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I'm not trying to work out my "Carb Cycling Turbo" days or even my "Wendie" days so that they actually fit the framework that someone has created that seems to know more about what they are doing than I do. (By the way, the Wendie plan is supposed to be an acceleration for Weight Watchers and the Carb Cycling Turbo plan I linked to is supposed to accelerate loss on a LA WeightLoss diet. Both feel the concept can be adapted to other diet plans.)

What I am doing by having "low carb" days and "Wendie" days is keeping myself from getting "burned out" over how I am eating. I am doing this because I know that I am going to have to figure out a way to make watching my weight something I do for the rest of my life. I do NOT want to get so tired of depriving myself that I just give up on it all.

So this is how I figure it: If I can splurge a day a week -- or change to another "plan" so that I can eat something I'd like to eat that the plan I am using is depriving me of -- and NOT gain lasting weight because of it, then it will help me to stick to a long term plan for getting my weight down to where I want it to be and KEEPING IT THERE.

While it would be nice to just stick to something and see the weight come off faster, I would not really be gaining anything by doing that if --when I reach my goal-- I'm so sick of watching what I eat that I stop watching and go back to eating whatever I want to eat.

I'm trying to set myself up for long-term success rather than reaching a certain point on the scales and then throwing weight watching out the window. That is what I did in 2004 and I ended up bigger than I was before I went on that diet. I DO NOT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN AGAIN.