Sat, Jul-07-01, 18:02
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New Member
Posts: 9
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 250/245/160
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Hello, all...
In the past 20 years, I've put on about 80 lb... Most of it I've been carrying around >10-12 years. Concentrating on "eating sensibly", no calorie-restricted dieting, and not pursuing any specific dietary agenda, I tend to go for long periods with my weight absolutely stable, no more than a half pound to a pound up or down each year...but never having *lost* a pound gained, the fact is that I'm sitting here in my early forties feeling generally weighed down, with a belly pad the size of a roast pan and the classic "apple" shape that spells elevated risk for breast cancer, diabetes, and all sorts of other good stuff. Diabetes is the particular bogey, because a lot of people in my family have developed the late-onset form...as I move into the at-risk age for it, my feeling is that it's time to get the situation contained, once for all.
I learned in my 20s that traditional calorie-restricted diets didn't work for me--never lost much, never kept it off, and quite aside from the physical and mental effects making me crazy, I didn't like the way dieting always turned food into the prime focus of my life--and I've spent the past ten years figuring out that a mild emphasis on carbs hasn't done much for me either. Even during periods when I've been getting a lot of exercise (like walking everywhere and doing three or four vigourous hours of ju-jitsu a week, for over two years straight) I've never lost a pound or seen any effect on the belly pad...so I figure it's time to give low-carb a chance. What I've read about it so far suggests it could be a lot like going back to the way my family ate when we were living in the Arctic, a long time ago, which certainly worked for us, then.
So I'll be around, reading and asking questions as they occur...see you later, figuratively speaking.
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