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Hello all, I guess this is where I introduce myself. I'm 24 yrs old. Height-5'9, Current weight 220. Jean size loose and comfortable 14. I wear some 12's. When I was growing up I was always the slighty bigger kid. I have always been very active, into sports. When I was a junior in high school I was playing basketball (running my butt off) and needed some extra speed and confidence, so I started doing the slim-fast diet. I drunk 2 slim-fasts a day, a salad for lunch or dinner and ran like crazy at practice. I lost about 60 pounds by the time my senior year rolled around. I was wearing comfortable size 10 jeans and even had one pair of size 6 jeans that fit. When I got to college I went from about 150 to 180. I did the atkins diet while I was there but I have never read the book so I dont know if I did it right or not. I never checked the scale buy my clothes got a lot looser. People said it looked like I was just melting away. I did NO exercise at this time, other than walking back and forth to class. Well, after I quit I went back to regular eating and gained that all back. I started weight watchers a couple years ago where I went from about 204 to 188. I wore a comfortably loose size 12 then. I quit the meetings, and of course jetted back up to 220, matching my largest scale reading ever..Now here I am, getting ready to get married in June of this year (yay!) and I want to look fabulous in my wedding dress. I started atkins again on Dec. 28th 2008, so today makes about 2 weeks and 2 days. The scale I have at home is not digital, which I hate, seeing the ounces too really motivates me. Anyhow my scale has not budged off of 220 since I started. Not even the slightest fluctuation up or down. But I know it has to be right because I can put a 5 or 10 pound weight on it, and it shows up exactly 5 or 10 pounds. My clothes feel a little looser, not much. I know exercise is even more important than diet and usually I love to do it but since my fiance and I got together we are always on the go doing fun things, plus planning my wedding has kept me busy. But when I got smaller the last time I did this diet I didn't exercise and was succesful so I was hoping that would happen again. I usually eat a couple scrambled eggs for breakfast with a little shredded cheese in it. I drink water throughout the day, besides that I drink what is called Diet Crisp-it has no caffeine or aspartame in it. I also eat hamburger meat fried either in vegetable oil or on a george foreman grill with swiss cheese on it and mushrooms. I also eat salads with ranch dressing on it. If we got out to a steakhouse restaraunt I get steaks and put A1 sauce on them (probably not good) and get salad and veggies to go with it. I also eat turkey bacon and cooked cabage with either polish sausage in it or cut up hotdog weiners. I dont eat much deli meats at all because of the bad things I've heard about them on this diet. That mostly the things I have ate in the past 2 weeks, and 2 days...what could be the hold up? Or maybe I have lost weight but nothing dramatic enough for anyone to tell yet. My mother just tells me theres no way I can lose weight eating all these fattenings meats and stuff all the time. I would love to prove her wrong.. Also my future mother-in-law said that she did this diet before and in 2 weeks her hair started falling out and she got sores on her head. She quit the diet, and they went away. That's a little scary but I seem to be okay so far. I am lookiing forward to hearing your replies no matter what they regard. Everyone close to me is against me doing this diet and think it will never work. I hope it does, I can't wait to be able to look in the mirror and see my collar bone again! hahaha
Best wishes to everyone, I hope you all do great!
Best wishes to everyone, I hope you all do great!
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