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HELP ME ATKINS, HELP, HELP ME ATKINS ... HELP ME ATKINS, HELP, HELP ME ATKINS ... HELP ME ATKINS, HELP, HELP ME ATKINS ... HELP ME ATKINS YEAH ... GET CARBS OUTTA MY LIFE!!!!!Yup, THAT'S my new "theme song"! Not sure WHY that just popped into my head ... but maybe it will be one of those 'jingles' that might actually HELP!
Yes, I have done Atkins before (and been successful
) though I have never had a "support system" like this before! I have spent HOURS reading through this website and found the MUCH needed "assurance" from various members that I am not "doing" anything 'wrong' ... I'm just going to have to sport a 'tude and STICK WITH IT! I take meds that I KNOW are slowing down the weight loss this time (HRT and antidepressant) - compliments of a hysterectomy a few years ago - but I also know through trial and error that the meds are not "optional" for me ... SO ... I'm just going to have to accept that this will be a very SLOW process ... but it CAN and WILL BE DONE!!! 
I actually re-started about a month ago and have NOT cheated ONCE ... and I have lost a mere TWO pounds. I kept thinking I must be doing SOMETHING wrong ... I had lost TWENTY pounds in a month BOTH prior times doing Atkins ... and can't find A N Y T H I N G that I am doing differently this time .... except the meds! According to others on this bulletin board and certainly according to Dr. Atkins himself, that's just the way it is ... some meds will hold up the weight loss! BUT ... and here's where the 'tude needs to come in ... I am NOT going to let that persuade me to quit!!! NOPE ... I'm gonna take the 2 pounds lost as an ACCOMPLISHMENT, instead of as a "downer" and just "keep on keeping on"! I know that's easier said than done ... but I NEED to BELIEVE that and KEEP GOING!!!!!
Wow ... I'm really getting into these "smilies"!
ANYWAY ... I've re-read DANDR and actually reference it several times a week (or more!) and like I said earlier, have spent HOURS reading on this website! I am one of those 'strange' people (I say this with a smile!
) who actually LIKE to exercise and have done so for as long as I can remember, so exercise is NOT a problem for me. I actually argued with my OB/GYN when I was pregnant because he wanted me to STOP exercising (LONG story, but he was only looking out for my BEST interests - and my son's - as I had a LONG history of infertility) but still .... life without exercise for ME was like asking me to quit breathing! However, thanks to exercise, I may be a bit more 'solid' than some gals standing 5'6" and weighing 187 pounds ... but I STILL wouldn't be caught dead in a bikini!!! My goal weight is 150 and some might think that is still too much but really it's not ... not for me. I once got down to 140 and was wearing size 4 ... that is just TOO small for my bone structure ... people said I looked sick. So I'm headed for 150 and HOPE to get at least HALFways there before the end of 2008 (at 2 pounds a month and there's "only" 11 months left ... that SHOULD be do-able!). 
Oh ... and I forgot to mention ... my husband and son (who is 14) are both doing Atkins too ... I call it our "family melt down"!
ANY suggestions for some sack-lunch meals for my son would be VERY appreciated!!! They have both lost 9 or 10 pounds already and started about a week after I did, so they are doing GREAT!!! 
I also forgot to mention that one of the BIGGEST "motivators" for me to go back on Atkins was because of my blood pressure! I had 2 new docs want to put me on BP pills ... and I said I would do A N Y T H I N G to avoid taking ANOTHER med ... ESPECIALLY BP meds, since I know they are usually a 'lifetime' med (both parents are on 'em). The 1st doc (a cardiologist) put me through a battery of tests, including a sleep study (no, I do NOT have sleep apnea - told her so!) and told me it's "just a genetic thing ... it's nothing I do or don't do, or eat or don't eat ... it's just in my genes ... and here, take these pills"! Hmmmm .... time for a 2nd opinion. So off I go to my 'annual' exam, to my new OB/GYN (since my BELOVED doc retired ... at an EARLY age, I might add ... wonder if I 'contributed' to his decision?!?!?) and SHE didn't like my BP either! She agreed to giving me 6 months to lose 10 pounds and handed me a Welcome Packet from WW! (she MEANT well!) So I went to WW that same day and TRIED to do WW for about a month. I lost exactly TWO pounds (sound familiar?!?) ... but I was STARVING and since I live an hour from the WW center, I found it nearly impossible to make weekly meetings, especially since their latest meeting was at 5:15 and I live over an hour's drive from there and I don't get off work until 5:00!!! That meant I had to take time off work just to get to the weekly meetings (not to mention the price of gas!). Which brings me to Atkins .... alas, THAT is what "brought me back" to this WOE/WOL!!!!! I can happily report that my BP has already gone down QUITE a bit in the month I've been back on Atkins, as I KNEW it would because it did that last time too! I think the time has come in my life to STAY with what WORKS for MY body!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SORRY to kinda 'ramble' on like I have ... I am just SOOOOO excited to have the opportunity to be a part of the "community" here on ADBB ... I think it will make a HUGE difference in my SUCCESS along the way!!!
THANK YOU TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU ON HERE!!!
Any words of wisdom or advise?!? That is SOOOOOOOOOOO AWESOME ... I don't even know you and I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO proud of you!!!!! If you can lose 72 pounds ... I'm thinking there is NO excuse for me NOT to lose a minimum of 2 pounds a month, right?!? Of course, I am HOPING for MUCH more than that ... but as I said in my original post, I am TRULY needing to ACCEPT the fact that it's NOT going to just "fall off" of me this time ... it's going to take a while! I am NOT a 'patient' person by nature .... so this will be QUITE the test for me!!!
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