Please i need some big time support!!!!

[heavenly rose08]

HELLO EVERYBODY! MY NAME IS HEAVENLY ROSE... I'M NOT SURE IF ANY OF YOU REMEMBER ME I HAVE'NT REALLY BEEN ON HERE IN A WHILE.... ANYWAYS BACK IN SEP. OF 2008 I STARTED DOING THE ATKINS DIET.. IN WHICH I LOST ABOUT 40 PDS IN LIKE 3 MO.IN WHICH I WAS SO ECSTATIC ABOUT!!! WELL TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT I HAVE REGAINED ALL MY WEIGHT BACK AND I FEEL HORRIBLE!!!! I'M TIRED ALL THE TIME MY FEET GET EXTREMELY SWOLLEN AT NIGHT.. AND I KNOW ITS BECAUSE I'M CARRYING TOO MUCH WEIGHT ON MY "4 10" BODY...I'VE TRIED GETTING BACK ON ATKINS SEVERAL TIMES IN WHICH I HAVE FAILED ..... I SERIOUSLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET BACK ON!!!! WHEN I DID IT IN 2008 I BASICALLY ATE CHEESE OMLETTES W HAM ,AND CHICKEN ALL DAY LONG....IT GOT TO A POINT THAT AFTER A WHILE I COULDNT EVEN LOOK AT MEAT!!!!!,,PLEASE I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY ADVICE ON WHAT COULD I DO!!!! I DO NOT WANNA KEEP GAINING WEIGHT.....I;M VERY SHORT AND I WEIGH ABOUT 250 LBS...AND I FEEL COMPLETELY HORRIBLE.....

[chibelly]

Re: Please i need some big time support!!!!

I know how you feel. In early 2008 i was working in phoenix for 3 months. I would take nature walks 3 times a week and i was living on salads and i lost 40 pounds. At the time i was 270 so the 40 pounds made a huge difference and when i got home i was 230. I was 200 in highschool. I know it sounds like a lot but my body distributes weight evenly so i was in pretty good shape then. Summer of 2008 i was a potbelly away from being that way again. But i got back home to Chicago and pizzas and my girlfreinds pasta and puerto rican food and birthday parties and....and i was 310 by Christmas. I had such a head start.. if i would have just kept myself from gaining weight i would still be 230. Even if i didnt hit the gym. But i got lazy and forgot about my problems and started over indulging and all that hard work was gone so fast. I cant live in the gym and on salads. I just cant do it. Atkins is a different way of doing things. A way that will work for us. I lost 20 pounds in 2 weeks and the only exercise i do is taking a walk each night after work.

I have been eating cheese, eggs, chicken & steak, broccoli and green beans and tomatoes for two weeks. My appetite is back now and i really really want a pizza and a soda. But every time i start trying to convince myself "just one wont hurt" i step on the scale and remind myself that it only took 2 weeks to lose 20 pounds. Another 8 weeks and i will lose 80 more and in 2.5 months i will have lost the 100lbs i have been carrying around for more than 10 years.

I know that it will most likely take longer to lose the 80 pounds but the possibility is there. The good news is that your size can work for you right now. If you take a 30 minute walk you burn more calories than people half your size.

We all know what you are going thru, we all know the daily conversations we have with ourselves about getting in shape and changing our lives. We spend years trying and failing at it by trying to go to the gym and eat salads. But that wont work for us (my opinion). My girlfriend and i eat our meals together. We eat the same exact foods and she has desert and i never do. She never gains a pound but i do. We are wired different i guess. All i know is that for once in my life i have to remind myself to eat vs feeling hungry all day. You know what.. its not even hunger.. its like a life or death "i need this now" like when i quit smoking. I would hit the fast food place and scarf down a burger and fries for 2 seconds of satisfaction and then go right back to hating myself for doing it. I would spend all day thinking about food and my weight and how i havent been swimming in 5 years because i wont take my shirt off in public. Or walking into a restaurant and scoping the place out for a table that i can fit at. The booths are sometimes to tight and the tables make you feel like your on display in the middle of the restaurant.

Remember how all those other diets left you starving and made it impossible to stick with them? Well atkins solves that problem for you. Now you can be full and still lose weight. All you have to do is avoid carbs. I know i know i know.. bread, potatoes, sugar mmmm. But its time for us to grow up. We have a shot here at living a normal life if we can just muster up the discipline to avoid a handful of things for a couple of weeks, then a month, then 2 months and eventually you will grow accustom to eating this way and you will be thin and healthy and happy. And carbs can come back in your life, but this time the right carbs and in moderation. No more bottles of carbonated sugar water and fast food bags of death.

Heres what i have been doing.. maybe it will give you some ideas.

Go shopping and buy enough food for a week. Make a list before you go and only get those items. Get some "tupperwear" type plastic containers. Open up all your meat and clean it and season it and put it in a large ziplock bag or a large plastic container. Having meat ready to go makes it really easy to choose to follow the plan vs making that decision to grab a burger.

I have been getting frozen vegetables that can be cooked in the microwave. You only have to wait like 4 minutes and you have veggies. I cook the whole bag and take my portion and store the rest. I wash the tomatoes and put them in the fridge. I usually eat one while my food is cooking. I used to nibble food while i was cooking and be full by dinner time. The tomato replaces that urge now.

I guess the key is making things convenient. Spend one day a week doing all the grunt work so that you are more likely to cook the rest of the week vs eating out. I even get the 8 ounce bottles of water so i have lots of cold water ready to go. The small bottles are nice because its like the perfect big drink of water when im thirsty.

Good luck.

[heavenly rose08]

Re: Please i need some big time support!!!!

Thank you so much for taking the time out to respond to my thread!!... i really do wanna start my atkins diet again...and after reading everything that you have written it reminds me that i do not wanna keep feeling lousy like this and...just like urself i hate going into restuaruants and saying to myself wow am i gonna fit comfortably in that booth...!!!so i definetely feel way more motivated than i did the past few days..so i am going to take ur advice im gonna season my meat and have them handy inside zip lock bags...and i'm also going to buy me frozen veggies and im gonna see how i make out in a week on atkins...thank you so much for ur wonderful advice... i will post my progress in a weeks time.

[liv]

Re: Please i need some big time support!!!!

I am moving you out of before and after pics

[Elizellen]

Re: Please i need some big time support!!!!

Welcome back to your ADBB family, Rose
It sounds as if you are getting back your positive attitude and are ready to 'just do it'

[poobears1972]

Re: Please i need some big time support!!!!

Welcome back on board. I've been where you are literally. My high weight was pretty close to yours and I'm about an inch different in height. I lost a lot before I started atkins but it took a long time because I kept regaining it. Wish I had started on this WOE in the first place.

Stick around, get all the support you need and change your life. Life is too short to look and feel miserable.

[Suzanne_H]

Re: Please i need some big time support!!!!

I've been there, done that, got the t-shirt in a couple different colors and sizes. LOL I can share with you some of what I'm doing this time that's making all the difference.

I post to the boards regularly. I now have a copy of DANDR 2002, and this time I'm actually reading it. On induction I was sure to eat my veggies. I stayed on induction for 2 weeks and right away went into OWL. I need the variety to keep from getting bored, plus I feel much healthier as I go across the rungs of OWL. I have also started exercising again, but this time I'm not going overboard. I don't want to risk burnout. So my changes have been slow and steady and hopefully will be permanent lifestyle changes. When I slip up I try to post about it right away and get back on track immediately rather than say that I'll "do it tomorrow so here's how". I've damaged my body too much to continue abusing myself like I have done all my life. It's high time I did something about it, and high time I did it for me.

Hope this helps. Welcome back!