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Hello from Greece! 15days induction but with an icecream break!
I'm reading your wonderful forum for 3 days now, for hours.
I NEED TO CONGRATULATE YOU ALL! YOU HAVE SUCH STRENGTH AND WILL!
I'm 37, proud divorced mother of two, a boy soon to be 14 and a girl 10,5!I am half Greek (dad's side) half Belgian (mom), and I live in suburb Athens.
I wake up at about 7.30, prepare breakfast and snacks for the kids, trying to tidy up the house while drinking my first double espresso macchiato coffee.
Then I'm off to work. I'm in charge of the marketing department in the company that i work for, and I'm usually stuck in my office from 9.30-....6,7,8pm!
Then i go home, -small detour at the grocery store- and do all the nice things a mom should do... rearrange the place which has been "bombed", prepare dinner, prepare lunch for the next day, check out the homework, make the table, eat, clean up the table, put some washing machines, yell about stuff, laugh a lot, hug a lot, watch some TV and then sleep like a rock around midnight. Typical, I think.
On the weekend it's either with the kids ..home, movies, soccer game watching my son play or country house relaxing...or at boyfriend's place... more relaxed, getting together with all our friends, dancing, eating, drinking.. having a blast!
About 3 months ago I restarted my gym workouts. Twice, rarely three times a week i go to the gym doing Pilates, some wave machine and weight lifting. I wasn’t doing any serious program for about 5 years, only a little bit of this n’ that, usually a month before hitting the beach….
Thank god my body has a good memory and I always look very athletic.
I come a long way successfully working out; I have always been the athletic type. Many years of ballet lessons and then contemporary dancing, general athletics, tennis, swimming, diving, skiing- sea and alpine, trekking, cycling, rafting, cannoning (yes we do have mountains in Greece).
Since I remember myself,-I think I began keeping track at the age of 15-, I was 1.72cm (5’
and around 61-65 kg (135-145pounds). And it was back then, when i discovered fast food, because with my mom it was always the healthy cuisine!
Ahhh! those bacon mushroom melt combos, pasta, pizza, bread, Nutella (cocoa-hazelnut butter) with butter cookies, waffles with ice creams and all that= approx 3000cal crap + 1500 of normal food almost everyday)
I'm the typical Mediterranean cooking lover +add any form of chocolate!
I'm so very fortunate to be "IDEAL" for my height, age, etc.
Climbed up to 190 for my son, really feeling miserable eating like there was no tomorrow, dreaming of my ‘after body”, then back to 135 in 8 months, with last 2 months of “some kind of Atkins” and I say that because I remember the dietitian checking “my little cup” with some kind of paper stick, which I now can guess was ketostix .
For my little girl i was only took 40 pound but about 7-8 remained. Some low fat diet and working out systematically from when she was 2 till she became 5!
Then i returned to work, divorced, fell in love, ate and drunk cocktails joyfully, broke up after 1.5 years, stopped eating and got down to a shocking 131!!
After that everything came to an equilibrium! Relationship with children, ex-husband, job, new boyfriend.... CARBS! Steadily i came back to my juicy 148!!
My way of eating was much healthier than before: Large bawl of Special K for breakfast with second macchiato, yogurt+ fruit brunch, large salad+ protein+2 bread slices for lunch, fruit snack, fitness bar second snack, large salad + protein+2 bread slices for dinner, maybe some 2-3 tablespoons of Nutella+ a glass of semi fat milk for nightcap. For the weekend it was pasta/pizza/souvlaki/sushi/and brownies/ chocolate soufflé/2-3 large mojito's, etc. I really can stop eating and having cravings...now i understand why!
Right now, I am happy, everything is going great, the only thing bothering me is a 10 pound layer of fat, covering my whole body. I KNOW IT SEAMS silly but i am really obsessed.. i want them off for good.
I haven't read the book but studied on about.com, on Atkins website and naturally on your wonderful forum.
Well that was a longer introduction than i thought.
Hope i didn't bore you!
