[bizi]

boy did I go off my diet on monday....
3 big peices of the best chocalate fudge....and a couple of margaritas...to boot!
I jsut ate half a jar of peanuts and I feel ill.....
why am I doing this?
bizi

[Isis]

Boredom (food/life) = Cravings?

I binge when I am obsessed with a particular food - generally cheese/smoked salmon/anything sweet. I will eat preserves when nothing else is around.

Brushing my teeth when a craving hits sometimes works for me. Some kind of psychological push that brushing teeth is an activity that happens after a meal?
But at other times I reach for the fork anyway.

Nowadays my cycling keeps me from going on too guilty a trip. Small but useful mercy.

Love Ya

[waves]

Originally Posted by bizi

boy did I go off my diet on monday....
3 big peices of the best chocalate fudge....and a couple of margaritas...to boot!
I jsut ate half a jar of peanuts and I feel ill.....
why am I doing this?
bizi

Dear Bizi,

That sounds yummy. well not mixed altogether but...

It was a slip. It is ok. You just had a "night out on the town" dietwise. It does sound like a binge/cravings, as Serengeti suggested. Are you allowing a little "cheat food" daily? Something to keep your taste buds quiet before they raise a rucus?

Chocolate has been associated with lack of or increased need for magnesium. Are you getting enough Mg? - Milk/cheese (but pref. milk), and GREEEN LEAFY vegetables - Mg is a consituent of chlorophyll. (Some cravings are biologically based.)

Peanuts. Hate to say this but I'm glad you didn't feel so good after that, lest you had gone through the whole jar! OMG Peanuts are also not the worst in cheat foods. But, are you getting legumes, in general?

Margaritas - that says taste buds or wanting a "boost" to me... maybe wanting to escape deprivation? does that ring true with you?

Another thought. Are you facing this diet too aggressively? Does it feel like a self-imposition, or worse, self-punishment - not to say it is - just, does it ever FEEL that way to you?

Why are you dieting... any other reasons lurking in the depths of the psyche, besides health? Body image? Other people?

Well, savour the memory of Monday (ok except the ill part) but please let yourself off the hook for it. Think of allll those other days when you observed the guidelines better! Please be extra gentle with yourself. You deserve it. . I do hope your tummy feels better today.

Oceanic hugggs and a big pat on the back!

~ waves ~ of too many thoughts

~

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Originally Posted by serengeti

Boredom (food/life) = Cravings?
I binge when I am obsessed with a particular food - generally cheese/smoked salmon/anything sweet. I will eat preserves when nothing else is around.

oOOOOOH yEAH! comin' in loud and clear there... ohhh boy is that me. Gone through half jar of preserves in one shot - but cheese is the killer. I'm more of a saltaholic.

I also find that brushing my teeth can help - for me though it's more like, i just spent all this effort brushing (i brrrrushhhh) and now i'm going to "undo" it by eating? naahhh. (ok well maybe )

~ waves ~

[bizi]

thanks for letting me off the hook!
Since I started exercising and dieting...I am hungry all of the time.
It is almost like exercising has given me an excuse to add an extra meal...I eat something when I first get up, then immediately after working out and then lunch that is 3 times!
You are right about the bored+eating.
I ate 3 diet ice cream bars in a half an hour time frame last night.
need to brush my teeth sooner than right before bed.
That was a great suggestion.
thank you for that!
I also think you are right about the whole sacrifice thing.
I want to be healthier and am still exercising and I feel really good about that.
Perhaps because I don't need to lose that much weight...5-10 poounds would be nice...I don't feel the pressure to really follow thru with this diet thing.
What I would really like to do is shift the weight upward...lol
that extra 10 pounds is on my hips and I don't really have much up top to begin with. That would make me happy! DReam on .....
I think munching on some carrot sticks would be better than the nuts or the ice cream bars.
One bar has only 4 net carbs! and only like 90 calories.....
one is a great treat...3 is a mini meal!
Thanks again for your suggestions. I especially like the brushing my teeth one and I am forgetting that when I am craving something...I should try drinking a glass of water and see if I was just thirsty instead of hungry.
bizi
edited to add that I do need to take a multi vitamin...forgot about that.

[Isis]

I wish I could loose some from my top. From not quite 33"/84 cm I went up to 42"/106 cm and now thankfully 'am down to 38"/96 cm. I think I will stop once I am down to 36"/ 92 cm. I am beginning to like myself a little meaty.
'Will write later. 'Couldn't resist this one.

Love

[waves]

LOL !!!

Originally Posted by serengeti

I am beginning to like myself a little meaty.

[bizi]

Just thought this needed a bump!
How is it going?
I wanted to post a great dish that I made last night for a pot luck dinner:

[bizi]

WEll i ate 4 brownies tonight at a reception...free food and wine jsut are too much for me...
sigh
must come up with a plan to prepare so that I don't sabotage myslef.
bizi

[Mari]

hi there,
Here is another reason to go low carb!
Mari

The ketogenic diet may have mood-stabilizing properties.

Med Hypotheses. 2001 Dec;57(6):724-6. Related Articles, Links
El-Mallakh RS, Paskitti ME.

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky 40292, USA.

The ketogenic diet, originally introduced in the 1920s, has been undergoing a recent resurgence as an adjunctive treatment for refractory epilepsy, particularly in children. In this difficult-to-treat population, the diet exhibits remarkable efficacy with two-thirds showing significant reduction in seizure frequency and one-third becoming nearly seizure-free.

There are several reasons to suspect that the ketogenic diet may also have utility as a mood stabilizer in bipolar illness.

(1) These include the observation that several anticonvulsant interventions may improve outcome in mood disorders.

(2) Furthermore, beneficial changes in brain-energy profile are noted in subjects on the ketogenic diet. This is important since global cerebral hypometabolism is a characteristic of the brains of depressed or manic individuals.

(3) Finally, the extracellular changes that occur in ketosis would be expected to decrease intracellular sodium concentrations, a common property of all effective mood stabilizers. Trials of the ketogenic diet in relapse prevention of bipolar mood episodes are warranted.