http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/ en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:20:03 GMT vBulletin 60 http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/images/misc/rss.jpg http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/ http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23330-hello-fellow-low-carbers.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:10:22 GMT I am a brand new member and am excited about the journey. The only significant weight loss I have achieved and maintained is by doing low carb. So, I back again to learn how to do it better and lose more. I also look forward to finding new friends among the community. Sandy, the diva... I am a brand new member and am excited about the journey. The only significant weight loss I have achieved and maintained is by doing low carb. So, I back again to learn how to do it better and lose more. I also look forward to finding new friends among the community.


Sandy, the diva cruiser ]]> Introductions! thedivacruiser http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23330-hello-fellow-low-carbers.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23323-thanks-welcome.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:32:47 GMT Hello Lurker Fairy. My name is Susan, I am on day 21 of the Met B eating plan. So far down 12 lbs, 2 inches. No bloating after eating. Energy levels are on the rise. Feel so much better. Looking forward to being part of this community. Think I will make low carb eating my way of life, as the... Hello Lurker Fairy. My name is Susan, I am on day 21 of the Met B eating plan. So far down 12 lbs, 2 inches. No bloating after eating. Energy levels are on the rise. Feel so much better.

Looking forward to being part of this community. Think I will make low carb eating my way of life, as the results are speaking volumes in a very short amount of time.

Thank you for the welcome. Appreciate it. . .Susan ]]> Introductions! shart56 http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23323-thanks-welcome.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23303-new-person-here.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:59:16 GMT Hello my name is Jeanne and I am just starting a low carb way of life. The reason for starting this, my son Frank 23 has was diagnose with cancer in Jan of the year, he as done chemo and during his chemo he put on 30lbs due to the steriod that they give you to keep you going. He has been in... Hello my name is Jeanne and I am just starting a low carb way of life. The reason for starting this, my son Frank 23 has was diagnose with cancer in Jan of the year, he as done chemo and during his chemo he put on 30lbs due to the steriod that they give you to keep you going. He has been in remission since May and has not been able to lose the 30lbs. He doctor has advise him to restructure his diet. So his brother, (my other son) Shane 24 is going to college for a Physical Trainer has taken on the task of helping his brother with this issue. In doing so I too what to help and need to be able to do and learn about low cab eating. ]]> Introductions! Giggles4me http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23303-new-person-here.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23297-hello-im-back-again.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:56:09 GMT Just wanted to pop in here and say "Hi!" :hibye: It's been awhile since I've been around... a little over 2 years, I think. I'm struggling a bit... okay a LOT with getting back on track, so I've decided to have a journal here at LCE in hopes that will help. So, if you don't mind a bit of a read, you could visit it here and get a bit more detail about my current journey. I'd love to hear from some of the people that were around back when I was last here. New people are more than welcome, too.

Don't know if I'll be posting in too many other places, as time is a real issue for me right now.

Anyway... I'm glad to see that LCE is still here helping many people. Thanks to the mods for all you do! :) ]]> Introductions! DebbyH http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23297-hello-im-back-again.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23288-anyone-else-gluten-free-dairy-free-sugar-free.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:55:10 GMT Hi everyone!

My name is Sharon and I've been low-carbing since 2001. I originally started low carb after a blood test that indicated high triglycerides and borderline blood sugar. Six months later I was thrilled when my triglycerides came back normal and so did my blood sugar. My cholesterol levels also improved. In addition to that, my hair was no longer thinning from my low fat diet, my muscles were better defined, my skin was clear, my moods were improved, my periods were regular, I was at my ideal weight, and I no longer felt like napping in the afternoon.

When I first started, I read a ton of books describing all the different low carb plans. Because I suspected I had issues with candida, I originally followed a very strict low carb diet and used some additional supplements. I eventually added back fruits, dairy products, and coffee and stayed at a healthy weight and felt terrific.

A couple years ago, I started to let things slide a little bit. I started to have a little bread with dinner when I would dine out and I started drinking a beer now and then. I also started drinking a lot of coffee. I gained a little weight back(not a lot), but I started to have neurological symptoms - brain fog, vision issues, depression, and some small motor problems.

