A couple off weeks ago I had a real bad splurge with chocolate which ended up making me really sick. After I recovered, I decided that I really needed to settle down and stick to this WOL!

I had been thinking about it for a while, and feeling a little bit guilty each time I reached for something with sugar. Actually, I had been doing that since Christmas.

So, this thread is for those of us who find ourselves at this time of year wanting to recommit to eating healthy and low carb. There is already a thread for tracking and a thread for checking in for vets. When I think of recommitment it has to do with both a mindset as well as a concrete action. So, I invite you to list what your concrete action(s) will be towards recommitment, and check in here daily affirming how you are doing.

My Action Steps toward recommitment:

1. Plan far enough ahead for daily meals that I do not get stuck at work with nothing to eat.

2. Write at least one answer on the Newbie Forum and one thread on the Atkins OWL Forum.

3. Drink at least 80 ozs of water every day.

Peace, Peg
1/1/03
205/175/155
5'8"

WTG Peg!

I am giving up SUGAR and SUGAR FREE candy for lent! So, today I will eat the last bits of S/F Candy that I have. I will focus on my exercise and hope by Easter to be down 10 pounds!

Today will be good. I may have pancakes with SF syrup tonight, we will see how that goes!

Monica
206/168/155

WTG, right back at ya' Monica! Good going! I've decided to eat bacon and sausage and buy a salad at the joint next door to the church to bring in. I may have to slip up to my office to eat it in order not to hurt the cooks' feelings!

Peg

Now that is a better plan. I have a meeting after our church gathering. My focus will be eat more meat! YUM

Monica
206/168/155

I've already done this in the checking in thread, as I didn't really know this was here, and in my journal, but here goes:

1. NO LC products for me! Unless I need to bake for some specific reason, I will be avoiding Splenda and s/f syrups as well.

2. NOTHING processed, which rather includes the above, although I am allowing dijon mustard, mayo and the Carb Solutions teriyaki at this point and am doing ok. If that changes, I'll nix these as well. (oh, and real bacon bits on my salad. doing ok with those so far...)

3. NO dairy products, unless as in #1. I don't know of any reason why I would need to though.

4. Limit nuts. I eat them for snacks a lot, but it will be 6 or 8 instead of 20 or 25.

5. My general menu will be eggs for bfast, salad and meat for lunch and meat and veggies for dinner. There may be some variation, like today I ended up with leftover kebabs for bfast cuz' we're out of eggs!

6. NO sugar alcohols. Period. They always set me off. I might get to a point, say, in a month or so, that I can have one, but not right now!!

We have a potluck on Sunday, but I plan to bring my own salad and meat. I'll just skip dessert. I have got to be focused to lose this weight!

Next

Blessings!
Sharron
Author of "Low Carb Cooking at Sharron's Place," and "Extreme Lo-Carb Cuisine," available where ever books are sold.

www.thelowcarbcook.com

"My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart." Colossians 2:2

Well, here I am in my office, four pancakes and at least a fourth of a cup of maple syrup off my recommitment! Dang!

Well, tomorrow's another day, and I'll get up and do better.

Peg
1/1/03
205/175/155
5'8"

Hi all-

Well, I guess I am a vet...though not a very "good" one right now...yesterday was the first day of my "RECOMMITMENT."

Some of you may remember me - many of you are new since I was last here.

I began LC back in August '02...In less than 8 months, I lost nearly 40 pounds! It was incredible. Last summer, I (feeling pretty good about myself) decided to work on maintaining, rather than trying to take off the last 13 pounds. I did pretty well until the end of summer, when my lax attitude toward my food choices somehow spun out of control.

I have half-heartedly tried to make better choices over the past 6 months, but now find myself at even a higher weight! TIME TO STOP THE MADNESS!!!

So, I embark on my recommitment...I have developed a spreadsheet for the next 11 weeks (I have found in the past that this keeps me honest). Plus, I started tracking in Fitday and keeping a food journal again.

Here I am...back for the rest of the journey. And believe me, it's NOT as easy the second time around!

P.S. One of my "rules" of my recommitment is to check in on this board EVERY DAY!!! Again, keeps me honest and motivated!

AJ
5'7" - 29 yo female
1st time: 192/153/140
Recommit: 169/169/140

Welcome AJ! It's good to see you again. I find that posting to this board every day really helps me too. First, it gives me feedback. I need that because I can get too comfortable with myself and find myself going off the way you did, one slippery step at a time. And second, because I read some really good advice from others who are more honest than I.

Keep posting.
Peace, Peg
205/175/155
5'8"

Hi all! Count me in on the recommitment!
My rules are:
no sugar
no white flour
no fake foods
exercise at least 4 x per week
stay off the scale.

Hi AJ!

Michelle

new stats 167/159/140-134
old stats 207/134/140-134

Sounds like everyone is doing great!

Welcome all!

Today will be a great day! Mick, like you, no sugar, no flour, 5 days a week exercise, AND staying off the scale. Once a week! (if I can)

Monica
206/168/155

Welcome home, AJ


Here's the deal about recommitment for me.....I hate sports analogies, but I can't think of any other, so here goes. I know how to play the physical game, my woe, inside out and upside down. However, the mental game is still a challenge I have to meet almost every day.

I've found I get off my mental game for the usual reasons/excuses most people give: illness, emotions, temptations, etc. It happens. But the reason beneath the reasons, if you get me, is most often this: I start playing the old negative tapes about my body and my self, and believing them. When I stop loving and appreciating myself, I can't stay on track for long. You don't take care of something you despise.

So my recommitment goals are (and believe me these are tough ones):

1. To look in the mirror and say 5 positive things about my body every morning. No hedging, no equivocation.

2. Before I fall asleep, to say 5 positive things about myself or my actions that day. No hedging, no equivocation.

I started yesterday, (and I won't bore you with the details every day), but grasping to fulfill question number one, I did concede that I have great clavicles Gave me a laugh and put me in a great mood all day.

So perhaps not the most kosher of recommitments, but I think it could make a difference for me. Am I in, gang??

BC



172/108/108--5'2"
Zone since 4/98

BC,

Sounds fine to me, on one condition:

What's a clavicle

Blessings!
Sharron
Author of "Low Carb Cooking at Sharron's Place," and "Extreme Lo-Carb Cuisine," available where ever books are sold.

www.thelowcarbcook.com

"My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart." Colossians 2:2

Sharron, clavicles are the shoulder bones.

Esther

Esther, thanks!

Bren, you crack me up

Blessings!
Sharron
Author of "Low Carb Cooking at Sharron's Place," and "Extreme Lo-Carb Cuisine," available where ever books are sold.

www.thelowcarbcook.com

"My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart." Colossians 2:2

LOL, hate to think what you were imagining, Sharron

BC



172/108/108--5'2"
Zone since 4/98