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Hi Terry. First, there are no post archives here and I don’t keep all the old posts. I honestly don’t think it’s terribly important—or helpful—for you or anyone else to know how or what you were THINKING when you first appeared here (in February 2006) just as I tend not to put stock in what/how you’re thinking now, ostensibly in your early days of trying to get a grip on your eating. I did save my first response to you, so I do vaguely remember you and the fact that you first posted asking if I had any experience with helping people who “give themselves to a fasted prayer life.” I told you no, and explained, I hope not unkindly, why I wasn’t willing to invest time in helping anyone with that kind of “conditional” approach. I still feel the same way, I don’t think anyone with highly reactive body can attain or maintain health and weight control while choosing that lifestyle. That particular combination is, in my opinion, mutually exclusive. This view isn’t about religion. I would also not spend my time or bandwidth trying to help a vegetarian with this for the very same reason Second, after trying to read/follow your posts all I can say is whew!! You are clearly overwhelmed and all over the place with the whys and the ideas. In the last year I’ve changed how I run this message board, if you read the introduction on the message board page, you’ll see that I request that people be ON the diet for a sustained period of time before joining in here. It is my opinion that people cannot (and frankly, don’t need to) sort things out in the state you’re in right now which, again in my opinion, is about 99% driven by the way you’ve been trying to fuel and manage a body (and a brain) that can’t handle what you would prefer. If you are still interested in moving to the LWTD way, my diet advice is to follow exactly—with NO exceptions or modifications—the diet I recommend for CRLs in A Better Diet for Chronically Restarting Lowcarbers. (This diet is neither Atkins Induction nor is it paleo. It’s not the be-all-end-all but it IS a straightforward, clean starting point that will BEGIN to settle your body—and then YOU—down.) In my opinion, all the rest of your conflicting ideas and questions are your thrashing dragon and your inner 14-year-old drama queen which I discuss at length in Growing Up Emotionally. Terry, I hope you’ll decide to calm yourself down and stop spinning in your head. Nail down the diet (which includes LOTS of healthy fiber from vegetables). FORCE that in place in your life and come back in 2-3 weeks with the beginnings of a clearer head. ALLLLLL the rest will follow. All the rest HAS to follow that. In my experience, zero success, and frankly nothing worth discussing here, can come if you will not DO that. One more thing... I am removing your post on my thread. Thank you for your concern about my personal situation (that’s much better now, and I’ll post about that soon). I want you to limit yourself to posting only about you and your diet journey-life only on your own thread (which I have re-named). That’s ALL I want you to focus on here. I request that because it will help YOU. Adele (142 this morning)
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168/140, Size 16/8
Lowcarbing 11+ years
Maintaining at goal 8+ years
Moderator/Owner
adele@leadwiththediet.com
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