Hello everyone!!!
I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer me. I'm at my wits end. I'm putting in the effort and getting no results!!!! I've been following this WOE now for a few months or so and all the weight/water that I lost in induction has piled back on!!!!! I'm in a worse position than when I started and I'm still following the diet and working hard at it..........Ekkk!!!
The first couple of weeks went fantastically. I could feel the hollows in my cheeks getting hollower and my hipbones rising through my skin more and more each day. After 3 weeks of what I consider effort - having to pack breakfast, lunch and dinner off to work instead of heading to the local supermarket and grabbing a premade salad or sandwich, I went off the diet for a weekend. I made the decision consciously and rationally ( a better decision for me than inevitably breaking it in a moment of weakness) as I was going to Paris for a romantic weekend. Got back, resumed the diet (no bread, no pasta, no rice, no sugar) and the weight has piled back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!! PLUS SOME!!!!!!!!!!!
Help!!!!!!
I'm still working hard at the diet. Limit myself to salads, fish, chicken and mayo, the occasional chinese (with no rice of course!) although I do have the occasional vodka with diet soft drink. I do feel better and no longer have that sleepy, woozy feeling I get when eating carbs (just 1 sandwich is enough to get me back there, scare myself and put myself back on the diet.).
My issue is, in our society you must admit that cutting out carbs is HARD WORK. I can't eat most things prepackaged in supermarkets, or on restaurant menus. With a busy lifestyle it does entail putting in a fair amount of effort to cut out the main carbs.
I'm young (well 28) and therefore my metabolism should not be too screwed up. My diet is fairly restricted and still I am not losing weight!!!!!!!! What is the problem!!!!! I'm very close to giving up!!!!!! (I'm thinking there are hidden carbs somewhere. I'm going to my journal and work out my carb intake over the last couple of weeks. If you'd care to stop by I'd be very grateful!!!!)
By the same token, I already survive on a very limited diet. (Eggs for breakfast, {no easy cereal for heavens sake}, tuna salad with mayo and tomato for lunch and fish and green veges for dinner) I do still need the occasional treat of a few drinks on the weekend with friends. I can't cut out everything and exist on lettuce and tuna alone! I already have to turn down most food and drink offered to me!!!!!
Can anybody offer any advice? I'm at my wits end and ready to give up....
Thanks for your love,
Glittergirl
(PS. Does anyone know how to change your profile and add a photo? I've looked but can't seem to find the right button.)