It's normal to cry when walking by the bakery.. right?

[Principessa1284]

Omg.. I feel like such a desperate loser today!! I started on the south beach diet last week and I think have done pretty well for myself. I've had to add some slight modifications and a few slight "cheats" due to my picky eating, but I've still lost around 3 lbs so far. The only thing is that I'm ALWAYS HUNGRY!!! Yesterday I ate a HUGE salad with tomatoes and low-fat cheese and steak with mushrooms. I was full for about 15 minutes then I was almost hungrier than I was before I ate!! I can eat all the meats and veggies and drink all the water in the well, but without the breads and carbs I'm still hungry!! It's made me fairly cranky and short-tempered.

In any case - my husband and I stopped by target today to return a late wedding gift, a duplicate from our registry. We went to get a few things we needed with the gift card we got - ink for the printer, milk, and some bottles of water. We were almost ready to check out when I remembered we were out of garlic, so I went back to the produce section.. which also happens to be right next to the bakery area. I was fine until I saw the freshly baked apple fritter bread.. and then the cupcakes, cookies, croissants.. I was totally overwhelmed and even though we had JUST eaten a big lunch I was STARVING and I couldn't buy any of it. I held it in for a few minutes, but as soon as we got outside of the store I BURST into tears and completely bewildered my poor husband.

And I'm still starving.. even after some cheese, raw veggies, low-fat cottage cheese, and a tbsp of peanut butter.

Please tell me I haven't totally lost it.. so depressed right now and I don't think I can last much longer without a pasta dinner with garlic bread

 

[corinnak]

Congratulations on your loss! - You're not a loser at all, you are just struggling with something that is, admittedly, quite challenging!

I know some people swear by the low-carb plans, but for me, I need more balance or I feel very off kilter. Our brains run on glucose, and I definitely feel my state of mind is affected when I don't have enough.

Here's an article on it that I thought was interesting:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200404/low-carb-state-mind

If you are still hungry, it may be that you simply aren't getting enough calories. I have often read that healthy fats can improve your feelings of satiety - olive oil, avacado, almonds....that sort of thing.

 

[es45]

Hang in there. However, for me, I had to modify my low carb diet to include more carbs than was recommended. Otherwise, I was miserable and craving the BAD carbs--the desserts, breads, etc. Even with modifications to the diet, at the end of 6 months, I had lost 30 lbs.

 

[heatherlynn444]

Just my opinion...

I hate diets. I think diets make you yo yo, you cant not eat carbs forever...lifestyle changes is what will stick with you. biggest thing is you don't have to starve to lose weight!!! ever ever ever!!!! Everything in moderation, yes even apple fritter bread and other carbs. try making one small change a week and add to it every week until you have changed your eating habits.
if you are depriving yourslef of something there is a good hance you wil end up binging which is not good! please consider making some changes and modifications to your plan, I promise you can not be hungry and still lose weight!!!

 

[Principessa1284]

Thanks for your support! It helps

I promise I'm not starving myself - I'm eating like crazy, but without those starchy foods I'm still hungry all the time

I hate diets too.. and it's not so much that I need to lose weight (which I absolutely do), but that my blood sugar levels are all out of whack and I'm boarderline hypoglycemic / insulin resistant with a little PCOS thrown in. So anything with white flour, real sugar, or white potatoes is a no-no until I can straighten by blood chemistry out.

The south beach diet was originally designed as a medical diet for heart patients to lower cholesterol. It goes in phases. Phase 1 is 2-3 weeks, where you totally cut out bread, pasta, potatoes, fruit - anything that your body processes as sugar. Then with phase 2, you slowly start to add back breads and pastas, but in whole-grain form, as well as most fruits and some desserts. Once your blood chemistry is back to where it should be (cross your fingers I can do it without meds!) you can go to phase 3 where nothing is off limits, just in moderation.

 

[es45]

You WILL get past those hunger pains and the desires for certain unhealthy carbs. Although I'm no longer on my diet, there are certain carb-heavy, unhealthy foods that I realized made me feel awful and I now avoid. You will get there too.

Good luck!

 

[cewait]

Just my opinion...

I hate diets. I think diets make you yo yo, you cant not eat carbs forever...lifestyle changes is what will stick with you. biggest thing is you don't have to starve to lose weight!!! ever ever ever!!!! Everything in moderation, yes even apple fritter bread and other carbs. try making one small change a week and add to it every week until you have changed your eating habits.
if you are depriving yourslef of something there is a good hance you wil end up binging which is not good! please consider making some changes and modifications to your plan, I promise you can not be hungry and still lose weight!!!

BINGO!!

Look, turn to the last chapters of the book or any 'diet' book and read. If you just FOLLOW a normal diet portrayed in the back of this and other low-carb books you will still lose the weight and not put yourself through the misery. BUT you must change your lifestyle at the same time. Shop only the perimeter of the store. Avoid the packaged foods of the middle war zone area of the store. You meal must be colorful. If your plate has all brown/white food then you are not following a healthy diet.

