WTF is wrong with me....HELP

[Gymgurl]

Okay this might be a long thread but I need some help and I need to vent to people who understand......For the last 2 yrs I have trained and stuck to a lower carb diet. I lost 40 pounds and I was about 18% bf......well here is the problem......


Summer came and with kids and family my diet/exercise went down the drain. I am lucky if I make to the gym once a week...this has been going on for about 2 months....My diet is really bad, full of junk.....I can't seem to get myself out of this funk...I have worked my ass off and now I just keep backsliding.......


Can someone help me out with a diet to use. I don't want a really low carb one right now......and I need some routine ideas to get me moving....I really really would be grateful....I'm not a one time poster looking for help and poof I'm gone lol.....thanks guys....I just want to cry

 

[FitFossil]

Pick yourself up and dust yourself off. This kind of thing happens to everyone at some point. Not every diet works for every "body" all the time. It's learn-as-you-go in your search for what works for you. I tried doing the low carb thing and lasted about 3 hours, so don't feel bad!

My diet theory is "Eat to TRAIN & let the training build the body". The body needs carbs when training because it's from carbs that your muscles get their glycogen (fuel). Without sufficient fuel, you're training a pre-weakened body, and that'll never get you anywhere. Just like with fats, where there are good fats and bad fats, it's the same with carbs, good ones and bad ones (proteins too).

I really like the diet here:

http://www.stumptuous.com/weights.html
Look under "Eating", "Dieting 101", part 4 - "So what the hell am I supposed to eat?".

It's a balance of protein, carbs and fats, and allows for lots of interesting combinations. For me, it's something I can live with long term, so I never really feel like it's "a diet".

 

[Gymgurl]

Thanks for the info....I just feel like I fell off the wagon and was run over by it.