Many thanks for the inspiration
SW 67(14,
CW 64.4(142),
GW 60(134)Muriel, F/37
I NEED TO CONGRATULATE YOU ALL! YOU HAVE SUCH STRENGTH AND WILL!
I'm 37, proud divorced mother of two, a boy soon to be 14 and a girl 10,5!I am half Greek (dad's side) half Belgian (mom), and I live in suburb Athens.
I wake up at about 7.30, prepare breakfast and snacks for the kids, trying to tidy up the house while drinking my first double espresso macchiato coffee.
Then I'm off to work. I'm in charge of the marketing department in the company that i work for, and I'm usually stuck in my office from 9.30-....6,7,8pm!
Then i go home, -small detour at the grocery store- and do all the nice things a mom should do... rearrange the place which has been "bombed", prepare dinner, prepare lunch for the next day, check out the homework, make the table, eat, clean up the table, put some washing machines, yell about stuff, laugh a lot, hug a lot, watch some TV and then sleep like a rock around midnight. Typical, I think.
On the weekend it's either with the kids ..home, movies, soccer game watching my son play or country house relaxing...or at boyfriend's place... more relaxed, getting together with all our friends, dancing, eating, drinking.. having a blast!
About 3 months ago I restarted my gym workouts. Twice, rarely three times a week i go to the gym doing Pilates, some wave machine and weight lifting. I wasn’t doing any serious program for about 5 years, only a little bit of this n’ that, usually a month before hitting the beach….
Thank god my body has a good memory and I always look very athletic.
I come a long way successfully working out; I have always been the athletic type. Many years of ballet lessons and then contemporary dancing, general athletics, tennis, swimming, diving, skiing- sea and alpine, trekking, cycling, rafting, cannoning (yes we do have mountains in Greece).
Since I remember myself,-I think I began keeping track at the age of 15-, I was 1.72cm (5’
and around 61-65 kg (135-145pounds). And it was back then, when i discovered fast food, because with my mom it was always the healthy cuisine! Ahhh! those bacon mushroom melt combos, pasta, pizza, bread, Nutella (cocoa-hazelnut butter) with butter cookies, waffles with ice creams and all that= approx 3000cal crap + 1500 of normal food almost everyday)
I'm the typical Mediterranean cooking lover +add any form of chocolate!
I'm so very fortunate to be "IDEAL" for my height, age, etc.
Climbed up to 190 for my son, really feeling miserable eating like there was no tomorrow, dreaming of my ‘after body”, then back to 135 in 8 months, with last 2 months of “some kind of Atkins” and I say that because I remember the dietitian checking “my little cup” with some kind of paper stick, which I now can guess was ketostix .
For my little girl i was only took 40 pound but about 7-8 remained. Some low fat diet and working out systematically from when she was 2 till she became 5!
Then i returned to work, divorced, fell in love, ate and drunk cocktails joyfully, broke up after 1.5 years, stopped eating and got down to a shocking 131!!
After that everything came to an equilibrium! Relationship with children, ex-husband, job, new boyfriend.... CARBS! Steadily i came back to my juicy 148!!
My way of eating was much healthier than before: Large bawl of Special K for breakfast with second macchiato, yogurt+ fruit brunch, large salad+ protein+2 bread slices for lunch, fruit snack, fitness bar second snack, large salad + protein+2 bread slices for dinner, maybe some 2-3 tablespoons of Nutella+ a glass of semi fat milk for nightcap. For the weekend it was pasta/pizza/souvlaki/sushi/and brownies/ chocolate soufflé/2-3 large mojito's, etc. I really can stop eating and having cravings...now i understand why!
Right now, I am happy, everything is going great, the only thing bothering me is a 10 pound layer of fat, covering my whole body. I KNOW IT SEAMS silly but i am really obsessed.. i want them off for good.
I haven't read the book but studied on about.com, on Atkins website and naturally on your wonderful forum.
Well that was a longer introduction than i thought.
Hope i didn't bore you!
Many thanks for the inspiration
SW 67(14
, CW 64.4(142),
GW 60(134)Muriel, F/37
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