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    Week #9 - down 1.5 pounds - total 12.5!!!!!

    I must say - as i've said a hundred times before in the past 9 weeks -
    I LOVE ATKINS!!!!!!!!!!!

    I am just soooooo close to being under that 180 mark (i know for a lot of people, it's getting into "onederland" - but for me, my "mark" has always been 180)...

    And - I'm NOT just saying this - but seriously - I LOVE this woe because I - for once in my adult life - i seriously do NOT feel like I'm dieting!!!!!

    It's just so weird for me - because, as I've mentioned before, I lost 60 pounds on weight watchers back in 2004 going from 220 to 160. But - even though I continued to eat low fat, high fiber, high carbs (as they teach you, and that is how i lost the weight...) AND continued to exercise - it just kept creeping back up until I was at 197 two years ago when - no matter HOW much I "dieted" or exercised, it literally would NOT BUDGE.

    BUT that was when i learned I had Insulin Resistance...I did some research on it and understood the "basics" of what that meant - but all I could really understand was, "that was why I wasn't / couldn't lose weight" - and the doc kept saying "low carb, low carb, low carb" - but that went against EVERYTHING I'd ever known. Then finally I bit the bullet and listened to her this year. GOD how I wish I'd have listened to her LAST YEAR when she TOLD me to do this! lol

    And - now that I actually completely understand the science behind why MY body takes so long to lose weigh - it's like I HAVE found that "magic pill" that I've been searching for.

    But c'mon - Even if it takes me until who knows when to get back down to my 160 (i'm 5'8 btw, pretty muscular and at 160 i'm actually skinny)...I will be so happy because I can actually BELIEVE it's going to happen again!!!

    NO I don't lose the weight like some people do on atkins - again, it's been 9 weeks (including induction of 3 weeks)...and i'm "only" down 12.5 pounds TOTAL - but with the way MY body works - I would have / could have been UP those 12.5 pounds had I never found atkins.

    I can't say enough about how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this woe and I know that when I say "this will be the way I will eat for the REST of my life" - I know it will be. I've tried SOOO many other "diets" and ways of eating out there - but I've NEVER been more comfortable nor have I ever believed in anything as much as this. I even know, now, that - for me - ATKINS is the ONLY way to go and while Weight Watchers worked for that short period - THIS is what I need to do for my body to be at the right weight.

    And while - again - I should change my name to TURTLE - what's fabulous is I get to eat the way I love to eat and LOSE WEIGHT!!!!!!


    Sorry that was long and probably sounded like a broken record to things I've said before - but I just want to shout from the rooftops.
    I LOVE ATKINS!!!!
    Find my blog at: http://keriannmb.blogspot.com/

    Diagnosed Insulin Resistant in October 2007.
    Committed to Atkins January 2009.

    ~I lost 1 pound 30 times!~

    "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyways; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

    Started Date: 03/January/2009 - 196 lbs
    Current Month: February 2010 - 163lbs
    WEDDING DATE: 26/JUNE/2010 - I WILL BE A BUFF BRIDE!



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    Re: Week #9 - down 1.5 pounds - total 12.5!!!!!

    Aw, baby girl!!! I'm soooooooo HAPPY for you!! I thought you'd be down a little more soon. Was just getting ready to put my jeans on to walk out the door to go grocery shopping but I had to stop to reply to your post. It is a fab WOE. It's a great way of feeling too! I so have to catch up with you when I get back from the store. Hopefully, you're going to be around today and I'm also hoping your baby had a wonderful first night at home. Tell her I said, "Good morning!!" Oh, and take this advice...FIND THAT TAPE MEASURE!!! You need those starting measurement. More on that later after the grocery shopping. Have a wonderful day and take that joyous energy and go work out!!! Today is day #1 of the 6 week challenge.





    Restarted 12/28/2008
    232.5/162/160
    F/34 yrs old/5'9"

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      Re: Week #9 - down 1.5 pounds - total 12.5!!!!!

      Originally posted by EverLosing View Post
      Aw, baby girl!!! I'm soooooooo HAPPY for you!! I thought you'd be down a little more soon. Was just getting ready to put my jeans on to walk out the door to go grocery shopping but I had to stop to reply to your post. It is a fab WOE. It's a great way of feeling too! I so have to catch up with you when I get back from the store. Hopefully, you're going to be around today and I'm also hoping your baby had a wonderful first night at home. Tell her I said, "Good morning!!" Oh, and take this advice...FIND THAT TAPE MEASURE!!! You need those starting measurement. More on that later after the grocery shopping. Have a wonderful day and take that joyous energy and go work out!!! Today is day #1 of the 6 week challenge.

