paris2moon
Thu, Dec-30-04, 07:41
Throughout my life, I have been described as "looking like a model." I have always been skinny and had a nice, flat stomach. Unfortunately, I woke up one day (:lol:) and discovered that I was 42 years old and weighed 189 pounds--more than I weighed during any of my pregnancies! At Christmas a few days ago, each of my siblings and parents took me aside and gently informed me that I might want to think about dieting and exercisizing.
I know that I am a carbohydrate junkie and I want to give Atkins a try. I have done it before and easily lost weight. I gave up before because I have to cook for my family (an overweight husband who refuses to give up his two glasses of wine each night, a 13 year old vegetarian who eats few veggies and ONLY carbs, and a 10 year old who likes great food and wants to be a chef--luckily she is very athletic and so she is beginning to thin out with all of her exercisizing).
My husband quit his fantastic and very lucrative job a year ago (because he was tired of being a lawyer) and has not looked for another (but he won the country club golf championship!). Obviously, the bills are piling up and we may need to move from our home of the last 12 years. I am on all kinds of anti-depressants, which I think contribute to my weight gain. I am afraid to go off of them, however. My husband and I have been in marriage counseling, but the bottom line is that I want out of the relationship. This is a very stressful situation and not one that immediately shouts, "Good time to change eating habits!" If I do not, however, who knows how big I'll get. I don't even realize that I am eating!
I am very sensitive to my daughters' weights, but I do not want them to think of themselves as "fat." I would love to be very sneaky and begin making low-carb meals for the whole family--but I don't know how to sneak that past a vegetarian!
The good news is that I adore my job and I am very successful career-wise, so its not so bleak!
I have never participated in this kind of correspondance, but I think I am going to need a TON of support. It is inspiring to look at how much weight and inches some of you have lost!
Melanie
I know that I am a carbohydrate junkie and I want to give Atkins a try. I have done it before and easily lost weight. I gave up before because I have to cook for my family (an overweight husband who refuses to give up his two glasses of wine each night, a 13 year old vegetarian who eats few veggies and ONLY carbs, and a 10 year old who likes great food and wants to be a chef--luckily she is very athletic and so she is beginning to thin out with all of her exercisizing).
My husband quit his fantastic and very lucrative job a year ago (because he was tired of being a lawyer) and has not looked for another (but he won the country club golf championship!). Obviously, the bills are piling up and we may need to move from our home of the last 12 years. I am on all kinds of anti-depressants, which I think contribute to my weight gain. I am afraid to go off of them, however. My husband and I have been in marriage counseling, but the bottom line is that I want out of the relationship. This is a very stressful situation and not one that immediately shouts, "Good time to change eating habits!" If I do not, however, who knows how big I'll get. I don't even realize that I am eating!
I am very sensitive to my daughters' weights, but I do not want them to think of themselves as "fat." I would love to be very sneaky and begin making low-carb meals for the whole family--but I don't know how to sneak that past a vegetarian!
The good news is that I adore my job and I am very successful career-wise, so its not so bleak!
I have never participated in this kind of correspondance, but I think I am going to need a TON of support. It is inspiring to look at how much weight and inches some of you have lost!
Melanie