I know I'm not Lisa and I don't have her area expertise in low-carb dieting, but I have been a yo-yo dieter for most of the past 15 years. If you gained back 10 lbs. in one week after losing it on a low-carb diet, I would be willing to bet A LOT of the weight you put back on is water weight. Anytime you diet, and are choosing your foods carefully, your sodium intake is going to go down, especially if you are eating a lot of fresh foods. If you ate out at a lot of restaurants, then they probaly used more salt and seasonings than you've been using at home, so don't beat your self up about that 10 pounds!
The problem has now become that you are so depressed about that 10 pounds that you can't seem to get your head back focused on what you were trying to do. I don't know how much you weigh (I'm not asking!), but your picture is beautiful! Focus on that instead.
Lisa, let us know if this is a bad idea.
Charise, if you can't get started back on the whole diet all at once, try doing it in stages. Anything from starting with water, add a fish, cut back a bagel, add a salad, cut back a banana, etc.
OR you could try doing it one meal at a time; you know you are goin to burn off your carbs for breakfast, so save that meal for last - start with dinner. For a week do low carb dinners, then the next continue w/ dinner & make lunch low carb, too, then the next - breakfast, then your snacks... Just find YOUR way to get started again. It may not be the "book-perfect" way to do it, but as long as it gets you back on track, then go for it.
Good luck! (DON'T look at the scale for at least 1 month!)
