Progress - At last!
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tickerrose
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Joined: 29 Jan 2008
Posts: 15
Direction: Upstate New York
Knit Apr 09, 2008 3: 51 pm    Post subject: Progress - At last!
I have now been on the Atkins Diet for three months. I admit, my progress has seemed really slow for me, but when I take a step back and look at the big picture - it is progress baby.
I started the diet weighing 255 lbs. Since I had done the diet before I expected the weight to come off just as fast this time. Boy was I in for a big surprise! It has been happening at what seems like a snails tread, but I admit I am not always perfect and don ' t work out or drink as much water as I often should. I am really good about cheating. I haven ' t yet and am still holding out. I guess I am afraid that if I do, it will just be a downhill slide from there.
As of this weekend the scale read 223 lbs. So 32 lbs. in 3 months - no record that is for sure - but like I said it is surely progress and I am just now starting to really feel it. I can ' t wait for it to really start to show, which I think will happen much more between now and when I reach 200 - my first goal. So, three months in - I am more than half way to myy first goal. I even think I saw this vaguely familiar grotto in the middle of my canoodle this morning. It makes me think my collarbones might show up before summer is officially here.
The weather is finally starting to break in upstate New York and I am looking forward to expressive much more this Spring.
I have learned that the " Woosh " Fairy is a very real thing. I can go more than a week without the scale moving an inch, like it was glued into place, and then, one morning I will wake up and five pounds seem to have without overnight. I am trying to look at the slower weight loss is a good thing, giving my body time to adjust with each stage I move down. I am surely firming up and feeling stronger in overall.
I just wanted to give an update and let people know that even if seems you are servile along, hardly loosing anything, it adds up. Progress is progress and I could not be happier today.
250s - Goodbye!
240s - Over!
230s - The stuff of history!
220s - I ' m working on it....
Lindsay
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Joined: 27 Ruin 2007
Posts: 23
Fri Apr 11, 2008 12: 56 am    Post subject:
Congrats!! Keep up the good work!
tickerrose
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Joined: 29 Jan 2008
Posts: 15
Locality: Upstate New York
Fri Apr 11, 2008 2: 29 pm    Post subject:
Thank you! I am still trying to stick to induction as much as I can, though I have added some nuts and strawberries for special events ( I eat some sliced strawberries with splenda and whipped cream while everyone else is digging into my nephew ' s birthday cake, which I made from [ / icon_scratch. gif] and didn ' t even lick the bowl! ) I find I still enoy cooking food, even food I can ' t eat for other people. It ' s almost a boost to my will power. Being able to cook it, touch it smell it and not eat it, is something I have never been able to do before.
molley
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Joined: 09 Jun 2006
Posts: 839
Site: VT
Fri Apr 11, 2008 7: 08 pm    Post subject:
tickerrose, I know you sound very positive in your message but you must also be frustrated about the lack of movement on your scale.
The let down you feel when you see that the scale hasn ' t budged can be obliterated!! And very tender! I introduce to you ( DRUMROLL, PLEASE ) MEASURING! Are you measuring? It doesn ' t sound like it and from what you say about your snog, it seems like it would be a good thing to do!
When the scale doesn ' t budge, it does NOT mean you ' re not getting skinnier. If you don ' t have a tape measure, PLEASE erect in one. For less than $2, it ' s sooo worth it. Often, it was my only motivator! And it ' s so rewarding to see the difference. Typewrite down them results. Your progress becomes even MORE manifest!
But anyway, congratulations on the 32 lbs. It ' s a huge accomplishment.
Best,
Molley
tickerrose
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Joined: 29 Jan 2008
Posts: 15
Where: Upstate New York
Thu Apr 17, 2008 3: 57 pm    Post subject:
Thank you for the advice about the measuring. I have tried to measure, but somehow I just can ' t seem to do it right. I don ' t think I am able to measure the same area each time, like I plunge too low on my hips one time and too high the next. I will keep trying, but I seem to have been finding better luck with the way my clothes fit. That is what has kept me going more than anything else. Like so many other people, I am sure, I have a dresser filled with clothes I used to be able to wear, or want to be able to wear and I have started trying them on every so often just to see how they fit. It has been so exciting this last week to wear a size 18 Old Navy jeans I have been measuring myself with since day one. When I started they could barely slide up my thighs and the button was splayed open on the lowewr part of my belly. They certainly didn ' t get all the way up my behind when I started and last weekend they slid on just like an old friend. I am happy to report I am proudly wearing them today and I even think they are sagging in the bottom a little!
