The no carb diet broke me and won the battle, but not the war.

So, I have ALMOST completed my 2 weeks of the NO CARB diet. I lost about 10 pounds on it. I did cheat on the diet (licked a cookie, took a sip of a drink, and probably cheated with chicken wings). I have not lost anything in the second week of it, probably because I have been in starvation mode.

I have not really been eating (I usually TRY to eat 3 meals a day) but since I do not have time to cook, it would be lunch meat and cheese, or some eggs. It was not very healthy and I felt like I was going to pass out everyday, I began to become more and more tired, my body was aching, I felt sick, had massive headaches, my heart would race. It just was not good.

Since I did cheat on that diet, I would have had to start it all over again. On that diet it is do or die. You stick with it, if you cheat, you ruin it. I have already ruined it, and quite frankly it is not worth it to me to lose more weight on this particular diet if I am going to feel like shit everyday.

The no carb diet won the battle (my will power slightly caved) but it did not win the war. I plan on doing everything in my power to keep being healthy. I am going to watch what I eat, and the carbs and calories I intake. I am going to start going to the gym (once I get enough energy from going off this stupid diet).

I want to be healthy and lose weight, in fact I have to if I don't want to get diabetes. But this no carb diet was definitely not worth all the side effects. It was for instant results, I see the results and I like how this is going-- I feel as though I am not going to ruin it by eating icecream and brownies everyday.

I am going to eat low carbs, or complex carbs like fruits and veggies. I missed fruits and veggies. I am going to be healthy while dieting, not stupid. That diet may work for some people, but I am not looking for instant results that will fade, I am looking for results I can see after working hard on it. I like that I've lost 20 pounds so far. I have 15 more to go to get down to 200, but if I don't get there by the end of November thats fine. These things take time. I know I will get there.

From this diet I did find out that I do have stronger willpower than I thought I had. I can resist food I shouldn't eat, although now I may reward myself with it once in a while.

I can do this, and I will do this... but I am going to do it the healthy way. :)