Cheated during refeed - what to do?

[Anneline]

I am a week on refeed already, but cheated when I baked chocolate cream cookies for the kids. I ate one and licked the spoon and some of the chocolate cream from my fingers.

I gained 1,4kg overnight!!! I cannot believe that I could gain that much weight by eating a cookie and licking a few drops of chocolate cream from my fingers!! How is this possible??

Anyway, what to do now? Do I go back 2 days on my refeed or do I need to go back to my original program for 2 weeks again to get my HGH normal again. Obviously my body is oversensitive to 'bad' food and overreact tremendously! This worries me a lot, because it tells me that I will NEVER be able to even lick my fingers off without gaining weight! It scares the living daylights out of me!

Did anyone of you need to go back for 2 days on refeed and did it work? I didn't even reach the stage where I could introduce bad fruit and bad vegetables yet! Does it mean that I will never be able to eat bad fruit or veg without gaining weight?

I am so worried and depressed it feels like I don't even want to get out of bed this morning. I feel hopeless and as if I could just as well quit!

[Shasha]

{hi} there Anneline

{congrats} on having reached your goal weight…

I’m sorry to hear that you deviated from your Re-feeding Program and that you gained weight :comfort: that is not nice at all!! BUT, DON’T YOU DARE QUIT ON US NOW!! {noway}

All is not lost!!! The weight you gained was not all instant fat – your body was probably very shocked by the sudden and unexpected sugar rush and it reacted by retaining water and whatever else it could find.

Best thing to do is probably to go back 2 days and just hope that the rest of your Re-feeding program will still go smoothly. If you find that you continue to gain weight and that the deviation upset your hormones too much, you can try going back to your old diet 100% for two weeks, to stabilize your hormones until you reach your goal again. Then do the Re-feeding program 100%. Right now though, I recommend that you go back two day only and see how your body reacts.

This does not mean that you will NEVER be able to eat anything sweet without gaining weight. Remember, the Re-feeding Program is there to train your body to cope with more and different types of foods. For example, on the diet, you only had diet fruit… then comes “good fruit” and later “bad fruit”, which is higher in sugar and so it trains your body to cope with sweeter things.

Your body was not trained gradually and over time, so it reached by being shocked.

After the Re-feeding Program, you should remember to have your sweet treats within 1 hour of your starch meal.

All the best and I hope the above advise proves to be helpful.

[Anneline]

Hi Shasha

Thanks so much for the encouraging words. It means so much today! I feel a lot better and even more hopeful after your post.

I went back to 2 days and all is going 100% so far. This also makes me feel more in control than I did right after I weighed this morning.

I will let you know how the scale is tipping tomorrow morning. Let us hope going 2 days back will work, because I really don't want to go back on the original program for another 2 weeks!

Thanks for the support!

[Dayanira]

The guidelines for after the diet and Shasha say:


...remember to have your sweet treats within 1 hour of your starch meal.

What if we have a protein dinner, like steak and salad. Do we still have to eat withing 1 hour? or is it Ok to delay the sweets?

Dayanira

[Wilma]

Hi Dayanira

It is always a good idea to eat your sweet as close as possible to your protein meal. The logics work the same for diet or non diet.

Happy Holidays !!!

[Ms. CrackerHead]

Why do my instructions say to eat within one hour of the carbs? It doesn't say protein. It says CARBS. So is mine wrong?:thinking:

[Dayanira]

Hi Wilma!
Great to hear from you! Finally an answer to my question. Maybe we need to open a thread in Maintenance to put all these questions together to keep reminding us of the guidelines.

Ms C,
My guidance says the same as yours, but I guess that we should apply the same rule, shouldn't we?

Dayanira

[Ms. CrackerHead]

I guess so! Makes sense, since you are not going to have the protein without the carbs anyway.