Mon, Mar-02-09, 22:43
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Senior Member
Posts: 916
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Plan: LC since 1/15/09
Stats: 317/278/217
BF:
Progress: 39%
Location: Tennessee
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Well I am going to come out of the closet again. I wanted to lose weight because I was terrified that I was going to become completely disabled or dead. I was more terrified of the former rather than the later. I am one of those people that laugh when I am told something is dangerous and usually do it anyway, still here ha ha ha. I wasn't afraid my weight was causing my health problems until my BP was high for several months in a row. My pulse rate has always been high, but now it has been as low as 80 bpm. I had chest pains for two weeks in December. My weight at the beginning of the month was around 317 possibly higher. Since, I couldn't get to the store much because of the pain, I didn't have much to eat for the last 2 weeks of December, I might have lost weight but it wasn't dieting. January comes around I feel better I buy lots of food eat out and give up on losing weight. This is what usually happens after I feel like I have been starving. So, Jan 8th comes around and I find there are ways not to starve yay, I make my home made Full Bars, lots of carbs, a little fat, and a little protein. But they are delishious and they work. I dropped about 2 lbs in 2 weeks, my BP is still high and my pulse is still in the mid 90's to going over the 100 border. I start thinking maybe I need more protein. So I add more protein to my diet and well I want to lose so I have to cut some calories, I figure cutting carbs is my best option. I cut around 200 grams of carbs in the first two weeks of my journey even though I wasn't concienciously trying to go low carb. I landed here Jan 20th and thought I would cut my carbs even more, I eliminated pasta, rice, potatoes, and bread, but not sugar(I used a small amount in sauces mostly tomato based), well I started to feel better and better. In Feb, when I ran out of spaghetti sauce I decided to eliminate sugar as well. I got down to induction level carbs Feb 15th or so. I will stay at induction level for a couple more weeks then start adding more vegatables back.
ETA: My BP hovers around 130-135/80 most the time now. My resting BP around 85 bpm. My CFS symptoms are becoming more managable.
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