My new diet isn’t working out
It’s just another thing in a shitstorm of angst. It was one of those healthy thingies with lots of fruit and vegetables and nutritional supplements. I swear I only lasted a few days and the suffering was keen.
I need another diet. I can’t seem to find any that will allow you unlimited red meat, chocolate, and fresh baked bread. I’ve been craving red meat with a vengeance. I swear, I bought one of those big family packs of T-Bone steaks at an ungodly price and have been snarfing them down (see above photo).
I’ve been depressed. Since now I feel up to bitching about it, I must be snapping out of it. ‘Bout damn time. I can start writing, blogging and being engaged in stuff again. Hopefuly. I think the depression is peri-menopausal related and I’m at a loss about what to do. Does it have something to do with the red meat craving? Do some ladies also getting on up in years with me have any tried and true remedies? (Don’t feel smug, young spring chickies, your time will come).
After insulting all of Romanceland on this very blog–they finally have had several productive race in romance convos. It’s takes only a small flame under their asscheeks to get them going, no?
Oh, yeah, and bears haven’t knocked over the trash barrel yet!
(I need to search for links to the convos…shoot. Hold on, I’ll get ‘em up. Check out Smart Bitches and Karen Scott in the meantime).
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May 13th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Have you tried the Slimming World Plan? You can eat as much meat or pasta as you want, you just can’t eat them together.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Will google. Still have starch and eat as much meat as you want is my kinda diet. If I can have chocolate, I’m in heaven.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
How about you eat what you want and take up running from bears? Or better yet, find an exercise regime that you like.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I’ve been depressed. Since now I feel up to bitching about it, I must be snapping out of it.
Oh, big hugs, Monica. I wonder if being depressed has an effect on your dieting? Lots of people “comfort eat” so maybe it’s more difficult to stick to any diet when you’re feeling depressed?
May 13th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
TLC did a show called “I can make you thin” with Paul McKenna. The link to his program is http://www.mckenna.com/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 and the are Four Golden Rules:
1. When You Are Hungry, Eat
2. Eat What You Want, Not What You Think You Should
3. Eat Consciously And Enjoy Every Mouthful
4. When You Think You Are Full, Stop Eating
He also did a positive/negative reinforcement thing with a woman who had a chocolate addiction.
May 13th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Yes, the perimenopausal crap is doing both the depression and the weight gain. Gained back forty of the 120 lbs I lost around my menopause. Irksome. Try some soy supplements. I use the Monistat Healthy Woman soy supp. (FDA says to use a company that has a brand name to lose, so I picked Monistat.)
What helped me lose the tonnage the first time around (doing it again, dag nabbit), was a diet diary. I wrote down every bite and what I was feeling when I ate it. Discovered 2 very important things. 1. I was consuming 3300 calories a day (enough for a big guy doing heavy industrial construction. I sit my butt on a chair. A lot.) And 2. That I mistake hunger and fatigue. When I’m tired, I think I’m hungry and I’m tired all the time. So I think I’m hungry all the time.
Try a diet diary. See what your personal triggers are. Then plan a different response to the stimulus. If you eat when you are sad, a quick walk would improve your mood more, and burn a few calories instead of porking them on.
It’s a good fight, it’s a righteous fight, the fight to lose weight. And it looks like one I’ll be fighting the rest of my miserable life.
Best of luck to you. Oh, and you must get up off the whatever and exercise. With the perimenopause crapola, it takes both.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:12 am
I ended up going on drugs. Doc prescribed, of course, and not that nasty Alli crap, either.
Knocked my appetite OUT-of course, you can only take it for a couple of months, body adjusts, yadda yadda… but it gave me time to adjust my body to not eating unless I really was hungry. I’m not an emotional eater-I just like to eat a LOT when I’m hungry.
Anyway, been off the meds for a couple of months and still losing weight. Down about 30 pounds. another 40 and I’ll be happy. Regular workouts have helped and physically, I feel better than I have in years (although dang it, why in the world do people want to talk to a woman who’s OBVIOUSLY very short of breath while she’s chugging along on the evil treadmill…)
And now-for the real reason I came by-
MONICA WILL YOU PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE TELL PEOPLES WHEN ACES HIGH IS GOING TO BE OUT???? please???
May 14th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Monica, I’ve got just the thing for your depression: A NEW EARTH by Eckhart Tolle. Read each chapter and watch the corresponding chapter of Oprah’s weekly webcast with the author, they’re archived on her site. Start there.
Best advice you’ll get today.
I want to check out ACES HIGH, too. It looks good!
May 14th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
The cat in the photo and I are bonding. I’ve done the Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig (2nd time, the food made me nauseous), No Carb, Starvation diets. I’ve done Tai Bo, kick boxing, Firm, Cathy Fredreich, and on and on. I’m on estrogen replacement and that comes with its own side effects. I’m heading to Barbados and I think that I’ll take one panel of my curtains and sew it around my bathing suit and call it hi-fashion.
Good luck to you. Keep us posted.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I read a great book recently called ” Fooling the female fat cell”… It tells you why diets screw things up more than they work for women….
I have dropped a full pant size in the last two months, but thats mostly due to learning a new trade (I decided I wanted to learn how to do tile work) and its kicking my ass.. carry 80lb boxes of tile to the job, use a jack hammer to tear out old tile, carry 100 lb buckets of mortar and run up and down a flight of stairs for 10 hours doing the cuts for the floor on a water saw and amazingly the fat just falls off (and not long after I feel like falling down)…
Good luck Monica, its a struggle, no doubt about it…