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I feel like most people do not realize how amazing I am. I have taken it upon myself to remind them with this thread.
I jumped on the Atkins bandwagon a couple years ago, weighing 312lbs, smoking about a pack a day, and being depressed as all get out. I started losing weight, started working out, started lifting weights... eventually I even stopped smoking and figured a good thing to do with that extra lung capacity was to start running. So I started doing 5ks (after a few months of training). I finally got down to 172lbs (12lbs over my goal weight).
A little over a year ago, I started a new job... a job where there is a chef who makes lunch everyday... a job where the joke is that you gain 10lbs the first month of employment. I didn't gain 10 the first month, but I did gain a lot the first year. Stopped working out (I'd like to blame my workout buddies for quitting and me not having anybody to go with but that's so lame)... and in January, started smoking again.
I've been trying to get back on the wagon for a while. It's not always easy, my house has always been pretty clean eating, but being at work (with free snacks of twizzlers, potato chips, krispie treats laying about) was another story.
So, the end of July (28th), I quit smoking again. I start running again about 3 days afterwards (I'm sure everyone can imagine how happy I was after that first painful experience). About 2 weeks ago, they laid off half my department at work (no, don't feel bad, we calculated out that I actually probably don't need to work for the next year), and after a couple nights of drunken fiascos, I cleaned up my act and got back on the Atkins train.
Today is a week of clean Atkins eating for me. It's also the first time I have ever participated in a Half Marathon (okay, so it was a virtual one, not like, a real live one). I made it out alive!!
Actually, better than alive... up to the point where I could no longer run (yes, the last couple miles were horrific), I was actually running better times than I did on my training runs - about 10:30/mi instead of my usual 10:58/mi!!
I know that if it wasn't for Atkins, and (a lot of) support from people here, I wouldn't be where I am. I would probably still be that fat girl, smoking a cigarette and glaring at people running by, so concerned about their physical fitness...
THANK YOU GUYS!
I jumped on the Atkins bandwagon a couple years ago, weighing 312lbs, smoking about a pack a day, and being depressed as all get out. I started losing weight, started working out, started lifting weights... eventually I even stopped smoking and figured a good thing to do with that extra lung capacity was to start running. So I started doing 5ks (after a few months of training). I finally got down to 172lbs (12lbs over my goal weight).
A little over a year ago, I started a new job... a job where there is a chef who makes lunch everyday... a job where the joke is that you gain 10lbs the first month of employment. I didn't gain 10 the first month, but I did gain a lot the first year. Stopped working out (I'd like to blame my workout buddies for quitting and me not having anybody to go with but that's so lame)... and in January, started smoking again.
I've been trying to get back on the wagon for a while. It's not always easy, my house has always been pretty clean eating, but being at work (with free snacks of twizzlers, potato chips, krispie treats laying about) was another story.
So, the end of July (28th), I quit smoking again. I start running again about 3 days afterwards (I'm sure everyone can imagine how happy I was after that first painful experience). About 2 weeks ago, they laid off half my department at work (no, don't feel bad, we calculated out that I actually probably don't need to work for the next year), and after a couple nights of drunken fiascos, I cleaned up my act and got back on the Atkins train.
Today is a week of clean Atkins eating for me. It's also the first time I have ever participated in a Half Marathon (okay, so it was a virtual one, not like, a real live one). I made it out alive!!
Actually, better than alive... up to the point where I could no longer run (yes, the last couple miles were horrific), I was actually running better times than I did on my training runs - about 10:30/mi instead of my usual 10:58/mi!! I know that if it wasn't for Atkins, and (a lot of) support from people here, I wouldn't be where I am. I would probably still be that fat girl, smoking a cigarette and glaring at people running by, so concerned about their physical fitness...
THANK YOU GUYS!
and one from me 
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