I can remember when fat people who said this were considered to be in denial about their eating and activity habits. All you have to do is eat less and move more [Dummy]!

I tortured myself for many years with endless yo-yo diets before I turned to LC through Atkins. Now that I’m fairly well-read in the science and studies on obesity (including, recently, Gary Taubes’s Good Calories, Bad Calories), I not only believe in the existence of metabolic syndrome, I believe that I am one of many, many people with a problem that isn’t all my “fault.”

Today is my birthday. I’m 63 years old. Pass for 50 (maybe ). Feel 23. I’m actually grateful for my weight management issue, because I now believe that my present solution (LC) has implications for many other things I don’t have yet: heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and…wrinkles!

Dope Slap Me for occasionally forgetting this. I’m going to put a sign on my mirror:
READ CHAPTER 13 (that would be Taubes)

There are certainly other and more truths to explore in the universe of human physiology. However, I’m happy to take action on what I now know about myself that brings me benefits every day.

So…stick those 63 candles in a slab of prime rib, please. And happy many more birthdays to me.

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Barb L.
Atkins since Jan 2003
Maintenance as of 4/05


My Fitday Journal

Have a WONDERFUL birthday, Barb! I've no doubt you have plenty more to come because you're taking such good care of yourself.

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Thanks, Goddess. So far, so good. My dad is alive and pretty well at 93, so I've got some good genes. We've got a family joke: "Nobody dies of anything!"

By the way, in case I didn't mention it before, that's a cool picture of you. Wow! You got some good bone structure going on there, galfriend! Good to be able to see it, eh?

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Barb L.
Atkins since Jan 2003
Maintenance as of 4/05


My Fitday Journal

Happy birthday! Love your attitude!

Margaret

Hope you have a wonderful Birthday

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One Day Starts Today!!!

Atkins and Totally Gluten free 8/1/09
355.6/324?
31 pounds gone (8/1)

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb

In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. ~Stephen Phillips

Barb, as they say, "the best is yet to come......." Happy Birthday and enjoy that birthday steak!!!!!!


katlupe

Thanks, Barb.

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