Hello All~ It's been quite a while...years in fact since I last joined a chat area for us carb creatures. I was successful, loosing 50 ponds and keeping it off for years. A little weight would slowly creep on, but I would get back on track and within a month or 2 I was back to my size 12's. I recently had some surgery and I have gained back 25 pounds and I just can't get back on track. I know a lot has to do with excecise, which was totally on hold. But it's my frame of mind...I just can't get back up after I have fallen down...help give my some encouragement and tough love to get back on track.
Thanks,

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Welcome back, Kim. Delighted to see you "rejoin the fold," as it were. Sorry to hear you're having some trouble finding your LC footing again.

To me, the start place is pretty easy: to change how you're living, you'll need to change how you're thinking. And to change how you're thinking, you can start by chaning how you talk about it.

As long as you're telling yourself you can't get back on track, you won't. You don't even have to make the whole leap from "can't" to "AM RIGHT THERE" in one fell swoop. Just move to the next better place. Which, in this case could be "I haven't gotten back on track yet."

That's credible, right? You can say that with conviction and believe it, huh?

Then we go to, "Am getting ready to get back on track." To, "I made some good choices today-I'm starting to feel more in the swing of things," and so on. You see where I'm going with this?

You're self-defining as someone who is unable to get up. That's not helpful. Start telling yourself you're doing better every day and as you do that, you'll find-much to your amazement-you actually are.

the one thing that i always like to suggest for getting back in the groove is to quickly leave behind any self-recriminations for being in the position to be seeking said groove again. you have a life going on. things happen. don't beat yourself up about it. matter of fact, there's only one good thing to do with one of these situations: learn what you can from it, and USE it to help you alone the road.

feeling bad is fattening. feeling good lessens your need to placate your emotions or deal with stress by eating. it's simple math, really.

so you get back on track by 1. telling yourself you can do it, that you are doing better, and watch: before you know it, you WILL really be doing better. fake it until you make it. and 2. learn your lesson, consider yourself that much wiser about how this works for you, and move on to be as kind to yourself as possible.

losing weight is, ultimately, an act of self-love, in a sense. it comes from taking care of your body. it's hard to do loving things for yourself like make healthy choices and exercise (as your abilities allow) when you're cussing yourself for being weak or deficient in some way.

boy, i sure gave you a mouthful, huh? hope some of my thoughts may be helpful, at any rate.

were rooting for ya!

peace out.

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Welcome, Kim.

We have lots of "restarters" in the community.

Hope you'll make yourself at home.

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Thanks for the words of wisdom...I really needed to hear it. I know I can do it-LC life-have done it before and maintained for years. I think the surgery (shoulder-rotater) recovery is what actually has me down. My physical therapy has been extremly painful...so in a nut shell I'm feeling a little sorry for myself. I did go back to Curves today-the first time in many many months. It was a little rough, standing on the scale and seeing 25 pounds. But I do really feel good right now. ...I'm on my way.........thanks!

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another 'trying' to restarter here. I need to quit trying and just get into doing.
I did start back to curves 2 weeks ago, but missed it last week. Thank you for your posting - I will be going there this afternoon for sure.

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Hi, MaryKay.......I've missed your posts!!

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Kim, welcome. You've come to the right place for encouragement, that's for sure.

Before you know it, you'll have those pesky 25 lbs off.

I wish you a speedy recovery, and much success on your low carb journey.

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Nita

I was also having trouble restarting. One thing that I found really helpful was to get back to reading the reasons why lowcarbing works (not just for weight loss but for food addictions, etc.) So I pulled all of my old lowcarb books (Atkins, Protein Power, etc.) and am now rereading them (just the science part, not the plans themselves, as I'm doing my own plan).

One thing I found was that rereading them now, after a few years, puts a different perspective on it for me. For example, I must have read about the way insulin works on the body with carbs and fats a dozen times a few years back but rereading it in PP now suddenly made it all click and I "got it" (i.e, why you can eat fat on a lowcarb diet and not gain weight, for example). Part of this is probably also because in the interim, I've read a lot of vegan diet books that are mainly high carb low fat based and so I'm more familiar with that dogma and could compare it to the lowcarb science (which, honestly, makes a whole lot more sense!)

Anyway, that might be a way to go, if you're not doing that already...

Tam