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Nose clipping lots of food really works – it's easier!
Heidi 555:
Thanks TalkingRat. I hadn’t really been thinking about the stress of deworming but I think you’re right. I was exceptionally constipated while I was deworming. So that might have really contributed to the weight gain. It has also been a stressful summer in terms of work.
Psychologically, I really needed to reverse the weight gain trend first. My weight is now moving in the downward direction. The combo of nose clipping and enlightened tasting is really powerful. I hadn’t been nose clipping that much because I’d really been enjoying the taste of lots of fresh summer vegetables and berries.
Sanchiaza, a belated welcome to you. I have been inspired by your posts and writing style. I also have PCOS, and I started a post to you about it a long time ago. Hopefully I’ll have time to finish it soon. I think that my body has been in starvation mode for a long time (due to the worms) and I had no idea of it. I’m really afraid of eating small amounts of food because I’ve never done that before. I think my worst fear is eating nothing and simultaneously gaining weight. So I’m relieved that I reversed the upward trend.
TalkingRat:
Heidi, great news that things are turning around for you. I hope it continues to go well.
Sanchiaza:
Yay, thanks Heidi :D
Awesome news that things are moving downwards for you, hip hip hooray! (But they're only small hips :lol:)
Heidi 555:
Thanks TalkingRat and Sanchiaza, but unfortunately things only turned around for me for a short bit.
So I’ve been reluctant to come right out and say it, but I’ve been thinking it for a long time now. Nose clipping is no longer working for me. Or it is only working a small fraction of what it use to. I think it stopped working for me back in January.
I am now about 5 or more pounds above my goal weight. My pants no longer fit. I have gone back up to a size 6. The weight gain was completely unexpected as I’d been doing everything that I’d been doing and my diet has been exceptionally clean (no sugar or grain except for small amounts of fresh fruit).
I’ve been blaming my weight gain on three things:
1. Nose clipping a lot of calories is no longer working well for me
2. I had a huge parasite problem that is hopefully being eradicated
3. Perimenopausal hormone changes
My husband thinks that the enlightened tasting might be a factor in my weight gain. (If he’s right then in some ways it would be good news, as it’s something that I have control over.) But at this point I think it’s the only thing that I’m doing that is still working. Initially I lost weight easily when I first started it. If it weren’t for the enlightened tasting and the non-addictive food diet, then I never would have discovered that I had the roundworm parasite problem. I still seem to be making slow but steady progress in terms of food addiction.
I compiled my history on SLD as a way to get clarity on my weight gain struggles that I’ve had this year.
End of October 2007: started SLD
Mid November 2007: started nose clipping
December 2007: started nose clipping a large percentage of my food
Mid January 2008: had lost 10 pounds in the first 2 ½ of months of SLD
Rest of 2008: lost 10 more pounds very slowly over the next 11 months
2009: effortlessly maintained my goal weight of 120 pounds for the entire year
January 2010: nose clipping seemed to stop working for me
* I gained 5 or 6 pounds while on vacation and still nose clipping half of my calories. (The previous two years when I vacationed in Florida I gained a pound at most.) When I returned home I nose clipped a high percentage of my calories and lost 1-2 pounds but the last 3 didn’t come off.Mid April 2010: I started enlightened tasting and the non-addictive food diet. Easily went back to 120 pounds.
May – July 2010: maintained my goal weight
Mid June 2010: started deworming with Mebendazole
* (2nd dose at beginning of July, 3rd dose at middle of July, 4th dose near the end of August)Beginning of August 2010: unexpectedly gained 3-4 pounds after my period was over
Rest of August 2010: worked really hard to lose weight, lost 1 pound and then maintained before and during my period
Beginning of September 2010: unexpectedly gained another 2-3 pounds after my period was over
What’s strange is that my old pattern would be to lose weight and have the scale drop down after my period. It’s such a shock to have the opposite happen. I’ve been doing my best to accept this weight gain that feels completely out of my control. It’s been very hard emotionally to be gaining weight. Especially because the only thing that I’m doing to cause the weight gain is to get rid of intestinal worms.
I know it’s only 5 or 6 pounds but I feel very unhappy with how I look and feel. Plus I fear that I am going to keep uncontrollably gaining weight. These past 3 weeks or so I was too strict and worked too hard to lose weight and it didn’t work. I can’t sustain that level of strictness. It’s too depriving. But I needed to see if eating less calories would work. It didn’t.
I’m still focused on trying to heal my food addiction. Being addicted to being thin is part of the whole gestalt of food addiction. So this is an opportunity to heal that angle. I’ve been listening to the Gabriel tape. I hope that it will convince my body that it still wants to be thin.
VeganKitten:
Heidi, I can only sympathize, as I've gained some weight back as well (as much as 10 pounds above the 'ideal' of 134 or so that I'd achieved with SLD at one point). SQ is also having trouble of late, as I'm sure you've read in her thread and posts.
I'm back to calorie counting + SLD techniques, as I think in my case I just got too loosey-goosey with eating too much, and the wrong things. (I thought I'd try SLD without restricting ~ experiment was conclusive: I need to count.) But gaining happens so fast, and losing takes such time!
So far I am no longer gaining, but haven't really started losing.
I am uncomfortably feeling just what it's like to have my favorite pants not fit. This trend will be reversed!
Keep on keepin' on. :)
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