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What made you decide?
How and when did you decide to go from letting your weight
go to being disciplined enough to want to lose weight and stick with Atkins (or any other)? Was it a lifetime of just letting yourself go or was it a certain event? It seems like when I quit smoking at the age of 30, that's when I put on most of the pounds. Personally I can't say what really made me want to stop. Maybe I just finally found the right WOE : ) Marsha/Ohio (not weighing for another week, thanks to TOM) |
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What made you decide?
Marsha wrote:
How and when did you decide to go from letting your weight go to being disciplined enough to want to lose weight and stick with Atkins (or any other)? Was it a lifetime of just letting yourself go or was it a certain event? It seems like when I quit smoking at the age of 30, that's when I put on most of the pounds. Personally I can't say what really made me want to stop. Maybe I just finally found the right WOE : ) Marsha/Ohio (not weighing for another week, thanks to TOM) Hi, Marsha. I tried quitting smoking and cutting carbs at the same time. After a few rough starts, I was successful. I never went back to the way I ate before, but I did add in enough carbs to keep my weight stable but not to gain. What made me decide? I honestly can't remember a specific incident. I think it was a general feeling of getting older and feeling stuck by addictive habits. I'm an ornery cuss and felt it was time to tackle these head on to see what I'm made of. I had been smoking since age 15. I've been overweight off and on as an adult and I definitely prefer to not be overweight. The synapse has been bridged! Now that I think of it, there was something specific: I was diagnosed with diabetes. Scared the bejesus out of me. After I got over the initial panic and shock, I began reading about the effect of carbs on blood sugar and it seemed to simple to be true. I could control my blood sugar by eating better. And I did. I've been off meds for over a year and my A1C for the past year has stayed between 5.5-5.8. I'd like it to be a bit lower, so I'm working on it. Great question. I'm glad you asked. I had to think, and it finally came back to me. :þ |
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What made you decide?
Marsha wrote:
How and when did you decide to go from letting your weight go to being disciplined enough to want to lose weight and stick with Atkins (or any other)? Was it a lifetime of just letting yourself go or was it a certain event? I've been overweight since before the age of five. By 18 I was 315, but I'm 6'3" and a very big frame. My body has been ingenious at where it hides the fat. I didn't have the pot belly most guys develop. No one ever realizes how heavy I am. Diets always looked pretty hopeless because the meal plans were uninteresting and I couldn't imagine not eating when I was hungry. With little willpower I knew I would fail to follow through so I didn't bother yo-yoing through diets. I tried instead to change my tastes gradually towards healthier foods, incorporating fish (never ate before late 20's), salads(didn't eat until I was 22), different vegetables (had my own veggie garden last year). In the last year I've been unemployed and reached a new high weight 350. My 52" jeans are getting tight and I really didn't want to up to 54. I also put weight on my chin and jowels--very unattractive. That has been bothering me a surprising amount. I had a recurrence of back problems, but I recovered very quickly, which made me happy. In 2002 I had a serious problem with multiple ruptured disks. I wasn't thrilled about how I felt when I exercised; tired quickly, sweated rivers, heart pounded after too few stairs. I read up on carb addicts in 2000 but didn't follow through with the diet. I bought the atkins book but never read it. My brother has lost over 40 lbs in the last 5 months on Atkins . After New Years, I was cleaning and found the book again. I read through it and decided I would start it. I emptied the cupboards of anything that was simply too high in carbs and crated it. If I stay on it I can pass the canned food onto my family. A trip to the grocery store and I was set. I still have sodas & even chocolate in the house but I haven't cheated at all yet. Monday will end induction for me. Cravings have subsided significantly, although I had a short one this evening. The first five days were a little rough and I was definitely sluggish. I feel normal now. I don't know if I have more energy than two weeks ago but I definitely have more energy than during the 1st induction week. I've always wanted to lose the weight but didn't see a realistic way for *ME* to accomplish it. I've always believed that you can want and plan to do something for years and never get anything accompilshed. But when your brain clicks and it becomes something that you are just gonna do... it just gets done. I'm hoping that something in my brain has finely swithced on and I will follow through with it. I dont' feel so much like I'm "trying" to diet... more like this is just what I am doing... if that makes sense. I think the time is right. Jan 12,2004 ~350/343/200 DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) |
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What made you decide?
