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This is my second crack at the Atkins Diet. I was on it for a year in 2004, and my weight dropped from 383 to 254 in about eight months...then I came to a grinding halt. I went the next four months without dropping a pound, and honestly gained about five pounds around the holidays. I decided to switch into a more "traditional" diet, and gained back thirty pounds before giving that up. I had intended on going back on Atkins but I was in the middle of a job change so I put it off....then we move so I put it off.....and so on. Now it is three years later.....oh boy.
I'm not sure how much I even weigh these days, I'm probably back close to 400 again honestly. I'll have to find somewhere to get weighed before I kick things off next week.
After joining up here and reading I believe I know what stalled me out the last time. For the first half of my year I was very good about the diet, but somewhere in the halfway mark the Low-Carb Craze started and a lot of LC products were hitting the market. By the time I was done with the year I was probably consuming some form of LC product everyday, as well as half a dozen diet sodas. Between the two it probably stalled my loss, not to mentioned making me feel crappy most of the time.....and adding cravings. This time I am going to keep it clean. Most of the LC products aren't very good anyway, and only made me want the real thing that much more.
Why now?
Well, I am revaluating my life right now. My previously good paying and rewarding job is now a soul-sucking pit of stress and misery that I can only pray I will be able to pull through the winter and this downturn. My weight is somewhere near 400, and my half a pack a day cig habit is up to two packs a day. My wife and I are considering a seperation as the relationship is basically imploding with us growing farther apart. I don't remember the last time I had a good nights sleep. I am effectively standing in the middle of my own personal ****, and I have decided this is the time to make some changes. I've spent ten years concentrating on my work, concentrating on my wife and her issues, and with the exception of the year I was on Atkins I have never put myself very high on the priority list. I'm now realizing that all I have been doing is slowly killing myself.
Soooooo, after that piece of Too-Much-Information, I am refocusing my energy. Time to get healthy.....quit smoking, lose the weight, and reduce some of the stress. Time to look for a different job, even for less money as long as the stess levels are low. Prehaps return to college for something I would actually like to do rather than something that pays top dollar. Maybe save my relationship if we can reach a 50/50 give/take place, but I won't accept this 80/20 GIVEGIVEGIVEGIVE/take position anymore.
Thats me folks. On the verge of a new begining, and I know a better life because I am not going to accept the bad life anymore.
This is my second crack at the Atkins Diet. I was on it for a year in 2004, and my weight dropped from 383 to 254 in about eight months...then I came to a grinding halt. I went the next four months without dropping a pound, and honestly gained about five pounds around the holidays. I decided to switch into a more "traditional" diet, and gained back thirty pounds before giving that up. I had intended on going back on Atkins but I was in the middle of a job change so I put it off....then we move so I put it off.....and so on. Now it is three years later.....oh boy.
I'm not sure how much I even weigh these days, I'm probably back close to 400 again honestly. I'll have to find somewhere to get weighed before I kick things off next week.
After joining up here and reading I believe I know what stalled me out the last time. For the first half of my year I was very good about the diet, but somewhere in the halfway mark the Low-Carb Craze started and a lot of LC products were hitting the market. By the time I was done with the year I was probably consuming some form of LC product everyday, as well as half a dozen diet sodas. Between the two it probably stalled my loss, not to mentioned making me feel crappy most of the time.....and adding cravings. This time I am going to keep it clean. Most of the LC products aren't very good anyway, and only made me want the real thing that much more.
Why now?
Well, I am revaluating my life right now. My previously good paying and rewarding job is now a soul-sucking pit of stress and misery that I can only pray I will be able to pull through the winter and this downturn. My weight is somewhere near 400, and my half a pack a day cig habit is up to two packs a day. My wife and I are considering a seperation as the relationship is basically imploding with us growing farther apart. I don't remember the last time I had a good nights sleep. I am effectively standing in the middle of my own personal ****, and I have decided this is the time to make some changes. I've spent ten years concentrating on my work, concentrating on my wife and her issues, and with the exception of the year I was on Atkins I have never put myself very high on the priority list. I'm now realizing that all I have been doing is slowly killing myself.
Soooooo, after that piece of Too-Much-Information, I am refocusing my energy. Time to get healthy.....quit smoking, lose the weight, and reduce some of the stress. Time to look for a different job, even for less money as long as the stess levels are low. Prehaps return to college for something I would actually like to do rather than something that pays top dollar. Maybe save my relationship if we can reach a 50/50 give/take place, but I won't accept this 80/20 GIVEGIVEGIVEGIVE/take position anymore.
Thats me folks. On the verge of a new begining, and I know a better life because I am not going to accept the bad life anymore.
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