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I've been battling my weight since I was a child.
Was never "fat" but had to watch my weight, then after having my first childn in 1994 I balooned up to the 240's and then I managed to go to Jenny Craig and went down to 209 as a lowest since my older son has been born. Over the years because of an unhappy first marriage and stress of going through university, I balooned up to 270's and then got pregnant with my second child in 2000 and he was born in 2001. I didn't really gain anything with the pregnancy because I was watching my weight like a hawk, but then because of a divorce, etc and more unhappiness and major stresses in life I just let myself go and balooned up to 310. I went back to Jenny Craig and managed to lose about 30 + pounds, and never regained any of it back, but found it was too expensive. I in the meantime got remarried to a wonderful man, and moved overseas to the Middle East and here I am 30 pounds lower than when I stopped Jenny Craig (around 250). I have been aware of Atkins for about 2 or 2.5 years now, and have noticed a change in my eating habits as a whole. I am much more conscious about my intake of food as a whole, and drinking about at least 4 - 5 litres of water a day (at least during the week while at work -- the weekends I slack off a bit but have to work on the water intake on the weekends).
After I moved here about 2 years ago, I did join a Nutrition centre here and they follow a semi-Atkins, more or less a low carb low fat diet, and so I went there for a few months and managed to lose around 20 pounds (got me down to about 260's or so). When I joined this board back in Jan. 2005 I had just finished goig to that Centre.
Why am I still at the same weight?? Am I a failure? Will this WOE ever work for me? What is wrong with me?
Overall, I do applaud myself for having changed many aspects of my eating habits which are different from over the years. I do find that I tend to go on binges at times of things that I know I should not eat plain and simple, but then I somehow get into the mindset of "oh I'll restart this WOE tomorrow", then sometimes tomorrow comes and get into this vicious cycle.
I recently went back to this Nutrition Centre again, low carb low fat, and the doctor told me not to exercise for a week or so just for the first while, and they also sell Atkins products there, so part of the diet was to eat the Atkins Endulge bars. They are teeny tiny as it is, and I was only supposed to eat 1/2 at a time. I found they really triggered my sweet cravings. I was also taking fat burner and fat blocker pills at the same time.
I did manage to lose about 3.5 kgs the first week of going to this Centre, and also I tried to find a positive note on the fact that since I had gone there ( i think my last weigh in at that Centre last year was sometime in Febraury or March) -- I didn't gain anything, managed to lose a bit of weight, which I was happy about-- BUT it isn't ENOUGH.
What is wrong with me? Sorry to rant and rave but I'm just fed up. I feel embarassed with myself feel like I'm never goig to get anywhere.
Oh in December my Mom had come from Canada for a visit, and I did gain a bit of weight, my mistake. but in January and for about 5 - 6 weeks I managed to get the weight off plus lose a bit more and I was exercising quite faithfully, like every day practically for 30 minutes on my eclyptical. I was feeling like I was toning up and everything. Then my Mother in law came for a visit and stayed with us for 2 months. It was rather stressful than I anticipated it to be (sadie136 you know all about this!
), so ther went my exercise routine out the window. I was diong quite well, I would get up every morning around 5:30 a.m, cmoe onto ADBB for a bit, and then exercise, that way I would get my exercise in for the day, no excuses.
What can I do differently? I would be grateful to receive any responses.
Sometimes I feel like re-introducing myself onto this Board, and starting at the 14-day induction thread all over again, and not self-sabotaging myself.
To those of you who are successful on this, how did you do it? How much exercise should I be doing a day to see some dramatic results? What can I do differently?
Sorry to ramble and also probably repeat myself a few times,
Thanks for listening!
Was never "fat" but had to watch my weight, then after having my first childn in 1994 I balooned up to the 240's and then I managed to go to Jenny Craig and went down to 209 as a lowest since my older son has been born. Over the years because of an unhappy first marriage and stress of going through university, I balooned up to 270's and then got pregnant with my second child in 2000 and he was born in 2001. I didn't really gain anything with the pregnancy because I was watching my weight like a hawk, but then because of a divorce, etc and more unhappiness and major stresses in life I just let myself go and balooned up to 310. I went back to Jenny Craig and managed to lose about 30 + pounds, and never regained any of it back, but found it was too expensive. I in the meantime got remarried to a wonderful man, and moved overseas to the Middle East and here I am 30 pounds lower than when I stopped Jenny Craig (around 250). I have been aware of Atkins for about 2 or 2.5 years now, and have noticed a change in my eating habits as a whole. I am much more conscious about my intake of food as a whole, and drinking about at least 4 - 5 litres of water a day (at least during the week while at work -- the weekends I slack off a bit but have to work on the water intake on the weekends).
After I moved here about 2 years ago, I did join a Nutrition centre here and they follow a semi-Atkins, more or less a low carb low fat diet, and so I went there for a few months and managed to lose around 20 pounds (got me down to about 260's or so). When I joined this board back in Jan. 2005 I had just finished goig to that Centre.
Why am I still at the same weight?? Am I a failure? Will this WOE ever work for me? What is wrong with me?
Overall, I do applaud myself for having changed many aspects of my eating habits which are different from over the years. I do find that I tend to go on binges at times of things that I know I should not eat plain and simple, but then I somehow get into the mindset of "oh I'll restart this WOE tomorrow", then sometimes tomorrow comes and get into this vicious cycle.
I recently went back to this Nutrition Centre again, low carb low fat, and the doctor told me not to exercise for a week or so just for the first while, and they also sell Atkins products there, so part of the diet was to eat the Atkins Endulge bars. They are teeny tiny as it is, and I was only supposed to eat 1/2 at a time. I found they really triggered my sweet cravings. I was also taking fat burner and fat blocker pills at the same time.
I did manage to lose about 3.5 kgs the first week of going to this Centre, and also I tried to find a positive note on the fact that since I had gone there ( i think my last weigh in at that Centre last year was sometime in Febraury or March) -- I didn't gain anything, managed to lose a bit of weight, which I was happy about-- BUT it isn't ENOUGH.
What is wrong with me? Sorry to rant and rave but I'm just fed up. I feel embarassed with myself feel like I'm never goig to get anywhere.
Oh in December my Mom had come from Canada for a visit, and I did gain a bit of weight, my mistake. but in January and for about 5 - 6 weeks I managed to get the weight off plus lose a bit more and I was exercising quite faithfully, like every day practically for 30 minutes on my eclyptical. I was feeling like I was toning up and everything. Then my Mother in law came for a visit and stayed with us for 2 months. It was rather stressful than I anticipated it to be (sadie136 you know all about this!
), so ther went my exercise routine out the window. I was diong quite well, I would get up every morning around 5:30 a.m, cmoe onto ADBB for a bit, and then exercise, that way I would get my exercise in for the day, no excuses.What can I do differently? I would be grateful to receive any responses.
Sometimes I feel like re-introducing myself onto this Board, and starting at the 14-day induction thread all over again, and not self-sabotaging myself.
To those of you who are successful on this, how did you do it? How much exercise should I be doing a day to see some dramatic results? What can I do differently?
Sorry to ramble and also probably repeat myself a few times,
Thanks for listening!
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Have to get into the groove again!!!
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