rejoicealways8
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Post by rejoicealways8 on Nov 27, 2014 10:17:59 GMT -6
Thankful that around feasting, I am content with NK food. I mean this in the way that sugary and carby foods do not call my name, I am not exercising any willpower or discipline to not have some. I know that when I have "just a little" it doesn't end up that way with me and that the distance in time to turn that thing off that turns on when I eat those kinds of food isn't immediate. Yep, much to be thankful for in eating the NK way.
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Post by reddarin on Nov 27, 2014 10:57:13 GMT -6
Here's something that I appreciate about LC. Before going LC I was plagued with dry hands. I'd often have such dry skin that my knuckles would crack and bleed a little. I always chalked it up to my obsessive hand washing and just used a lot of hand lotion which was something else I always kept at home, work and in the car. Well, I'm no less a paranoid germophobe and I still obsessively wash my hands but now I don't suffer from that sort of constant dry skin problem any more. Every once in a while, particularly in the winter when the air is so dry, I'll get super dry skin that cracks but it is unusual now instead of a daily battle. I never ever would have believed just changing diet could fix that problem.
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Post by clueless on Nov 27, 2014 17:32:45 GMT -6
Here's something that I appreciate about LC. Before going LC I was plagued with dry hands. I'd often have such dry skin that my knuckles would crack and bleed a little. I always chalked it up to my obsessive hand washing and just used a lot of hand lotion which was something else I always kept at home, work and in the car. Well, I'm no less a paranoid germophobe and I still obsessively wash my hands but now I don't suffer from that sort of constant dry skin problem any more. Every once in a while, particularly in the winter when the air is so dry, I'll get super dry skin that cracks but it is unusual now instead of a daily battle. I never ever would have believed just changing diet could fix that problem. Holy cow. My hands used to crack and bleed like that too. I didn't even put it together that LC helped that problem. My knuckles and finger tips would crack open and take forever to heal.
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Post by reddarin on Nov 29, 2014 10:42:40 GMT -6
Clearly when I put off my good thing till later in the day I get side tracked and never make the post
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Post by reddarin on Nov 29, 2014 11:07:30 GMT -6
My cool thing about LC for today is hacking my body.
One of the things I've learned since going LC is to view the process as a partnership rather than a dictatorship. You cannot directly make your body do anything. All you can do is try to create the conditions that bring about the results you want. Metabolism is autonomous so everything you do is tantamount to pulling a lever or pushing a button that sets other things in motion.
*That* is really quite astounding when you think about it. As a ruthless dictator when your body fails *you* have failed El Jefe. As a partner when you don't get the results you are looking for it is a communications issue not a personal failure. Your partner doesn't speak the same language and all communication is done through intermediaries. People get sideways with LC when they start thinking dictatorially. When you view health and weight loss through the lens of communication everything comes into focus. When you think in terms of communication and partnership you necessarily take a longer view of the nature of the relationship you have with your body.
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rejoicealways8
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Post by rejoicealways8 on Nov 29, 2014 11:28:57 GMT -6
Love how your phrased that reddarin for today. I'll jump on that with you.
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Post by reddarin on Nov 30, 2014 11:41:47 GMT -6
My LC boon for today is normalcy. Having gone for a couple of decades being hard pressed to go for more than a few hours without eating something, the ability to eat when I want to rather than being driven to eat by an out of whack metabolism is something I value and appreciate every day. What really drives it home for me is that the last several years of eating high carb SAD is if I didn't eat every couple of hours I'd get a headache. Skipping a meal was out of the question and an almost certain path to a migraine level headache. Back then I was so sure that was normal that I was convinced other people who nonchalantly skipped meals were lying about how tough it was putting on a false bravado about it. I was always thinking about the next meal. Now I have to remember to eat.
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Post by clueless on Nov 30, 2014 11:59:21 GMT -6
Sausage, nuf said.
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rejoicealways8
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Post by rejoicealways8 on Dec 1, 2014 7:53:55 GMT -6
So much about the NK way of eating is luscious.
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Post by reddarin on Dec 1, 2014 11:38:22 GMT -6
My life is good thing for today is being able to wrap the bath towel around my waist hula skirt style. I do that sometimes in the privacy of the bathroom just for the satisfaction of being able to do it again.
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Post by clueless on Dec 2, 2014 11:58:32 GMT -6
LC life is good because I found out I love cabbage. Before LC I didn't really eat it, didn't like it as a kid so I thought I still didn't. Cabbage is delicious and very versatile.
