[Leeney]

Yup, it's a crummy feeling when you're sick. Seems like everything goes to hell in a handbasket. You feel weak, your resistance is low and you just don't have the energy needed to take care of yourself. It would sure be nice to have someone dote on us at those times, but I think that stuff stops when we leave Mom's house. The main thing now, of course, is to feel well again. After that, it's as you know, just one step at a time.

I think slips are pretty inevitable. The thing that you grasp, and here's hoping others can learn from it, is that you just get right back up on the horse...so to speak. What I admire about you is that you are PERSISTENT! Honest, that's the key!

[knit1purl2lose3]

Leeney, on 10 November 2011 - 10:22 PM, said:

I think slips are pretty inevitable. The thing that you grasp, and here's hoping others can learn from it, is that you just get right back up on the horse...so to speak. What I admire about you is that you are PERSISTENT! Honest, that's the key!

You are absolutely right, Leeny!!!

I only have time for a quick check in this morning.

The scale is the same this morning as yesterday morning, but that's fine by me, since I've dropped over 7lbs since Thursday morning. My body is feeling better. And over 7 lbs gone in 4 days, even if it was all water weight and salt bloat, is more than enough. The remaining 3 1/2 of the regain will come off, of that I am sure.

I still have to work on tracking. Usually when I don't track, it means I am either eating more mindlessly and/or not eating as healthfully.

That noodles and veg bowl yesterday was so yummy, I may make some again today (pix and description on my blog), or some Cilantro Tabouli that I've been wanting. Or maybe some Morrocan Pumpkin Soup.

Okay, that's all I have time for at the moment. I'm doing well, back on track for the most part, and just need to fine tune my tracking every bite. That's where I am failing the most.

[karolinakat]

Wow you guys make me feel so dull. I don't fix any fancy stuff, just basic food to keep me full and free from cheating. I need to explore my options WTG on the loss.

[Cattrix]

knit1purl2lose3, on 14 November 2011 - 04:14 PM, said:

Okay, that's all I have time for at the moment. I'm doing well, back on track for the most part, and just need to fine tune my tracking every bite. That's where I am failing the most.

This is where I go off track myself.
It's all about not giving up and one foot in front of the other, The soup looks yum..
Right now Imma going to stay real basic though.

You're back at it and that's what counts.. and being ill and trying to RD is hard,
I just got over a cold myself. And you want comfort foods doncha!

Hugs
Cat

[MonicaC]

Knit thanks for sharing so generously your recipes. They look yummy. I too am on my way of releasing some of the weight I regained. I have another 3.6 pounds to go before I am back at my lost weight this year. It is nice to be back on plan. Thanks for sharing your trials and what works with you it gives me encouragement to read your posts. Hugs to you Knit.

[knit1purl2lose3]

I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP!!

I've struggled a lot. Then did the slip sliding away dance. Suffered a bit more regain, But worst of all, the fullblown fibromyalgia pain came back. So it's time to stop playing around with it and getting back on plan. Now. So, here I am.

I'll report more tomorrow, and catch up with everyone's posts tomorrow, too.

Sending big hugs to everyone!

[Leeney]

Welcome back, sweetie!

[knit1purl2lose3]

Well, I just sort of let everything go to heck in a handbasket, and very quickly I regained 16 lbs and got slammed with full blown fibromyalgia and hypertension again. And probably blood sugar issues, too. Totally my own fault, because I let the lure of the food trump over the knowledge that eating better equals feeling better.

So, long story short, I'm getting my food back on track. I haven't had a complete detox day yet--that's always been very hard for me--but I am making changes and heading in the right direction. And feeling a bit better everyday. I've lost 6 lbs of water bloat since Monday, but I still have a full 10 lbs of regain to face. And that 10lbs is NOT water weight, but fat, the stuff that takes a lot of hard work to get off. so, here we go...

I guess I'm glad the fibro came and bit my butt so quickly. Otherwise, I might've gained back the entire 45lbs I've lost this year! This way, I'm only dealing with 10lbs. And pain. A LOT of pain. But, I know that getting back to low sodium and high potassium will get be back to feeling great very quickly.

I can't even blame getting off track on Thanksgiving. With just two of us, and all family or friends 3,000 miles away, it's just not the gorge fest it is for most folks. I just stopped tracking 2 months ago, and since then, it's been a gradual decline in caring about my food intake, taking my almost pain-free state for granted, forgetting that eating low sodium and high potassium was what got me pain free to begin with, and that only continuing to follow that way of eating would KEEP me pain free.

IN any case, I'm back, trying every day to get back on track, and this is a lesson I hope won't be easy to forget. How in the world could I have forgotten how much pain I lived in before eating low sodium and high potassium? It's not even about the weight loss. I mean, yay hurray for weight loss, but I don't care if I never lose another pound if I can just get back to NO PAIN. 'Cuz this excruciating pain? It's no fun at all!

