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I may be middle-aged, BUT I CAN STILL LOOSE WEIGHT!!
I am 2 days from being on Atkins for 4 months. In that time I have lost 30 pounds (as of this morning) and I am so happy. It was so easy to drop 15 or 20 pounds when I was younger, but the "excuse" that the older you get the harder it gets is really true.
Last year I added another ailment to my bag...Type 2 Diabetes. That on top of High Blood Pressure, High Triglicerides and High Cholesterol. My mother was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes last year while in the hospital with urinary sepsis so I learned what the new rules of eating with diabetes were - my Uncle (mom's brother) was diagnosed with diabetes when he was in his mid 50's but it was before the pills came around for people and his doctor was so strict with everything that went into his mouth -- it was hard to watch him do from a vibrant man to his death from a brain aneurysm. Mom moved in with us after she came out of the hospital so I researched and found the best way her endocrinologist wanted her to eat...because she is 80 her endo isn't real strict with her diet and she can "get away" with eating things I could never. She says it's her priviledge for being old.
When I was diagnosed they sent me to a nutritionist who put me on 15 carbs a day .... BUT she counted 15 grams as 1 carb so I was eating pretty much round the clock to get enough food in. I could eat anything and everything except fats and oils - I used a can of Pam spray in a little over 2 months! Anyway, 2 months later with very little pounds gone I needed to make a change. An online friend told me her and her husband were on Atkins...they ate strickly for 5 days and anything they wanted for the weekend...I thought that sounded great because her husband lost 70 pounds in less than a year and she lost 45. I also talked to mom's oncologist who had lost 40 pounds on Atkins...only he told me a different story, you ate on this diet 7 days a week but added new foods as he went along...he said it was restrictive the first coupe weeks but not restrictive that you were hungry. Since I had 2 different stories about Atkins I went online and found the truth. It's not 5 days a week, the idea of giving up bread, pasta, potatoes, - ARE YOU FRIGGIN NUTS???? But ya know what, after the first couple days I didn't miss them.
Now it's 4 months later - 30 pounds are gone and I can't imagine going back to my old eating habits. I enjoy food now, I have eaten out without incident, I never feel like an outcast in public because I don't care what people think of the way I'm eating. It's not their health, it's mine. I have had the worse resistance within my own home - my mother believes she knows how I can loose weight, just push myself away from the table, eat less and the pounds will go away - that's what she's always told me so she's right and I have no clue..... It's not that I don't have willpower, I abused alcohol and smoked way too many packs of cigarettes (and cigars) a day -- I stopped drinking AND stopped smoking cold turkey so I DO HAVE willpower. The last time my Internist told me I needed more willpower I told him "shut up". He's 55, tall and thin and when I ask told me he's never had a weight problem...I am happy for him!
My favorite things to eat now are fried radishes and spaghetti squash - things I would have NEVER eaten before Atkins. My plate is mostly vegetables with meat on the side...not the other way around. I am purposely staying on the rung I'm on because it is where I am comfortable for the time being. I had gone up to Rung 6 before but went too quickly and wasn't losing so I went back in induction and have slowly been adding things back - this time with some weight loss so I'm happy.
I'm not burning up the track with my weight loss but I am loosing and that is more important to me. I'm not in a hurry now I'm only in a hurry to get my health back. I feel healthier and have gone down from 3X to a Large top -- I have gone down 2 sizes in my pants (still elastic but still 2 sizes smaller).
I tell everyone I know about Atkins -- and I tell all the newbies about the benefits of drinking water. Even if I wasn't the water challenge hostess I'd be drinking my water every day. I don't miss 6 - 8 cans of Diet Rite and 2 pots of decaf coffee anymore.
If you are having trouble loosing just remember it will come off, it just may take more patience and some tweeking from time to time. If you want it badly enough you can achieve it - and I WANT IT!!
Last year I added another ailment to my bag...Type 2 Diabetes. That on top of High Blood Pressure, High Triglicerides and High Cholesterol. My mother was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes last year while in the hospital with urinary sepsis so I learned what the new rules of eating with diabetes were - my Uncle (mom's brother) was diagnosed with diabetes when he was in his mid 50's but it was before the pills came around for people and his doctor was so strict with everything that went into his mouth -- it was hard to watch him do from a vibrant man to his death from a brain aneurysm. Mom moved in with us after she came out of the hospital so I researched and found the best way her endocrinologist wanted her to eat...because she is 80 her endo isn't real strict with her diet and she can "get away" with eating things I could never. She says it's her priviledge for being old.
When I was diagnosed they sent me to a nutritionist who put me on 15 carbs a day .... BUT she counted 15 grams as 1 carb so I was eating pretty much round the clock to get enough food in. I could eat anything and everything except fats and oils - I used a can of Pam spray in a little over 2 months! Anyway, 2 months later with very little pounds gone I needed to make a change. An online friend told me her and her husband were on Atkins...they ate strickly for 5 days and anything they wanted for the weekend...I thought that sounded great because her husband lost 70 pounds in less than a year and she lost 45. I also talked to mom's oncologist who had lost 40 pounds on Atkins...only he told me a different story, you ate on this diet 7 days a week but added new foods as he went along...he said it was restrictive the first coupe weeks but not restrictive that you were hungry. Since I had 2 different stories about Atkins I went online and found the truth. It's not 5 days a week, the idea of giving up bread, pasta, potatoes, - ARE YOU FRIGGIN NUTS???? But ya know what, after the first couple days I didn't miss them.
Now it's 4 months later - 30 pounds are gone and I can't imagine going back to my old eating habits. I enjoy food now, I have eaten out without incident, I never feel like an outcast in public because I don't care what people think of the way I'm eating. It's not their health, it's mine. I have had the worse resistance within my own home - my mother believes she knows how I can loose weight, just push myself away from the table, eat less and the pounds will go away - that's what she's always told me so she's right and I have no clue..... It's not that I don't have willpower, I abused alcohol and smoked way too many packs of cigarettes (and cigars) a day -- I stopped drinking AND stopped smoking cold turkey so I DO HAVE willpower. The last time my Internist told me I needed more willpower I told him "shut up". He's 55, tall and thin and when I ask told me he's never had a weight problem...I am happy for him!
My favorite things to eat now are fried radishes and spaghetti squash - things I would have NEVER eaten before Atkins. My plate is mostly vegetables with meat on the side...not the other way around. I am purposely staying on the rung I'm on because it is where I am comfortable for the time being. I had gone up to Rung 6 before but went too quickly and wasn't losing so I went back in induction and have slowly been adding things back - this time with some weight loss so I'm happy.
I'm not burning up the track with my weight loss but I am loosing and that is more important to me. I'm not in a hurry now I'm only in a hurry to get my health back. I feel healthier and have gone down from 3X to a Large top -- I have gone down 2 sizes in my pants (still elastic but still 2 sizes smaller).
I tell everyone I know about Atkins -- and I tell all the newbies about the benefits of drinking water. Even if I wasn't the water challenge hostess I'd be drinking my water every day. I don't miss 6 - 8 cans of Diet Rite and 2 pots of decaf coffee anymore.
If you are having trouble loosing just remember it will come off, it just may take more patience and some tweeking from time to time. If you want it badly enough you can achieve it - and I WANT IT!!
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