Another post AF woosh happened this week and I am now down to 219. I can ' t believe it!
I try and not focus on the scale so much, nor the amount of time it is taking to get to my goal weight. I am living better, eating better and feeling better and I don ' t know what more I could ask for. I am sure I could do this faster, but I would have to make changes that would make this way of eating much more difficult and much more like a burden I would be trying to get through.
So, I drink a diet pepsi a day, I know it ' s not the best idea, but it keeps my happy and satisfied. It keeps me from diving into my boss ' s popcorn or grabbing a candy bar. I much on a few cashews when I need to. I am still in Ketosis, I am satisfied and I am loosing weight.
I try to remember this is a lifestyle change, one that I will have to keep once I do loose all the weight I want. If I don ' t want to repeat the mistakes of my past, I have to figure out ways to do this diet over the long term. 200 is in sight. I am the happiest I have been in a long time. I feel empowered, strong and able.
desertbitch
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Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Posts: 367
Location: High Desert, CA.
Thu Apr 17, 2008 6: 23 pm    Post subject:
That is fantastic news!
I am losing way slower than you are and I am pretty darn happy!
YAY for under 220!!!!
larel
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Joined: 07 Apr 2008
Posts: 30
Location: seattle washington
Thu Apr 17, 2008 10: 22 pm    Post subject:
sounds like your doing great!!! this is the second time for me too!!!! i wish i would have known it would be harder the second time. but i know now
Marinewifeandmom
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Joined: 11 Apr 2008
Posts: 138
Location: Camp Lejeune, NC
Sat Apr 19, 2008 4: 10 am    Post subject:
WTG! I am back again as well and I have done atkins maybe 3 - 4 times in the past and noticed each time the rate of loss differed. The only thing I am doing differently is actually exercising - which i am known to NEVER do because i hate it ha ha. but i really found one that i love - turbo jam and am doing that in conjunction with my atkins diet + the workout makes me drink like 2 bottles of water LOL. Congrats on your progress - I have made a good amount of progress on induction this time around ( finally! ) and because of TOM it has slowed down but that has passed since of today so I am hoping for better results over the next few wks! [ / icon_surprised. gif] )
tickerrose
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Joined: 29 Jan 2008
Posts: 15
Location: Upstate New York
Mon Jun 02, 2008 7: 14 pm    Post subject:
Hi! It ' s been a while since I have been here because I have had big changes going on in my life. Those changes include my husband leaving me ( that happened April 22 ) and my preparations for a big move to Virginia in the next two weeks. I am so proud of myself that I didn ' t let the blow drive me to the Ben and Jerry ' s and instead used it for greater motivation. My weigh loss slowed to a total stop because in the weeks after he left I couldn ' t bring myself to eat anything, almost anything at all, and it really worked against me. I didn ' t go up at all, but I also didn ' t go down one little pound ( so that proves that you need to eat to loose weight! )
In the weeks since I have gotten back to eating enough and the scale has started it ' s downward slide again. This morning I was at 205 ( SO CLOSE TO 200!!!!! ) for a total of 50 pounds since the last week in January. Not the fastest results in the world, but surely something. I am so glad I had some weight gone before my husband R - U - N - N - O - F - T and have so much more confidence to start a new life. I still have much further to go, but 200 is in sight and I couldn ' t be happier.
I am still on induction and have decided to stay there until I reach 175 - 180. I have been much more active also to work out the anger and thats great to. It ' s really starting to show and almost everyone I see says how great I look and ask how I have done it. I just wanted to check in and give an update. Thanks for all the support, everyone.
smerbear
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Joined: 09 Dec 2007
Posts: 237
Location: North Carolina
Mon Jun 02, 2008 10: 08 pm    Post subject:
Tickerrose I am sorry to hear about your husband but it is his loss. You are doing phenomonal and keep up the good work. I started at 215 this time and I am currently at 207. 8. About 6 or 7 years ago I did atkins starting at 230 and got down to 155. It took me 10 months to lose it and I wasn ' t finished either. I kept most of it off until November of 2006, stupidly. You can do it!!!!