This is what I wrote to one of my email groups... for those of you who are interested in getting to know who I am...

Robert here, an American man living in Germany. I've joined this group as I am trying to recover from a 5-month spin into "carb hell" with an accompanying 35 lb. weight gain.

My story is really very simple. Life was going along fine, I was maintaining a slender/normal weight for around 2 years (I do a slightly modified version of Schwarzbein)....

RobTann

Well, this weekend was one hell of a comfort zone blaster! This was the first Easter that I have not indulged in a bit (okay, A LOT!) of chocolate. It was very challenging and very uncomfortable at times. Four whole days of sitting on my hands and trying not to pay attention to the chocolate surrounding me.

First up was Easter Friday, which wasn’t so bad as I stayed at home and was therefore able to control my food intake. Saturday was much the same, except for the difficult task...

LifeInMotion

Well, it's almost bedtime here in Germany and I made it through my first LC day back. I'm very proud of myself for pulling myself back from very serious active carb addiction.

On the positive side, I could feel my body saying "yeees" by the late afternoon - I know that this is the only way for me to get to and maintain a healthy, normal weight.

On the negative side: the cravings. I know that many people (ironically most of them are not carb addicts!) believe...

RobTann

The last couple of weeks I've been eating out of control. It's never carby stuff, it's not in the house, and when we eat out, I do not, repeat, do not, order anything off plan, ever. When they bring croutons on the salad, I pick them all off. The ubiquitous bread is put aside.

But lately I've just had no control over my eating. And I've baked some low carb things that were gone sooner than they should have been, right down my gullet.

Where one should be adequate, I've eaten...

QueenMama

There doesn't seem to be much activity here, but that's not going to keep me from writing!

I'm an American living in Germany, where carbohydrate addiction and a low-carb lifestyle are non-existent concepts.

I'm coming off a 5 month gain of around 35 lbs. after almost 2 years of a stable, healthy low-carb lifestyle maintained weight.

So what happened? The day came along in October of last year when I simply said "it won't really hurt to have just one; I...

RobTann