Re: tired of the weight gain!
Kathy,
It IS hard when you're going through transition--in labor or in GAPS! :P
The hardest thing is to hold on while the body heals. One of the things a
T-Tapp trainer told us at a clinic that really stuck with me over my inch loss
journey is that often we'll plateau and what do we do? We cut our calories more
or up our cardio, etc. She said (and she is also a nurse!) that our bodies need
to regroup. Losing weight/inches is a good thing, but it is still a stress on
the body, and it needs time to rebalance before going on. Giving it time,
staying consistent with what you were doing is the way to go, not change it all
up and try a new diet or add 2 more hours of exercise!
I relate that to GAPS this way--unless there are obvious triggers, maybe just
staying the course, hanging in there and letting the body heal and regroup is
the best thing to do. Of course, when you have to buy *bigger* clothes, that
sure isn't encouraging! :( But if we could see this as only a transition
time--just like labor, it seems so intense, that it is lasting forever and that
you just can't handle one more contraction---yet it also means the birth is very
close. Of course in GAPS it's not all over in an instant like birth! But
truly, in my experience with Schwarzbein, T-Tapp and now GAPS--when I feel I
just can't do it one more day, there is usually a breakthrough, however small,
just around the corner. Might be my chocolate cravings going from 50 on a scale
of 1-10 to just a 5! ;) Or maybe all of a sudden, ALL the post-nasal drip is
just.....gone. Or maybe my endurance when I teach my exercise classes is better
for no other explainable reason--even though the week before I had to do fewer
repetitions and kick out after every move!
Of course, go through and see if maybe some things are triggering the weight
gain--could be water retention.
I don't want to turn this into a commercial for T-Tapp, but I have wondered if I
got through the Intro better than I anticipated because I was working out or
teaching 2-3 classes a week? I don't know. Not that I sailed through with no
problems! But I know it's a very lymphatic exercise and helps flush toxins out
anyway, so maybe it was helping do "double duty" with Intro! :)
Wish I could give you a real hug! If nothing else, you have a tremendous
support group here that understands!
HUGS!
~Trisch
It IS hard when you're going through transition--in labor or in GAPS! :P
The hardest thing is to hold on while the body heals. One of the things a
T-Tapp trainer told us at a clinic that really stuck with me over my inch loss
journey is that often we'll plateau and what do we do? We cut our calories more
or up our cardio, etc. She said (and she is also a nurse!) that our bodies need
to regroup. Losing weight/inches is a good thing, but it is still a stress on
the body, and it needs time to rebalance before going on. Giving it time,
staying consistent with what you were doing is the way to go, not change it all
up and try a new diet or add 2 more hours of exercise!
I relate that to GAPS this way--unless there are obvious triggers, maybe just
staying the course, hanging in there and letting the body heal and regroup is
the best thing to do. Of course, when you have to buy *bigger* clothes, that
sure isn't encouraging! :( But if we could see this as only a transition
time--just like labor, it seems so intense, that it is lasting forever and that
you just can't handle one more contraction---yet it also means the birth is very
close. Of course in GAPS it's not all over in an instant like birth! But
truly, in my experience with Schwarzbein, T-Tapp and now GAPS--when I feel I
just can't do it one more day, there is usually a breakthrough, however small,
just around the corner. Might be my chocolate cravings going from 50 on a scale
of 1-10 to just a 5! ;) Or maybe all of a sudden, ALL the post-nasal drip is
just.....gone. Or maybe my endurance when I teach my exercise classes is better
for no other explainable reason--even though the week before I had to do fewer
repetitions and kick out after every move!
Of course, go through and see if maybe some things are triggering the weight
gain--could be water retention.
I don't want to turn this into a commercial for T-Tapp, but I have wondered if I
got through the Intro better than I anticipated because I was working out or
teaching 2-3 classes a week? I don't know. Not that I sailed through with no
problems! But I know it's a very lymphatic exercise and helps flush toxins out
anyway, so maybe it was helping do "double duty" with Intro! :)
Wish I could give you a real hug! If nothing else, you have a tremendous
support group here that understands!
HUGS!
~Trisch
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