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I was doing SO WELL! i completed phase 1 just find and was on my 4th day of phase 2 when it all went to sh*t. I had definitely been losing weight because clothes were getting bigger and things were looking different. But then over the weekend i had a lot of frustrating things happen/time of the "month" / rainy and gym was closed / felt sick / was bored / end of semester celebrations....and basically all of that resulted in abandoning south beach and doing the complete opposite: junk food, candy, cookies, alcohol....basially awful food in awful amounts. I"m not tryign to use any of that stuff as legit excuses for why I abandoned south beach, but they definitely contributed to me just giving up even though I didn't want to! it was liek i was on a junk food emotional/binge eating rampage, even though all of the junk made me feel awful after so long. It honestly was saturday night through even this mornign and now I'm disgusted and feeling awful about it. I really thought I would reach my goals by teh time i went home in 2 weeks, but now I think i completely undid everything I had worked for in the 18 days that I had done south beach. I'm even writing this now full on cookies and junk from today witout any real food in me yet because I was just too lazy to get to the grocery store this morning.
Basically, I'm not looking for sympathy or any of the "if your'e not dedicated dont' come whining to us thing... i just want someone to tell me that it's not all blown and i can still recover things.
I'm assuming I need to start back on phase 1 asap, get back to exercising, and juts forget about what I did. I even keep thinking that I alreay blew it so much today tha tI may as well keep going for the rest of hte day but i KNOW that is dumb talk---can someone on this SBD please give me a message board equivalent of a "snap the hell out of it!" :).
So basically, a few questions:
1) is it possible that i completely undid everything in these 2 days of realllllly bad (as bad as it can be) eating
2) should i go now, get somethign healthy for lunch or whatever i can eat after being full on bad junk food, and just get back into it this very second, hit the gym later, etc.?
3) it was so easy for the last 2.5 weeks, why am I so overwhelmed about starting it again?
I'm really mad that my internet access was down this weekend---i feel like if i came on this board and was able to exprss my urges to break it, I would have felt a little better :( I know it's not an excuse, but i really think that would have helped :( |
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Mon May 12, 2008 12:48 pm |
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| ladybugnessa
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2 days of binging can really wreck a week or two of clean eating
all is not lost just get back on the horse and keep going....
work on stringing your clean days together..... just keep doing the best you can and one day hopefully it will click and you will find your groove and do it for the reasons you find compelling. |
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Mon May 12, 2008 1:11 pm |
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| Donnakk
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We all fall off at times, just do not stay off!
I am feeling down myself as after 2 weeks of phase 1 and 1 week of phase 2 I am only down 3# total. But I do feel better, pants are a bit nicer fitting and even DH has said I lost weight!! 8)
All is not lost, please stay with me on this! :wink: |
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Mon May 12, 2008 2:07 pm |
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| ladybugnessa
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Donnakk wrote: We all fall off at times, just do not stay off!
I am feeling down myself as after 2 weeks of phase 1 and 1 week of phase 2 I am only down 3# total. But I do feel better, pants are a bit nicer fitting and even DH has said I lost weight!! 8)
All is not lost, please stay with me on this! :wink:
you've lost a pound a week and you have very little to lose. you should be very pleased with your results so far. i know how frustrating it is to lose slowly. |
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Mon May 12, 2008 2:15 pm |
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| lovemyvet
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I've fallen off the wagon too many times to count. The only time you fail is when you stop trying.
So pick yourself up, try and learn from your mistakes and carry on! |
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Mon May 12, 2008 3:08 pm |
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| heather87
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| thanks guys----i really don't wnat to hink that I probably undid everything with those 2 days, but I also know that i would be lying to myself if I thought that it didn't make a difference. but you know, th elovehandles won't come back in 2 days and my face won't gain noticeable weigh tin 2 days....aka i CAN get back on this and CAN still see a difference. so i'm going ot head back to phase 1 since I obviously wasn't ready for phase 2.For some reason, adding in that piece of fruit got me thinking "well then what will tis piece of bread really do then, or this glass of wine, or will an ice ram cone REALLY set me back." Clearly, I haven't gotten my thoguhts straight and need the structure of phase 1 a little longer. and this time I"M going to do it---i just need to remember that i'm not RESTARTING south beach, i'm just fixing some things on the south beach woe that i messed up for a couple of days. It may be the same thing, but it sounds and feels different when i consider that i messed up temporarily. i can't think of this as a diet (which is what i did these last 2 days)---you can BREAK a diet but you can't BREAK a woe, just lose track of it a little bit :) |
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Mon May 12, 2008 3:10 pm |
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ladybugnessa wrote: work on stringing your clean days together..... just keep doing the best you can and one day hopefully it will click and you will find your groove and do it for the reasons you find compelling.
I just love this little piece of advice so much! Sometimes I think SBD forever??? ... nope, just today, and then tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after... yeah I know it leads to forever but I don't have to worry about that today... love it... will remember it for tough days. |
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Mon May 12, 2008 4:20 pm |
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| heather87
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| thanks for all of the advice guys! Tomorrow is definitely going to be back to normal for me. All of the junk so suddenly actually made me feel so beyond sick that I could barely function. My stomach has been killing me to the point where tonight, when i tried to eat better, all i could stomach was bread and white rice :x . I feel so much better when I eat better, so tomorrow i'm gonna get back on the wagon :). I'll definitely make sure to post in the journal and drink as much water to cleanse my body of all of the awful stuff i put into it these last few days. so excited to pick myself back up after 3 days instead of letting things get out of control for weeks or even months again! |
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Mon May 12, 2008 10:21 pm |
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| DebbyC
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good for you!!!
want to try for a clean day tomorrow with me? if I'm tempted I'll remind myself that it can be done!!
oh and why won't my SO tell his mother to STOP bringing home ethel M chocolates from vegas...or at least tell her to just get dark chocolate. That stuff is too expensive to toss....at about 2 bucks for each little chocolate covered piece of heaven??!!! |
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Mon May 12, 2008 10:39 pm |
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| heather87
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DebbyC wrote: good for you!!!
want to try for a clean day tomorrow with me? if I'm tempted I'll remind myself that it can be done!!
oh and why won't my SO tell his mother to STOP bringing home ethel M chocolates from vegas...or at least tell her to just get dark chocolate. That stuff is too expensive to toss....at about 2 bucks for each little chocolate covered piece of heaven??!!!
yes tomorrow let's start our first of many clean days!!! |
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Mon May 12, 2008 11:44 pm |
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| Donnakk
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| Can i also join for a "clean day"? |
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Tue May 13, 2008 12:46 am |
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| heather87
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| yesssss!!! tomorrow---this time--- the three of us better be back here posting about how we had a perfectly sbd friendly day! |
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Tue May 13, 2008 1:24 am |
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| DebbyC
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| it started out good and I"ve already had a bottle of water - I really need to up the water - I've been drinking 2 700 ml bottles during the work day and a diet coke or diet mt. dew mid day - but if I drink more I have to go potty every 45 minutes!! |
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Tue May 13, 2008 3:22 pm |
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| iDuckie
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I will admit, I totally fell off the wagon. And hit the skids, and rolled down into a ditch. It's been a rough 2 weeks personal wise, and while I have done ok for the most part, dinner has just taken a nosedive.
BUT...the best thing to do it brush yourself off, and get back on the wagon. :D |
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Tue May 13, 2008 7:01 pm |
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| Donnakk
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| I'm checking in early. Did not do well at all :twisted: :evil: :twisted: |
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Tue May 13, 2008 10:28 pm |
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