Weight on 3/23/11: 153 lbs.
Weight on 4/6/11: 148 lbs.
::fist pump::
Wait, you might be thinking. Didn’t you post on February 24 saying you were getting on the low-carb wagon again? That was more than 2 weeks ago.
Yeah, well. A little over two weeks ago I realized that the Protein Power style of low-carbing, where a) you start out with 30 grams of carb rather than 20, and b) you can eat anything you want as long as your daily total is under 3o grams of carb, was Just. Not. Working. I am still a fan of the Eadeses, and there are many fine things about their books, but I just can’t get started if someone tells me it’s OK to have a portion of rice with 10 grams of carbs. As always, YMMV.
So I decided that I had to go back to my good friend Dr. Atkins and do Induction. Voilà! Five pounds down.
I am still trying to decide on a goal weight. My pre-pregnancy weight was 139, and I had been hoping to lose a bit more. Maybe 130? Maybe 125? This leaves me 18 to 23 pounds to go.
For the first time in my life, though, I found myself a little bored with the food options, so I have opted to go up to 25 grams for at least couple of weeks so I can at least have some nuts.
In retrospect, the biggest mistake I made low-carbing was not trying to determine my own individual carb tolerance. It’s a pain in the neck to keep track of carbs, and so much easier to wing it and eat a big salad and a bunch of protein and fat every day. But by not determining what Dr. Atkins called my CCLL and CCLM, I totally screwed myself over in pregnancy and nursing. Since you can only do Lifetime Maintenance at those times, and since I had no idea what Lifetime Maintenance looked like for me, I had to guess … and with disastrous results. I had such terrible carb cravings and ate so many bagels when I was pregnant I’m surprised that my daughter wasn’t born with a whole in her head.
This time around, I’m going to do it right.
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