Elle-Emm
Gold Member
A bad weigh in i'm afraid guys - put on 1lb, a fortnight since my last weigh in.
Yes i cheated, a fair bit - not whole meals or masses volume-wise but all the wrong things and all more than enough to take me well out of ketosis i'm sure and i probably would have had a big gain had i weighed in last weekend. Let me say this though - I didn't avoid weighing in, I have just been away from home. I ate choc bars, biscuits, bread, cheese - simply because they were *there* and I *could*. As I and others have said, we know out demons and we need to get to know how to control them. LT is *not* and should not be treated as a quick fix. The learning curve continues...
But since last Monday i have been Lt clean and sober 100% lol - so am focussing on that rather than beating myself up. Yes it means getting to goal is slower progress than it should be, but I'm learning some valuable lessons - trying to wring as much positive juice out of this as i can. And hoping that my experiences can help others too I guess.
Okay, a few things:
1) the sugar highs and the sugar lows. wow. they are huge - with that as the only big difference in my diet over a couple of days I realised just how big a deal this is. Kinda scary, no? So i had a hot choc (highlights, made with water) but just wanted more and more... that led to choc bars and biscuits. oh and a bit of cheesecake i just remembered. all sweet things, no savoury cravings.
2) i'm SOOOOOOOOOOO glad i didn't attempt to refeed for a holiday or an occasion during my time on LT - i honestly don't think i'd have got back on it in the slightest.
3) showed me the huge importance of refeeding. i'm looking forward to the controlled element of refeed and actually having a meal and some semblance of eating proper food.
Next weigh in is another fortnight and i WILL absolutely have lost - and hopefully be only one week from goal by then.
Good luck all
Yes i cheated, a fair bit - not whole meals or masses volume-wise but all the wrong things and all more than enough to take me well out of ketosis i'm sure and i probably would have had a big gain had i weighed in last weekend. Let me say this though - I didn't avoid weighing in, I have just been away from home. I ate choc bars, biscuits, bread, cheese - simply because they were *there* and I *could*. As I and others have said, we know out demons and we need to get to know how to control them. LT is *not* and should not be treated as a quick fix. The learning curve continues...
But since last Monday i have been Lt clean and sober 100% lol - so am focussing on that rather than beating myself up. Yes it means getting to goal is slower progress than it should be, but I'm learning some valuable lessons - trying to wring as much positive juice out of this as i can. And hoping that my experiences can help others too I guess.
Okay, a few things:
1) the sugar highs and the sugar lows. wow. they are huge - with that as the only big difference in my diet over a couple of days I realised just how big a deal this is. Kinda scary, no? So i had a hot choc (highlights, made with water) but just wanted more and more... that led to choc bars and biscuits. oh and a bit of cheesecake i just remembered. all sweet things, no savoury cravings.
2) i'm SOOOOOOOOOOO glad i didn't attempt to refeed for a holiday or an occasion during my time on LT - i honestly don't think i'd have got back on it in the slightest.
3) showed me the huge importance of refeeding. i'm looking forward to the controlled element of refeed and actually having a meal and some semblance of eating proper food.
Next weigh in is another fortnight and i WILL absolutely have lost - and hopefully be only one week from goal by then.
Good luck all