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My first name is Janice and I'm from Connecticut, USA. I'm married and have two cats. I love to write and am currently working on a novel.
I have been overweight most of my life, starting at the age of 8 when I lost my Dad and began using food for comfort. Eventually food became my best friend and my weight gradually creeped up year by year. I yo-yo dieted over the years, gaining and losing and gaining and losing, to the point where I killed my gallbladder (removed in 2003). Now, at 50, I'm realizing that a lot of my life is behind me and was spent feeling miserable about the way I look and feel. High carb diets (Remember that nutty Stop the Insanity woman???) put even more weight on me so didn't work.
Not to mention the havoc it wreaked on my blood sugar levels! (Hypoglycemic) I was exhausted most of the time on that diet. Richard Simmons' diet left me hungry all the time so I would wind up cheating, plus you have to be a choreographer(sp) to keep up with the dance steps in his videos. I'd wind up doing two minutes of the tape and getting discouraged because I couldn't keep up.
I know he's worked for a lot of people, so it really made me feel like a failure that I couldn't make it work for me.
Anyhow, I finally decided to give Atkins a try...Again. (Yep, I did try it a few years ago without success--but that time I fully blame ME and ME alone. I just gave up.) Diagnosed with a sluggish thyroid and having been put on Synthroid has made me feel a bit more energetic, but my metabolism is still dreadfully slow, but this time I am DETERMINED to make it work for me.
I began the Induction phase exactly a month ago and am now into the OWL phase. You can bet I'm going to pop on here for moral support from now on. I'm so glad I came across this site. I registered a while ago, but didn't want to post until I was sure I was going to make it all the way through Induction!
I'm looking forward to getting to know you all!
My first name is Janice and I'm from Connecticut, USA. I'm married and have two cats. I love to write and am currently working on a novel.
I have been overweight most of my life, starting at the age of 8 when I lost my Dad and began using food for comfort. Eventually food became my best friend and my weight gradually creeped up year by year. I yo-yo dieted over the years, gaining and losing and gaining and losing, to the point where I killed my gallbladder (removed in 2003). Now, at 50, I'm realizing that a lot of my life is behind me and was spent feeling miserable about the way I look and feel. High carb diets (Remember that nutty Stop the Insanity woman???) put even more weight on me so didn't work.
Not to mention the havoc it wreaked on my blood sugar levels! (Hypoglycemic) I was exhausted most of the time on that diet. Richard Simmons' diet left me hungry all the time so I would wind up cheating, plus you have to be a choreographer(sp) to keep up with the dance steps in his videos. I'd wind up doing two minutes of the tape and getting discouraged because I couldn't keep up. I know he's worked for a lot of people, so it really made me feel like a failure that I couldn't make it work for me.Anyhow, I finally decided to give Atkins a try...Again. (Yep, I did try it a few years ago without success--but that time I fully blame ME and ME alone. I just gave up.) Diagnosed with a sluggish thyroid and having been put on Synthroid has made me feel a bit more energetic, but my metabolism is still dreadfully slow, but this time I am DETERMINED to make it work for me.
I began the Induction phase exactly a month ago and am now into the OWL phase. You can bet I'm going to pop on here for moral support from now on. I'm so glad I came across this site. I registered a while ago, but didn't want to post until I was sure I was going to make it all the way through Induction!
I'm looking forward to getting to know you all!
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Right now I'm gauging by how my clothes fit and the private pictures I've taken of myself and hidden from all other probing eyes. As my confidence grows and other parts shrink, I'm sure I will be able to eventually get back on the scale and share my pictures with the world at large. Right now I'm still dealing with some major self-esteem issues, but I'm working on it!
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