It turns out I have sensitivities to gluten, dairy, sugar, caffeine and many chemicals, so I need to be even more strict than I was in the past - pretty much a paleo diet. I decided to join lowcarbeating because I remembered it as one of the BEST resources on the net for information and support and recipe ideas. I was a lurker way back in 2001 and I always knew I could come here when I needed a little inspiration or motivation.

The toughest times for me on this WOE - when someone invites me to their home for dinner, or I go out to dinner with someone for the first time, or when one of my clients brings me home made treats.

Hoping to get to know everyone a little better and wishing everyone success with their WOE.:hibye:

Sharon ]]> Introductions! Sugar Free Sharon http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23288-anyone-else-gluten-free-dairy-free-sugar-free.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23249-hello-low-carb-eating-back-would-like-support.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:32:41 GMT Hi, I am RiaKat, just turned 46 and have been diagnosed with Type II diabetes. I am here because I know LC works! That said, I also know that I fully participate in self sabotage....and I do not know how to stop this. As I said, I know LC works because at one time I was a success story... Hi,

I am RiaKat, just turned 46 and have been diagnosed with Type II diabetes. I am here because I know LC works! That said, I also know that I fully participate in self sabotage....and I do not know how to stop this.

As I said, I know LC works because at one time I was a success story and felt on top of the world. I have absolutely no true idea, other than plain laziness, as to how I've come back to the starting point ... again. This time, however, there are serious health issues involved. I want so much more .... than hating myself, my body, bursting into tears in dressing-rooms.... I avoid the mirror on a daily basis or rather, I only LOOK above the shoulders. I no longer want this!!!

So, I am back on this journey and I would like some friends that know and understand where I am, where I am going.....and hopefully to share in the successes of each small victory and celebrate the big ones. The last journey was a lonely one...I do not wish to be alone on this one. So, please join me......

Maria

Start weight: 224 (11/02/09)
Current wt: 224 (11/02/09)
Goal wt: 145 ]]> Introductions! RiaKat5 http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23249-hello-low-carb-eating-back-would-like-support.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23243-new-here-restarting-low-carb.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:05:10 GMT Just ran across this site. I'm excited. It looks like a lot of inspiration and helpful spurring on! I lost 75 pounds doing lowcarb but the last year I've let 25 of those pounds creep back. I'm starting week two of induction and am determined to stay on course. I'll be reading...Rhondi:dance2: ]]> Introductions! rhondi http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23243-new-here-restarting-low-carb.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23203-special-thanks.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:20:50 GMT Special thanks to Goddess for helping me upload the real me pic!! No more 90's hair!!!:reddance:
Always so helpful!!!! ]]> Introductions! PQ311 http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23203-special-thanks.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23187-tired-wasting-time-need-some-help.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:21:30 GMT Hello, I have been tossing around which diet to do or not do. I have re-started my exercise routine for the umpteenth time! I keep coming back to a low carb way of life....I guess because it is the 1 thing that has ever worked for me. I have alot of history with my weight, as I am sure we all... Hello,
I have been tossing around which diet to do or not do. I have re-started my exercise routine for the umpteenth time! I keep coming back to a low carb way of life....I guess because it is the 1 thing that has ever worked for me.
I have alot of history with my weight, as I am sure we all do. I was in a very mentally abusive marriage, all centered around me looking like a 10 at all times....not to gain a pound, cut my hair, etc....If I did my life was hell. My ex would tie food on a string and dangle it over my face when I would work out....(I weighed 128 at my heaviest back then) he would hide food that I was "not supposed" to eat....When I was pregnant he never kissed or "loved" me because he said I was "fat" and he was not attracted to me....So you get a little bit of the idea....
Now...(almost 8 years post-divorce) I have the most wonderful man in my life (engaged Nov 2008) that I have been with for almost 6 years....he does not care about my size! But I do! I am 185 and only 5'4" and just over it! I will exercise my butt off, I will live the low carb lifestyle, I am just looking for someone to share this journey with so we can encourage each other....
I am a full time student (Nursing) but I CAN make the time I have NO excuses that are bigger than my desire to be healthy and happy and to be a great example to my son.
If you are interested in a friend to share this journey with, please contact me! I love and live life to the fullest but I know that with 55 pounds off, I will feel like a whole new person! I WANT that feeling!
xoxo
Dana:dance: ]]> Introductions! danaraecatherine http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23187-tired-wasting-time-need-some-help.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23168-new-forum.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:19:04 GMT Hello everyone,

