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10.18.2003 Weight: 274Mood: craving cookies In my writing blog, the lovely Miss LuckyStars commented on my last post and said that "any diet telling me no bread, pasta, and other heavenly startchy foods better come with a gun if they want me to follow it." (Oh, baby, I am SO there -- the only really bad thing about Atkins is that I wind up slavering over bread and cookies in the first couple of weeks.) I commented back that the reason why I used Atkins, as opposed to other diets, is that it's very good for people with low-functioning thyroids because they don't process carbs as well as normal people (unfortunately, I think I came off sounding a bit pompous, so I needed to apologize for that). The other reason why I like Atkins, however, is that it isn't a "diet" -- it's a way of eating for the rest of your life. I am extremely gunshy of anything that promotes itself as a diet, mainly because I was stuck on so many fad diets as a kid (the maternal unit had some appearance issues and was bound and determined to make me lose weight, up to and including getting me amphetamine-based diet pills when I was in 4th grade and informing me that boys didn't care how pretty I was, they were only interested in a nice body. When I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism concurrent with Hashimoto's Syndrome in 1990, an apology would have been nice, but I digress). What I was trying to say was that diets may work for people who only need to take off 20-30 pounds, but I have to take off 115, and then I have to keep them off. That means a permanent lifestyle change, and for me Atkins works like a bomb. I'm not hungry, I can eat stuff I like, I don't worry about counting calories -- with my current lifestyle, there are serious benefits to this plan. Don't get me wrong -- I miss the hell out of bread right now (I just drove back from Journalcon in Austin, and kept slavering over all the IHOP billboards with their pancake stacks *drooool*), but I have to say that I feel a lot better right now. And after months of feeling depressed, fat and out of it, this is a mitzvah. |
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10.17.2003 Weight: 274 poundsMood: hopeful, despite the tag line Okay, I'm keeping this journal because, as a certain friend of mine has been wont to say, I tend to hang my laundry out on the web. And hey, what's more personal than weight loss, right? Essentially, I'm tired -- I'm tired of gasping for breath and being drenched in sweat when I try to dance or fence. I'm tired of feeling logy and out of it all the time. And I'm bloody well tired of having to pass stores with gorgeous little outfits because I know damn well they don't make anything in my size. So, as of yesterday, I started the induction phase of the Atkins diet. I know through trial and error that Atkins works like a bomb for me -- I'm never hungry, I can eat anything I like on the accepted foods list (and I like most of the accepted foods list), and with my wonky thyroid cutting down my carb intake is guaranteed to result in weight loss. In fact, the only down side is that I have to plan and arrange for meals (who, me think ahead? You must be joking), and I feel like I'm running a blast furnace in my tummy -- I had to turn on the A/C before going to bed last night, and I still tossed and turned for an hour because I was so hot (and no, it's not a perimenopausal power surge -- the only hot place on my was my midsection). However, I also felt awake, alert and perky on the way into work this morning, and after lunch at Beni's (hibachi shrimp, chicken and veggies with water) I didn't feel like I wanted to collapse into a coma, so that's all good. Now I just have to figure out what I want to eat for dinner tonight. |
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