What was the last straw that got you started?

[Michael Scott]

This is day one of the induction diet for me

For me last straw was not fitting in jeans that used to be my loose ones.

Starting weight is 210 and my target is 173.

Male 46 210lbs 5'11 Goal 173lbs

The only carbs I had today so far was an apple, a piece of cake and a two packs of crackers


(just kidding

[Skeptika23]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

Welcome to ADBB, and that's what she said.

[chinadoll]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

Hello Michael. I can't put my finger on a single event. It kind of built up and one day something clicked and I was just ready to do this.

[atkinsgal08]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

>> The only carbs I had today so far was an apple, a piece of cake and a two packs of crackers>>

Kidding aside, what did you eat today?

[JosephVelder]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

my last straw was seeing a picture of myself taken from behind....ugh...

[ADreamComeTrue]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

Hi and Welcome to ADBB!
The last straw that got me started was having to buy bigger clothes in bigger sizes. =|

[jcapulet]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

My last straw? Well not to gross anyone out, but my bust hurt. A lot. That, and I was upset with all the new purple stretch marks.

Welcome to the ADBB Michael. Best wishes with your journey!

[d33na]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

mine was not only ummm vanity (i wont lie and say I dont care what I look like) was an appointment with an endocrinologist (I waited 18months to see this guy who was 'the best') and to have him sit there are tell me my 30 kilo weightloss was nothing and I ought to go on optifast/shake diet and I deserved to be diabetic because I was fat and......I will get Glucoma and lose peripherials like fingers and toes...in fact he told me I had Glucoma and my toes were already in decay...nasty and also not true

it put me into a 6 month spin...downwards until I started to get angry....anger motivated me...how dare he...as a medical provider be so rude...so negative and so dismissive of what Id already achieved...I read a lot....and found Atkins and I knew everything they'd told me for 25yrs was pure crapola about food and medication...my goal for this year was to be insulin free (I injected 4 times a day) and i am and have been for a few months!!!!!!!!!!

i will go to my next appointment to the rude doctor ( the largest public hospital here)...and hold a HUGE sign in the waiting room....saying ATKINS CURES DIABETES.....I wonder if I'll get thrown out be better if they called reporters....oh I can be evil!

[Grant]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

Welcome to ADBB, and that's what she said.

Lol, but what if the poor guy's real name is Michael Scott and since the show started he can't go a day without someone making a crack like this. He could be a seething cauldron of rage and your post put him over the edge, sending him on a rampage......

ok probably not

Anyway, I had no last straw either. My wife's extended family decided to do a biggest loser style contest, with money as the prize. We decided to try Atkins, I got first place and my wife got third place (out of I think 16 people). It was so easy and felt so good I just kept with it.

[Skeptika23]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

Lol, but what if the poor guy's real name is Michael Scott and since the show started he can't go a day without someone making a crack like this. He could be a seething cauldron of rage and your post put him over the edge, sending him on a rampage......

ok probably not

Anyway, I had no last straw either. My wife's extended family decided to do a biggest loser style contest, with money as the prize. We decided to try Atkins, I got first place and my wife got third place (out of I think 16 people). It was so easy and felt so good I just kept with it.

Are you saying he's like Michael Bolton from Office Space?

I never answered my last straw. I gained a lot of weight when I quit smoking (on top of baby weight I never got rid of) and I started working out (martial arts) and eating a controlled low calorie, low fat diet.

And gained ten pounds, while I was starving and miserable.

I knew about Atkins, and figured, what the ****, I'll try it. And I lost 15 pounds over about 3 months, and I wasn't miserable at all!

Seemed like a clear enough decision to me.

[adreliluc]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

The only carbs I had today so far was an apple, a piece of cake and a two packs of crackers


(just kidding

LOL!
Not fitting into pants will do it.
My final straw was just sick of being fat!!!! So I changed. In every way...
Good luck!

[adreliluc]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

mine was not only ummm vanity (i wont lie and say I dont care what I look like)

I won't lie either - mine was 100% vanity.
It's a sin... maybe we'll see each other in h*ll....

[kxb44]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

I was getting ready to head to a wedding reception and couldn't get my "fat pants" done up. I finally had the courage to step on the scale and was just 6 pounds shy of weighing in at 3 bills. This was 20 pounds heavier than by previous all-time high. I real "holy $h!t" moment for sure. That was the end of August and I have since dropped 55 of the 80 I have vowed to lose.

[JosephVelder]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

I won't lie either - mine was 100% vanity.
It's a sin... maybe we'll see each other in h*ll....

OMG! you look terrific! you are my Atkins hero!

[adreliluc]

Re: What was the last straw that got you started?

OMG! you look terrific! you are my Atkins hero!

Awe thank you!!
MUAH!