I wanted to introduce myself to everyone at this wonderful site.

I started the South Beach diet June of 2003. Although I stuck to the diet by the book and was on Phase 1 for 4 weeks I only lost 8lbs. Over the next several months I lost another 10lbs. December came and I gained 4lbs back and have yet to loose them. I still have another 2-25lbs that I want to loose. I finally joined Curves last month and started exercising, something that I never did before. I was hoping that the exercise would kick start my weight loss again, but after 4 weeks I did not loose anything (in weight or inches). I must confess that the last month I was "cheating" on the weekends once in a while. Now I have started a 6 week challenge with Curves. They have started me on their Phase 1 low carb diet, which I will do for 2 weeks and then I will go to Phase 2. If anyone has any suggestions please feel free to post anything that might help me kick start my weight loss.

Thanks!!

Hi FlMomof3,

welcome to the forum You found a great place for ingormation and support. I wish you much success..exercising while losing weight is the way to go.

I know that for me, drinking water (which I hate) kick-started my loss. Now I drink my 8 glasses a day and have started exercise 3 times a week. You can do this!

Chris

While the Atkins site has started to call things as Phase 1,2, 3 & 4, most of us who have been LCing for a long while refer to them as Induction, Ongoing Weight Loss, Pre-Maintenance & Maintenance. Just wanted to tell you so as to avoid confusion as the "phase" term seemed strange when I first read it.

Hope you are back on track and will resume successful losing.

I've only been lc'ing for a week now (on my 9th day of induction) so unfortunately don't have much advice on kick-starting the weight loss. But I just wanted to say hello from one mom of 3 to another. Mine are 6, 2, and 1. For your sake, I hope yours are older.

Blessings on the lc journey

anonyMouse