Yeah yeah, I am another chick on a diet...

NO this is not a weight loss blog. This is a blog about me, though, and therefore weight loss will be mentioned as it is a big part of what I am doing to change my life. I have tried many many many times to lose weight, all with limited and temporary success.

My current endeavor is a combination of low carb and intuitive eating. I suppose die hards of both camps would say they can't go together as intuitive eating says to eat whatever you want but pay close attention to your satiety signals and hungers signals. Low-carb limits your choices to foods that are not high in carbohydrates and to focus the carbs you do eat on healthy, lower glycemic carbs.

BUT the reason I am combining the both is that I find low carb allows me to listen to my signals easier. Sugar and high carb/glycemic items causes my blood sugar levels (no I am not diabetic, but I think I was heading that way before I kicked high carb to the curb in 2003) to swing between Hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. It is really hard to listen to the body's signal of REAL hunger when you have the shakes and feel faint from hypoglycemic levels of blood sugar. Everything in your body screams to eat something to normalize the sugar level in your blood. When I eat low carb I am not on the roller coaster anymore.

So why not go straight low carb? Well I guess intuitive eating IS a part of low-carb, but not one that is stressed as much. Those of us who are very literal read "Eat as much as you want of low carb items" as PIG OUT! For those of us that have been blessed with a slow metabolism, (Which will protect me in a famine and probably allow me to live longer as long as I don't keel over from some other obesity related disease.) and eat for reasons other than hunger, we can't loose weight eating as much as we like. We like to eat whenever we are bored or excited, happy or sad. We fill the down time with the past time of eating like others might do playing cards, lol.

SOOOOO, I eat low carb to make it easier to listen to those subtle nuances of hunger and (this is a bog one) satiety. When I feel real hunger I am trying to eat much less then I expect will do, and I find often it DOES do. I am thinking of it as eating like a Lap band surgery patient would, without the whole "cut me up and mutilate my beautiful body God created".

As of now I have only been doing this new experiment for 6 days and have lost almost 5 pounds. I was already eating low-carb so it was just scaling way down how often and how much I ate. This is a PERMANENT life change. Yes, I will eat small amounts forever, that is the way this body was made, it is darn fuel efficient. If I was a car, I would be coveted by all. :) If I stop eating this way, I WILL gain it all back, because my body is not meant to be fueled with Diesel in large amounts.

Genetics are a bitch, but I need to stop whinning about it and fighting it and instead learn about THIS machine, the electric hybrid, I have been blessed with and stop being envious about the Mac truck that can guzzle fuel all day long and still operate optimally!

So yeah, I WILL be talking about diets, so LIVE WITH IT! ;)