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rejoicealways8
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Post by rejoicealways8 on Dec 2, 2014 12:56:00 GMT -6
I love that I don't have to eat fruit to "be healthy." Oh it's alright but I never did eat it other than to do what so many folks say must be done. Pursuing an NK way-of-eating caused me to read much that I wouldn't have otherwise and it is a happy thing to find I don't actually physically need 5-a-day or whatever the recommendation is. So yea!
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Post by reddarin on Dec 2, 2014 12:58:29 GMT -6
Here's what I love about LC for today. Another rant but I rant like this in my head some days over stuff lol.
Before discovering LC I believed the mainstream dogma that inexorably ties weight loss to exercise. The message at all times that you are not going to be successful at weight loss without exercising.
If you attempt it then there is an avalanche of accusatory pronouncements that you will be skinny fat - a fate worse than death from just being plain old fat apparently - by both the full time members of the Exercise Mafia™ and the part-timers who merely wish you to join in their misery at the cardio stations in the gym. A hellish place that has disgusting sweat from the last person to use the equipment plus the bonus of my male perving brethren who think it is a brick and mortar version of an anonymous dating site. Such an annoying problem that female only gyms are viable businesses which is pretty amazing when you consider it from that angle. I digress.
But LC frees you from that nonsense, or at least, it allows you the chance to be freed from it not withstanding the LC branch of the Exercise Mafia™ that carry the Torch O' Browbeating for their mainstream cohorts.
Once you understand that exercise is for health not weight loss you can finally attempt to lose weight without feeling like it is a lost cause because committing to regular exercise is: too daunting, impossible with your busy schedule (despite what the guilt trippers try to tell you about how they can run your life better than you can), physically just not realistic, you have a long standing injury, you have an illness or disease, etc. etc.
Grasping the fact that exercise is for health frees you from the ankle shackles of exercise related weight loss expectations. Expectations that are summarily crushed when you throw everything into it and don't see any results on the scale.
The short version is that I do not believe I'd have been successful had I not learned the basic fact that exercise is a crap tool for weight loss/maintenance. If you are fat and have been fat for a while there is almost zero chance that you haven't tried to exercise and eat a lot of salads to lose weight and failed over and over again. I know that was the case for me and I know that is the case for the vast majority of us.
Get your LC right. Get your mind right. Exercise for health and don't start doing it until *you* are ready. Do it with a purpose not some fuzzy mindless goal of burning calories. Do it because it feels good. Do it because you like the social aspect. Do it for vanity. Whatever your reason don't let weight loss be one of them because that is the mawing canyon of doooooooom and the slippery slope of failure. I want you to exercise but I want you to do it for the right reasons, the right way and at the right time.
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Post by reddarin on Dec 2, 2014 13:01:42 GMT -6
LC life is good because I found out I love cabbage. Before LC I didn't really eat it, didn't like it as a kid so I thought I still didn't. Cabbage is delicious and very versatile. I've always enjoyed cabbage but I've really come to love it on LC. So tasty no matter how you fix it!
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Post by reddarin on Dec 3, 2014 10:19:01 GMT -6
Life's good sitting down.
I bought an inexpensive office chair about 10 years ago from Walmart. It has arms and rollers and I got it for my computer desk at home. Well. I didn't own it for long because it was too small. Actually I was too big but at the time I thought they were just making chair smaller to keep the prices down. Anyway, I gave it still brand new to a family member who kept it but didn't actually use it. I ended up getting the chair back because, a few chairs and several years later, I needed another chair and they still had this one unused.
Every time I sit in it, which is often, I get a pleasant reminder of what LC has given me.
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Post by reddarin on Dec 4, 2014 13:15:54 GMT -6
Coffee! My life is good thing for today is that I can drink more than one cup of coffee again. Before LC/WF I was so ate up with heartburn that any more than one cup of coffee would result in heartburn.
Now a days I drink as much as I care to without worrying about that. I just drink until I am satisfied - as much or as little as I like.
The HWC is a nice little benefit too heh.
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rejoicealways8
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Post by rejoicealways8 on Dec 5, 2014 4:53:19 GMT -6
LCHF was the thing that brought me to the discovery of using coconut oil. Love it in my coffee. Great to cook with, too.
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Post by clueless on Dec 5, 2014 7:26:13 GMT -6
My shout out to LC is it is easy since I was already gluten free. I end up saving money too because those gf products are super carby and crazy expensive.
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Post by gretalyn on Dec 5, 2014 9:24:52 GMT -6
Not being hungry. I tried any number of "healthy" diets over the years, often when I was just trying to be healthy and not even to lose weight. So I wasn't restricting calories, just avoiding fat, and/or animal products, and/or whatever. But I was always hungry and unsatisfied. I love that with LC I don't feel half-starved all the time, and yet I am lean.
