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I am sharing a response I left for someone who sounded depressed. Although it's long, it says exactly who I am, what I believe and my dieting history. She did say twice that she was praying. Someone may be offended by me coming on so strong about the Lord, but she was praying, seemed on the raw edge, so I said what I believe. I am blown away that there are 14 individuals following me, and I can't imagine what I'm referring to, that they would want to follow me. I shared some really rough stuff, maybe they are just kind individuals, so I really, really want to thank you for your remarks. Or maybe they want to know if my husband really will knock my block off. Some may just delete me. Others can hold on, as we go through this life together, struggling, hoping for something better.
"It's a good thing you shared your feelings on FatSecret so you could get some support like these others that left messages. I too have hard things in my life and am probably depressed, depending whether the circumstances are worse that day. There are several things I am doing to help, not that I am doing them perfectly, but I think they help, even though I too want to die and go to heaven, as quickly as possible. First, is my relationship with the Lord. I'm so glad you are praying to the Lord to help you. He loves you so very much, and will not leave you. I understand having terrible feelings, and I can not know all the reasons for yours. Even though I often can not control mine, down deep inside I know that my attitude affects how I can handle the problems in my life, my feelings, depression, and functioning. I forget to resist my enemy, who wants to destroy my life. Speak out loud to him because he can not read your mind: "Satan, you and your demons, get away from me, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth." Of course, you can only demand this if you have asked Jesus into your life. Then another thing I forget to do is ask the Lord to comfort me. I declare to you, every time I do that, within maybe 5 minutes, I do feel just a little better for awhile. Even if it was only 10% better, it's worth doing. Next, I'm glad for you that you lost some weight and are interested in health and exercise. I've been a yo yo dieter all my life, maybe putting on 5 sizes one year and taking them off the next year. The older I get, the harder it is to take off, and a year ago I binged on sweets and carbs and gained 3 sizes. So I'm not criticizing you since I have done every bad thing there is to do, in the way I eat. If I eat a piece of bread the scale will be up at least 1 lb but a couple of years ago I was not willing to give up bread, but kept my calories down and lost my extra weight. Now I am prediabetic, probably due to all the you yo dieting, plus as I am older I have had more time to have illnesses that robbed my strength and muscle tone. If you really want to know about me, even though I only joined one month ago, I journaled way too much about the stress in my life. My blood pressure runs sky high and I am in a lot of pain. I joined FS for health reasons: I got scared when my brain felt mushy and I was afraid I would be one of the 50% to get dementia. As far as my journal, a couple of days ago I joined a group here at FS: “Christian Community” so others might pray for me. It's mainly the sweet gracious leader Debbie, and now me, journaling. I thought about deleting my heavy journaling on my own site (TMI) but as of yesterday have switched it to this group. I suggest you join also, for the prayers of others, but I am not suggesting you stop putting your journaling on your own site. You need all the support you can get. Just copy it and put it in this group also. I would suggest you do that with today's journal. Even if it is only the leader Debbie responding I know she will pray and I think others may pray for us as well.
I wanted to lose the weight I gained last year binging, and had been following a lovely gal on YouTube for a year or more, who moved into her van, a retired sheriff deputy with MS. She spoke of the Keto diet, and I saw she lost 30 lb and looked wonderful, the way I want to look. I'd heard of eating a lot of fat, and about good fats and bad. In fact I followed Sally Falon years ago, and with a nurse she wrote a book, Eat Fat, Lose Fat. In fact I followed Suzanne Sommers a couple of years ago until she came out with an artificial sweetener, that I was chary of. But I didn't pay any attention to what little I heard of the Keto diet until I saw Caravan Carolyn on YouTube do it. I thought I could learn about it and do it for awhile to lose my weight and then go off of it, if I felt it was unhealthy. I wanted to look like she does! It was about that time, I got scared about my brain. My husband has memory loss, so I read a couple of books about dementia, and was astounded at the statistic of nearly 50% getting it. I will have no one to take care of me, besides “I WANT TO BE INDEPENDENT, I NEED MY BRAIN.” As I looked up the Keto diet on YouTube, I found Dr Berg, Dr. Jason Fung, and others also talking about Intermittent Fasting and how great it is for your brain and getting the crummy cells out of your body: inflammation, fungus, etc. I won't bother giving more statistics here, but if I can just stall or slow down dementia if I am one of the 50%, probably I can be independent until I just slide into heaven.
In a nut shell: our bodies, your body, is running on sugar (glucose) mostly from carbs. All through the centuries until recently that was not the case. Insulin is triggered by blood sugar, your cells become Insulin resistant, and fat can NOT be burned while you have that glucose running around your body. Maybe that isn't exact, but you can learn better from Berg and Fung. As long as you continue to eat all those carbs, I believe you will become diabetic sooner or later. Regardless of what most doctors say, giving you Insulin just makes the problem worse. My sister wears about a 3X, is miserable, and is starving all the time. I believe you can change your life now. I know it's a whole new idea, since we were taught “Low Fat” for years. I even had a diet class in my home in the late 80's and I said then “the fat you eat, is the fat you wear.” Boy was I wrong. Yes, I am going strict Keto for now, but when I lose whatever I want, I will go on modified. And frankly I am having trouble with it, it's hard. But I can shorten my eating window daily from 8 hours to eventually 6 hours or less. Intermittent fasting is not a diet, since you can be good or bad during your eating window, but my brain is so much clearer, and I'm sure it helps move me along toward the Keto way.
I believe a sugar based diet contributes to depression. You will be hungry again as soon as your blood sugar drops, and it is probably more addictive than cocaine. You may not want to give up bread, pasta, sweets, rice, corn, bananas, etc. even for a time while you loose your weight. But someday, it might be worth it to you to have energy, feel good, look good and be healthier. Maybe you will learn what they have done to wheat in the last 100 years, hybridizing it over 1,000 times till your body does not even recognize it. A slice of whole wheat bread turns to sugar in your body faster than table sugar. You could watch the videos on YouTube from the guy “Butter Makes Your Pants Fall Off”. See his experience.
I'm just a decrepit little old lady, who is still vain, but I will certainly pray for you. Isn't it nice you can delete this if you are angry with me. You are my dear Christian sister I assume. If not, you are calling out to the Lord, may believe Jesus is part of the Godhead, came to this earth to die in our place so we can be reconciled to the Father and was raised from the dead. In our despair, maybe we will become more willing to give our wills more and more to Him. I need to. I could use your prayer too. I have not read any more of your journals than this one but can. Tell me what you think, wait....wait....calm down. The Lord is putting love in my heart for you, strange isn't it, how He does that. I only want your good, and this may have come out too strong or harsh. I hope not. You are precious, and I'm not very good at being tactful. I'm sorry if this hurts. But it's not to harm. The Lord wants your good. I am just an imperfect fellow traveler. Whatever you do, now or later, you are loved and accepted. I'm just sorry to see you hurting so."
Fasted 16 hours, and have had no junk food (on my challenge).
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52.5 kg
Lost so far: 1.4 kg.
Still to go: 0 kg.
Diet followed: Reasonably Well.
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View Diet Calendar, 09 January 2019:
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949 kcal
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Fat: 72.90g | Prot: 50.89g | Carbs: 31.14g.
Breakfast: Coffee. Lunch: Trader Joe's Blueberry Vanilla Goat Cheese, Trader Joe's Triple Creme Brie Cheese. Dinner: Animal Fat or Drippings, Whipping Cream, Cabbage, La Preferida Red Chile Enchilada Sauce, Trader Joe's Grass Fed Angus Beef 85% Lean, Shrimp Tempura. more...
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Losing 1.0 kg a Week
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