Sapphy
20-01-2009, 07:24 AM
Big thankyou for this board. I stumbled across this during a google search for more info on the Atkins diet. This is one of the most helpful and friendliest dieting communities I've come across in my searching.
A bit about me and why I'm here: I do not usually have a problem with weight loss. Throughout my life if I've put on a few kilos I just need to do a bit of excercise, change my diet a bit, and bam, it's gone. I've always been a very fit and active person. However the past couple of years I've put on about 10kg and I just haven't been able to shake it. I've been working out pretty diligently and nothing was changing (it's not muscle mass, it's fat, I can see it jiggling :mad:).
I'm in my late 30s so obviously my body is just changing but it's highly annoying that what worked before doesn't work now. Curses!
So I got pretty frustrated with this obviously. I was doing everything I was doing before, no change.
I'd heard Atkins mentioned before. A friend of mine tried it for a couple of weeks and lost a bit of weight but didn't stick with it. Then someone else I knew tried it and started losing a lot of weight. This made me think maybe there was something to this.
Ironically enough, at one point in my life I was on the Atkins diet but didn't know it. I was eating pretty much nothing but bacon and eggs for a few months, not sure why, just developed a craving for it and stuck with it. I lost about 5kg that time without even trying.
I'm not going to say here how much I weigh, it's not hugely overweight but it's more than I feel comfortable with :( For the past week or so I've been semi-seriously following it and I've already lost 2kg, which is pretty impressive. Yesterday I started induction in earnest so I'm kinda excited that maybe this is goodbye to the pesky kilos that have been haunting me for the past few years.
Thanks once again to everyone on the board, I've been reading a lot of posts and you guys rock :)
A bit about me and why I'm here: I do not usually have a problem with weight loss. Throughout my life if I've put on a few kilos I just need to do a bit of excercise, change my diet a bit, and bam, it's gone. I've always been a very fit and active person. However the past couple of years I've put on about 10kg and I just haven't been able to shake it. I've been working out pretty diligently and nothing was changing (it's not muscle mass, it's fat, I can see it jiggling :mad:).
I'm in my late 30s so obviously my body is just changing but it's highly annoying that what worked before doesn't work now. Curses!
So I got pretty frustrated with this obviously. I was doing everything I was doing before, no change.
I'd heard Atkins mentioned before. A friend of mine tried it for a couple of weeks and lost a bit of weight but didn't stick with it. Then someone else I knew tried it and started losing a lot of weight. This made me think maybe there was something to this.
Ironically enough, at one point in my life I was on the Atkins diet but didn't know it. I was eating pretty much nothing but bacon and eggs for a few months, not sure why, just developed a craving for it and stuck with it. I lost about 5kg that time without even trying.
I'm not going to say here how much I weigh, it's not hugely overweight but it's more than I feel comfortable with :( For the past week or so I've been semi-seriously following it and I've already lost 2kg, which is pretty impressive. Yesterday I started induction in earnest so I'm kinda excited that maybe this is goodbye to the pesky kilos that have been haunting me for the past few years.
Thanks once again to everyone on the board, I've been reading a lot of posts and you guys rock :)