[imagood1]

Good evening to anyone who might come upon this post. Today was my 3rd week of Atkins and as of this morning I am down 17 pounds. I now weigh what I weighed 9 years ago when I went into the hospital to have an ovary & fallopean tube removed. I was appalled that morning when I had to weigh and I weighed 200 pounds.....but it's amazing how 9 years and 17 pounds can make you hopeful and happy that those 17 pounds are gone.

I feel I'm back to square one - dh and I were married 9 years ago in June and my surgery was in November of that year so I have now lost my "happily married" weight and now I can loose the "unhappily married" weight I gained with my other 2 marriages....LOL! Hey, you have to make a joke of it - if I didn't I'd cry! But I disgress ---- I am back where I was 9 years ago and now I can continue to loose the weight that is literally making me sick. Nine years ago I didn't have high blood pressure, high triglicerides, type 2 diabetes or because of the other problems, a higher risk of heart problems. I want to get back to that point again - I am doing this to hopefully get off the medications I'm managed to eat myself into.....I need to get well - my husband and my mother depend on me, I am the only one that drives in our household among other things. This morning we went and got mom hearing aides - that will help her quality of life and make things much quieter here! I was really afraid that dh and I were going to be hard of hearing because of how loud she needed the TV and radio. I remember how she use to yell at me to "turn that noise down" when I was a teenager....it's funny how I wanted to yell for her to turn her noise down....what goes around comes around.

Ok - I'm stepping down off my soap box for the night.

Carole