Hi Copper

You said you felt better when you did all the steps at once, until you had a crash. It sounds to me as though the feeling worse has begun again due to the sugar you will be having now, and that you have downregulated to it. Basically that means that the sugar is already not having the "upper" effect that we know it to have until we get to the point where no amount of sugar will make us feel better.

The doing all the steps at once would have made you feel better than eating more sugar,but as you have seen, if our brain chemistry isn't ready for it, we suffer big time.

You are probably feeling a little annoyed in a way that you wouldn't have known about had you gone slowly with the steps from the start, but that frustration won't get your brain balanced. I have been up and down all over the place for the past two years with my food, after being detoxed for 11 whole months in 2009, due to a psychological issue that I was convinced was biochemical, and until I realised that this was the problem, (with help from Kathleen) I was having sugar again, not intentionally, but my brain chemistry led me there every evening after doing the rest of the day off sugar. It annoyed me to start with, but after a few days, I understood that it was necessary and just "a means to an end", and that by letting myself have the sugar I needed at the time, I would actually get to the end result faster. I am now fully off sugars again. I know how it can make us panic and we can feel that if we let ourselves just eat sugar and not try to control it, we will eat the house, and some, it actually happens in reverse. If we let go, the bingeing etc., and the speed we get through the steps changes positively much faster than we imagine.

I know that letting go of all the control sounds ludicrous, but the very act of trying to restrict what we eat lowers our serotonin, and serotonin is responsible for our impulse control, our ability to say no. I know it all sounds logically back to front, but it isn't.

Hope that helps

Love

Jane
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: I was all for this program and seeing
: the benefits right away when I
: first started.
: I had read the book PNP and started
: all the steps at once including
: the potato. Because I was very
: used to disciplined eating, this
: did not seem too difficult. I had
: a binge after a few weeks ,
: decided to slow down and have been
: doing step one for over a month. I
: am about to start step 2. I am
: having old feelings creep back in,
: particularly anxiety.
: Because I had already started step 3,
: I am eating fairly well, although
: trying not to focus on that or any
: other step than what I am on, I
: have stopped the potato.

: I am wondering what happened to my
: better, calmer mood. I am (very
: slightly) tempted to go back to my
: low-carb diet, and really want you
: to talk me out of it.
: I feel that I need to just keep going
: but am in a bit of a slump,
: felling doubtful and hoping my
: enthusiasm and better calm
: feelings will come back.
: I just ordered a subscription to both
: the journal and the shake-
: commiting in action if not in
: feelings right now.
: Thank you for listening, any support
: would be welcome
: Copper