And the docs who think I felt better just because I had dropped some weight, and had lower blood pressure just because I had lost some weight......well, my weight this morning is down to where it was when I first started feeling better and went off the b.p. meds, and I am in excruciating pain today and my b.p. is up again! So the weight ain't got nuttin' to do with it! It's completely about that sodium:potassium ratio. My body responds so well to taking care of that. For that, I am grateful. And for having found that little key, I am grateful.

And today, I am grateful for a new day to get it right.

I've missed you all!!!

[Cattrix]

knit1purl2lose3, on 07 December 2011 - 03:55 PM, said:

Well, I just sort of let everything go to heck in a handbasket, and very quickly I regained 16 lbs and got slammed with full blown fibromyalgia and hypertension again. And probably blood sugar issues, too. Totally my own fault, because I let the lure of the food trump over the knowledge that eating better equals feeling better.And today, I am grateful for a new day to get it right.

I've missed you all!!!

And that is what counts, that you/ We / all of us Do Not Give Up!

The one thing that stops me in my tracks, from eating what we used to before is, remembering I was spending almost 80% of the time on my back in bed.

Eating better does equal feeling better.

Hugs!

[MonicaC]

Knit just for today make the best choices you can that is what I am doing with myself these days. Seemed the cold weather makes me crave more food. Oh, this journey is just one day, thanks for sharing your struggles. We are all in it together.
Hugs Rice Sister.

[MonicaC]

Happy New Year Knit. Where is our fastest typist in town? Miss you lots. Happiness, Love and Light to you in 2012.

[knit1purl2lose3]

MonicaC, on 01 January 2012 - 04:13 PM, said:

Happy New Year Knit. Where is our fastest typist in town? Miss you lots. Happiness, Love and Light to you in 2012.

Thank you.

<--this is me blushing

[knit1purl2lose3]

Well, my ricing friends, I really blew it. I just could not get a fingerhold on that cliff, and I wasn't properly clipped in, and didn't have a spotter with me, either.

But it's a new year and a new day to get it right again.

I also just found out that the seasoning I was using on everything did NOT have 250mg sodium per tsp as I had read it, but instead had 2,500mg sodium per tsp!!!! This is why my weight loss stalled, and then I began regaining, and then mostly gave up and really regained.

Ack.

So today I bid farewell to the seasoning, and I begin again. At least I didn't regain ALL of my hard work in 2011. That's progress.

I ate better yesterday, but still had problems after dinner. Today I am doing even better than yesterday, and determined to get through the evening by just saying NO. And then tomorrow I will do even better yet. That's the plan.

Today I got a book in the mail I ordered for cheap on half.com--Veganist. While I can't go vegan again, I heard the author on TV a year or two ago and thought her book might be interesting. I've missed being vegetarian and vegan, BUT, my spouse will NOT even entertain the idea, thinks it's stupid, and believes that protein = meat. Which makes it a real challenge for me since I am the primary meal cooker/preparer in the house. I don't think most people understand that embracing vegetarianism/veganism isn't just that I don't eat animal products, but that I don't really want to cook them, either. And if I'm cooking them, and it's in a lot of the food I make, then it's hard not to consume it.

I also have to be very very careful with vegetarianism/veganism, as I have gotten very sick from being vegan, and I cannot eat any type of soy, I'm no longer certain about gluten, and, well, it makes everything very complicated. so for now, I'm just going back to the standard rice diet for awhile and see what happens.

I'm trying to get to a clean detox day--nothing but rice and fruit--but they have always been SO hard for me to get through. And even then, I had to back my way into it. That's what I am hoping to do tomorrow. I couldn't today. There was a little home made low sodium turkey veggie soup that had to be eaten for lunch today, with rice. Otherwise, I've only had rice and fruit. Dinner will be beans and rice and fruit. Tomorrow will be fruit and rice. Period.

So, one step at a time.

I wish there was somewhere easier to use to support one another. This forum board drives me nutz. It's ancient technology. But free/very cheap. Cumbersome, though. I can't find everyone, and it takes so long to go searching. Ack.

Okay. Starting over again.

[Cattrix]

knit1purl2lose3, on 03 January 2012 - 08:12 PM, said:

Tomorrow will be fruit and rice. Period.

So, one step at a time.

I wish there was somewhere easier to use to support one another. This forum board drives me nutz. It's ancient technology. But free/very cheap. Cumbersome, though. I can't find everyone, and it takes so long to go searching. Ack.

Okay. Starting over again.

Knit! Hugs to you, All we can do is keep working on this, a bit at a time. And don't give up.

Ok. I had every intention also of doing a detox day today,. and Gol Durn it got way laid but my husband who left me the last little really good Biscotti with a note on it,.

So tomorrow is detox day, but I'm working hard to stay in line the rest of the day.

And I've been telling myself for the last week that what I do is my choice., and sometimes I choose to make not great Choices. yeah me, Can you BELIEVE IT!!! ??

I'm thinking of kicking my husband out, (no not really, to much time and effort to train him ) to get a handle on this. I'm not TOTTALLY blaming him, but uncooperative partners, can be a stumbling block,

If we let them.

Mega Hugs
And yeah I hear you about this board,
it's a maze and I, most of the time do not have time to spend dinking around checking all the sections.

