Diet Change and the Boiled Frog Technique
Friday, November 10th, 2006Last time I talked about my anti-conformist mindset. Somehow it helped me through a lot of the emotional traps I was in and It opened me up to finding a better way to tackle my weight problem…
One way I started to tackle my weight problem is to look into why I revert to my old habits. I know that old habits die hard and the same goes for bad diets. It is hard to go from eating vanilla sundaes to eating pure organic wheat grass. Hey, I am not picking on those who do it. In fact, I admire them. I am just not one of those people, unfortunately. I realize that if I try to change my diet all of a sudden, my diet will not work. My body fights back with a vengeance. It has to be a gradual change. I have to implement the boiled frog technique on my diet. You know… the boiled frog thingy? If you turn up the heat little by little, the frog will let you boil him alive. Well, that is what I want to do, boil the friggin fat alive!
One thing I did accomplish four years ago is cut out sugary soft drinks and replace them with Diet Rite with Splenda. Now, I have cut out soft drinks almost entirely and have drunken mostly green tea, water and flavored water. It did help me to lose weight and gain my periods back. I used to be 247 pounds now I am down to 205. I don’t know why I failed to understand the gradual change concept that I had unknowingly already done with regards to drinks. Here is how I plan to expand it to the food I eat.
- I’ll restrict my bad carb eating at night and no more than I usually do. I know it is wrong to eat bad carbs at night or anything at night for that matter. But change has to come slowly. I am finding out that I can resist eating refined carbs during the day a whole lot better than I do at night.
- The next step would be to eat earlier in the day and not late at night. No later than 4 hours before bed
- Next I would eliminate the refined carbohydrates at dinner time and replace them with more vegetable and grains
- Next I would eliminate grains at night and stick with vegetables for my carbs
The above may not work for you as it hopefully will for me. I do know that gradual change is best as I have done it before with eliminating soft drinks. I suggest you find the easiest thing to change and change that first. You wouldn’t try to run a marathon when you have not been in the gym for months would you? So why do it with your diet? This is probably why diets fail. There was too much change too fast. Change should come gradually. Let’s call this the Boiled Frog Diet Program
Donna
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December 9th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Hi. I have pcos & I’m insulin resistant. I was very frustrated also because I wasn’t losing weight even though I was exercising & low carbing. Depressed & angry, I was almost about to give up when I found the lowcarber forum. I learned so much in such a short amount of time and still learning more everyday! I learned that I had to go down to less than 10 grms of carbs per day in order to lose weight. Preferably 0 carbs per day. Some people just have to go that low because of the insulin resistance. I used to take Metformin and suddenly it stopped working on me. I didn’t want to continue taking meds for the rest of my life anyway. So I gave this way of eating a try. So far I’ve lost 10 pounds in 2 months. I’m a very slow loser, but hey, I’ll take it! It’s basically a ketogenic diet. You have to stay in ketosis to burn the fat on your body. I’m eating delicious foods (eggs, cheese, meats) and I’m hopeful that I’ll lose the rest of this weight. Oh, by the way…you’ll feel lousy in the beginning but it’s something you have to deal with at first, then it’s easy after that. NO MORE CRAZY HUNGER, no more shakiness, your blood sugar stabilizes, cravings go away, you eat less, you lose weight. I’m so happy I found out about this that I MUST tell others who are suffering for no reason. GOOD LUCK!
December 28th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Hi Kathy,
Thanks for sharing your story. The ketogenic diet did help me to lose the weight at first, and then life’s circumstances hit. I could not deal with my problems and I went into a depression. At that point, I did not care what I ate. Now, I realize eating junk only makes depression symptoms worse and makes it even harder to cope with life. As a matter of fact, depression seems to go down to nothing when I take care of myself physically. I did hear that PCOS sufferers tend to be depressed and it may be that the hormone imbalance makes it harder to deal with life.
Donna