Change is in the Air!
Not sure what I want to do next…but something is about to change!
My two week experiment is over… weighed in this morning at 147. Ok, I realize that is a one pound loss over the two weeks. I also realize that ½ lb a week, for someone at my weight w/ little to lose is GREAT progress…SO…
What’s my problem?
Well, BUCK NAKED…everything looks the same. Two weeks of 20g’s of Induction Eating ONLY… and I am unhappy. I don’t want to commit to eating at this low level for the rest of eternity.
So, I will be continuing w/ Low Carb… but I will be reentering OWL starting today. SLOWLY… just like I tell everyone else to do… adding back more veggies at first… then a few berries, perhaps some unsalted nuts here and there… etc…
Not sure how this will impact the overall scale picture… but I don’t care. I don’t want to live at Induction Foods Levels forever. It just doesn’t feel ‘good’ to me.
I will maintain a fairly high protein intake. 70-100g’s / day.
I will try to eat less volume / more frequently… with 4-6 times a day as a goal.
I will continue w/ my hourly trip to the water dispenser. Non-Negotiable.
So if “playing around w/ my food intake” within the Low Carb parameters is not really the answer… than that leaves the other side of the coin (in my opinion) to explore making the desired changes … EXERCISE.
Was talking to my youngest son this morning (17yr old)… and he reminded me that I am not a quitter! I used to actually work out more PRIOR to Atkins… than I do now. Part of me has become lazy, in the sense that I wanted the ‘diet’ to do all the work. I wanted to be able to scoot into the gym… lift my weights… and scoot back out again… and hope that ‘just enough’ would be accomplished. I wanted to find that threshold where I could do the least amount possible with the most amount of gain! (just being honest.)
Oh, I have plenty of energy… and I use it in my everyday life… the amount of running around, housework, caretaking, appointments… and just general ‘do stuff’ has always been high. And that hasn’t increased or decreased in my life really.
So – Change is in the Air. I have several ‘exercise’ programs available to me here at home. And several that I have enjoyed going to outside of the home.
Zumba, Curves, Gym, Fluidity, and Slim in 6 DVD – all good – all do-able… The question becomes how do I change my mindsets to WANT to do them… Well, this experiment has helped me to see… that the Low Carb Lifestyle will only do so much. It isn’t a “magic bullet” to completely transform everything without doing additional work.
I am leaning towards the 6 week commitment to start with Slim in 6 … primarily because I can fit it in and do it here at home everyday. I am looking forward to seeing where I will be on the one year anniversary of hitting Maintenance come Oct. 30th. And that will be in aprox 6 weeks… so I am just looking for your feedback…
Sometimes you guys see stuff that I don’t see…
I’m thinking it’s time for me to take a deep breath – and start this next 6 weeks w/ a renewed commitment – as if I was starting from scratch.
The one thing I am unwilling to do… is nothing. I will not stay the same. I will not remain stagnant any longer. This has gone on too long… and I am mentally in need of a change. If it wasn’t for the fact that I feel so good on a Low Carb way of eating, I would be open to changing that… but I do like it… just not at Induction Levels forever.
So what do you guys think… what suggestions, impressions, etc…do you have???
Thanks…and Much Love.