Moonwatcher's Atkins Diary

[moonwatcher]

I think its always about balancing what gives you results and what is most liveable with so fully behind your decision to get back to WW. I know there are lots of freedoms on Atkins that there isn't on WW but having to avoid BNS and such things would really really get to me :/

Yes Atomic - there are lots of things I really enjoy about Atkins - the cheese allowance being one - but at the moment I just don't feel I am up to the necessary restrictive nature of the weight loss stages of it. We will be monitoring OH's blood sugars, and I won't go back to eating large amounts of wheat, and probably not a huge amount of the starchier carbs, but I am looking forward to some BNS and some sweet potatoes later this week, and strawberries with cream!

Until I do a shop at the weekend I am a bit low on food and especially wheat free stuff, so tomorrow's lunch will be a WW pitta bread with cheese and tomato, plus a little fruit. Not sure about breakfast or the evening yet.

Currently sitting in bed eating vanilla ice-cream, prunes and cadbury chocolate... last supper mentality has got me!

 

[moonwatcher]

Just popping in quickly to say that from now on I will update in my WW diary (link in signature below if anyone would like to pop over) Still not had a chance to catch up with everyone's diary yet, so hope you are all doing OK. Just grabbing a lavender earl grey before going back to the school for Year 6 induction evening. Hope it is a lively one, because OH had to get up at 2.30 this morning for an emergency at work, and I didn't go back to sleep properly afterwards. The snoring from the back of the classrooms will be me!

 

[Goldilukes]

Morning moonwatcher,

i hope you find everything you need from WW, I did it before and lost 2 stone. It's easy to get your head around the points system after a while. Good luck with it and il be sure to check your diary out.

hope today goes smoothly for you!

 

[moonwatcher]

Thanks Goldi. I lost on WW before - although slowly most of the time, but it was reasonably consistent. I was an online member previously, but this time I am going to save my money and am using the app. I like to adapt my own meals and recipes to fit, so the app is all I need really (and Minimins!)

Yes please - do pop over to my WW diary if you have a chance. I always enjoy reading your posts. I think we can all support each other, whichever plan we're on. Our aims are the same after all!

 

[ladyfelsham]

Hi hun - and all the very best with WW! A good decision to use the app - and there's so much help online, I'm sure you will breeze it

 

[Goldilukes]

Thanks Goldi. I lost on WW before - although slowly most of the time, but it was reasonably consistent. I was an online member previously, but this time I am going to save my money and am using the app. I like to adapt my own meals and recipes to fit, so the app is all I need really (and Minimins!)

Yes please - do pop over to my WW diary if you have a chance. I always enjoy reading your posts. I think we can all support each other, whichever plan we're on. Our aims are the same after all!

too true and I will for sure. Glad to hear you enjoy mine as I d yours.

losing weigh is a struggle no matter which path we choose. I think I'd do best going to a venue and getting weighed. I tried online and it just didnt work for me, I felt unattached somehow.

Hope you have a great day!

 

[moonwatcher]

too true and I will for sure. Glad to hear you enjoy mine as I d yours.

losing weigh is a struggle no matter which path we choose. I think I'd do best going to a venue and getting weighed. I tried online and it just didnt work for me, I felt unattached somehow.

Hope you have a great day!

I'm the exact opposite when it comes to going to a meeting or slimming type club, although it took me a lot of years to realise it! I find there is so much emphasis on that weekly weigh in day and that doesn't work for me. I monitor my weight several times during the week, and know now that certain foods (eg pasta) can put 3-5 pounds on me overnight. If something like that coincided with a club WI then that would totally demotivate me and make me feel I had failed that week. The next day I may have dropped that pasta weight, but with the slimming clubs' mantra of not weighing between their official weigh ins, I wouldn't know that and the damage was done - I'd break the diet and of course, gain or STS by the next meeting. I joined and rejoined so many slimming clubs of all types before I finally figured out that they are not for me. I do my own thing, answer to myself, weigh when I want (although I record weekly) and live a lot more happily with that. Although I am not the world's fastest or greatest loser, I have not lost the momentum in the same way since I gave up the clubs. I fall off the wagon, but things are generally more steady and I generally know I'll be back on track soon, instead of the old pattern off a few months at a club, then 6 months of demoralised binging, then a couple of months at a club, and repeat...

Psychologically it works better for me this way.

Wow, that turned into a bit of a lecture!

 

[Goldilukes]

No lecture, I actually very much see your point and had not looked at it that way but you are right, I do remember some weigh ins with WW where I'd gained significantly and felt like crap all week after having if written on my card. It felt like a stamp of shame so ip get you.

 

[ladyfelsham]

Classes can be so hit and miss - I went to a SW class which was huge and it took hours to get everyone weighed. There was a real loudmouth in the class too, and the consultant was horrible, so that was a big fail.

I'm the type that needs the focus that a class can bring, I think - on my own, I do really well for a couple of months, then fall off the wagon - and I just don't know why (hopefully the hypo will help there) - and think I might join a class once I move.

 

[moonwatcher]

Classes can be so hit and miss - I went to a SW class which was huge and it took hours to get everyone weighed. There was a real loudmouth in the class too, and the consultant was horrible, so that was a big fail.

I'm the type that needs the focus that a class can bring, I think - on my own, I do really well for a couple of months, then fall off the wagon - and I just don't know why (hopefully the hypo will help there) - and think I might join a class once I move.

Yes the classes do work really well for a lot of people, so I wouldn't knock them or slimming clubs in general. They just aren't for me any more (although I reckon financially I kept some of them going almost single handedly for a lot of years!)

Hehe. As I often work with diabetic pupils I read your last sentence as a 'hypo' - low blood sugar episode, and was puzzling as to how that could be a useful thing to help you - then finally realised what you meant. Years ago I went to evening classes to learn basic self hypnosis. I can't remember it all, but we learnt the 'induction' bit, where you pace your tone and speed of speech to gradually bring the person down to a relaxed state. I still use the basic techniques sometimes, of pacing my speech etc. at school with agigated pupils and find it very useful. Good luck with it.

 

[ladyfelsham]

Oh yes I just noticed the typo, oops

 

[moonwatcher]

Oh gosh don't worry about a typo - I find them all the time in my posts, or that bloomin' predictive text!