Hello Little Ann,

Well I see that I am not the only one to make good progress! You've done quite good yourself! But back to me

I haven't been following a strick Atkins/LC lifestyle and that is why I've basically been stalled at the 210lbs level for the last 3 months. It's so funny when you know what to do but just put if off for another day, until it becomes important again! It's becoming inportant to me because I want to get below 180lbs by March of 2003 for some competitions I and my partner are going to be doing...... She by the way thinks the LC way is very bad for me, but she's 5'-3" and maybe 100lbs, she can talk!

Anyway, one of the things I found interesting is that I've always taken the face value that the Aktins book says, "Eat all the protein you want" and "Eat to satation" Well I don't beleive Dr. Atkins realized the amounts that I can eat!!
I work on the North Slope of Alaska for a 2 week on 2 week off rotation, all food is provided, and it's easy to do LC here because all the food is ready, cafeteria style, and I can pick and choose the protien I want, but I can also eat all I want! And that can be too much, even for LCing! My last rotation up here I went the whole two weeks in induction and lost not one pound! But I did eat an increadible amount of food! So this time I've tried to do better but was stuck because now I realize that I am a food addict, meaning I couldn't stop myself from eating, I felt hungry and complulsive. I seem to be a pretty all or nothing type person. So a couple days ago I had to reasses and reign myself in, do a little portion control, 1/2 serving of this a small snack there, I know we don't "need" to calorie count but in my case it seems to help, at least to have some idea of how much I'm eating. And since I'm an old calorie counter from way back it's second nature to me.
So at 6am I eat for breakfast a 2 egg omelet with cheese, 3 pieces of bacon.
At about 10am I have 2 boiled eggs as a snack.
At noon I do 30 miniutes of Stairmasters then get a cup of tuna salad.
AT 5pm I have dinner usually consisting of one small salad a day, about a cup, a serving of beef/fish/chicken, some brocolli and a diet pepsi.

Throughout the day I will tend to drink coffee, with equal, maybe 4-5 cups, and 2-3 8oz diet pepsi's.

It could be that the diet drinks affect my wieght loss, but seriously the biggest obstical has been the shear quantity of food I can put down. I kept a calorie diary last trip up on slope and I was eating 5000 plus calories a day, with no sugar!

At least I didn't gain any wieght! But the goal here is to lose right? So, I decided to restart last tuesday the 17th but found no will power to eat less, and I was very compulsive about it...... it all came to a head though on Friday the 20th, when in frustration I told myself, if I am going to feel hungry all the time then I shall just be hungry.

Starting Sat 21st, I finally got a handle on it, eating one portion of eggs, or meat and a small salad. And being satisfied. It was like I had to threaten myself with fasting just to get my bodies attention enough to slow me down.

So I'm back on track, eating a proper amount, feels good beginning all over again. And the nice thing is I've not rebounded up even though I've been kinda off for 6 months or so. This time last year, I was 225lbs so I'm still down 10lbs! Now it's time to swoosh the rest!

History:
Dec 1997 326lbs
Dec 1998 285lbs
Dec 1999 250lbs
Dec 2000 235lbs
Dec 2001 225lbs
Dec 2002 215lbs
Dec 2003 150lbs Goal

Well, we'll see what 2003 brings!