jprince
Sun, Mar-28-04, 22:37
Hello everyone,
My name is Adam, and I've lost 130 pounds on Atkins. I'm 160 now, but I'd like to be 140. I'm 5'6". I'm done with puberty as I had a few hormonal problems which likely contributed to my weight gain-hypothyroidism, hyperestrogenemia, pre-diabetes, etc. I also have lupus and fibromyalgia. The lupus went into remission because I discovered nutritional therapy. After reading Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient solution, I found myself a complementary physician and got well. I owe my life to this wonderful man and still mourne his passing away. I gained a lot of the weight from my illness, but I think most of it was from overeating and lack of exercise. I've been on diets all my life and I feel emotionally scarred by it all. I joined and rejoined weight watchers eight different times. Atkins was just another diet I was going to try and fail. I never really expected anything from it, I just thought it was another diet to make my parents happy. Ironically, they didn't help me. I lost all of this weight purely on my own. But I lost ten pounds the first week. By the time I lost 20, I realized I probably will actually lose the weight. Thank god I decided to take pictures. So I started August 2002, and haven't stopped yet. But its been really hard at times. I had horrible IBS, and it was hard for me to discover why, after that was cured by the diet, I stopped losing weight. I've had problems for about 100 pounds. I was always too sick to go to school, and while I could attend high school next year and be a senior, I've decided to just get out early and go to junior college. I want more than anything to be a doctor, specifically an endocrinologist. That's all I can think of at the moment.
My name is Adam, and I've lost 130 pounds on Atkins. I'm 160 now, but I'd like to be 140. I'm 5'6". I'm done with puberty as I had a few hormonal problems which likely contributed to my weight gain-hypothyroidism, hyperestrogenemia, pre-diabetes, etc. I also have lupus and fibromyalgia. The lupus went into remission because I discovered nutritional therapy. After reading Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient solution, I found myself a complementary physician and got well. I owe my life to this wonderful man and still mourne his passing away. I gained a lot of the weight from my illness, but I think most of it was from overeating and lack of exercise. I've been on diets all my life and I feel emotionally scarred by it all. I joined and rejoined weight watchers eight different times. Atkins was just another diet I was going to try and fail. I never really expected anything from it, I just thought it was another diet to make my parents happy. Ironically, they didn't help me. I lost all of this weight purely on my own. But I lost ten pounds the first week. By the time I lost 20, I realized I probably will actually lose the weight. Thank god I decided to take pictures. So I started August 2002, and haven't stopped yet. But its been really hard at times. I had horrible IBS, and it was hard for me to discover why, after that was cured by the diet, I stopped losing weight. I've had problems for about 100 pounds. I was always too sick to go to school, and while I could attend high school next year and be a senior, I've decided to just get out early and go to junior college. I want more than anything to be a doctor, specifically an endocrinologist. That's all I can think of at the moment.