my story of success... and revamping my motivation!

[atkins princess]

hi all atkins followers! ;-)

i started atkins back in april of 2002... i lost 60 pounds! i am 5'6 and at that time i weighed 240 pounds... i was single at the time with three kids so i was motivated to get skinny and feel good. so i got down to 183 the first time around and then love hit me in november of 2003... over the course of a year (nov. 03 to now) i gained 40 pounds! i totally fell for who is now my hubby...
i got too comfy with him... we loved to eat together! so i decided on jan. 1 to get back with it... i was 223.5... today (01/04/05) i am 218.8... so of course i have lost.
my thing is... i need to stick with it and stay motivated... my hubby is so worth it! ;-) i don't wanna be fat and tired all the time! i also have my sister's wedding in july that i have to be skinny for!
any advice to stay motivated... or ideas to keep these lips away from donuts?

[Richt]

Re: my story of success... and revamping my motivation!

hi all atkins followers! ;-)

i don't wanna be fat and tired all the time! i also have my sister's wedding in july that i have to be skinny for!
any advice to stay motivated... or ideas to keep these lips away from donuts?

Hi and welcome to the board :wave

You have obviously experienced success on the Atkins WOE before, so you know that it can work for you. The best pieces of advice I can give you are -

1) Buy and read the book, 2002 editon on DANDR (Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution).
2) Do a squeaky clean induction. This makes the woe dead easy.
3) Drink lots of water.
4) Be a very active poster on the ADBB this place his a great help and can be extremely motivational.

Rich

[lowriders]

Start looking at dresses..small ones :hug

[cleochatra]

Your nasal passages can give you as much as, if not more pleasure than what you taste.

So, in short, take the time to smell a donut.

The smell alone will give you a feeling of satisfaction without the added carbs from ingesting it! And you can keep a donut around for a day and keep sniffing it! If you ate it, where would the pleasure be then?

When we have a cold food doesn't taste as good due to loss of sense of smell. Smell invokes memories, it brings pleasure, and it has saved me many a time on Atkins!

So go ahead! Sniff it, girl! Just don't eat it.

[californiacasey]

Yeah, what they said :wave