With all this heat we should be melting eh.
Well week one started at 13s 6
After a chaotic week which I won’t bore you all with I have managed to lose a one pound. So I’ll take that as success and build on next week, as it can’t be any worse than this week.
What I’ve learned is I’m delusional over my portion sizes.
I reach for carbs when stressed
Need to up my protein intake
Good luck everyone small steps make big gains . No one says it’s easy but it’s achievable
Well done Andrea, sounds as if you have learnt a lot this week as well as losing a whole pound of fat . . . Excellent result 😊
If you join a Group weigh in you will be able to give and receive support and encouragement as well as have your badge updated 😊
The Think Thin Thursday team will be very happy to have you join them. They're a small team but very supportive. This explains about the weigh-ins and how to find them healthunlocked.com/nhsweigh...
Thanks for that
Tbh I thought I was posting on the TTT weigh in , oops
An easy mistake to make. If you're clicking on 'Write' then you're creating your own new post.
To find the one you're looking for, scroll to the top of this page and click on 'Home' (next to 'Posts') and then you'll see the link to the Thursday weigh-in, on the right hand side, as you scroll down, under 'Events'
Let me know if you still have trouble.
I think I have done it, fingers crossed 🤞. Although me and digital groups in my life is a new adventure 😂
I'm afraid it didn't quite work and it was your 2nd post that I saw initially. If you click on that 'Home' now (the one next to 'Posts') you'll see if you scroll down that you've created two new posts so far today.
You won't be the first and you won't be the last but if you follow my previous destructions and when you get to the Think Thin Weigh-in, click on the 'Reply', just below the initial post by Gobbolino then that will work. Clicking on 'Write' will create a new thread.
Congratulations! Isn't it just the easiest thing to go to those carbs! In my case it was usually toast or cream crackers (1 more will be OK since I have already had 4 oh best make it 2 so I can sandwich them together.!). However I have ditched them now and don't crave them as I did and as a plus, I don't really get starving hungry!
Sooo true , Wow that’s interesting, must be your blood sugars more stable ?
I still look at them tho! 🤣
Impossible not to sometimes. I had bolognese and a salad yesterday. I was brought up on spag bol and part of me yearned to cook some spag but I won't go back to that craving hell I was in.
Ah the familiar location of craving hell, I am a frequent visitor there myself!! Very aptly worded
I don't know how it is/was for you, for me it was like having permanent out of body experiences. I felt like I was watching myself from a distance and shouting at myself not to wander off to the kitchen again but that the eating me just couldn't hear 
I'm still waiting for it all to go wrong but for now I don't get anything like that.
very similar to what you described earlier. Especially that my stomach felt full and my body felt energised but my brain couldn't focus and I couldn't concentrate because I kept feeling like I needed something (carby of course, a cup of tea was not helping here). I hate the feeling of what I call being 'hungry in my head' rather than hungry in my body. I also feel a lot more sluggish and find myself feeling sleepy and needing a pick me up every 30-60 minutes when I eat too many carbs. That being said, despite all the bad things about the temptations are still real. I still struggle every day to make the right choice. Not so much cravings anymore as memories of how 'nice' certain foods taste. They don't when you actually indulge in them and then you get trapped back in carb craving hell. Hope you manage to stay on track! I'm taking an approach to carbs that is more moderate than the strict 20grams I used to do and so far seems ok. I had an icecream while on a run the other day and it didn't trigger anything (I think because I genuinely burned off the carbs by running)
It all sounds very familiar.
Definitely not strict and don't even count. My biggest thing is to try not to have any in the afternoon and evening as this appears to be when my cravings kick in. The morning doesn't seem to produce cravings but I'd rather just stay away from danger.
To top it all, eating too many carbs seems to be related to so such a wide range of ailments that I'm beginning to look at them as if they were cigarettes.
Yes, when I'm exercising and knocking back carb drinks and eating protein and carbs immediately after, I don't get a problem and probably for just the reason you've described.
Almost definitely down to blood sugars Andrea. I spent the last 8 months before coming back here, living in a spiral of carbs and plain sugar. I could see I wasn't hungry and sometimes my stomach was really uncomfortable from eating so much but that wouldn't stop me from conjuring up another plate of carbs.
I thought I was going mad and couldn't understand my lack of control because I like to imagine that I think things through and act rationally. Losing the carbs has led to me back to sanity.
... and as I'm already having one more with those other 4, I may as well see how much butter and jam I can squeeze on... been there 
Oh isn't it just that way. And that spoon now has jam all over it may as well lick it off instead of washing it down the sink.
👀 but no touch’s great strategy
This is such a powerful story, I will heed this lesson for my own silly eating behaviour
Lost fat, gained insights, sounds like a good week to me!
Yes it is thank you
One pound loss 
First week gone!
Hunger while calorie counting first week
Week one!!
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