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Hoping to track and be tracked 
I'm 29, and this is the, oh, I don't know. 10th time I've started no-carb. I always lose so much weight, so quickly, but then whatever mental block I have against returning to a normal weight comes in and ruins everything. I lost 8 pounds in 2 weeks without exercising before Christmas... decided I'd "take Christmas Eve off"... went crazy, drank a sixer of Mike's Hard Lemonade (200 sugar cal each...*shudder*) and ate candy and cookies galore. Surprise, surprise, next morning when I woke up first thing I did was rationalize drinking a Cherry Coke. That was it. It's taken close to 6 months to get my frame of mind to back-in-control. The kicker? I didn't even really enjoy it. I was like an out of control fat kid. (Thank God my mom kept no junk in the house when I was little...) It was like an addiction. I don't feel any compulsive urges toward Atkins foods, so there's more than one benefit for me. Weight loss, plus mentally I lose that urge to comfort myself with food.
So, here I am.
I haven't had any carbs today!
I've been doing a fitness challenge at my gym that ends in less than 2 weeks-- 1 point for every half hour on a cardio machine-- I'm in second place by 10 points (4.5 hours) so I'll be kicking it into high gear in the next two weeks. Since it's not high impact, I'll be expecting to be able to do it on no carbs, and I'm expecting some serious weight loss in the next 2 weeks between Induction and the 3-4 hours I will have to put in/day to win the challenge (I've been averaging 2 until now- onlya 5 pound weight loss over 7 weeks without food control...)
My mini goal is 140, which would be about 45 pounds down from where I'm starting. I am a very small girl, so my ultimate goal is 115.
I'm in a great relationship and marriage is imminent!! Within the next few years. Would love to have this problem solved before I even have to think of wedding dress shopping. I watch Say Yes To The Dress... it's so sad to see overweight brides try to find dresses and have a hard time. I don't want that to be me.
That's all... hello everyone!
I'm 29, and this is the, oh, I don't know. 10th time I've started no-carb. I always lose so much weight, so quickly, but then whatever mental block I have against returning to a normal weight comes in and ruins everything. I lost 8 pounds in 2 weeks without exercising before Christmas... decided I'd "take Christmas Eve off"... went crazy, drank a sixer of Mike's Hard Lemonade (200 sugar cal each...*shudder*) and ate candy and cookies galore. Surprise, surprise, next morning when I woke up first thing I did was rationalize drinking a Cherry Coke. That was it. It's taken close to 6 months to get my frame of mind to back-in-control. The kicker? I didn't even really enjoy it. I was like an out of control fat kid. (Thank God my mom kept no junk in the house when I was little...) It was like an addiction. I don't feel any compulsive urges toward Atkins foods, so there's more than one benefit for me. Weight loss, plus mentally I lose that urge to comfort myself with food.So, here I am.
I haven't had any carbs today!
I've been doing a fitness challenge at my gym that ends in less than 2 weeks-- 1 point for every half hour on a cardio machine-- I'm in second place by 10 points (4.5 hours) so I'll be kicking it into high gear in the next two weeks. Since it's not high impact, I'll be expecting to be able to do it on no carbs, and I'm expecting some serious weight loss in the next 2 weeks between Induction and the 3-4 hours I will have to put in/day to win the challenge (I've been averaging 2 until now- onlya 5 pound weight loss over 7 weeks without food control...)
My mini goal is 140, which would be about 45 pounds down from where I'm starting. I am a very small girl, so my ultimate goal is 115.
I'm in a great relationship and marriage is imminent!! Within the next few years. Would love to have this problem solved before I even have to think of wedding dress shopping. I watch Say Yes To The Dress... it's so sad to see overweight brides try to find dresses and have a hard time. I don't want that to be me.
That's all... hello everyone!
Thanks!! I wish I could have them. It's very difficult cutting back this much. I'm hoping that maybe I'll have a better result now that I am exercising so much. I just want to make sure I do the first 2 weeks as restrictively as possible... it seems like that's about the length of time it takes for the mental shift to take place as well (I bet that's no accident Dr. Atkins!!).
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