Hi Everyone

[lisadallasr]

Hello everyone, well im new to this site but not the atkins lifestyle, a little about me. Im a 29 year old married mom to two beautiful girls. Two and a half years ago I started dieting and my starting weight was 316, i have not heard of atkins then so i started doing my own thing and since i was so heavy i lost 20lbs fairly quickly and got stuck, but one day i was in the store and saw the book so as i stood there in the store i started looking through it and i said "oh i can do this" and my journey began back in the summer of 2004, I did so well at first, even got down to 256 and was feeling good, but i was doing it all wrong, not nearly eneough veggies, way to much protein and then i gave up, moved in with my husband now but fiance then and put me on the backburner and this was in the fall of 2004. well i got back up to 290 and was like this is not going to work so i tried south beach and i lost some weight but i stalled out around 270 and in my mind i was saying this is so much healthier so i kept at it off and on until march of this year, and i said im going to go back to atkins because i was going up and down with my weight from 270-275, so i started atkins but i was still doing it wrong, to much cheese, not eneough veggies and i was still stuck between 270-275 and i wanted to give up, i was feeling i have been doing this for 2 months and cant get past 270 so someone directed me to Leadwiththediet website which im not sure if everyone is familiar with that website or not but i corresponded with adele who took a look at my fitday and basically told me what i needed to fix, told me i was doing to much protein and dairy, so i gave up cheese since it was something i love and it was something i usually went overboard with and i gave up process meats and i broke my stall in the last week i have lost 7lbs. so basically this time around i want to succeed and i love reading other peoples success even though i know we pretty much determine what our success will be. ok well i know this is so long but i feel like its good to see how someone came to atkins and a little history about them so i would love to make new friends on this journey and will visit this website often.

[Sheshy]

Re: Hi Everyone

Hi Lisadallasr and welcome to ADBB!

Glad you put yourself in a HIGH priority and that you found ADBB, there are a lot of folks here to help you stay on the straight and narrow and do Atkins by the book!

Hope to see you around the board!

[Atkid]

Re: Hi Everyone

Welcome! You have found a great spot here at ADBB! Hope to see more posts from you in the future.

[dreamof145]

Re: Hi Everyone

Welcome. You've come to the right place for support and friendship. We are all here helping each other make it happen!! Check out the numerous forums that will deal with issues that we all face in our lives. You can do this!! Best wishes!

[lisadallasr]

Re: Hi Everyone

well i just wanted to say thanks to the response, and i will post often, i think its great to have a support system lisa