I started as an experiment. My brother gave me DANDR and Protein Power, he
had lost quite a bit of weight and really looked thin. The next day I started reading them. My back had been really bothering me and I knew I would probably feel better if I lost weight, but just cutting back on food made me doubly miserable when I was hungry. So I thought that if a low carb WOE would let me lose weight without being hungry it was something I could do. I started that very day while reading the books. Not good at following rules so I don't write down what I eat but I can keep a rough count of carbs mentally. Haven't eaten anything very carby since last summer when I started, lost quite a bit at first and now lose about 3 pounds a month and I'm not hungry. My back still isn't pain free but it's a lot better. I wouldn't say I'm disciplined, I am just eating different stuff. In , Marsha stated | How and when did you decide to go from letting your weight | go to being disciplined enough to want to lose weight and | stick with Atkins (or any other)? Was it a lifetime of just | letting yourself go or was it a certain event? | | It seems like when I quit smoking at the age of 30, that's | when I put on most of the pounds. Personally I can't say | what really made me want to stop. Maybe I just finally | found the right WOE : ) | | Marsha/Ohio | (not weighing for another week, thanks to TOM) |
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What made you decide?
There were two things that gave me the motivation to finally lose weight. First, I guess I kind of balooned up this past summer and both my mother and father-in-law commented that I should lose weight. The guilt factor never works for me, but they made me aware that I was getting bigger. Secondly the single thing that has given me the motivation to start this WOE is that I realized that you don't see any old fat guys. I'm just about 47 years old, beginning to think about retirement (hopefully by age 53), have three great kids and I want to be around to enjoy them in their adult years. Think about it - it's very rare to see heavy people in their 70's or 80's. Why? Cause all the overweight people die in theor 50's and 60's.. That's enough motivation for me.... Sandy K. |
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What made you decide?
I started putting on extra weight in my teens. I never really cared enough
to do anything about it from an appearance perspective. Sure, I wanted to be thinner, prettier, get more dates, but that alone didn't motivate me enough to stick with an eating or exercise plan. I knew being overweight could cause health problems down the road, but that road looked really long and health problems looked really far away, so that didn't motivate me either. It was last year, when I was 27, that I got sick and tired of it. Literally. I realized that I was tired and icky feeling most of the time, with a little bit more age the weight had started to affect how I _felt_ not just how I looked. I had a sedentary job, ate a ton of crap, and really just wanted to sleep all the time. I was on a break at work one day, walking down to the grocery store to get lunch, when I passed by the Curves location at that shopping center. I went in on impulse, asked about it, and came back the next day to join. After my very first workout I felt a LOT better. I left there feeling like I was floating, and I said to myself "Ok, THIS is what they mean by an exercise high." I went religiously for my first month, and I did notice a difference in my energy levels, but I also started to notice that after my huge meals of pasta I would get that tired and icky feeling back again. In my first month I didn't lose any weight, and I was worried about how sleepy I got after eating, so I started cutting out the carby things that made me so sleepy. Then, the second month I lost 8 pounds, I had lots more energy and it was more steady throughout the day, and I said to myself "Ok, this is gonna be my life now. I like feeling like this more than I like pasta." -- Michelle Levin http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws. |
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What made you decide?
My weight gain was prescription induced.
For some years every weight loss effort failed. I thought low carb made no sense, so I didn't try it. Then I reduced my carbs to get my blood glucose under control and was surprised to find that I lost weight without intending it. I then took low carb seriously and read up on it. I now plan to do low carb for life and I'm so excited about having found a way to lose weight. |
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What made you decide?
Sandy, you are so right. I watch people all of the time. Pretty, ugly,
skinny, fat, "normal" I watch everybody because people just fascinate me. But I do not see extremely obese in their 70's & 80's. I never gave much thought as to why. -- Melisa 203/173.5/140 http://www.users.qwest.net/~ztimm/blog/ "Sandy K." wrote in message ... There were two things that gave me the motivation to finally lose weight. First, I guess I kind of balooned up this past summer and both my mother and father-in-law commented that I should lose weight. The guilt factor never works for me, but they made me aware that I was getting bigger. Secondly the single thing that has given me the motivation to start this WOE is that I realized that you don't see any old fat guys. I'm just about 47 years old, beginning to think about retirement (hopefully by age 53), have three great kids and I want to be around to enjoy them in their adult years. Think about it - it's very rare to see heavy people in their 70's or 80's. Why? Cause all the overweight people die in theor 50's and 60's.. That's enough motivation for me.... Sandy K. |
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