Hi Linella, I'm sorry you're feeling discouraged.
It seems to me right from the start that your heart hasn't really been in it. You've expressed your skepticism many times which is definately fair enough. I was truly very skeptical about this diet at the start also.
I think for many people they don't really want to make the diet work because then they will actually have to do permanently it and it's bloody hard and not a fun diet!
It's time consuming, takes a lot of effort, patience and willpower. I'm not saying you don't have all those things as clearly you do to even attempt the diet in the first place, I'm just saying it's not easy for ANYONE to follow this diet and so I think you are awesome for trying it.
Reading back on your posts, yes you have cheated quite a bit unfortunately.
You can't claim the diet doesn't work if you've been eating starchy stuff intermittently all along...in that case you haven't actually been doing the diet at all. If you go ahead and eat bread and pasta etc then you truly will not make any progress and you shouldn't expect to either.
Being strict for a few days in a row is not enough time for most people to see significant results....try a few weeks or a couple of months. It took 3 months for my hubby Jon to get his head around the diet. At that stage we were still whittling things out of his diet and fine tuning it. It took a further 6 months before he was able to come off the NSAIDS. So you have to take a long term approach to this thing.
I'm not saying this to be harsh or make you feel worse. I just want to give you this last push to really truly try the diet properly before you give up and say it doesn't work for you. I really truly wish the best for you and hope you can see results in the next couple of months.
All the best, keep it up.
Chelsea
