Wed, Jun-02-04, 18:05
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Senior Member
Posts: 252
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 265/249/150
BF:
Progress: 14%
Location: Charleston WV
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11 pounds in 2 weeks...104 to go...
Hello Triple Digit Members. I am new to surfing and posting on in this club's postings. I have been posting in my journal and back in the general discussion areas. I have decided that I needed to venture over here and get some help and advice from those of you who are working towards the same goal I am, or from those of you who are lucky enough to have already met your goal.
Let me give you some background information. I am 24 and have been overweight all my life. Even when I was young and not what you would call fat, I was still the heaviest of all the girls I grew up with. Then in 1998, my grandfather passed away 3 weeks before I graduated high school. Then in August I started to college. And from that point on I managed to gain so much weight from being depressed and not being as active as I once was. I somehow, I say somehow because it seemed like all of a sudden one day I realized it, found myself at a whopping 289 pounds. I thought I was gonna pass out. I knew that there was no way in you know where that I would let myself see 300 on the scale. I truly believe I would not be here today had I not decided to do something. Well, that something turned out to be the Six Week Total Body Makeover. My husband and I lost 30 pounds each, but could not stand all the restrictions on the diet. So we went off and both gain 10-15 back. We then decided to try WW. The points worked fine at first and we both lost our 15 pounds. Then all the weight stopped coming off. I realized that just about everything I was eating were carbs. So, after discussing this with my husband, we decided that Atkins was the way to go for both of us. He only has about 25-30 pounds to lose. But for me, I would be very happy at 150. During the first week of Induction I lost 8 pounds. Then the second week I lost 3 more. Then my TOM came and it ended yesterday. I didn't weigh myself all week because I didn't want to get discouraged my any water retention. So when I weighed myself this morning, I was at 254, which was what I was the last time I weighed myself. So far, so good.
I am the type of person who becomes addicted to weighing and measuring myself. My husband is about to lock the scale and the tape in his trunk, lol. I guess I am just so afraid of the inches not coming off anymore or the scale not moving. I don't exercise as much as I would like to. I really haven't had the energy surge that many of you talk about getting once you begin Atkins. I seem to end up with a headache every evening when I get home from work and can't seem to make myself go to the gym. Is getting to the gym about 2-3 times a week enough????
Well, I hope that many of you will take the time to drop by and introduce yourselves and pop in and sign my journal as well. Hopefully, with your help I will FINALLY be able to let that thin person inside of me out...
Jeanna
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