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So Good To Be Back!!!
First, I would just like to say that Dr. Atkin's book makes this a WOE - BUT its this board that really helps make it a WOL!!!
So you ask, if I am just introducing myself - what could I possibly know about this board or this WOL? Well, I am no stranger to Atkins - I've just been a little lost the past few years. Stranded in sugar land, wandering in binge town, vacationing in carb city - that sort of thing.
You see, about 4-5 years ago I graduated college at my (then) heaviest weight. I was 5"6. 2004 lbs., and starting a job with absolutely no clothes that fit. I started raking the internet for quick solutions to my weight problem - cabbage soup diet, cayanne pepper & lemon juice diet, grapefruit diet, all that sort of thing. Each diet sounded more like Ghandi's food diary than a WOL. Thats when I found the Atkin's website. Now, this was more than 5 years ago - almost 2 years before Atkins WOE became popular (again). In fact, I would say that low carb lifestyles were still pretty contraversial at the time. But after reading the website for hour after hour - I went out and bought the book. That - and finding an Atkins BB on the net - set me up perfectly to begin induction.
Thus began my one year adventure staying faithful to this WOE. I stopped weighing myself after I lost 30 lbs., so I am sure I lost more than that. I also went from a size 38 waist to a size 34 - which was even loose on me!! But the change in my size was second to my change in health. I felt better, stronger, and healthier than I had in a long time. Even when I went to get my blood worked 6 months into the diet, the doctor was very impressed by how good my ratio of good choloestarol was to my bad cholestarol. He even said that it was so good - I should go out and have some cheeseburgers (little did he know, I was - just without the bun) Yes, folks, life was good as a loser!
Except I cheated. Almost to the day of my one year anniversarry - I had let "restrictions" in my WOL get the best of me. You see, I had never really let go of induction, and had continued to eat so strictly despite what the book said - because I was so afraid of slowing my progress or even reversing it. How ironic that my choice actually lead to me being fed up with not having pizza or KFC. And so, I indulged these old eating habbits. Basically thinking - I am no longer fat, therefore I can eat what I want, do what I want, etc.
Fast forward over the 3-4 years. I have been struggling with a higher weight than ever. At my heaviest, last summer - I was reaching past 220. I had ballooned up to a size 40 waist. I couldn't even look at myself in the mirror without becoming so depressed that all I wanted to do was eat more. I was stuck in such a major viscious cycle. I had been put on various anti-depressent meds, and had found myself in unemployment. My oversized butt was planted firmly on the pitty pot.
Over the last 6 months, I have lost some weight as I went back to eating low-carb, but not giving up alot of my "trigger foods". Finally, this past Monday, I decided that the only thing that ever worked for me was the Atkins lifestyle. That the best thing for me to do is start - that moment - a clean induction, find my copy of DADR, and find this bb and START READING!
I am happy to say that I am on day 5 of my clean induction, and I have finally gotten my membership to this board activated, so I can stop lurking and join this truly inspiring and amazing community.
Thanks to all who stopped by to read my long post (me getting to this point has been such a long time coming, that I have alot of energy and excitement now). And I hope to see you out there on the boards!
So you ask, if I am just introducing myself - what could I possibly know about this board or this WOL? Well, I am no stranger to Atkins - I've just been a little lost the past few years. Stranded in sugar land, wandering in binge town, vacationing in carb city - that sort of thing.
You see, about 4-5 years ago I graduated college at my (then) heaviest weight. I was 5"6. 2004 lbs., and starting a job with absolutely no clothes that fit. I started raking the internet for quick solutions to my weight problem - cabbage soup diet, cayanne pepper & lemon juice diet, grapefruit diet, all that sort of thing. Each diet sounded more like Ghandi's food diary than a WOL. Thats when I found the Atkin's website. Now, this was more than 5 years ago - almost 2 years before Atkins WOE became popular (again). In fact, I would say that low carb lifestyles were still pretty contraversial at the time. But after reading the website for hour after hour - I went out and bought the book. That - and finding an Atkins BB on the net - set me up perfectly to begin induction.
Thus began my one year adventure staying faithful to this WOE. I stopped weighing myself after I lost 30 lbs., so I am sure I lost more than that. I also went from a size 38 waist to a size 34 - which was even loose on me!! But the change in my size was second to my change in health. I felt better, stronger, and healthier than I had in a long time. Even when I went to get my blood worked 6 months into the diet, the doctor was very impressed by how good my ratio of good choloestarol was to my bad cholestarol. He even said that it was so good - I should go out and have some cheeseburgers (little did he know, I was - just without the bun) Yes, folks, life was good as a loser!
Except I cheated. Almost to the day of my one year anniversarry - I had let "restrictions" in my WOL get the best of me. You see, I had never really let go of induction, and had continued to eat so strictly despite what the book said - because I was so afraid of slowing my progress or even reversing it. How ironic that my choice actually lead to me being fed up with not having pizza or KFC. And so, I indulged these old eating habbits. Basically thinking - I am no longer fat, therefore I can eat what I want, do what I want, etc.
Fast forward over the 3-4 years. I have been struggling with a higher weight than ever. At my heaviest, last summer - I was reaching past 220. I had ballooned up to a size 40 waist. I couldn't even look at myself in the mirror without becoming so depressed that all I wanted to do was eat more. I was stuck in such a major viscious cycle. I had been put on various anti-depressent meds, and had found myself in unemployment. My oversized butt was planted firmly on the pitty pot.
Over the last 6 months, I have lost some weight as I went back to eating low-carb, but not giving up alot of my "trigger foods". Finally, this past Monday, I decided that the only thing that ever worked for me was the Atkins lifestyle. That the best thing for me to do is start - that moment - a clean induction, find my copy of DADR, and find this bb and START READING!
I am happy to say that I am on day 5 of my clean induction, and I have finally gotten my membership to this board activated, so I can stop lurking and join this truly inspiring and amazing community.
Thanks to all who stopped by to read my long post (me getting to this point has been such a long time coming, that I have alot of energy and excitement now). And I hope to see you out there on the boards!
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