I’m still low carbing it and wow, oh wow. My weight loss has been slow since my last post and I’ve had great moments of weakness and doubt. I’ve cheated. A lot. Badly, too. I stopped weighing myself a month ago because I was feeling really dejected by the slow pace of my weight loss, but despite a few carb heavy binges, I’ve managed to lose, although very slowly. (Did I mention it was going slowly? Because it hasn’t been speedy. At all.)
But then all of a sudden, just as I was feeling like it was all pointless, people started asking me, “How much weight have you lost?” Instead of, “When are you due?” And then Alex, who really has a way of not ever, ever, ever, ever talking about my weight started saying to me each morning, “Babe, you really are losing weight.” And you know what? When I look at myself in the mirror, I can see it now. It took awhile, but it’s definitely there. Or not there, actually.
So I am staying the low-carb course. I’ll stick with slow and steady.
But you know what? Low carb is actually about more than weight loss, I think. Because not only is low carb helping me lose weight, it’s helping me think better. Seriously. The Atkins folks call this the “Atkins Edge” but I think it’s just a fact that sugar (aka carbs) makes your brain less effective, kind of like beer. So the dietary shift has triggered a much broader personal transformation, including strange things like quitting shampoo (more on that in another post) and getting my finances in order and in general feeling a lot happier and better about life.
Now if only I could get regular sleep.
We went to the beach last week, but I won’t be posting my bikini photos just yet. (Please, I am not bikini material by a long shot, even if the majority of bikini wearers these days have more fat spilling out of their string briefs than I have all over my body. Is this just a Jersey thing? God, I hope so.)
Instead, here are some very big 30 month old boys looking sporting.
Bing digs it
Doot shines.
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way to go! when I hit a low carb plateau I added in a bit of exercise. it’s lame, in my opinion, that we should have to jump start this crap. if we do the work it should just work for us. but the body settles in for some annoying reason. even a tiny bit of exercise helps.
So I was inspired by your last post to go read that book, Why We Get Fat. I was just riveted by it. By how all this diet and nutrition information I grew up with is total bunk. (Especially the “low-fat” craze.) I then proceeded to torture all my friends with the information from it. I even talked with my doctor about it recently, and she felt the facts from the book (as I relayed them to her) were very sound. She even said, don’t bother eating baked potatoes. They might as well be large chunks of sugar. You are better off eating a Snickers bar! She also said she read an article recently that talked about foods that, counterintuitively,–at least according to how we used to think–help you to lose weight. Two I remember are nuts and yogurt!
Thanks for the feedback. There’s a great, concise video of Taubes basically explaining the entire book for. Google author talk on YouTube. I’m going to start sending that around to folks.