There's only four of us here? No way there's just four folks here that wanna' lose 100 pounds +. Let's take just a minute and introduce ourself, if you feel comfortable with it.

First of all, let me just say that I feel outnumbered here by all the women on this forum. WOW! Oh well, y'all need a man's perspective occasionally...don't ya?

I'm a purebred southern boy, the oldest of three children...direct from the hills of East Tennessee. Actually not a boy anymore...I'll be turning 55 in November...wow, that's sobering! I am married to my high school sweetheart...35 years now. We are empty nesters. Our only child is 31 and lives nearby. I am in the plumbing business and have been since 1984. Kind of a draining job sometimes...LOL!

I've fought with this weight thing all my life, and I really mean that when I say all my life. My pediatrician put me on diets when I was just a kid. And yeah, I endured all the ugly, mean insults from other kids...but hey, I lived through it. I recently decided to take the future of my health into my own hands and do something positive. I started Low-Carb July 1, 2007 and I'm so glad I did.

I love the internet and computers, so this forum is one of my favorite places to hang out and chat with my LC buddies...even if most of them are women. I've already learned tons of great things here and met some really nice folks. Let's keep sharing the love and encouragement...we all surely need it.

Blogging is new to me, but I am enjoying it and it is a great accountability tool. It helps to exercise one's brain and keeps you in great mental shape. Donuts were my trigger food, my addiction food and my everything food. That's why I decided to name by blog, 'Life Without Donuts'. See the link below if you'd like to see what it's all about.

OK...who's gonna' be next? Step right up and introduce yourself.

Ill go
My name is Sandi
Have 3 boys 26,16,14
Widowed 13 years, I love reading, which is why I think I enjoy the computer so much. I want to lose about 150ish so I can feel better, look better and be a good example to my kids.
I live in New York. Near Manhatten. I would love to move to the country, but I am not sure where.
I enjoy reading what you write Ron
sandi

Hi Ron and Sandi. I am Pam. I am 51 and live in the country in central Ohio with my DH of 32 years. We have 2 sons. One married and lives close to us. His wife has 3 grown sons. Our other son lives about 1 1/2 hours away and has a fiance that has a two year old son. So we have inherited 4 grandsons!!! I have had weight problems all my life. When I was in grade school I was on a diet. I always had to look for the chubby dresses in Penny's and Sears catalogs. I am so glad they don't call them that anymore!! I was always the one holding the end of the jump rope and the last one picked for softball. But at least I was out there trying!! I have always been very active. Before I started this WOE I was walking 3 miles a few times a week. I have lost mass amounts of weight before but have never been to goal. I always end up gaining it back. I am lucky that I mostly don't add some extra when I do!!! I started Kimkins in June and thought it was the answer. I lost very quickly and loved eating that way. My brain and my sister told me that I shouldn't do it for very long so I added fats. Now I am just feeling my way along. I haven't lost much since I quit K/E, but I am at least staying here and not gaining. I really think I can stay away from all that "white crap" forever. I haven't had one bite of it since I started!!! Yea!!!

Welcome PJ
63 pounds is sooooooo goood
I lost 35 pounds on KK and I enjoyed eating that way, I think when I can go shoping I will be doing Atkins 72 as it is close to KK. I felt really good doing it then. Looking forward to talking with you more
sandi

Hi,

I am trying to get back into low carb. I got slack, gained 50 pounds in one year. I weight 325, so I definitely have over 150 pounds to lose.

Hope to get to know y'all.

Sonja in Florida

Go get 'em, Sonja! You're gonna do it this time and we're here to hep you in this journey. THANKS for being a part of my forum.

Hi Sonja! We can do this together.
Sandy I found the Atkins 72 book at an Antique Mall for $5 and bought it. I haven't read it yet though. I also have the ANDR. I read it but need to again. I am really just not eating many carbs. The ones I do eat are veggies and fruit and some nuts. I have a problem with just eating a few nuts so I am trying to stay away from them!! I have decided that I need to make it a rule that wheneverI eat I have to sit at the dining room table. That way I know how much I eat and am not eating mindlessly. That is my biggest problem. I also got away from regular exercise this summer. I am trying to get a regular exercise schedule started. I will just keep tweaking until that scale starts going down again.
It will work this time forever!! I am finally living instead of dieting!!!!

Thanks Ron. Yes the kids are so cruel. I moved way past all of that stuff too. I love who I am now. I am a confident, fun-loving person. I think the older I get the more satisfied I am with myself. I want to lose weight for different reasons than I did when I was younger. I don't care what people think of the way I look now as long as I feel good. With all this hanging skin I guess it is good that I don't care!!! I want to be part of that graduating class too. Whenever it is!!

