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Re: Fruits/Veggies was Re: Help please, I'm desperate (kinda
From: AdoptASAP (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 01 Jun 2001 16:55:27 -0500
Try some salads, veggies, and fruits to have around the house to eat to
give you the strength to eat. Also, try making your meals a week in
advance, freeze what is a lot more then a weeks worth and have it ready
for eating. Have hubby help.
At Fri, 1 Jun 2001, The wrote:
>
>I recently a few weeks back tried my low carb dieting again. It was
>going great at first, I went to the local health food store and grocery
>store and probabl spent over 200 dollars on low carb foods and baking
>goods to make low carb breads and such. I was sooooo enthused because
>so much good was going on for me and I knew I could do it this time. So
>I went home, opened up my low carb cook books, found a nice machine
>bread low carb recepie using soy flower and other bits of stuff. I put
>it together made the bread and it looked pretty good but was very chewy
>and made my stomach turn. I decided to try again.. made a different
>low carb bread and while I was doing that I made some rolls and banana
>bread. The banana bread, even low carb, turned out so great that my
>hubby (who doesn't do low carb since he is SOOO thin) loved it and he
>wanted to eat it. The rolls turned out bad and I tried to use them for
>hamburger buns but I was so sweaty and tired and it was a hot day that I
>nearly got sick when I hate the hamburgers. The new bread turned out
>chewy as well although it wasn't me who tried it, as at this point the
>thought made my stomach tuuuuurn. SO I laid in bed for the next day. I
>drank tons of water and checked my ketones and yes I was starting to
>release more and more but I wasn't eating. I couldn't eat. The thought
>of eating made me sick. I knew I wasn't going to make it on the
>low-carb diet anymore so I was pretty upset.
>
>Hubby came home from work and was concerned because I hadn't moved an
>inch in bed since he left. I told him how I couldn't eat, nearly in
>tears. That night we ordered a pizza and I went off my diet although
>after all that time of not eating it was even hard to get the pizza
>down.
>
>I am very disappointed I couldn't do it and now I want to give it
>another try. Problem is, I know that this thing with the low carb must
>be psycological. It would be so good if there were ready cooked just
>heat up meals I could buy that were low carb because I know I can't cook
>my own low carb meals until I am used to eating that way otherwise I'll
>go back to the way I was.
>
>I'm soo lost, I don't know what to do. I am looking for some help.
>Maybe you guys could give some advice. Or perhaps if I MUST cook my own
>meals, send me recepies that you know taste good and are low carb so I
>have some direction. I have TONS of recepies but I think what I need is
>someone to help. A diet buddy perhaps???
>
>Please help! I have 220lbs to lose and my health is getting worse. Its
>harder to breath, and more often when I lay down too fast my heart
>clenches up and I can't breath. Its too easy to strain myself. All
>this and I quit smoking for my health and for my hubby about 2 months
>ago!
>
>Thank you in advance.
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