IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, try try try again and again (and again...)

[Maintainer]

Talking of stalling(!), I'm looking at a gain tomorrow morning I think. I know weight loss doesn't ever happen in a straight linear line, but mine is certainly going to be a rollercoaster ride this time I think.

Weekend coming up - no cheese this weekend. Dairy I'll keep at same level, cos I never exceed 300ml and am thinking of my bones. Will be trying meatloaf recipe. (Now all I need for a perfect weekend will be for Southampton to score 5 against Man U Saturday!)

 

[Maintainer]

I'm just posting this post I made to someone else on the "Low Carb" board, which reveals a little of how I'm thinking ref the future.

Anja, Robin and DD have the best route mapped out...

Some of the new posters, who don't know me yet, might be surprised...
* * *

Ref your longer post up top. I could have written it. (See my signature). Like Vicky, I've been dieting since I was a child and although I did lose 11 stone 7 years ago, it's a constant battle because, fundamentally, nothing has changed for me and I still like nothing better than battening down the hatches and binge eating secretly.

I often say I'm two distinct people and personalities - she who avidly frequents diet forums, loves Dukan diet but tries to eat healthily with it... and she who could happily never eat another proper meal in her life, just cr*p...

I'm now only a stone from target, but it could be 10 as it's that far away always... and I'm honest enough to know that, if and when I get there, nothing will have changed (except that the 80% of my wardrobe which no longer fits will again!).

I'm acceptant of it now. I can't live with being fat again - I really hated myself when I got to 12 st 7lbs after Christmas, and can't resign myself to that weight. I can however accept, albeit reluctantly, to diet most of my life (cos I always have, no change there), fully aware that my slip ups on holidays/special weekends, will always keep me at arm's distance from the elusive target weight... but still enable me to partake occasionally in my favourite past time still - EATING (intentional capitals).

I hope this isn't depressing to read. I'd hoped for a better outcome when I had the "click" to lose weight healthily 8 years ago. But I'm quite acceptant now...

<Back to the Dukan board!>

 

[robinhood]

Good post, Jo. Acceptance is good (even if we don't always like what we're accepting).

 

[scrumper]

Jo , you are an amazing woman to get where you are !!!
Sadly some of us me included will allways have major issues with food ... (id do cant go into too much on here )....I know i will always have to be on my guard and accept im never going to be how i want to

 

[LVLLM]

Morning Jo - thanks for posting hon xxx

 

[BREN]

Morning ladies!

A good post Jo. Xx

 

[m-mouse]

An excellent thought provoking post Jo. I have always been fat - as a teenager I suppose I wasn't too bad, but still fairly overweight. When I was about 13 all the fat kids got sent into the nurses office for a medical (no parents informed or anything). They took me in and weighed me and this cow of a doctor basically just told me that I was overweight, that I needed to cut down on what I was eating and that I would have to be on a diet for the rest of my life. I didn't tell anyone but I was distraught - what a thing to tell a 13 year old girl! I think this was a defining point in my life - when I started to pile on more and more weight; I wasn't going to let some cow of a doctor tell me that. I guess I'm lucky I didn't end up anorexic!

Anyway now I think I realise that like you I need to be in for the long haul and I will always need to watch what I eat - and that is kind of what Dr Du advocates with his lifelong pp day. So ironically she was right - but what a thing to say to a child!

 

[m-mouse]

Jo, have you used miso soup at all? It's just I was reading on the official site that it is ok for Cruise and I was thinking it might solve the stock cube dilemma that we seem to have over here?

 

[Maintainer]

I haven't - but I don't have the stock cube dilemma... and I wish I'd thought to bring you some over!!

Tell me about "miso soup"

 

[m-mouse]

On the live chat someone asked this question

ruekothari : Can I drink Miso soup as part of the cruising phase?

sonja : Hi Ruekothari! Yes you can have miso soup as this is really suitable for your diet. On PP days remove the seaweed and on PV days you can have it as you want. Enjoy!

I'm sure I've had it before and it was a kind of stocky type soup, I think it's actually fishy though. I just thought it could maybe used as a stock instead of a cube or something like soy.

 

[Maintainer]

ooooh I know what it is now, having googled it... it's that dishwater stuff they give you as a starter in a Japanese restaurant (and a friend of mine thought it was to wash her fingers in, and did!!)...

Do you have easy access to it? I know my sister loves going out for sushi when she comes here but complains at it not being easy to find Japanese restos/takeaways down her way...

 

[m-mouse]

ooooh I know what it is now, having googled it... it's that dishwater stuff they give you as a starter in a Japanese restaurant (and a friend of mine thought it was to wash her fingers in, and did!!)...

Do you have easy access to it? I know my sister loves going out for sushi when she comes here but complains at it not being easy to find Japanese restos/takeaways down her way...

Yes I just thought it might work as a stock - better than the low salt veg stock cubes I bought, which really do taste like drain water. Waitrose and Tesco sell it esbut the Waitrose ones look a bit more jazzed up, with veggies in them rather than just seaweed. I went onto mysupermarket .com and searched for miso - can you do that from there or does it bar you because you are outside the UK? Anyway they look relatively low carb - although I'm not sure lower than an Oxo!! The Tesco one looks more authentic.

 

[Maintainer]

I looked and they look crazily carbed at 18+ but for 100g, and the box is 90g for 5 sachets... I dunno!!

 

[LVLLM]

t's that dishwater stuff they give you as a starter in a Japanese restaurant (and a friend of mine thought it was to wash her fingers in, and did!!)...

pmsl!
miso soup is always in tesco its nice.

 

[dukandebut]

Fantastic post, Jo, and one that I'm sure many people can relate to. Your heartfelt honesty is good to read and very, very helpful.

 

[Maintainer]

Morning ladies - and thank you all...

A 300g (1/2 lb+) gain on last Friday but still the lowest I've been since last Saturday (still following?!)... I've walked every day (30-55 mins), stuck fast to Dukan (bit too cheesey wkend perhaps), so I refuse to be down about it.

Wearing new jeans which look quite ok funnily enough

 

[jaqys]

Well 300gms isn't so bad and you've done well to be rid of most the weekend weight, however undeserved it was.

Good will power for this weekend.

 

[LVLLM]

Hey Jo. 300g is a poo! LOL
and the jeans fitting nicely means something! do you ever use a tape measure to see your losses?

 

[BREN]

What Vicky said..... I use tape measure everyweek. ( And the POO! lol)

Jo keep up the great exercise it will all pan out. You are just building up to a loss (or a Poo

 

[anjuschka]

Jo you're doing brill and Vicky is quite right. I suspect it's all those cabbages holding on to water... You're the one preaching to us about eating more protein than veg, so I'm sure you'll get out of that one in no time at all.

Have a nice weekend!