[The Little Bowl] Back to Restrictive Eating.

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Yesterday I ate and ate. Between anxiety and still feeling vulnerable to a binge, I decided to eat as much fat and protein as I could to get back into ketosis quickly. Click to enlarge reports: This all came to: Gads, for the calories. The carbs, excellent, but not the calories. And the rum and pork rinds were so unnecessary. The only extra to that list was I did drink half a gallon of plain ice tea. I need to make some tough decisions today, as time is passing and I am not losing weight at this rate. I must get back to the calories I was eating on the truck IMMEDIATELY. My menu is planned out for today: Totals: No booze, no pork rinds, no excesses. --

Posted By elisaannh to The Little Bowl at 7/12/2010 09:42:00 AM

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I know how hard it is eating this way. Years ago when I first began this,it wasn't easy. I was hungry all the time before my body got adjusted to the smaller amount of food,and believe me, before, I was eating with wild abandon!I literally could eat all day long! I would eat a full meal,dessert and then start snacking until I went to bed!Non-stop eating!!When I decided to stop,it felt like I went from eating something to eating nothing suddenly. I don't know

where I found the will-power or strength to ride out the hunger pangs but I somehow did.It took a long time to get used to eating less food,for me.And wouldn't you know! When I ate without control,I weighed less than I do now! It's when I stopped eating like that,that I gained more weight!! How odd is that???I was heavy then,but boy do I wish now I weighed the same as I did back then! I gained about 50lbs when I changed my eating habits from a lot to "normal". And I was eating a lot of junk too but I wasn't really gaining any weight.I stayed the same weight for years eating like that.It's when I tried eating less junk and started eating healthier that I gained all this more weight!!Sometimes I think I should go back to eating like I used to and maybe I'd lose weight,but I've stayed away from junk long enough to have my tastes change.I'm not all that fond of sweets anymore and not very fond of chocolate either,so...and I'd rather have home

cooked meals than take out every night of the week.I'm thinking of trying those lean cuisines,although I'm not very fond of those frozen dinners either,as a guide for servings. I must be eating more than I realized I did and this will give me an idea of a serving[plus it'll also show my kids what a normal serving size looks like].I'm not into measuring out portion but I am nowhere near what I used to eat. As a example; I used to be able to eat half the pie of a large pan pizza and now I eat 2 slices or 1 slice plus a salad,no dessert and 1/2 glass of 1/2 and 1/2 {sweet and unsweet} tea.I would say that's a huge improvement.Today's first meal of the day was cheesy chicken over rice,more rice than cheesy chicken{and my one vice} coke not the whole can all at once but a few swallows,and all threw the day until gone. Before, I would have guzzled almost a whole 6-pack by now.So I think I'm doing good.Stay strong annh,you can do

it!!Daisy