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Hi Everyone 
Long and lengthy intro – sorry!
35 years young, happily married - two beautiful 5 and 7 year old girls, but am very overweight, obese in fact.... I'm that girl who they all say "Oh she's sooo nice, but its such a pity that she's sooooo big".
My body fat % is in the high 30's, and my health problems the past couple of years have just seemed to bloom. I had started to wonder if I will be around to see my kids have children of their own.
I think I have tried every diet possible, from Jenny Craig, to Weight Watchers, to the dreaded diet pills, with little or no success but with great monetary expenditure.
At my last major checkup (beginning of the year), I was told that I had too much insulin in my blood and that I needed to start reducing my carbs... so since then, and obviously by taking some needed lifestyle baby steps, Ive lost about 14kgs (30 pounds), but now have come to a dead stop. My PFC intake was 50% protein, 30% fat and 20% carbs. Ive tried mixing it up at the gym in regards to my exercise routines – increased my protein - but nothing is happening, and hasn’t been for months.
I really need to lose at least another 60 pounds and quite a percentage of body fat, so that I can be healthy! and also so I don’t need to resort to lapband surgery – which is something my Dr has bought up and needless to say it nearly scared me to death.
So I find myself here.. I don’t want the surgery, and I know that I can succeed in doing this myself. To be perfectly honest – my main problems are - is that I never have a feeling of fullness after eating, and that in the past I have rewarded myself with food Duh! How smart was I?
I plan on starting Atkins tomorrow, it being the start of a new month, as well as its when I have my next checkup with my Dr. Because of my medical problems I want to have blood tests done etc… so I can see the results there also.
I feel very heartened by reading all the suceess stories here, and feel very motivated to do my absolute best!
I hope to be able to receive but also give support to others, because I bloody know how hard it can be to try and start doing the right thing to yourself.
My motto is persistance not perfection, because I refuse to beat myself up anymore. I am looking forward in getting to know everyone much better as well as becoming one of those success stories Ive just read about!!
Cheers, Veronica
Long and lengthy intro – sorry!
35 years young, happily married - two beautiful 5 and 7 year old girls, but am very overweight, obese in fact.... I'm that girl who they all say "Oh she's sooo nice, but its such a pity that she's sooooo big".
My body fat % is in the high 30's, and my health problems the past couple of years have just seemed to bloom. I had started to wonder if I will be around to see my kids have children of their own.
I think I have tried every diet possible, from Jenny Craig, to Weight Watchers, to the dreaded diet pills, with little or no success but with great monetary expenditure.
At my last major checkup (beginning of the year), I was told that I had too much insulin in my blood and that I needed to start reducing my carbs... so since then, and obviously by taking some needed lifestyle baby steps, Ive lost about 14kgs (30 pounds), but now have come to a dead stop. My PFC intake was 50% protein, 30% fat and 20% carbs. Ive tried mixing it up at the gym in regards to my exercise routines – increased my protein - but nothing is happening, and hasn’t been for months.
I really need to lose at least another 60 pounds and quite a percentage of body fat, so that I can be healthy! and also so I don’t need to resort to lapband surgery – which is something my Dr has bought up and needless to say it nearly scared me to death.
So I find myself here.. I don’t want the surgery, and I know that I can succeed in doing this myself. To be perfectly honest – my main problems are - is that I never have a feeling of fullness after eating, and that in the past I have rewarded myself with food Duh! How smart was I?
I plan on starting Atkins tomorrow, it being the start of a new month, as well as its when I have my next checkup with my Dr. Because of my medical problems I want to have blood tests done etc… so I can see the results there also.
I feel very heartened by reading all the suceess stories here, and feel very motivated to do my absolute best!
I hope to be able to receive but also give support to others, because I bloody know how hard it can be to try and start doing the right thing to yourself.
My motto is persistance not perfection, because I refuse to beat myself up anymore. I am looking forward in getting to know everyone much better as well as becoming one of those success stories Ive just read about!!
Cheers, Veronica
and the exercise challenges look good too!!
....its the fat content thats a worry for me, but in saying that I know that this WOL works, just by browsing the board. So with that said, a strict induction will I be starting on the morrow.
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