Tweet
Hey there, everyone!
I'm 50 years old and need to lose a LOT of weight. My desire to lose weight has more to do with being able to be very active again. I love camping, biking, hiking, kayaking, on and on, but it's all a struggle with the size I'm at. I have a couple siblings who are also working on losing weight; neither one of them are nearly as heavy as I am.
I had lost 40 pounds doing Atkins back in 2003. I did that at work where about 20 of us were going to Weight Watchers so we were very supportive of each other. Weight Watchers made me sick and weak so I did Atkins instead (I need to eat unprocessed foods). The support of everyone made a HUGE difference.
Since then, quite a few things have taken place, I didn't stick to Atkins, and the pounds eased back on. I've attempted to lose over and over again but keep running into problems or just give up.
I do have health issues that are causing some problems at the moment. After returning to school for 2.5 years, my left leg has some atrophied muscles and makes walking or biking for exercise very difficult to do. I am doing physical therapy and the leg is SLOWLY getting better and stronger. Because of the focus my therapist wants on these particular muscles, I have to be careful not to exert too much or my stronger muscles take over, and the weak ones get weaker again. So I am trying to put in some upper body exercises as well but needless to say, they aren't nearly as effective as lower body ones.
I also have to be careful of what I eat. Different foods like fake sugars causes asthma in me. Processed foods are awful! (Which is why WW was terrible - all I ate was processed foods on that diet.)
I also deal with a mild case of lymphedema in my left leg. Amazingly, when I'm doing Atkins the way I'm supposed to, the swelling goes down nicely. One more reason for me to commit to this way of eating.
A dear friend gave us both a slogan:
I'm 50 years old and need to lose a LOT of weight. My desire to lose weight has more to do with being able to be very active again. I love camping, biking, hiking, kayaking, on and on, but it's all a struggle with the size I'm at. I have a couple siblings who are also working on losing weight; neither one of them are nearly as heavy as I am.
I had lost 40 pounds doing Atkins back in 2003. I did that at work where about 20 of us were going to Weight Watchers so we were very supportive of each other. Weight Watchers made me sick and weak so I did Atkins instead (I need to eat unprocessed foods). The support of everyone made a HUGE difference.
Since then, quite a few things have taken place, I didn't stick to Atkins, and the pounds eased back on. I've attempted to lose over and over again but keep running into problems or just give up.
I do have health issues that are causing some problems at the moment. After returning to school for 2.5 years, my left leg has some atrophied muscles and makes walking or biking for exercise very difficult to do. I am doing physical therapy and the leg is SLOWLY getting better and stronger. Because of the focus my therapist wants on these particular muscles, I have to be careful not to exert too much or my stronger muscles take over, and the weak ones get weaker again. So I am trying to put in some upper body exercises as well but needless to say, they aren't nearly as effective as lower body ones.
I also have to be careful of what I eat. Different foods like fake sugars causes asthma in me. Processed foods are awful! (Which is why WW was terrible - all I ate was processed foods on that diet.)
I also deal with a mild case of lymphedema in my left leg. Amazingly, when I'm doing Atkins the way I'm supposed to, the swelling goes down nicely. One more reason for me to commit to this way of eating.
A dear friend gave us both a slogan:
Eat to Live
Not Live to Eat
So that's me! I've looked at the online tools so many of you are using and am starting to utilize them.
~ 
Comment