Today is my first day of INDUCTION which is the introductory phase of the Atkins diet. I follow Protein Power more than Atkins, but it's all basically just eating low carb (20 carbs or less per day), drinking lots of water, exercising, and taking my vitamins. I never really did induction to begin this new way of eating years ago, just slowly cut out sugar, then bread, then other carbs and the weight just poured off.
I lost about 75 pounds and actually kept it off for 2-3 years. Then I went through a bout of depression, got in a wreck and hurt my back, and basically said "EFF IT" - I'm eating whatever I want, got on a Moolatte kick (highest sugar coffee drink ever!) and put most of that weight back on in the course of a year.
This is part of my motivation to stick to my low carb way of eating. For the past week or two, I've been eating out of control. There are all kinds of reasons for eating low carb: traditional diet, avoid diabetes, lose weight, feel better. And it's not hard to stick to - there's all kinds of yummy things to eat. It's just so easy to cheat.
Feel free to follow along, posting or not. I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but I'd rather do it here than on a "low carb site". (I had to get chided by visiting any other sites but POWWOWS.COM!):rolleyes;
I lost about 75 pounds and actually kept it off for 2-3 years. Then I went through a bout of depression, got in a wreck and hurt my back, and basically said "EFF IT" - I'm eating whatever I want, got on a Moolatte kick (highest sugar coffee drink ever!) and put most of that weight back on in the course of a year.
This is part of my motivation to stick to my low carb way of eating. For the past week or two, I've been eating out of control. There are all kinds of reasons for eating low carb: traditional diet, avoid diabetes, lose weight, feel better. And it's not hard to stick to - there's all kinds of yummy things to eat. It's just so easy to cheat.
Feel free to follow along, posting or not. I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but I'd rather do it here than on a "low carb site". (I had to get chided by visiting any other sites but POWWOWS.COM!):rolleyes;
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