I have never followed the Atkins, S Beach or any diet book but understand how to eat a nutritious meal. After a few months of eating mostly from the perimeter of the store and only selecting items from the middle THAT 1) do not contain High Fructose Corn Syrup, 2) No Partially Hydrogenated xxxx Oi (Transfats and can be labels as 0 if below .5 gm), 3) Whole Grain as a first ingredient for pasta, cereal and bread and rarely if ever contain bleached…grain, 4)Always reading labels and not selecting items like pasta sauce with Sugar as an ingredient, 5)making sure I do bring in enough healthy fats – avoiding at all costs unhealthy fats. And finally 6) seldom containing an ingredient I cannot pronounce.

Once you understand the hidden pitfalls of the middle section of the store AND start to understand portion size (all relative to your fist size) you will shed weight. You can speed the loss and not get all saggy if you concurrently do a weight/strength routine 2-3 times a week and cardio for 45 minutes 5 times a week. And yes, in a balanced world as described, you can take day off and cheat the diet, not work out and otherwise recover- physically, mentally and spiritually.

Funny story about hidden stuff in the middle of the store. I eat a lot of peanut butter. It is a post run staple in my pantry. Once I adopted a more balanced nutrition plan in my life I changed to ‘real’ peanut butter. The jars you see in the store with the layer of oil on top. In other words, not Jiff and companies. You must stir whole PB to redistribute the oil and I was fine with this one little small change. My DW hated to do this and went back to Jiff. One day about 3 months into my new nutrition plan, I was out of PB. I grabbed her Jiff and lust licked the knife. I honestly did not need jelly doe to the added loading of sugar in the PB. Sugar, HFCS, TranFats are hidden in most items in the middle. In the last 6 months several manufacturers have changed formulations but still beware.

Best of luck to you in your endeavor. I only offer this as a light at the end of the tunnel and to let you know there is a lot of good stuff in the successful and popular diet books, but it is all in the back. That and to say that you really need to focus on lifestyle changes. At some point in time you will be ‘off’ the diet. If you have not learned to eat a balanced and nutritious meal the outcome can be easy to predict.

 

[Starseeker1221]

Thanks for your support! It helps

I promise I'm not starving myself - I'm eating like crazy, but without those starchy foods I'm still hungry all the time

I hate diets too.. and it's not so much that I need to lose weight (which I absolutely do), but that my blood sugar levels are all out of whack and I'm boarderline hypoglycemic / insulin resistant with a little PCOS thrown in. So anything with white flour, real sugar, or white potatoes is a no-no until I can straighten by blood chemistry out.

The south beach diet was originally designed as a medical diet for heart patients to lower cholesterol. It goes in phases. Phase 1 is 2-3 weeks, where you totally cut out bread, pasta, potatoes, fruit - anything that your body processes as sugar. Then with phase 2, you slowly start to add back breads and pastas, but in whole-grain form, as well as most fruits and some desserts. Once your blood chemistry is back to where it should be (cross your fingers I can do it without meds!) you can go to phase 3 where nothing is off limits, just in moderation.

I completely feel your pain on the PCOS and sugar issues! It makes losing weight that much harder and makes that 3 lbs even better! Go you!

 

[CajunMomof3]

I started on the south beach diet last week and I think have done pretty well for myself.
Please tell me I haven't totally lost it.. so depressed right now and I don't think I can last much longer without a pasta dinner with garlic bread

The first 2 weeks of any diet/lifestyle change are always the hardest. I have been low-carbing for 1 1/2 years. Those first two weeks were sooo miserable!! Now, a pasta dinner has NO appeal for me (I would feel miserable after I ate it, and the pasta would taste starchy...)

That being said, I still struggle with walking away from No-Bake Cookies. And by struggle, I mean I dream about them!! Just know that you are making this choice for your health and that you are worth it! And you are still worth it if you eat a few things not on the plan now and then!

 

[heatherlynn444]

Thanks for your support! It helps

I promise I'm not starving myself - I'm eating like crazy, but without those starchy foods I'm still hungry all the time

I hate diets too.. and it's not so much that I need to lose weight (which I absolutely do), but that my blood sugar levels are all out of whack and I'm boarderline hypoglycemic / insulin resistant with a little PCOS thrown in. So anything with white flour, real sugar, or white potatoes is a no-no until I can straighten by blood chemistry out.

The south beach diet was originally designed as a medical diet for heart patients to lower cholesterol. It goes in phases. Phase 1 is 2-3 weeks, where you totally cut out bread, pasta, potatoes, fruit - anything that your body processes as sugar. Then with phase 2, you slowly start to add back breads and pastas, but in whole-grain form, as well as most fruits and some desserts. Once your blood chemistry is back to where it should be (cross your fingers I can do it without meds!) you can go to phase 3 where nothing is off limits, just in moderation.

Ok I am just making sure you don't plan on not eating carbs forever. ) Carbs are like fuel for our bodies, so taking it completely away forever is going to make thigns worse for you I'm afraid. I understand the blood sugar issues, I too am hypoglycemic (its a side effect of the BC pill I just got off but THAT'S another story!)
Anyway, I have learned what are trigger foods for me and in what amounts, and that really helped with my blood sugar. Remember, if you DO have some carbs I don't think it's going to stop you from balancing everything out still, I just hate to see you unnecissarily miserable! Good luck.