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Re: Be careful what you do, the weight comes back fast!
From: Melissa (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:36:12 -0500 (CDT)
What a wonderful letter Kyra...thanks for sharing your experience...I am
starting the Atkins diet (today is my first day) and hopefully that will
give me some success. Dr. Atkins talks about how a low carb diet shoud
be a lifetime commitment an you are proof that he was right. Thanks for
sharing and making my commitment more real.
At Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Kyra wrote:
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>I was on a low-carb but free calorie diet (eat all the meat and cheese
>you want) for about a year, and I was down about 35 lbs, but had totally
>plateued. I hadn't lost even a pound in three plus months, and was
>getting desperate. I was still obese at 213lbs and wanted to be
>"normal". Sooooo then, last year I went from 213 lbs in early February
>to 178 lbs in mid April, losing 35 lbs in only two 1/2 months! At 5'7",
>I wasn't skinny, but I wasn't fat either, and boy, was I having fun!!!
>How did I do it? LOW FAT, LOW CAL and LOW CARB- I got serious, plain and
>simple. I'd have a protein shake OR scrambled egg whites for breakfast,
>grilled chicken breast, 2 pieces of sliced tomato and steamed veggies
>for lunch, then more grilled chicken or fish, steamed veggies and salad
>(with balsamic vinegar as dressing) for dinner. Snacks? Boiled egg
>whites. You would think I would have been starving but I wasn't, I was
>too motivated by the rapid loss, losing a clothing size every payday and
>shopping all the time :) But then, I made a HUGE mistake. I thought
>"you can't live without carbs forever, it's not good for you". So I
>went off the restricted carb diet and guess what...now I've gained 60 of
>the 70 total pounds back. I gained 40 of it in less than three months.
>When you have PCOS and Insulin Resistance, these changes have to be
>forever. I may have been able to increase fat and calories, but not
>sugar. I have proven that eating 3000 calories a day and less than 30g
>of carbs kept me at a stable weight, where 1500 calories with 90-120
>grams of carb packed on all this weight. And, it's a vicious cycle. The
>carbs make you hungrier, crave more, etc. and the gained weight makes
>you depressed, so you eat more. I am getting back on track now and
>going to see a Rep Endo on the 29th of this month. Hoping glucophage
>will give me better long term alternatives. Anyway, this drug on
>forever, but I just wanted to save someone else since I've been through
>the pain of gaining all this weight back myself. Trust me, nothing
>tastes as good as skinny feels!!!!
>
>--
>Good luck and take care,
>
>Kyra
>
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~Curvy~
To dream of who you would like to be is to waste the person you are
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