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Hi everyone! I've been viewing this website so often over the past few weeks that I thought it was time I joined!
My name is Wendy and I just turned 38 years old. I am married and have a little girl who is 5. Up until my early thirties I was relatively slim and would occasionally follow the rules of the original Atkins book to bring my weight back in line when I needed to, but low carb was not my general lifestyle.
After my daughter was born I started gaining weight steadily even though I hardly ate at all. Over the past year I piled on at least 25 pounds of this extra weight. I finally went to the doctor a few months ago because of a bronchitis infection and he scolded me for not having a checkup in over four years. So he ran my bloodwork and lo and behold we discovered that by thyroid gland had completely stopped working. It's taken a few months of adjusting the dosages for my medicine, but finally on June 5th by blood tests came back normal.
That's when he gave me the all-clear to start dieting. When I asked him what he would recommend I was thrilled to hear him say "Atkins. That's the only one I recommend. It works. You can eat."
So, three weeks later I'm down 9 pounds. I hate to admit it but I should have lost several more - if I had followed the rules about no alcohol! It was a big deal to give up my glass of wine while I cooked dinner everynight, but at least I replaced it with Rum and CokeZero. I also had a few glasses of that at my birthday dinner. But now, I've put that behind me because the pleasure of one drink isn't worth the "postponing" of fat burning!
My name is Wendy and I just turned 38 years old. I am married and have a little girl who is 5. Up until my early thirties I was relatively slim and would occasionally follow the rules of the original Atkins book to bring my weight back in line when I needed to, but low carb was not my general lifestyle.
After my daughter was born I started gaining weight steadily even though I hardly ate at all. Over the past year I piled on at least 25 pounds of this extra weight. I finally went to the doctor a few months ago because of a bronchitis infection and he scolded me for not having a checkup in over four years. So he ran my bloodwork and lo and behold we discovered that by thyroid gland had completely stopped working. It's taken a few months of adjusting the dosages for my medicine, but finally on June 5th by blood tests came back normal.
That's when he gave me the all-clear to start dieting. When I asked him what he would recommend I was thrilled to hear him say "Atkins. That's the only one I recommend. It works. You can eat."
So, three weeks later I'm down 9 pounds. I hate to admit it but I should have lost several more - if I had followed the rules about no alcohol! It was a big deal to give up my glass of wine while I cooked dinner everynight, but at least I replaced it with Rum and CokeZero. I also had a few glasses of that at my birthday dinner. But now, I've put that behind me because the pleasure of one drink isn't worth the "postponing" of fat burning!
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