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Greetings all!
This is my first ever blog so forgive me but I am really excited. So, a little about me - I am a 32 yo wife, mother and 2nd year PA student. Like many of you my goal is far greater than just to lose weight, I want to not only be healthy but I also want to be a healthy example to my patients and family. I am about 100 lbs overweight and hate it! I have finally begun to feel the effects of my weight that I never noticed in my twenties. It began with my knees -they're killing me, they creak moan and groan more than the stairs I climb every day and hurt constantly. My energy is at it's lowest, I am so drained by the end of the day that I have no energy for my family and often come home and sit on the couch like a zombie staring at the TV for 2 hrs before I can motivate myself to do anything. Finally, I feel like a hipocrate as I talk to patients about their weight, diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol when I know that I am in the very same boat or will be very soon if I don't change something. How do you tell someone they need to lose weight when they too can obviously see that so do you? I can easily empathize with my patients about their weight and the struggles they endure but I know I will be more effective in helping others if I actually set the goal and achieve it. I want to show them that they can do it too!! So, my absolute mission is to lose the weight, track my progress, reach out for support and inspire my patients to do the same. Sound reasonable?
Well, I have tried every diet in the book over the years but what I know always works for me is the Low-Carb way and with all the new options & substitutions out there combined with the great support of forums like this and all of you, I know I can do it
This is my first ever blog so forgive me but I am really excited. So, a little about me - I am a 32 yo wife, mother and 2nd year PA student. Like many of you my goal is far greater than just to lose weight, I want to not only be healthy but I also want to be a healthy example to my patients and family. I am about 100 lbs overweight and hate it! I have finally begun to feel the effects of my weight that I never noticed in my twenties. It began with my knees -they're killing me, they creak moan and groan more than the stairs I climb every day and hurt constantly. My energy is at it's lowest, I am so drained by the end of the day that I have no energy for my family and often come home and sit on the couch like a zombie staring at the TV for 2 hrs before I can motivate myself to do anything. Finally, I feel like a hipocrate as I talk to patients about their weight, diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol when I know that I am in the very same boat or will be very soon if I don't change something. How do you tell someone they need to lose weight when they too can obviously see that so do you? I can easily empathize with my patients about their weight and the struggles they endure but I know I will be more effective in helping others if I actually set the goal and achieve it. I want to show them that they can do it too!! So, my absolute mission is to lose the weight, track my progress, reach out for support and inspire my patients to do the same. Sound reasonable?
Well, I have tried every diet in the book over the years but what I know always works for me is the Low-Carb way and with all the new options & substitutions out there combined with the great support of forums like this and all of you, I know I can do it
Holy Cow!
Posted 01-21-2008 at 09:43 AM by SlimmerPA
Today started off like any other ordinary "weekend" type day. I woke up this morning around 8:00 thinking about what all I needed to accomplish today. Sunlight was streaking through the bedroom curtains telling me it was another crisp and beautiful winter day - no rain today. My 10 yo daughter was still in bed and the dogs were begging to go outside. We have 2 dogs, a collie and a peek-a-poo. DH let the dogs out and I did my normal morning ritual of running downstairs to weigh myself before the day begins. Well, I stepped onto the scale rather nonchalantly thinking not much would have changed, maybe a lb increase as I felt like I was retaining water. When I looked down I could hardly beleive my eyes, I had lost 5.5 lbs from the day before. My first thought was this is a mistake so I weighed again. Same. OK, I called in DH to weigh, about the same as his usual. I then took the battery out of the scale, waited the obligatory 10 sec., put it back in and reset the scale. I re-weighed. Still the same. DH re-weighed on my adament request, same. What? Could this be true? Well after weighing myself a total of 10 times I finally allowed myself to believe it, I literally lost 5.5 lbs overnight for a total now of 12 lbs down!! Holy Cow! I never expected because my WL has been averaging 2 lbs a week since day 1 so this was an unexpected loss but I am absolutely delighted. Really makes me glad I didn't allow myself to get discouraged by what I perceived as an initially slow weight loss. Actually, I think it's a blessing b/c in the past I would lose 8 lbs the first week and then 3, 2, 1 and sometimes none the weeks after and get so discouraged thinking I was doing something wrong and then I would fall off the wagon. These recent results just remind me that there is no way of knowing how much or how fast you will lose and that the important thing is that I just stay consistent. Have a great day everyone and stick to it!
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| |  You are doing great!!! |
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| |  Great!  You may just be similar to me... I drop weight in steps rather than steadily. Once you realize how your body sheds weight you can have patience and see the best results. |
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| |  You have just been visited by the entity we like to refer to as "The Whoosh Fairy." Sometimes, if you're working your plan, without warning, the Whoosh Fairy comes a calling overnight and you find several pounds just "whoosh" without warning. What a lovely surprise, huh? Remember this visit when you're feeling a little snappish if you have a few days where it doesn't come off, even if you feel you deserve it by your choices and work. Because the body does as the body wants, but, LONG Term, you get the right trends.  Congrats on your Whoosh Fairy Visit! |
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