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Date Posted: 08:42:13 06/26/02 Wed
Author: Sherry
Subject: Hi Liz
In reply to: Liz 's message, "Hi All, Newbie here" on 08:24:31 06/26/02 Wed

When I first started I had 150 pounds to lose too. I weighed 282 pounds and the scale just kept on climbing. I was scared and worried that I was doomed to just keep on getting fatter.

I didn't know what to do, right off, I tried eating less and taking walks, and drinking more water. Within a couple of weeks I was about 4 pounds less. Then my brother loaned me "Dr. Atkin's New Diet Revolution." He had lost some weight on it, and I was intrigued, (but CERTAIN that I could never give up carbs). I mainly read it out of curiousity.

Well what I read impressed me SO much that I started the diet the next day. Within a week and a half more I was down another 13.5 pounds (total 17.5 from about a month earlier).

Then I took some time off. But not much. I was back on the diet and going strong before long. Within 8 months I was down 50 pounds, to 232.

I haven't done strictly low carb the whole time, on and off and on was my pattern, but it still worked as long as I spent more time ON the diet than off.

But then I hit a point where I couldn't seem to go much lower. 232 seemed to be a set point where my body wanted to stay.

Today my weight is 7 pounds lower than that set point. I have become way more strict on the diet, I have started lifting weights, and I think these two factors have helped. I've also tried to eat more often and thus keep my metabolism reved, but I still have days (like yesterday) when I skip too many meals. But I think that I am offsetting that "metabolism slower" by the excercise which is a metabolism rever.

You will likely lose a lot of weight really fast. Do yourself a favor and take your measurements today and record them. I didn't do that when I first started. I waited until I had lost 50 pounds before I took my measurements.

It is interesting that although I lost the bulk of my weight in the first 8 months, my dimensions have changed since then, even when my weight hasn't changed by all that much. I've lost many inches even though not all that many pounds since the initial 50 left.

Today I have less than a hundred pounds to lose. I've changed my goal weight, (I was originally aiming for 130), and I've lost more than the original fifty, so even if I had kept my original goal, I would now have less than 100 to lose. ONE THIRD of my goal is achieved.

You stick to this diet, and increase your activity level and you WILL eventually make your goal.

Welcome aboard. We are on this journey together, we can help each other.

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Thanks Sherry -- Liz, 08:52:59 06/26/02 Wed