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Physiologically I do understand that there's a gain during the recovery from "toxins." Not that most of those foods are necessarily toxic, but if they are inhibiting our health or energy, then they are not beneficial, and that which does not help us might actually hurt us instead of just being neutral. For me the big kicker was starting to sleep more and nurse less. 5 - 10 instant pounds with a healthier sleep life. Thanks, disappearance of compensatory adrenal function!
So for you, maiasaura - even when you've been eating "cleaner" for like a month, it still makes you gain? What a frustration!!! |
Yeah, pretty much. And yes, frustrating. SO makes me want to give up.
This started happening 7 years ago. I moved to my current location weighing about 150-something. I went vegetarian and gained 50lbs
No, not blaming veggie
Well, not entirely. Partly I don't do well with that much of a carb percentage.
But I was going to Weight Watchers, for the 4th time through. Every time I'd quit, I'd gained all the weight back and then some. Well, this time through, I was doing everything right, and still gaining. The leaders were checking my journal, I was being honest, and still my weight crept up pound by pound.
I got to 170 and just broke down and gave up. I read a book called "Nothing To Lose", something about living life saner in a bigger body, and I binged on lots of chocolate, telling myself I no longer cared and was going to Live Life. Well, I gained another 30lb in like two months.
I stayed that way for awhile-- like 2 years-- before I decided enough was enough. I couldn't reach my own nether parts in the shower, to wash (sorry if TMI). I was very glad I had a hand-held shower head.
I weighed myself, finally, and the scale said something like 203. I'm only 5'1". I buckled down and got below 200, but it took awhile. I stayed in the 190s forEVER. I got down below 190 finally, and stayed in the 180s for awhile, but never below 187ish.
Then, last year, I was up to nearly 198 again. It was October, and I reconnected with my high school sweetheart. We never really did get over one another, and realized in less than a week of intense, long phone calls, that we were still in love
We're very long distance from one another. The stress of the rekindled love kept me from food in a huge way. I wasn't eating, but I didn't notice and I didn't care. I lost 6lb that first week, then kept losing, until 15lb came off, then it got to like 18lb.
We have visited several times, but I had finally gotten to 179 before I visited him in early May. I gained back 4lb on that trip. Then since then I have gained back more, and now I am weighing at 185 again
For the past couple weeks I have really been buckling down and trying not to snack between meals, and eat smaller meals, and eat more balanced. I was kind of low(er) carbing it, but I've added bread back in lately. But I'm not eating too awfully badly.
I'm not trying to detox any particular kind of food. I'm omni. I do eat some packaged things, but not much (like lunch meats, sometimes), and bacon and veggie burgers, but again, these are not regular fare for me, nor are the breads.
I have upped my fruit to two-three portions a day, reasonable portions (1/2 to 1 cup). I am eating more salad and upping my veggie intake, which was good before. I am mostly staying away from between-meal things, unless it's carrots or tea or a small bit of popcorn (3c as opposed to my former 12), or fruit.
I have slacked off on exercise because-- well, I hadn't had any in months, and I started again, and pulled several muscles
(not like I don't know what I'm doing-- I don't know
what happened!).
Anyway. Sorry so long winded. That's basically my story in a nutshell.
I hope to be under 185 tomorrow, but it's a crap-shoot anymore, it seems.
