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Old Sun, Apr-16-17, 16:28
Businelle Businelle is offline
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 287/262/199 Female 5'10
BF:
Progress: 28%
Location: Southern Louisiana y'all!
Default Tomorrow is the DAY!!

Hey all!

I'm Erica and I'm from South Louisiana where food is life! We eat when we're happy, sad, and for every reason in between. I'm a wife and mom to 4 (2 biological, 2 step but all mine!) I work on my feet all day and have bought about 6 different pairs of shoes in the last 4 months hoping for some relief for my feet but deep down I know it's not the shoes...

I need to LOW CARB!! I'm at my heaviest I've been and tomorrow is the big day! Starting over for the last time. Meal prepping for breakfast and lunch at work will help out a lot.

Hoping not just to lose weight but feel better.

Thanks for reading!

Erica
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Old Sun, Apr-16-17, 17:05
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Plan: Atkins 1972
Stats: 213/205.4/130 Female 5'5.5
BF:
Progress: 9%
Location: PA
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Hi Erica!

I am restarting tomorrow too! Mother of 3 and at my highest weight, even heavier than I was with any of my pregnancies at full term. My youngest is going to be 7 soon, so I can't claim it is baby weight or weight gained after I stopped nursing any more. Time is NOW.

We can do this :-)
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Old Sun, Apr-16-17, 17:54
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Posts: 278
 
Plan: LCHF
Stats: 236/220/185 Female 5' 9"
BF:
Progress: 31%
Location: Northern Virginia
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Yes! You both can do this!

Your next step is the first step of your successful future!
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Old Sun, Apr-16-17, 20:15
Businelle Businelle is offline
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Posts: 9
 
Plan: Atkins
Stats: 287/262/199 Female 5'10
BF:
Progress: 28%
Location: Southern Louisiana y'all!
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Good luck to you too! We can do it! My baby is 9...lol so I can't try anymore either!
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Old Sun, Apr-16-17, 20:36
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 336/286/199 Female 5'11"
BF:Losing it....
Progress: 36%
Location: Canada ay?
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Hi Erica! Congrats on making the decision to be healthy and I believe happier. Maybe we could be buddies, I started 2 weeks ago and it's going well. I need to bring my diabetes into check, so it's really about making better choices from now on...
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Old Sun, Apr-16-17, 21:10
Businelle Businelle is offline
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 287/262/199 Female 5'10
BF:
Progress: 28%
Location: Southern Louisiana y'all!
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Sure that would be great! A little extra motivation is always needed. And I've been needing to do this low carb thing for awhile now.
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Old Sun, Apr-16-17, 21:12
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Plan: modified adkins (sort of)
Stats: 265/176/167 Female 68.5 inches
BF:
Progress: 91%
Location: Austin, TX
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Welcome to all of you. Yes you CAN do this!

Just one caveat since you listed "Atkins" as your plan: stay away from all the "Atkins bars", "Atkins shakes" and all the other "Atkins products" with all their sugar alcohols! Most people here will tell you that that stuff interferes with weight loss! Others will tell you that Atkins bars just tend to make them WANT other kinds of sweets.

Better to just leave that stuff entirely alone! The desire for sweets dissipates fairly rapidly when you don't feed it. All the sugar-alcohol bars do is keep you wanting sugar and make it more likely you'll eventually give up low-carbing without ever reaching your goal weight. The good doctor would probably turn over in his grave if he knew what was being sold in his name!

Instead, eat REAL FOOD for every meal. If you feel the need for a snack, make it REAL FOOD too. Some celery packed with cream cheese, a hard-boiled egg, some bacon (make sure it isn't sugar-cured), etc.

You'll probably do best if you can find a copy of the original (1972) Atkins book and follow that plan but many people do fine with the more liberal later plans...as long as they don't rely on "Atkins products"
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Old Sun, Apr-16-17, 21:30
Businelle Businelle is offline
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Posts: 9
 
Plan: Atkins
Stats: 287/262/199 Female 5'10
BF:
Progress: 28%
Location: Southern Louisiana y'all!
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Thanks Bevangel!! I did Atkins years ago and keeping it simple always worked best. I tried some of the Atkins products and honestly don't really care for the taste! Plus I find that they're pricey!


Thanks for the warm welcome!
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Old Mon, Apr-17-17, 03:49
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Posts: 15,566
 
Plan: A'72 Induction Lifer + IF
Stats: 265/114/130 Female 5'4"
BF:Not so much now!
Progress: 112%
Location: South Central New Mexico
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Hello and Welcome Erica!

Ditto what Bev said!

IMHO, Atkins 1972 is by far the best! But Imma really biased! It is however, one of the more restrictive WOE. For someone like me, I NEED that kinda restriction b/c I have a crap load of food related issues.

Wishing you much success on your journey to better HEALTH!
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Old Mon, Apr-17-17, 05:08
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Posts: 15,075
 
Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154 Male 67inches
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
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And now today is the day.
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Old Mon, Apr-17-17, 06:55
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Posts: 10,147
 
Plan: LC--Atkins
Stats: 195/162/150 Female 62in
BF:
Progress: 73%
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Perfect day to start! And the rest of your life to figure it out, as we all are.

Best wishes.
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Old Mon, Apr-17-17, 15:15
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Posts: 2,146
 
Plan: Atkins
Stats: 336/286/199 Female 5'11"
BF:Losing it....
Progress: 36%
Location: Canada ay?
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So I hope your first day wasn't too difficult, it does get easier!
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Old Mon, Apr-17-17, 15:20
Businelle Businelle is offline
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 287/262/199 Female 5'10
BF:
Progress: 28%
Location: Southern Louisiana y'all!
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So far so good! I had breakfast, lunch and snacks all low carb and real food!
Been sipping on my ice water all day too! I think being prepared has really helped in making good choices.

Hope everyone is having a good low carb day!
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Old Mon, Apr-17-17, 15:40
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 336/286/199 Female 5'11"
BF:Losing it....
Progress: 36%
Location: Canada ay?
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Yay you! Yes you must be prepared, never let yourself get Hungry,always have LC option avail, good job, I had a great day also. Made homemade sausage meat, will be having patties and eggs for breakfast,looking forward to that.
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