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Ok, mustering up the courage here.A little old history, I started Atkins on 2/22/2004, as a last resort (was considering bypass as the last straw) as no other diet has ever really worked for me. I had gained alot of weight in the last year from being out of work and going off my thyroid medication (no $$$, went from 305->347) and was pretty much resigned to the fact that I was going to be fat forever. Anyway, I decided to give Atkins a shot. Read the book, planned the food I was gonna eat, stopped my Diet Coke addiction and started drinking lots of water, and starting with induction and then extended induction, and have kept somewhere near there in OWL (am on nuts and berries rung pretty much).
And the weight started coming off. I'm a slow loser, and only lost about 60 lbs my first year, with a few cheats here and there, but never for more than 1 meal or so at the worst. I didn't even exercise, because my weight in addition to fibromyalgia made it painful.
Well, in January of this year (2005), I did start exercising, treadmill and lifting weights, which has not only helped with weight loss, but helped my energy and lessened my fibromyalgia symptoms. It still wears me out pretty bad (fatigue from fibro) but I am doing it.
Anyway, here at last is my before and during picture, the 2nd taken just this morning. I usually don't wear pink, but this was one of the few shirts that fit me when I was at my heaviest and I put it on for this recent picture.
I am a slow loser, due to thyroid and what might be PCOS, I only lose a pound or two a month, if that, and have had several long stalls, but I have been losing inches here and there and building muscle from lifting weights. I am in this for life, my way of eating has changed completely and I feel so much better and in control of what I eat.
So here's what I looked like then and now, could use the encouragement, especially since I'm stalled again at 260-261.
And yes, that is my natural hair color.
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You have definitely embraced this WOL. Well done!!!
Found the slippery slope: March/April 2006
Completely fell off wagon: August 2006
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