When I moved to the DFW area about 14 years ago, I was very homesick for the first year or so. I longed to spend time in my old hometown with my friends. When I went "home" to visit, I wanted to stay. But, as time went by, I became a Dallas "native", made friends here, settled in, and THIS became my "home". Now, when I visit, I love being there, but I also like coming back here, to my "now" hometown.
I said all that to say this: lowcarb living is my dietary "home". I just figured this out this weekend. I allowed my wrong thinking and a stray craving to send me off my path and into the arms of an awaiting donut. Then, I just blew off the rest of the day. I decided I'd eat whatever I wanted to. I couldn't figure out what else I wanted. I had some ideas, but they were all low carb. I wouldn't want to waste my good low carb food on a cheat day! I had a candy bar, but it wasn't near the thrill it used to be. The weirdest thing was this: I couldn't wait for this cheat day to be over so I could start back eating right. How strange is that?! Inventory was Friday and I was so sleepy after my carb-laden breakfast, I kept nodding off during the final paperwork.
This is when I knew low carb eating is my "home". I visited the other side of the fence and the grass isn't greener over there. My stomach was angry with me and the scale was ugly to me, too. Maybe now my visits away from "home" will be brief. One item, or one meal, but not a whole day. That's too long to be away from home.
Anyone else had a moment in time when you realized low carb was your way of living and not just a diet for you?

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Maxibee

Good for you. Many people never quite get that lesson.
I can't say when exactly I got the mindset that said this is forever but it's comforting when it comes, isn;t it.

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Maxibee - the following could've been written by me a couple weeks ago:
I too had a cheat day and it wasn't satisfying in the least. And I too wanted some of my lc snacks but didn't want to "waste" them. I forced myself to eat the snacks I used to crave (I have a non-lc ds and dh in the house with me, so these things are still around) and they just weren't as good as they used to be! Low carb eating is definitely home for me! Since that day I've been a model lowcarber and dropped 4 1/2 pounds.

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Emily
Current: Size 10
Goal: Size 8

Yep..that's when I had my 'low carb epiphany'. After cheating. I ate whatever the heck I felt like having for several days and felt like complete CRAP :crying:

That's when I realized that this is the ONLY way for me to eat. Why would I intentionally make myself feel so rotten, bloated, tired, etc? Every time the thought of a cheat crosses my mind, I remember how bad I felt going off LC.
Good topic!!!

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SLEEP BE DAMNED! GET THY BUTT TO THE GYM!
Start Atkins 9.1.03
225/198/130ish

Great story; I never went through anything like that though.

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Started Atkins on 9/20/03
235-->190; 150 goal