      I will let my beautiful baby girl know that you said hi.

      I just got home from grocery shopping and bought a tape measure while i was there because i have NO idea where the other one is!
      I have to tell you though - she was such a good little girl when I was gone...we keep our pug, petey, penned up in our kitchen with a baby gate...the door in the kitchen leads out into our breezeway - and the breezeway into the garage as well as a door out to our fenced in patio...we have decided she will be, for the most part, an outside dog (we're gonna get her an awesome dog house and our side yard will be fenced in soon). And I'm so very proud of her - when i left i could hear her howling just a bit - but I left the screen door to the patio open just enough for her to go in and out and when i came home, she was as content as could be, laying on her huge doggy bed we bought her - yet, as usual, i could hear petey barking up a storm inside the house! lol.

      I'm just so very excited to have her.
      Find my blog at: http://keriannmb.blogspot.com/

      Diagnosed Insulin Resistant in October 2007.
      Committed to Atkins January 2009.

      ~I lost 1 pound 30 times!~

      "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyways; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

      Started Date: 03/January/2009 - 196 lbs
      Current Month: February 2010 - 163lbs
      WEDDING DATE: 26/JUNE/2010 - I WILL BE A BUFF BRIDE!



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        Re: Week #9 - down 1.5 pounds - total 12.5!!!!!

        That's awesome. I know what you mean, I feel like I'm not dieting at all. This WOE rules! And I really love your attitude. There are some people who would be discouraged by 12.5 pounds. But you are owning it. It rocks that you're so proud of that, because you should be. Way to go, you're doing amazingly!
        Aoife - 18, Female, 1.69 metres (5'6.5")

        Start/Current/Goal:
        204/193.4/127

        Irish Lass abroad in America

        Mini Goal #1: 188 lb (no longer "obese")
        Mini Goal #2: 170 lb (Hopefully when I go home for summer!)
        Mini Goal #3: 156 (no longer "overweight")



        April Mileage Challenge: 14.75/100, April Abs Challenge: 215/1750

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          Re: Week #9 - down 1.5 pounds - total 12.5!!!!!

          Kerianne, we started the same day and I have been obsessing about how slowly I am losing. But I have lost 13 pounds so far.

          Your post turned my whole world around. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
          ...

          Female, age 60, 5'5", small frame

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            Re: Week #9 - down 1.5 pounds - total 12.5!!!!!

            Congratulations! Your enthusiasm and happiness is contagious. Good Job!



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            Final goal 125

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              Re: Week #9 - down 1.5 pounds - total 12.5!!!!!

              Congratulations! I get the vague impression that you love Atkins???

              CP
              'Chocolate - Here today, gone today!'

              Sowing The Seeds of Change - My Journal

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                Re: Week #9 - down 1.5 pounds - total 12.5!!!!!

                Originally posted by C P View Post
                Congratulations! I get the vague impression that you love Atkins???

                CP

                just a "little" lol.
                Find my blog at: http://keriannmb.blogspot.com/

                Diagnosed Insulin Resistant in October 2007.
                Committed to Atkins January 2009.

                ~I lost 1 pound 30 times!~

                "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyways; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

                Started Date: 03/January/2009 - 196 lbs
                Current Month: February 2010 - 163lbs
                WEDDING DATE: 26/JUNE/2010 - I WILL BE A BUFF BRIDE!



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                  Re: Week #9 - down 1.5 pounds - total 12.5!!!!!

                  Congratulations. I am so excited for you. It is also encouraging to see that you aren't stressing because the pounds aren't falling off overnight. You have a great attitude and are looking at the long term goal. I am so pleased for you. Your enthusiasm is infectious!
                  JILL

                  HW 298
                  HW (this time) 248
                  GOAL ONE 228                   (take 2)
                  GOAL TWO 213 (personal goal)
                  GOAL THREE 199 ONE-DERLAND
                  FINAL GOAL 165

                   It's not about the results. Its about the process.

                  "I've never come home after a workout and said, MAN, I wish I had NOT exercised today!"



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                    Re: Week #9 - down 1.5 pounds - total 12.5!!!!!

                    Your doing great ! Everyone loses at thier own pace and as much as you seem to like this way of eating you will get there !!!

                    I love this WOE also.... please pass the mayo !!

                    Keep up to good work !


                    225 / 220 / 170

                    Whad'ya mean I can't have Cheesy Poofs ?

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