Re: Food for Terry

January 7, 2002

Hi Terry,

Thank you for a great post! And congratulations on doing well after being

off of your ATD's for 3 weeks already! Another remission success story!

>>>What I've found (oh, weak soul that I am!) is that if I get too strongly

>>>into denying myself, I lose it somewhere along the day, and eat something

>>>my better judgement tells me is really, really bad. When I was on Atkins

>>>for a number of months, I craved bread and chocolate constantly. Decided

>>>that this diet is bad--and that was backed up by the fact that all 15

>>>lbs. I lost, I regained right after I went off it. That's when I decided

>>>that intelligent moderation was the only route I'd ever take, make sure I

>>>have plenty of healthy food around and keep my indulgences sensible. I've

>>>steadily gained a bit, on the ATD's, but only need to lose a total of 20

>>>lbs. to feel reasonably " normal " again, so I guess it's worked. I hope

>>>that I can follow in Debbie's footsteps, and start losing after I've been

>>>off ATD's a while

(it's been almost 3 weeks now, and I'm FINE, btw).<<<

I need to clarify something about my cravings...they are weird. When I do

grave chocolate right before my period, 3 plain m & m's will ususally take

care of that. The ones that I go on for days with are the salt cravings,

and now this craving for my celery and carrots... and I don't use dip or

dressing with them, just good raw celery and carrots.

My diet has changed so much in the last 2 years, mostly because of things I

have learned in this group. I longer fry anything except my scrabled eggs

when I have them, then in a no stick pan, I eat my toast dry 95% of the

time. When I have the need for oil, I only use extra virgin olive oil. We

use to, in days of old, have rolls or bread with every dinner...that no

longer happens, if my family wants it they can get their own, but it isn't

on the table anymore. My biggest weakness for bread though is if we go to

our favorite restaurant, we do get the garlic bread with cheese sometims

I do eat more veggie, all raw. The only cooked veggie I eat is corn and that

is rare. I do need to eat more fruit...I live on it in the summer time, but

just have no taste for it during the winter...and watermelon is my favorite.

I can't eat apples raw anymore because of my hiatal hernia and it will

kick me into a gall bladder attack. So from where I was I have made huge

strides and continue to do so. I think I do make my changes much slower

than many others because when I go into 'drastic change mode' it usually

doesn't last long.

I do my red ball exercises and now have my beginners tai chi tape to work

with and I do try to walk every day but it is hard with my back. I KNOW my

back will be much better with weight loss too. I had stabilized and even

lost weight last year, then with the ATD's I had gained some weight (I threw

my scales out so don't know for sure)but the last 2 weeks I have been

losing, how much, no clue, but my clothes are fitting a lot looser.

Boy where did all this come from

Anyhow, thank you again and I hope you keep putting the nutritional stuff in

here, it is good stuff. I have kept this post of yours and I will try the

ginger squeeze you wrote about.

TTYL

Jody

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January 7, 2002