Me too!!! I tried eating more meat about 3-4 weeks ago, after reading Good Calories, Bad Calories and thought I'd give this more meat thing a try. I only ate more meat and saturated fat for probably 3-4 days before I had to quit. I went back to eating my normal amount of meat and lots of veggies and fruit again.
Then, last week, I was in the hospital for 2.5 days with my second bout of pancreatitis. I have no idea if my little meat experiment started it or not, but, no more extra meat or saturated fat for me.
I think this illustrates the problem of jumping into a specific diet rather than making gradual permanent changes
for example, lets say you would normally have a bagel with light cream cheese and jam, lets say with a coke for lunch, which would be a huge carb bomb, first spiking your blood sugar, then your insulin, then the insulin will overshoot and you will crash to low blood sugar a couple of hours later, and be very hungry.
for starters, regular cream cheese would have more fat, and slow down digestion. Then, bagels are very glycemic, so switch to a coarser bread, maybe a rye or grain bread, if you can handle it (I don't know offhand which breads are actually better...would have to look that up). Then maybe have a ham sandwich instead of cream cheese one day, and instead of jam you are really lathering on the mustard, which actually pretty good for you.
Instead of the coke, see if you can tolerate a club soda, or if at home, start cutting your soft drinks with 50% club soda, to slowing acclimitize your taste buds. If you are drinking milk, don't feel guilty about using 3% or even putting cream on cereal.
If you feel a craving for a comfort food, go for the burger rather than the spagetti, and when eating pasta, go for whole grain al dente (undercooked as much as you can tolerate, the way real italians cook it), which is no adjustment whatsoever, and tone down the pasta, turn up the volume of sauce, cut in some italian sausage, and maybe keep pasta down to once per week, if it is a weakness, or switch to veal parmesan, if it is the tomato/cheese thing you are after.
one aspect of losing weight is....which food choice will postpone hunger for as long as possible, and if bacon and cream is your thing, go for it. If those are not attractive, go for healthier proteins such as keeping colds cuts in the fridge for snacks.
Of course, if you are eating because of compusion or boredom, and not out of actual hunger, that calls for a different approach, which might rather be making yourself busier somehow or having the courage to pursue an new interest that you have been shy about.
I think part of the thing is reading and figuring out what the low hanging fruit is in your diet that is sabotaging you, and saying to yourself, well, I don't really enjoy that particular food anyway, and I would be really happy to be able to eat this other food that I mistakenly thought was fattening.
One idea I play around with is deciding for example that you want to lose 4 pounds in one month, or one pound a week, 1/7th of a pound per day. Then you put this line on a crude chart on the fridge or an excel chart that takes you from current weight to new weight over 30 days. You have a morning weigh in, and mark the spot on the chart. If you are above the line, you basically don't eat that day. Fasting never killed anyone. After fasting a day, you will be very motivated to make every thing you put in your mouth count, to hold off hunger the next day, and to stay below the line.
