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Hi there,
I'm starting the Atkins Diet again today. I lost 90 lbs in 2002 and kept the weight off until I met my new husband in October, 2005. He can eat anything and everything without gaining an ounce. I seem to just look at food and gain weight.
I've tried many times to restart my Atkins program, but without success. I wanted to have fun with my new fella (now my husband) when I first met him, so tried to keep up with him and his eating habits. He's an excellent cook and makes many wonderful dishes for me every day. He also has an amazing metabolism which I do not.
I was so proud of my weight loss accomplishment back in 2002. I could wear all the cute clothes in the stores that I'd been looking at for many years, but never considered due to my weight. I became an extrovert and was a social butterfly...making many new friends. I finally had "girlfriends" after many years of being a "wife" and "mom" for 20+ years. I was going through a painful divorce after 25 years of marriage that same year, so it was hard for me to get out and about and make new friends of my own. I was forced into the workforce after always being able to stay at home with my children for all those years.
The thing that made it easier for me to get out into the world on my own was my weight loss on the Atkins Program. I had lost 40 lbs before my divorce...then when became single, lost the other 50 lbs effortlessly and mindlessly due to all that came along with going through a divorce. I got a job that I love at the Postal Service...have been there almost 8 years now. I don't know if I would have gotten the position if I had still been overweight. I became an Assistant Scoutmaster (the only female) in my son's Boy Scout troop. I've hiked many miles and been on countless outings with my son and have had the most amazing experiences and made many new friends along the way. I have run an annual 10K every year since 2002, which is something I'm very proud of, but it has become harder the last few times as I've let my body get so out of shape.
My weight has slowly crept up over the last 4 1/2 years...my son has become an Eagle Scout, so my days of hiking and camping with him and his scout troop have ended. I am ashamed and embarrassed of the way I have let myself go. I look at the tiny clothes that I could wear just a few short years ago that are hanging in my closet and I am so sad. I think "how could I let myself get to this point again?"..."all I wanted was to have fun with my children and my new beau AND still be small"...I know he loves me because he met me thin and married me 'FAT'. I want to be that tiny girl that he met...the one he fell in love with. I want to be that happy girl again also.
TODAY is the first day towards meeting that goal! I vow to do my best not to waiver from this goal...I know this plan works if I do not get sidetracked.
SIZE 5 AGAIN: IT'S ATTAINABLE AND I WILL MAKE IT!!!
Thanks for listening!
I'm starting the Atkins Diet again today. I lost 90 lbs in 2002 and kept the weight off until I met my new husband in October, 2005. He can eat anything and everything without gaining an ounce. I seem to just look at food and gain weight.
I've tried many times to restart my Atkins program, but without success. I wanted to have fun with my new fella (now my husband) when I first met him, so tried to keep up with him and his eating habits. He's an excellent cook and makes many wonderful dishes for me every day. He also has an amazing metabolism which I do not.
I was so proud of my weight loss accomplishment back in 2002. I could wear all the cute clothes in the stores that I'd been looking at for many years, but never considered due to my weight. I became an extrovert and was a social butterfly...making many new friends. I finally had "girlfriends" after many years of being a "wife" and "mom" for 20+ years. I was going through a painful divorce after 25 years of marriage that same year, so it was hard for me to get out and about and make new friends of my own. I was forced into the workforce after always being able to stay at home with my children for all those years.
The thing that made it easier for me to get out into the world on my own was my weight loss on the Atkins Program. I had lost 40 lbs before my divorce...then when became single, lost the other 50 lbs effortlessly and mindlessly due to all that came along with going through a divorce. I got a job that I love at the Postal Service...have been there almost 8 years now. I don't know if I would have gotten the position if I had still been overweight. I became an Assistant Scoutmaster (the only female) in my son's Boy Scout troop. I've hiked many miles and been on countless outings with my son and have had the most amazing experiences and made many new friends along the way. I have run an annual 10K every year since 2002, which is something I'm very proud of, but it has become harder the last few times as I've let my body get so out of shape.
My weight has slowly crept up over the last 4 1/2 years...my son has become an Eagle Scout, so my days of hiking and camping with him and his scout troop have ended. I am ashamed and embarrassed of the way I have let myself go. I look at the tiny clothes that I could wear just a few short years ago that are hanging in my closet and I am so sad. I think "how could I let myself get to this point again?"..."all I wanted was to have fun with my children and my new beau AND still be small"...I know he loves me because he met me thin and married me 'FAT'. I want to be that tiny girl that he met...the one he fell in love with. I want to be that happy girl again also.
TODAY is the first day towards meeting that goal! I vow to do my best not to waiver from this goal...I know this plan works if I do not get sidetracked.
SIZE 5 AGAIN: IT'S ATTAINABLE AND I WILL MAKE IT!!!
Thanks for listening!
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