Hello! I'm Mechelle, from Mississippi, and I would like to loose 175 pounds (325-150). My doctor just tested me for insulin resistance, and I don't have the results back, yet. But I have a feeling that I am. From what I can find on the net, a LC diet is the one that will help me the most healthwise.

I do have two days of stumbling blocks, however. I'm halfway through a cake decorating class with 2 more classes to go. I took it because it sounded fun and I hope to save money in the future by decorating my daughter's birthday cakes. She's 5 and skinny, and she loves/prefers meat and LC veggies naturally, so at first I think I'll just eat what she eats. Yes!!

Hey everyone, Tami here, I want to lose 150 total, have a little bit of a start at having lost 35 pounds, but still a long way to go. I am currently reading Jonny Bowden's book Living the Low Carb Life. If you haven't, I suggest that you do because once you understand what the sugar/carb crap does to your body, it definitely makes it easier to pass that stuff up.

Anyway, I wanted to share a traumatic childhood event...my grandmother lived out in the country on a farm, and I loved that farm. What I didn't like was when a lot of the family got together to grill hamburgers and then make homemade ice cream. This was before the electric homemade ice cream machines. All of the kids wanted to sit on top while someone else cranked the wheel. Everyone except me, that is. I had to sit on it. I never volunteered. I would try and hide, but they always came to get me. Why? Because I was the only kid FAT ENOUGH TO HOLD IT STILL SO THEY COULD CRANK IT!!! Need I say that homemade ice cream has never been a temptation for me?

Oh well, old stuff now, but it sure did hurt then.

Hi welcome to everyone new here!!
We should come here and post when we visit the forum.
Tami, Ron, Shasta, PJPrimitives, Sonja
Welcome and how are you all doing?
sandi

Tami,

So glad to have you here. We're with you all the way as you reach your goal. 35 pound may not seem like much to you but it really is. I've continually had to tell myself to focus on the success I've had rather than how far I have to go.

I can tell you that a 12 pack of 12 oz canned soft-drinks weighs exactly 10 pounds. Just go in your kitchen or while at the store, pick up a 12 pack and just feel how heavy that 10 pounds really is. In your case, you've lost 3-1/2 of those 12 packs. Try picking up just three of them at one time...that's how much less you're carrying around with you 14 hours a day!

There are other common items you can use to compare your actual weight loss to. The point is, you are making tremendous strides and your success is going well.

Come here often and let's encourage each other in making it to our goal. And remember, it's more than just reaching a numerical goal...it's about attaining a new healthy lifestyle.

Ron, aka The Former Donut Junkie

Hi, I'm Andrea from Oregon, just picked the name Taz because bieng on Atkins gives me a ton of energy plus a little more assertiveness. I don't think it's so much of an "atkins attitude"- I just don't feel drugged and docile from carb overload anymore .
I started at 293 in 2006 and lost 50 lbs on LA weight loss. I hit a wall during the winter, bieng desperately hungry ( biking in the cold, working out, swimming, ya THINK I might be working up an appetite?) Because I was so hungry at the end of the day, and set up for failure by their expensive sugary shakes,bars,and snacks, I couldn't stay with it, and turned to hoodia to control my appetite.
I finally figured, If I have to take a pill to control my appetite, something is wrong here .It came down to going back to atkins, or start looking into some kind of surgery to change my eating.
So here I'm now about 15 lbs lighter than my lowest LA weight loss weight, still eating healthy - and not starving all the time ! :I honestly don't know what weight I'll wind up at , because I have never been thin in my entire life, but I'd like to lose between 90-120 lb based on what that weight looks and feels like.

HI all!!!

I'm in. My real name is Serena. I am about 300 pounds now. My original loss from Atkins those wonderful years ago was from 348 to 145 in about 1.5 years. I got into a relationship that started turning abusive and I ate out of sorrow. Binge eating, not just regular eating. Then I covered (or so I thought) by chugging laxatives. I spent a fortune on MoM, I swear. Well, older and wiser now, I'm living at my parents house and raising my 9 year old. I just met a guy that seems very nice, he liked bigger women. I don't want to be a bigger woman anymore though.

I have about 150 pounds to lose, but today is my daughter's B-day so I will eat spaghetti and not feel bad because it is planned. I will not touch the cake, opting for some SF ice cream.

Then tomorrow I go back on strict induction.


Have a good day!!

