After about 6 weeks off, I went back on a more restrictive low-carb diet to get my mind back in the game. Took a few days between when I was supposed to get started and when I did get started, though. During those few days, I shot up a few more pounds, so on Friday morning, I was weighing in at 250.
Come Sunday, the effects of the diet seemed to kick in and I was a regular guest in the bathroom. There was no pain or discomfort. There were no explosive situations. It just seemed that everything my body had decided to hold onto in the last few days was finally granted an exit visa, and it proceeded to leave in a calm, orderly fashion.
I’m going to stick with the low carb another week or two, not because I’m desperate to lose weight quickly, but because it provides a counterpoint to the “eat just about anything I wanted” rut I’d fallen back into and it feels easier to accept and implement the healthier choices I need to make when they follow a period of deprivation rather than after a period of playing it fast and loose.
We’ll see how it goes.
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