Hi everyone. I joined this forum to hopefully get some support in my new journey.

Some time ago I took a really hard look at my life and decided it wasn't the life I wanted to live. I was almost 240 lbs, I was an alcoholic, and I was miserable. I've been alone for years, probably decades, suffering high-functioning autism that I was self-medicating with alcohol and there just seemed to be no way out. Suffering in silence is probably the worst, because no one knows you are suffering and so they don't think twice about dumping their own baggage onto you.

I made some changes about six months ago. I started eating 'paleo', and stopped drinking. I weighed myself this morning and the scale said 185lbs. It's a huge loss of weight, but I still have a ways to go. When I was younger, the Atkins way of eating slimmed me like no other. I feel like Paleo is a good blueprint, but I'm too carb-sensitive to follow a plan that allows so much freedom to indulge in fruits. So here I am, on Induction, and registered to the forums.

Hopefully this time it will all stick. I don't want to go back to drinking and eating like I was. I don't ever want to see 240lbs again.

Thanks for reading.

Congrats on all you have achieved! You will find lots of support and great ideas here. I learn so much reading different threads. I quit drinking in January; not an easy life change. You are on a healthy path and off to a great start. Welcome!