Dieting and Derby

Today's Weight: 138.4 lbs

Yesterday's Weight: 141.2

Daily Difference: -2.8 lbs

Phase 3 VLCD #29 (only day #3 after 2 week break)

After having taken a much needed rest I added a few more days to my round since I had gone up in weight 143.6 lbs after partying a little too much with my fellow roller derby girls. It's the end of the session and there were a lot of after parties. I'm gluten free so all that was left to eat or drink was tortilla chips and apple/pear cider. That really packs on the pounds. I wasn't stressing too much about it. I just can't let myself stress about it any more. I actually gain more weight when I stress and worrying about my weight only leads me into a self fulfilling prophecy dilemma. I know I need to focus on long term weight loss and maintenance goals not just short term loss. I was reading an article about which weight loss program was better, a low carb diet or a low calorie diet, the answer was simple... the diet that works is the diet that you can keep to. 

I remember reading in Dr. S's script that if an interruption was necessary or inevitable that one could commence HCG without loading for up to 2 weeks. I made the 2 week mark on Tuesday and had a bit of HCG left over. I made a last minute decision to take it. I was going to do alternating correction days until I reached +-2.0 LIW but I hated to throw away the very expensive HCG vial. So I though, what the heck. It's my 3rd day back and have gone from 143.6 to 138.4. I didn't keep to the absolutely no carb rule. I just can't. I get faint, dizzy, and grouchy due to the low sugar issues. I ate a table spoon of quinoa and pieces of cereal. I'm still a bit grouchy but it's much more manageable. I've been having a lot of stomach pain for the last 2 weeks though. TMI warning...gas. It might be the lactose free milk or aged cheese. Milk isn't sitting well with me still. So now I'm gluten free, nut free and possibly lactose free. Ug! That's been part of the difficulty in sticking to the diet also. WTF do I eat? No carbs, no starch, no sugar, no cheese, no nuts and no milk products. Broccoli? So as I was skating in derby and listening to a skate drill regarding putting the breaks on, resetting, assessing your path of least resistance through the pack, and then skating forward I began thinking. Holly crap, the same idea applies to dieting. Instead of throwing our arms up and giving up the fight we need to reset, assess, and move forward. Even if that means coming to a complete stop, moving backwards (totally contradictory to everything you want to do while skating derby or dieting) and finding the path of least resistance. From a derby prospective this is REALLY difficult to do. You get tunnel vision and get into this 'chase the rabbit' mindset. Have we also gotten that same tunnel vision and 'chase the rabbit' mindset in dieting? Maybe. So I stopped, went backwards and reset. I got through the pack.