I'm baaack

I was doing pretty well for a while there, but a few months back, I started some stress eating.  Then that turned into the see-food diet.  (I see food, I eat it--ba da bing.) Now I'm back at my top weight, which would be fine if I were a prize fighter or a marathon runner, but since I'm a mom who works part time at school, I don't need the extra weight.

Sugar is adding a lot of unwanted calories and insulin spikes to my diet.  Easter candy is killer for me, even more than the Halloween treats.  Halloween is little candy bars, but Easter is the good stuff.  It's See's eggs and creams.  It's the "fancy" stuff that I love.  I had to toss the remaining chocolates because I can't keep it in the house.  A Snicker bar can last months around me, but not a scotchmallow egg.  I pretend that I'm keeping it around for the kids, but they don't want it.  If they want something, it's more likely to be Skittles or Funyons--food I won't touch. 

This summer I have both a junior high graduation, with pictures that will last forever, and a vacation near the ocean.  The family plans to snorkel and I'd love to try it, but not if I'm the size of a whale.  I really have to get the weight off, and not at the usual .25lbs a week that I manage.  

What's a dilettante dieter to do?  Look to the internet!  Did any of you see this?

http://gma.yahoo.com/k-e-diet-brides-using-feeding-tubes-rapidly-080053646--abc-news-health.html

It's about the K-E diet.  I gather you have a doctor push a tube down your nose to your stomach, giving you a constant drip of 800 cals a day of protein and fat, with no carbs at all.  It puts you into ketosis, and viola, the tonnage disappears.  I'm sure the nose tube is very fetching, but why not just eat 800 cals a day of protein and fat, no carbs?  

That's when it hit me.  I'll do an under 20g a day of carbs for a week, then up it to about 50g for the next three weeks.   Hopefully, that will get me into ketosis without too much pain.  At 50g, I can still have a nice salad and an apple once in a while. 

I like eating vegetables, chicken, beef and pork without starches or grains.  It's the sugar I worry about.  I have a hard time not eating sugar.  Am I addicted?  Probably.  I'm hoping my desire to look a little chunky in June, rather than fat, will motivate me to give up sugar.  Sugar is my ticket out of ketosis, so I need to drop it. 

I'll let you know how it goes.