is a fresh apple so much more expensive than the equivalent weight is super processed apple pie in a box? All the more reason to keep working on Homesteading isn't it?