Yes!! A good day after 2-3 difficult ones. I'm feeling much more normal again, not especially hungry. No cravings. Noticed the baddies in the supermarket after school because I was getting hungry - poured myself a tomato juice before I left, and it was still on the bench when I got back! Overall good. On track for everything.
I used some Fess on my sinuses - they have improved.
I found MellyP's post yesterday a big help too. Thanks again Melly.
Today I had a close look at 2 sheets I have here. One is the original eating plan I was given when I had gestational diabetes and the other is a recent
diet I was given a few weeks ago by a dietician. The first is a plan that I know how to do and which ended up making me 8-10
kilos lighter after each baby, than I was before I got pregnant. I was told by the diabetes educator that if I kept going on it I would keep losing weight afterwards.
The second sheet, the
diet, came from a dietician who works from my local GPs, but it seems to me, she might be a new graduate. Anyway, I saw her twice. I have taken on board a couple of things she said, but when it's come to what I've eaten this past week, I have been pretty much going by my recollection of my old plan. The only thing is now I don't make myself have the snacks unless I'm hungry. The two sheets are not dissimilar - but the differences are pretty important I think. I would lose weight faster using the
diet sheet she gave me, but I would be truly scared that it would trip me up and send me back to bad eating. I didn't even try to use it because when I saw it I instantly perceived it as a
diet (like "
Danger!! Danger!!"), and because she didn't say anything about why she was suggesting it - she barely explained what was involved.
I just decided to stop seeing her, but still felt somewhat guilty. After all I had gone to her to get an up-to-date response to my
fat and
diet issues. Why did she suggest this
diet? Is my weight so dangerous that I should be on an emergency
diet? She didn't say it was a long term plan. She said I should do it for now and that we would move on to something more flexible later.
Well, worrywart that I am, I guess I will just have to live with that worry. It would be too totally scary for me to try something drastic. One of my good eating patches in the past faltered when I tried to speed things up with this eat-all-the-vegetable-soup-you-want-
diet some heart doctor made for emergency heart surgery patients.
For now I am thinking that maybe it was just as well all I did was flee her consultations. Looking at the
diet again I see that it would be possible to go on it and not even get the 5 serves of veges a day that is recommended for everyone. Also it is 1100
calories. My first instant response to looking at the page was that if I tried it I would be massively hungry, and today I see that several people on this site say your
body goes into
starvation mode under 1200
calories. Surely if I needed an emergency
diet my doctor would have said so. Hmmm. Well I'll stick with what I'm doing.
Anyway I'm still on track.
I feel a bit excited tonight.
I know I'm still at the beginning, but I am headed the right way and feeling confident again.