[Illinoispainter]

Hang in there, Knit! Boy, I've sure done that before, thought I'd found a wonderful sauce or seasoning, then later realized it was loaded with sodium. That's probably a big part of your gain, so that weight should come off given some time for your body to get rid of the sodium.

And Cat, my husband does little things like that too. I think it must be part of the testosterone brain. Mine did vegan with me for several months before he started treatment for prostate cancer. He had to eat a low-fiber diet during treatment, so there went the vegan meals. Now he says he wants to have some animal protein and not do solely vegan. I'm going to get him some deli turkey or chicken to make his own sandwiches, and I'll probably pick up one of those roasted chickens in the deli from time to time for him. It's a constant juggling act, but that's life.

Good luck to both of you!

[Sparticles]

knit1purl2lose3, on 03 January 2012 - 08:12 PM, said:

I also just found out that the seasoning I was using on everything did NOT have 250mg sodium per tsp as I had read it, but instead had 2,500mg sodium per tsp!!!!

I usually have my husband double check labels for me, because I've done things like that more than once.

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I also have to be very very careful with vegetarianism/veganism, as I have gotten very sick from being vegan, and I cannot eat any type of soy, I'm no longer certain about gluten,

It's very easy to be vegan without going anywhere near soy or gluten nowadays. There are milks out there made from rice, oats, almonds, even coconuts that can be used instead of soy. There are alternate pastas out there, too, like buckwheat (it's gluten-free, don't let the word "wheat" as part of the name scare you), rice corn, quinoa, and other grains. And for the one day a week that's protein day, just eat extra beans instead of any tofu or soy analogues.

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I'm trying to get to a clean detox day--nothing but rice and fruit--but they have always been SO hard for me to get through

I have reactive hypoglycemia, and if I eat too much fruit even with a wide variety of other foods my blood sugar plummets. Fruit with just a small amount of starch causes an even worse reaction, so I never do detox days.

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I wish there was somewhere easier to use to support one another. This forum board drives me nutz. It's ancient technology. But free/very cheap. Cumbersome, though. I can't find everyone, and it takes so long to go searching. Ack.

I found the software used on these forums pretty good compared to a lot of others. It's things like Facebook and blogs that are too confusing for me to follow. I started communicating on-line back in the early 1990's with echomail and Usenet groups, Prodigy forums and personal web sites with home made message boards. This place is sophisticated compared to back then! LOL There are also 2 Rice Diet forums on Yahoogroups, but both are pretty dead most of the time. I didn't find any on Googlegroups.

[knit1purl2lose3]

Sparticles, on 04 January 2012 - 08:53 PM, said:

I found the software used on these forums pretty good compared to a lot of others. It's things like Facebook and blogs that are too confusing for me to follow. I started communicating on-line back in the early 1990's with echomail and Usenet groups, Prodigy forums and personal web sites with home made message boards. This place is sophisticated compared to back then! LOL There are also 2 Rice Diet forums on Yahoogroups, but both are pretty dead most of the time. I didn't find any on Googlegroups.

I've been online since the ancient days of BBS's, too. This is ancient technology, this sort of "support" forum. I've found two other sites that are much much better, but they also have the $$ to put into it. I'm sure the RD people don't.

[knit1purl2lose3]

Okay, this is going to be my farewell to this RD group. You all have been wonderful. If you want to keep up with me, you can always check out my personal weight loss blog.

I have uncovered research that pretty much proves going below 78grams of protein per day causes muscle loss, and this was even when people were eating more calories than they needed and actually GAINING weight. Gaining weight (fat) but losing lean muscle mass, all because they ate less than 78g protein a day. The research is here.

So, I'm moving on. The scale is dropping again (7.2lbs since Jan. 3rd, some of which is water bloat of course), and I'm hoping all the hair that's thinned will eventually come back if I get my protein intake up. Since following the RD, my once thick, beautiful hair has just thinned and thinned and thinned. My skin dried out. And I've lost muscle mass. So, time to move on.

My best to all of you!!!! Be well and stay healthy!!

[Illinoispainter]

knit1purl2lose3, on 11 January 2012 - 06:02 PM, said:

Okay, this is going to be my farewell to this RD group. You all have been wonderful. If you want to keep up with me, you can always check out my personal weight loss blog.

I have uncovered research that pretty much proves going below 78grams of protein per day causes muscle loss, and this was even when people were eating more calories than they needed and actually GAINING weight. Gaining weight (fat) but losing lean muscle mass, all because they ate less than 78g protein a day. The research is here.

So, I'm moving on. The scale is dropping again (7.2lbs since Jan. 3rd, some of which is water bloat of course), and I'm hoping all the hair that's thinned will eventually come back if I get my protein intake up. Since following the RD, my once thick, beautiful hair has just thinned and thinned and thinned. My skin dried out. And I've lost muscle mass. So, time to move on.

My best to all of you!!!! Be well and stay healthy!!

Sorry to see you go! Good luck and be healthy.
Linda

[karolinakat]

Good luck to you!