Those damn carbs

As a joke last week I said that I would give up carbs for lent.  After thinking about it, I decided to go ahead and do it.  I didn't start until this past Monday.  Sunday we had family birthdays and my dad made lasagna.  I couldn't miss eating that one last time (at least for the next 40 days).  Today is Friday and I've lost 6lbs so far.  It pisses me off.

I'm glad that I've lost the weight.  It's pleasing to see the scale go down.  I actually just put on some jeans that I hadn't worn in a while and they fit great. I could get them zipped before, but that 6lbs have made them feel good, not like they're squeezing my middle.  BUT, I've been working out almost every day for the last two months.  I've been eating healthy foods and not eating as much.  The scale never budged.  I built some muscle mass and thinned my legs and arms a little bit, but not so that anyone else could see.  I could just feel it in my clothes and see the muscles when I flexed.  I really didn't feel like I was accomplishing anything, though.  

This past week, the only thing I changed was the carbs.  And I've lost 6lbs!!  It makes me angry because I could've been doing this since January.  It sucks.  It also sucks that not eating carbs makes me lose weight, because I love carbs.  Pasta, bread, potatoes, chips, tortillas, you name it, I love it.  I had a talk with myself the other day and basically was trying to tell myself that it's just food.  FOOD.  The bread and pasta and crap like that are not something I need to have, they're just foods that I enjoy.  It won't kill me to go without them.  And when I can avoid them and am able to turn them away, I actually feel good about it.  

I've eaten pretty good this week too.  Even without my usual starch to go with dinner.  I'll have eggs for breakfast. I may get tired of them, so I need to find something else to eat for breakfast.  For lunch I have a salad with chicken or tuna.  I've been snacking on celery with peanut butter (not too much) or cucumber with just some salt and pepper on it.  Dinner has been chicken and vegetables this week.  I did make the cauliflower "pizza" crust.  It was actually pretty good.  I don't want to treat this like some people treated the Atkins diet.  It's not free reign to eat bacon and cheese all the time.  While those things don't have carbs, they aren't very healthy to have all the time.  

I want to eat this way forever.  I don't mean that I'll never eat pasta again, but I don't want to go back to having stuff like that with every meal.  We literally had bread or potatoes or rice or pasta with every dinner.  Plus I was eating cereal for breakfast and sandwiches or something similar for lunch.  Bad carbs with every meal.  Not anymore.  It's obviously not the way my body wants me to eat.  I need to get over my love of pasta and just have it every once in a while, not every day.