I'm trying to see where to begin. I've been asking doctors for the longest about the following:: feeling like eating after eating already, feeling tired, light-headed, fatigued etc until I eat something, feeling like crap after eating and wanting to eat all day even if I'm not hungry. A lot of times, if I start off with a breakfast like an egg sandwich, then the rest of the day is just a wash. When I start off with veggies or a protein other than pork (I'm Jewish) then I tend to do better.

I've been battling with voracious eating for a while and the doctors just didn't and still don't get it. My Weight Watchers leader talked about how a high carb diet used to do her in. When she mentioned her symptoms, I was like WHOA that's me! So I came home and looked up Low Carb eating which was REALLY enlightening. Then I found this forum. :hail:

I need all the help I can get. I am SO SICK and TIRED of these blasted so-called doctors not knowing how to help people. They kept saying it my symptoms were because I drink too much pop. The problem with that is that I don't drink pop at all!

Any how, I'm glad I'm here.:bounce: ]]> Introductions! JenniferJ http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23168-new-forum.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23136-so-long-old-friend.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:11:54 GMT Just here to update everyone, and to tell everything that I haven't fallen off the face of the earth. I look at this pic of me posted and I would like nothing else but to update my pic! lol I look nothing like that anylonger. I have short hair, ascemetrical bob now, my hair color is platnuim. I still have the tan though....lol

So my journey of weight loss has lead me to a completely different territory. I maybe considered a traitor on this board. :no:

I am going to have Lab-Band surgery and stop fooling and failing myself about dieting. I can lose weight without a problem, my keeping it off is the part that me nor anyone else has seemed to get a hold of. I believe that the banding system will allow me a tool to use to my advantage. It wasn't actually all that much of a "difficult decison" after seeing my neighbor lose 99 pounds since Feb 1st, 2009. I have my consultation with the surgeon yesterday, it was like the final count down began.......ticking....ticking......I got "giddy" and then "nervous" and then thought...."What am I doing?" As I began to tell people here and there that I have been working through the red tape and etc to get this one appointment, I have to say that everyone in general has been supportive and understanding. My goal is 88 pounds, but more than that, I want to be at a healthy weight.

PLEASE don't let this discourage anyone about Atkins or low carb. Without that program I would be much more than 90 pounds ( per dr's fitness scale) overweight. Atkins was amazing to me, I felt free at times, and although I can say that I never got to the point of achievement that I utilized the program as a life change, the changes it gave me even if they were just short term was wonderful.
Silly part of the new "diet regimne" for "after" surgery is quite similar to low carb.

I think that we all know by now, if you've been at this board for 2 days or years like me, that WHITE sugar, flour, and anything that isn't a complex carb is BAD NEWS!! It's junk and we are simply poisioning our bodys but eating the boxed, processed...darn I am going to say it.....?! JUNK!
One of the things that always stuck with me that the late great Dr. Atkins said was. [QUOTE]"The only way to break an addiction, is to obstain." [/QUOTE]

