Low Carb Diet Support - Blogs - VernsWifeVickie http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/blogs/vernswifevickie/ Atkins Diet and Low Carb Diet Support, research and free low carb diet recipes. Resources for low carbohydrate diet plans such as the atkins diet and the south beach diet. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:19:11 GMT vBulletin 60 http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/images/misc/rss.jpg Low Carb Diet Support - Blogs - VernsWifeVickie http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/blogs/vernswifevickie/ <![CDATA[I'm Not on a Diet...]]> http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/blogs/vernswifevickie/130-im-not-diet.html Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:17:17 GMT Here's another post from my blogger blog, titled, "I Am Not On A Diet"..

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So...last night after work Vern and I went out for dinner. We went to one of those "Chinese" buffet places that also has a full selection of American choices. I made good choices. I had a put together a nice spinach salad from the salad bar. I picked some nice meats and some buttered mushrooms. I didn't stuff myself as I have been known to do at those places. I am pretty pleased with how it all went.

After the buffet Vern wanted to go to Dairy Queen and have a banana split. He ordered the banana split and two spoons. I had a few bites. It's ok because
I AM NOT ON A DIET!

The significance of my not being on a diet is this....because I am not on a diet, having a few bites of a banana split on Friday night with my husband does not have to trigger an all out binge! Oh how simple that sounds when I say it! The actual walking out of that fact was a little bit more difficult than it looks when I type it here. The evil little woman who lives in my brain and whispers her lies in my ear tried to tell me it needed to be a binge. She whispered, "Now you've blown it, you might as well eat this and this and this..." But, I didn't "blow it" because I am not on a diet...so it's impossible for me to "blow it." It took some effort for me to ignore the voice that's been whispering her lies to me for my whole life. But I did it. I had a few bites of a banana split and I was done.....because I AM NOT ON A DIET!
]]> VernsWifeVickie http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/blogs/vernswifevickie/130-im-not-diet.html Living the Low Carb Lifestyle Again... http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/blogs/vernswifevickie/129-living-low-carb-lifestyle-again.html Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:13:34 GMT I have a blog at Blogger.com. I have decided to post my relevant blog entries here as well as there. So the following in an entry that I posted there on May 30, 2008.

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Once again it's been a while since I've posted here. In the weeks since I posted last I have come to the decision to return to the low carb lifestyle. I have struggled over the past 8 or 9 months with binge eating, with never wanting to be on a diet again and with exactly how one lives a life in harmony with food without being on a diet. The fact that I never want to be on a diet again has not changed. I am DONE with dieting. I have dieted or binged for my entire life....well since I was 11 or 12 years old anyway....and I am done with that.

The struggle in my mind has been the idea that low carb living is a diet. That idea has kept me spinning out of control for the past few months. One morning a couple of weeks ago, I was sitting here at this computer and I just simply thought to myself, "Today is the day." I was drinking a cup of coffee with heavy cream in it. I realized that I could just start now, this minute, choosing low carb foods again. Suddenly I realized that the only thing that could turn my low carb lifestyle into a diet was my mentality. It doesn't have to be a diet. It can be a lifestyle. Those words look so simple as I type them here, but that morning it was a profound realization for me. At that moment something clicked in my thinking and I began my low carb lifestyle once again.

I can't remember exactly what day I started. I don't remember the date but I remember the moment. That day I went to the store and I stocked my kitchen with healthy low carb foods again. Since that day I have eaten in a healthy, controlled manner. I have not binged...not one time. I weighed and measured myself simply to get a baseline but I won't be weighing and measuring on a regular basis. My weight and my measurements are not going to be deciding factor on whether or not I am "successful." I am not on a diet, my goal is not to lose weight or to be a certain size. My goal is to live in harmony with food. I feel like I am making progress with that.

so...I am living a low carb lifestyle again. Every day, sometimes many times in a day, I have to remind myself that I am not on a diet. It would be pretty easy for me to slip back into my old habits and turn this into a diet. I could obsess over every carb, every calorie, every fat gram. I could log every tidbit that I eat into "Fitday." The temptation is there to do just that. But I am not on a diet. I am not on a weightloss program. I am simply living a low carb lifestyle.
]]> VernsWifeVickie http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/blogs/vernswifevickie/129-living-low-carb-lifestyle-again.html New Years Day http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/blogs/vernswifevickie/15-new-years-day.html Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:58:06 GMT Today we decided to tour the USS Midway, a decomissioned aircraft carrier, turned museum, here in San Diego. It was really quite interesting. Here I am on the flight deck...notice my new red converse! Image: http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa253/vernswifevickie/IMG_4390.jpg Of all... Today we decided to tour the USS Midway, a decomissioned aircraft carrier, turned museum, here in San Diego. It was really quite interesting.

Here I am on the flight deck...notice my new red converse!



Of all the things we saw today, the following touched my heart the most...


]]> VernsWifeVickie http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/blogs/vernswifevickie/15-new-years-day.html <![CDATA[Vickie's Blog 2008]]> http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/blogs/vernswifevickie/13-vickies-blog-2008.html Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:35:18 GMT Wow! We can now blog here at LCE! I wonder if this is a new feature or if I just never noticed it before now...whatever the case...I'm excited about it!

OK...so here I am at the beginning of another new year. I am hopeful and optimistic about what the year will bring. I'm not really one for "New Year's Resolutions" but I do have some goals for 2008 that I am hoping to accomplish. Here they are:

First, I am determined to be more faithful to spend some time in prayer and reading my bible each day. My goal for 2008 is to be one who DAILY walks with the Lord.

Second, I am determined to make the low carb lifestyle TRULY a lifestyle for me. I am determined to lose the "diet" mentality that has palgued me my entire adult life. I recently realized that for my entire life, from when I was about 12 years old, I have either been "on a diet" or completely out of control. I am determined to change that mindset in 2008.

Third, I am determined to be a better wife, mother, grandmother, sister, daughter, friend, and employee in 2008.

Those are my goals for 2008.... ]]> VernsWifeVickie http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/blogs/vernswifevickie/13-vickies-blog-2008.html