Success Stories

Hi Everyone! I was a frequent visitor last spring and summer when I was just starting (again) a LC WOE. Over the past several years I had some success, but then it seemed to stop working for me. When I started again last April, I cam to the LCE site to get your advice, wisdom and encouragement. I apologize for not having posted in, well let's see, about 8 months! I did NOT fall off the wagon.

Several years ago on this very site, I posted my story about my years as a yo-yo dieter.  It was entitled "No Longer a Professional Dieter."  In this lengthy testimony, I revealed my years of struggle with my weight and self-esteem. 

Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low-Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Your Health--in Just Weeks! author: Michael R. Eades,Mary Dan Eades asin: 0553380788

By August of 2003 I was basically resigned to being overweight—a nice way of saying obese or just plain fat. For over thirty years I had been able to "control" my weight by periodically changing my low-fat diet to a low fat - low calorie diet. "Control" is obviously a misnomer. If I could control my weight there would have been no need for me to periodically lose the weight I had regained.

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, New and Revised Edition author: Robert C. Atkins asin: B000C4T48I

It was the year I was to turn 50 that I looked in the mirror and suddenly saw a fat, old woman. Never mind the shock of stepping on the scale to find I was weighing in at 192 pounds. Never mind the realization that if I kept eating the way I was I would just keep getting bigger. Now I was in pain: It was the searing irritation of the rash where my thighs squished together in the crotch of my pantyhose that finally led me to scream, "Enough!" I had been battling fat all my life. It was time to win the war.

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, New and Revised Edition author: Robert C. Atkins asin: B000C4T48I

It was exactly a year ago (almost to the day of this writing) that my husband and I joined a local gym here in Dutchess County, New York. It's a "friendly" gym - a place where all shapes and sizes of people go to get in a workout and try to get healthier. They don't allow skimpy clothes, and there aren't many "muscle heads" and it was exactly what we needed to get started.

If you don't think you can do this—if you are feeling completely overwhelmed by how much weight you need to lose and if you think you have to be some kind of superhero to lose 100 pounds or more—well, I'm here to ask you to reconsider.

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, New and Revised Edition author: Robert C. Atkins asin: B000C4T48I

My story starts quite a way back, during my pregnancy with my 1st child I ballooned up pretty big and weighed around 175lbs after he was born. I was staying with my mother and she put me on a low fat diet and extensive exercise program, with her leading the way I did loose weight and got down to a pleasing 115lbs. Needless to say when my husband was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada I went back up in weight.

First a little background! I grew up in a family that was overweight. So naturally being overweight was something that, well, came naturally! My family also has a history of heart problems, diabetes, and high blood pressure just to name a few! At times I have had problems with my BP, but never to the point of being on medications. I have watched my loved ones struggle with and die from the same illnesses as we speak.

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, New and Revised Edition author: Robert C. Atkins asin: B000C4T48I

Like so many, I was always overweight.

Maybe not by much in the beginning, but it was enough of a difference that it made an impact on my personality early on.

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, New and Revised Edition author: Robert C. Atkins asin: B000C4T48I

Did you ever look at pictures of yourself when you were very young, and wonder where all that joy went? This photo was one of my mom and dad's favorite pictures of me, because - as mom put it - "You were so happy back then." BACK THEN??? What happened to that little girl, I wondered many times over the years. How DID I become so lonely and introverted? How did I go from being a postive, happy child to feeling like I was a completely unworthy sub-species of the human race? Could it really be all downhill from the age of two????