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My name is Sadie, and I live in Seattle, WA. I've always been overweight, but since moving to Seattle in January, I've been trying to live a healthier lifestyle and lose some pounds. Until July, I was trying to do this by eating a low-fat plant based diet and exercising a lot. Then, I realized that this diet had helped me pack on an extra 15 pounds in a matter of 6 months, none of which was muscle (my body fat percentage had stayed at a steady 46%). I still had faith in low-fat diets, though, and started eating strictly fruits, vegetables, rice, and pasta. While this didn't help me lose any weight, I didn't gain any weight either. It was a terrible feeling to have little energy, be eating 900 calories a day, and not lose a pound.
Towards the end of July, my mom (who is on a medically supervised high-protein, low-fat, low-carb diet) talked me into taking all grain, alcohol, most fruit, and starchy vegetables out of my diet, and replacing them all with small portions of very low-fat protein. In the first few days of doing that, I lost about 4 pounds, which was probably all water weight, but it was more than I'd ever lost at dieting before. Unfortunately, I still felt terrible and lethargic, even after what I thought was enough time to detox from all of the sugar in my system.
After a couple of weeks on a low-fat, low-carb, high-protein diet, I pulled out my old copy of Dr. Atkins' NDR (which I kept from an old research paper in criticism of low-carb diets from my undergrad nutrition classes). After reading it, I started to think, "Hey, I probably feel terrible because I'm eating no fat at all." So, as counterintuitive as it seemed, I decided to start induction on August 15th, with the promise to myself that if I gained weight, I'd quit immediately.
Less than two weeks later, I was down to 198 from 209, and my body fat percentage was down to 44% for the first time since I started monitoring my body fat percentage 4 years ago (even when I was 20 pounds lighter, my body fat was still at 46-47%). Needless to say, I've decided to stick with Atkins.
I decided to join this board mainly for reading and reference purposes, and for support. Even though I've been doing Induction by the carb count, no more than 20 net each day, for a couple of weeks, I really want to take joining this board, and September 1st as my true beginning on Induction, and intend to follow it closely (20 net carbs and only eating what's on the allowed foods list), plus walking an additional 25 minutes a day. I'm planning on staying on Induction until I lose an additional 30 pounds, and feel comfortable away from the safety of Induction.
I really look forward to reading about the successes and challenges of your community, and I hope that I can have something worth contributing in the future. But for the present, I'll probably just do a lot of reading. Thanks.
My name is Sadie, and I live in Seattle, WA. I've always been overweight, but since moving to Seattle in January, I've been trying to live a healthier lifestyle and lose some pounds. Until July, I was trying to do this by eating a low-fat plant based diet and exercising a lot. Then, I realized that this diet had helped me pack on an extra 15 pounds in a matter of 6 months, none of which was muscle (my body fat percentage had stayed at a steady 46%). I still had faith in low-fat diets, though, and started eating strictly fruits, vegetables, rice, and pasta. While this didn't help me lose any weight, I didn't gain any weight either. It was a terrible feeling to have little energy, be eating 900 calories a day, and not lose a pound.
Towards the end of July, my mom (who is on a medically supervised high-protein, low-fat, low-carb diet) talked me into taking all grain, alcohol, most fruit, and starchy vegetables out of my diet, and replacing them all with small portions of very low-fat protein. In the first few days of doing that, I lost about 4 pounds, which was probably all water weight, but it was more than I'd ever lost at dieting before. Unfortunately, I still felt terrible and lethargic, even after what I thought was enough time to detox from all of the sugar in my system.
After a couple of weeks on a low-fat, low-carb, high-protein diet, I pulled out my old copy of Dr. Atkins' NDR (which I kept from an old research paper in criticism of low-carb diets from my undergrad nutrition classes). After reading it, I started to think, "Hey, I probably feel terrible because I'm eating no fat at all." So, as counterintuitive as it seemed, I decided to start induction on August 15th, with the promise to myself that if I gained weight, I'd quit immediately.
Less than two weeks later, I was down to 198 from 209, and my body fat percentage was down to 44% for the first time since I started monitoring my body fat percentage 4 years ago (even when I was 20 pounds lighter, my body fat was still at 46-47%). Needless to say, I've decided to stick with Atkins.
I decided to join this board mainly for reading and reference purposes, and for support. Even though I've been doing Induction by the carb count, no more than 20 net each day, for a couple of weeks, I really want to take joining this board, and September 1st as my true beginning on Induction, and intend to follow it closely (20 net carbs and only eating what's on the allowed foods list), plus walking an additional 25 minutes a day. I'm planning on staying on Induction until I lose an additional 30 pounds, and feel comfortable away from the safety of Induction.
I really look forward to reading about the successes and challenges of your community, and I hope that I can have something worth contributing in the future. But for the present, I'll probably just do a lot of reading. Thanks.
I guess we've got lots to look forward to as teetotalers.
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