Low Carber For Life!!!!

Hi,

I have been low carbing and have lost 58 pounds.  I was doing good, but now I am doing even gooder....hmmmm is there such a word?  LOL

I have been doing research on every low carb site I could find and have bought several low carb recipe books, and what I found out is this:  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO   low carbing definitely have to be drab nor boring!!!!

I will be continually researching and looking for more low carb sites and recipes and trying them out because although I have lost 58 pounds, I will be keeping them off this time!

In the past, I have lost 134 pounds in 6 months back in 1985 and then after gaining it back lost my weight again 1991 and after gaining it back over the years, this time I finally figured out why I keep gaining it back. Although the Atkins way of life is great, you have to follow through the phases to be successful.  I have never gone through the phases like I am supposed to do according to Atkins.  This time I feel like I finally have to roadmap to success!

Back in 2002 I met my husband who I am married in 2010.  He is a wonderful man who accepted me for me and loves me for me!  After years of wishing I could find someone who will love me for me and not make me feel like my net worth is tied to my weight, finally I found what I had been looking for, but, wait, why can’t I just get on a diet and lose weight?  I tried every diet I could, Weight Watchers, medical diets, Dr. Howards diet, oh yeah that one really worked until my medical doctor found out about and went ballistic on me and informed me that I was taking legal speed!!!!  Legal speed, what the heck was that?  He told me that it was basically just that….speed, only my diet doctor gave it to me.  

My husband was funny, one day he asked me, can you tell that those pills are affecting you any????  That was when we were in Wal-Mart…I told him no, why?  To which he informed me, all the past times we have been shopping  I literally dragged around barely making it through the store and constantly asking him to slow down so I could catch up with him, and now he was having to chase me around!!!!  Well I did get off that diet immediately!!!!  And until about two weeks before Thanksgiving 2011 I had not been diet serious.  When it hit me,  it was like a ton of bricks, either I lose weight or I am going to die young!  

Did I say young?  Hmmmmm here I am 58 and I finally realized that I am NOT old and I am worthy!!!  So I dragged out my Atkin’s book but yet I could not seem to read it, so I downloaded the Atkins Essentials and the new Atkin’s Diet Revolution and put it on CD, and my IPhone…and I listened to it every day for a couple of weeks, and it finally hit me why I never kept the weight off.  I never went through the phases like I should have and when I lost the weight; I went back to eating carbs, therefore ballooning back up to 323 pounds!!!!  

Reality check time.  Do I want to die young?  Please no jokes, I AM NOT OLD!!!!!  What I am is worthy and I want to live!!!!!!

Since two weeks before Thanksgiving,  I have been back low carbing and the weight although it is not dropping as quickly as when I was younger, it IS dropping and I am at the 58 pound weight loss mark!!!!  Goooooo Me!!!!!

Here’s where I thought it would get tricky.  I always felt low carbing was drab and a drag.  How wrong could I be?

I started looking up all the low carb sites that I could find, and what I found out is that I am not stuck with just meats, eggs, green veggies, and cheese, but instead I found out there is a whole other world of eating out there for carb intolerant individuals like me. 

Welcome to my world!!!!   It’s almost like I starting all over again, and this time I have the roadmap to get me there, and keep me there!!!!

In the coming months, I will be researching all the low carb sites and foods, along with the recipes for my new way of life, which I will be posting to my blog….

Please feel free to share any recipes or advice that you might have for low carbing and or weight loss with me.

Come join me on my ride! 

If you need moral support, or just a place to go where you’re accepted for who you are and will even help you on your journey to weight loss with any recipes, moral support, or just plain friendship, you are at the right place!!!! 

Here you are you and not who others think you should be! 

Come be my friend and fellow “ low carber!!!”

Welcome to my world!!!!

PS… I do NOT offer medical advice, just pure friendship and moral support!!!!  I AM NOT NOR DO I CLAIM TO BE A DOCTOR.  If you need medical advice, please consult your medical doctor….And please do check with your doctor before attemping any diet and or exercise to make sure your physically fit to diet or exercise.