I'm still here hanging around. I just don't post often. Thanks for thinking of me Sandi!! I have been stuck in my weight loss for awhile so I went on Atkins 72 Induction for a few days and then added a few things back. I am light pink on the stick. I don't care if I lose very fast. I just want to keep living this way for the rest of my life!! I haven't had any cheats for almost 4 months now!! Woo Hoo!! Can you believe that?? I sure can't. We even took our 2 year old grandson to the fair today and didn't eat anything!! I made a couple sugary things for the family this weekend and didn't even have an urge to sample it. My "cheats" are fruit or a small piece of dark chocolate or choco-perfection bars. Wow what a change for me. I love this way of life. Now if I can just get my hair to grow back in!! It is still falling out, but I did KK for a couple months. I am taking extra biotin and folic acid. I can't wait for "Onderland". I can feel it calling me!!!
Pam

Hi,

My name is Kristi. I have lost 35 and need to lose another 100-ish, I think. Yes, Ron, I do think we need a man's perspective!

I am also married to my high school sweetheart. We are both 41 and graduated from high school in 1984. Our 22nd anniversary is this next Friday. We are no where near being empty nesters, though. Our oldest is 21 and is married, but we also have at home a 15, 12, 10 and 8! We live in Oregon.

My husband is a plumber, too, and has been since 1984--well, he started his apprenticeship in 1984, that is. What a funny co-incidence! Tim is also a private pilot. I am a home schooling mom.

Being fat as a child was so painful for me and one of my five children is a tiny bit chubby. I am hoping that I can prevent him having the pain I did. All my family is eating low carb now...

Kristi

Hey All My LC 100+ Friends,

I wanted to bring you a little update. Today marks 3 months doing low-carb. I have lost 33 pounds and I am now 1/3 of the way to my 100 pound weight loss goal. I thought I would post my 'Before' and 'Current' pic here [they are also posted in the pic section].


Started at 288 pounds, July 1, 2007


255 pounds, October 1, 2007 -- That's 297 Donuts gone forever! Woo-hoo!

I guess you can tell I'm just a little happy about meeting one of my first major goals. I'm feeling better than I have in years and there have been so many positive improvements to my health in only 3 months time. I may post about some of them later.

Thanks to all my LC 100+ friends for all your support and encouragement. Together, we can all make good health happen! Best wishes!

Ron, aka The Former Donut Junkie

Wow Ron!! You are doing great!!! Always nice to hit those goals!! I am glad to be on the down side of the half way point and now I want to see "Onederland"! I have only seen it once in our 32 years of marriage and that was just for a very short time. I was 210 when we got married. I am there now and headed down!! What a wonderful feeling. We can do this!!!
Pam

Ron,

Congratulations on your loss!

I like how you measure your losses in donuts! I think I want to do that, too, but I didn't get fat eating sweets. I'm a french fry, tater tot, bread, popcorn, Doritos, macaroni-n-cheese girl! Maybe I should measure mine is boxes of mac-n-cheese....


So what kind of plumbing do you do?



Kristi

That's pretty close to my weight loss line, Eric, and it may dip to 2-3 pounds a week as you near your goal. KEEP AT IT!

Eric,

I weigh once a week, every Sunday morning. My average, as you can see is 2.5 pounds per week over the first 13 week period. You look like you are averaging more than that, but I am still very happy with my average. I am in this for the long haul, and have 100 pounds total to lose. It will probably take me close to a year to reach that goal, but that's fine. I want this way of eating to be entrenched in me.

I eat well, and don't go around hungry on low-carb. I could probably lose a little faster if I cut dairy and fruit, but I really enjoy both of them and plan to make them a regular part of my nutritional lifestyle. I don't want to wait a year to introduce those items into my diet.

Ron, aka The Former Donut Junkie

Hey Ron
How are you doing??
Eric good going on your weight loss.
Pam. Kristi and everyone else
How are you doing. I am starting a challenge today, so I hope to see some more weight loss.
What is a day's menus for you guys
sandi

Ron, I'm Dan. I introduced myself to the 100+ club earlier.. Sorry to be late entering this thread, but I've been focusing on other areas, especially the diabetes section since Jimmy made me moderator. I am still a work in progress on the 100+ journey, but I'm getting there.

Us 100+ guys need to stick together. When I was in Weight Watchers (which was a total disaster) it was the same thing -- two or three guys surrounded by women. Before I posted more info on the Forty Something's Fabulous Funhouse, Kanjivee thought I was a woman.

Seriously, the women on this forum are great. It takes everyone's contribution to make this a success. Let's keep pressing on!!!