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Tara Legale - 30 Jan 2007 01:36 GMT

Hi all, I'm Tara and I'm new here. I'm 40, 5'6" and I weighed 268 this
morning. That is 10 pounds less than my highest weight ever. I lost some
last year watching calories and fat, but was always starving. I gained back
20 of the 30 I lost.

I've never tried following low carb so I read Dr. Atkins book and today I
started on day 1 of induction. A couple of my friends followed Atkins and
had great success, and most of all, they said they were never hungry. That
is a big plus for me.

Tomorrow, I am getting a new treadmill delivered to use while it is too cold
to walk outside. Walking is pretty much my limit. I am dealing with some
health problems and might be having female related surgery in a couple
months, I'd like to lose weight prior to that.

I am also dealing with limitations brought on by excess weight, namely very
sore grinding knees and very little muscle just about everywhere. I plan on
using my treadmill and hand weights to start out with.

I'm psyched to try something different (low carb). I hope this goes well
for me. Do you all do any kind of weekly weigh-ins here?

Tara

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mikesmith9999@hotmail.com - 30 Jan 2007 06:11 GMT

Congratulations! What did you have today? Please tell us the quantity
as well.

> Hi all, I'm Tara and I'm new here. I'm 40, 5'6" and I weighed 268 this
> morning. That is 10 pounds less than my highest weight ever. I lost some
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> Tara

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Doug Freyburger - 30 Jan 2007 19:24 GMT

> I've never tried following low carb so I read Dr. Atkins book and today I
> started on day 1 of induction. A couple of my friends followed Atkins and
> had great success, and most of all, they said they were never hungry. That
> is a big plus for me.

Note that there is a group alt.support.diet.low-carb ASDLC.

It is not the only plus for low carbing but it is the biggest one.

> Tomorrow, I am getting a new treadmill delivered to use while it is too cold
> to walk outside. Walking is pretty much my limit.

It may be your limit now, but that won't last. Walking does count
as exercise but at some point you'll be able to walk on the flat
for 30+ minutes and wonder why it counts as exercise. That's a
real milestone for fitness improvements.

> I'm psyched to try something different (low carb). I hope this goes well
> for me.

Though you'll fine that low carbing is easy to stay on, there is no
such thing as a diet that's hard to fall off of. You need to continue
to decide to do it as long as you want to keep it off.

On hunger - The Atkins process has certain scheduled stops where
hunger occurs. The first few days many have carb cravings that are
tough - Eating higher fat makes the time shorter and there are
metabolic reasons why this anti-obvious approach is true. It's the
frst of many anti-obvious but true aspects of Atkins. There's also a
week in phase 4 where hunger is turned on to find the top of your
maintenance level. Two weeks of hunger in maybe a year or two,
a very different experience.

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