epiphany ...sorry turned out long
 

HI all, I was sitting down thinking this morning and reading through the section on yoyo dieting, and it hit me as to why this has not caused me great results. granted my results aren't bad for the amount of weight i want to lose (2 lbs in a month just isn't motivating etc).
background: last summer my parents went on atkins lost 30lbs each and have kept it off. i live at home in summers and picked up the woe, but never officially went on the diet. i was 162 and in the course of that summer i went down to 146!!! very exciting, but i did not read any book or follow and guidelines in fact i ate losts od ice cream here and there, beer, etc. but i did stop eating all bread and pasta and have done this all year since then. i have been on a low carb diet all year and never thought about how this may be slowing me down in weightlose, because for the past year i didn;t remotely consider it a diet, since if i wanted a candy bar etc i just ran out and got on and didin't think twice.
Sorry that this is so long but it was a sort of epiphany today as to why i haven't lost much. do you think i should change my stats and consider myself on this diet for the past year??? what do you alll thiink this may mean for my weight lose etc??? i know i have gone through induction twice, used fitday (found i was aorund 1500 calories a day 70%fat etc), no franken foods, exercise an hour a day/weight and cardio(alternating weight training days etc).
i am in no way contemplating quitting, but just want an idea of what to expect and what you all think the past year might mean for me (other than i have no problem with this lifestyle)
thanx for reading through my long post
jean

Congratulations on your progress so far! Sometimes we take smaller steps before we jump right in full force. Everyone varies of course so it is impossible to say for sure but I bet you see a difference if you start doing Atkins without the cheats. Have you read the book? You may have answered that in your post but I don't remember...sorry. If not, by all means do! Try it for a month cheat free or even 2 weeks. I always feel like I can do anything for 2 weeks out of my life. I bet that inspires you enough to keep going. Very best of luck to you. You are definitely on the right path!

Forgot to say, I wouldn't change my start date because you really haven't been doing Atkins per say. More like low carbing in a not so strict way. That's up to you though. Checking your profile I now see that you've read Atkin's but you might want to reread. I have to refer to my DANDR often. Hope this helps!

you are completely right and i have been cheat free for about 2 weeks now...baby steps are my friends. since i started officially in june i only cheated once(wasn't even that fun), and follow this to the t. i think since i have been low carbing for the past year that maybe my weight lsoe is going to be much slower and i should just not worry like a crazy person anymore.

Sounds like a plan to me Jean! :sunny: