Wed, Nov-13-02, 01:01
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13.5 pounds to go!
Posts: 2,092
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Plan: GF, Mod. Carb
Stats: 375.5/163/160
BF:60/28/24
Progress: 99%
Location: N of Detroit, MI
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Getting ready to get back on the LC train.. need a buddy!
Hi all!
It's been a while since I've been here... but it's time for me to get back on the LC train, and get this extra "person" I've been carrying around off my back (literally!)
Here's a quick re-cap of the last 4 years of my life:
January 1999 - Go to fertility clinic to start fertility treatments. I have PCOS, husband had really low count. Doctor puts me on Metformin, and suggests Atkins. I go home, take my new pills, and research the hell out of LC dieting. Start diet the next day.
May 1999 - Steadily losing weight, do first fertility procedure. Move to a new house the day we get the news... it didn't work. Stay on the diet... get ready to do a "frozen" treatment in 2 months.
July 1999 - Still losing weight... feeling great... transfer 3 frozen embryos.
August... Friday the 13th... 1999 - Weigh in... 80 pounds lighter than January 13th.... 80 pounds in 8 months! The call comes in the afternoon... you're pregnant! Guess what? Your HCG level is 380. Do research on internet... find out an HCG level of 380 either means something is seriously wrong, or I'm carrying triplets. An ultrasound 2 weeks later confirms the latter! Doctor says start adding carbs back into diet.
Fast forward.... March 2000.... after gaining back all 80 pounds, I am hugely pregnant, and on a 4000 calorie/day diet. I have been on strict bedrest for 10 weeks. On March 9th, Martin, Bishop and Landon come screaming into this world.
March 30, 2000 - I've lost all 80 pounds again, plus another 5! I dare anyone else to lose 85 pounds in 3 weeks. To be fair, I had Pre-Eclampsia (toxemia) which makes you gain like crazy... all water weight!
Super flash forward - November 2002... the boys are 2-1/2, and I'm back up the scale... only 20 pounds away from my highest weight.
I am ready to get back on the LC plan... but I need to wait until Jan 1, 2003. We just moved to a new neighborhood, and we have a zillion holiday parties to go to.. my husband got laid off at the end of Sept, and is still looking for a job. I've been working full-time and OT freelance from home, to try to compensate. Living on coffee and bagels. Hubby will hopefully be working again by Jan 1. Whether he is or not, though... I need to get back on Atkins.
I'd really like a buddy, who's go about the same to lose as me (about 200#) that would like to go hand-in-cyber-hand with me, and walk this road together. I like having someone else to be accountable to. I am really good at being good once I am in the "zone" of the diet. I have software that can calculate carbs in meals. I am ready!
Anyone with me? I'd even be thrilled to have a couple of someone's to slough off these pounds with!
Hugs!
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