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Post by gretalyn on Dec 5, 2014 9:31:09 GMT -6
I liked your exercise rant, Darin.
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Post by reddarin on Dec 5, 2014 15:32:30 GMT -6
Life's good when a size Large shirt is a bit too big
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Post by rejoicealways8 on Dec 6, 2014 10:49:01 GMT -6
Thankful for being able to go long stretches of time without the need or interest in eating.
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Post by reddarin on Dec 6, 2014 13:51:56 GMT -6
Life's good in a medium shirt! I thought I'd elaborate on yesterday's good thing... When I started LC back in August of 2011 I was wearing a way too tight size 3x. In fact, just before going LC I'd decided to just own up to it and buy 4x because the 3x were really too small in a buttons bursting sort of way. I finally decided that the size L I've been wearing are just too dang big. I hated wearing them because it looked like I was wearing handmedowns I hadn't grown into yet. I tried on a size M yesterday at the store and it looked awesome!
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Post by clueless on Dec 6, 2014 16:07:02 GMT -6
Life's good in a medium shirt! I thought I'd elaborate on yesterday's good thing... When I started LC back in August of 2011 I was wearing a way too tight size 3x. In fact, just before going LC I'd decided to just own up to it and buy 4x because the 3x were really too small in a buttons bursting sort of way. I finally decided that the size L I've been wearing are just too dang big. I hated wearing them because it looked like I was wearing handmedowns I hadn't grown into yet. I tried on a size M yesterday at the store and it looked awesome! :jumpjoy:Congrats on that Darin. That is huge and inspiring, can't wait to get back to a size medium.
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Post by clueless on Dec 6, 2014 16:12:07 GMT -6
LC life is great because life takes precedence over hunger. It is so nice to be able to do things without having to stop to eat. I know some of you have said that but it really made today easier. The other artist had to stop and go to lunch, well they all did but I just kept on working the fair and was fine. Then i took DD out for a late lunch. I only ate a little (because I was stuffed, not because I was staving myself) and brought a ton of food home to DH. In the old days I would have eaten it all.
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Post by reddarin on Dec 6, 2014 16:31:12 GMT -6
LC life is great because life takes precedence over hunger. It is so nice to be able to do things without having to stop to eat. I know some of you have said that but it really made today easier. The other artist had to stop and go to lunch, well they all did but I just kept on working the fair and was fine. Then i took DD out for a late lunch. I only ate a little (because I was stuffed, not because I was staving myself) and brought a ton of food home to DH. In the old days I would have eaten it all. That is a spectacular benefit to LC! I've done stuff I never could have done without having to stop and eat. Absolutely wonderful!
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Post by gretalyn on Dec 6, 2014 21:05:03 GMT -6
Little to no acne. This is something that I really struggled with, not only during my teen years, but even into my 20's. By "struggled" I mean tried every OTC and prescription treatment known to humankind and still ended up with scars and went years being embarrassed just to be in public. But the two best things that have helped are a low-carb diet and a good BHA exfoliant. My skin is far from perfect, but it's so much better LC than it ever was before.
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Post by rejoicealways8 on Dec 7, 2014 12:08:07 GMT -6
Thankful that when given gifts of appreciation filled with foods I don't eat, I can thank the giver wholeheartedly and find others to give that food who will appreciate it. I feel no inner dialogue of "don't they know that xxx". Eating LCHF has done that for me.
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Post by reddarin on Dec 7, 2014 12:27:23 GMT -6
My life is good thing for today is LC food's ability to lend itself to simplicity or complexity and everything in between. If you like cooking and like the challenge of complicated recipes LC's got you covered. If you like keeping it simple LC excels because whole food dishes with added fat are simple and super tasty.
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Post by reddarin on Dec 8, 2014 10:51:37 GMT -6
Mirror mirror on the wall who is the LCy-ist of them all?!?
The evil Queen may have employed the mirror for purely vain reasons, and I certainly do that too, but quite apart from the unseemly amount of time spent admiring the results, modest as they may be, of the effort I've put into body recomposition, and on a much more cosmic level, I love mirrors because every day I get to see that I no longer have that huge belly thanks to LC.
When I was fat I couldn't avoid seeing that fact every time I passed a mirror. Now there are very few times that I don't savor seeing myself slender when passing a mirror. Years ago I'd given up ever being skinny again. Really. I consciously had decided that being fat was a reality and nothing would ever change that. So it feels miraculous to not be fat. Out in public I don't usually just stand in front of a mirror joyous, even overwhelmed sometimes, about not being fat but at home I sure do and I thank my lucky stars for rediscovering LC.
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