Wish me well, and I plan to still stick around!!!
Chow for Now!!! :hibye: ]]> Introductions! PQ311 http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23136-so-long-old-friend.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23126-back-say-hello.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:05:05 GMT Hi All - I'm close to one year with LCE. Time Flies. I'm maintaining my initial weight loss and eating healthy and keeping my Blood Sugar normal. I'm able to add portions of food I cut out and still keep off meds. I'm baking Kale chips for a snack alternative to a little popcorn now and then. I can have 1/4 cup of Breyers ice cream if I've had no other carbs - but don't do it that often. I have to stay off potato of any size, kind or shape. Lots of family stuff making me depressed but I tend to not eat enough now instead of eating too much. I'm still here (smile) Hope everyone is doing well. I've been averaging under 30 carbs a day ... most days but don't track it as compulsively as I used to ... pretty much know what I can and can't eat. I started Facebook with encouragement of my brother's wives and having fun finding friends from grade school and such - relatives - etc. ]]> Introductions! MaryLee http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23126-back-say-hello.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23108-hi-just-joined.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:05:19 GMT Hi everyone Im new to the forum and cant wait to get to know you! I started low carb 6 days ago. This is my second attempt. Although I was successful before I gained some back. But Im back on track now and hope I can stick to it!!:happy: Hi everyone Im new to the forum and cant wait to get to know you! I started low carb 6 days ago. This is my second attempt. Although I was successful before I gained some back. But Im back on track now and hope I can stick to it!!:happy: ]]> Introductions! sandyh http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23108-hi-just-joined.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23107-lost-my-way-myself-but-taking-life-horns-again.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:43:53 GMT I don't know how many of you would remember me, as it's been over 2 years since I was active in this forum. To update, I met someone, we moved to North Carolina in 2007, and I started losing what made me who I was. I was becoming half of a couple, and completely forgot how to be an individual. Well about a month ago, I decided I needed to find myself, so I have moved back to Ohio, I'm going back to finish my Chemical Engineering degree, I found a job that makes me happy, and for the last piece of the puzzle... my weight... well I am going back to what I know works and makes me fell good... so as of monday 10/12/2009... I am actively doing Atkins Nutritional Approach.

I am actually still smoking, which I had vowed years ago to quit, but that success has eluded me, just like my weight has in the past. So I am actually going to focus on Atkins, quitting smoking, and making daily exercise about the health aspects, and not about the "other" reasons in life to do things. I'm doing it for myself this time. I'm doing everything for me this time!

Well I will begin induction on monday, because tomorrow I will be hitting the grocery store for the Induction basics. I don't plan on having some huge carb splurge tonight or tomorrow.. it just seems counterproductive, not to mention it makes the first three days of induction even harder. I won't be using Ketosis strips this time, but I will be supplementing my protein intake with protein powder, as I typically find it hard to eat enough.

I would really like my mom to try Atkins, but we will see when I talk to her this evening, as she's a total carb-aholic! But I know that she is really unhappy being over 200 pounds, and she needs a change. She's super-active, but she's absolutely exhausted when she gets home every evening... and I really think that LCE would really help with both her energy and her weight. I want her to be happy... and I know both those things changing would make her happy.

So I am off to make the grocery list, and create a plan of attack to talk to my mom this evening about joining me. I figure I'm going to try the "just try it for 14 days"... if you hate it, you can quit... but just give me 14 days." I figure when her energy jumps and she sees the numbers changing for the better on the scale... that she'll want to keep going. ]]> Introductions! IronSquirrel150 http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23107-lost-my-way-myself-but-taking-life-horns-again.html http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23106-just-starting-specific-carb-diet.html Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:19:00 GMT My husband and I have been put on this diet by our doctor. We have both have some health issues that he believes will corrected by the diet. It has been hard to have enough protien cooked. We are cooking out today. I have found it a bit harder than he has.. I have a bigger appititte than... My husband and I have been put on this diet by our doctor. We have both have some health issues that he believes will corrected by the diet.

It has been hard to have enough protien cooked. We are cooking out today. I have found it a bit harder than he has.. I have a bigger appititte than he does. Though he does eat later in the evening than I do.

WE have been on it for 5 days.. And guess what he has already lost 5 pounds.
MEN....

:scared: mag ]]> Introductions! magzzz321 http://lowcarbeating.com/low-carb-diet-support/introductions/23106-just-starting-specific-carb-diet.html