Need some advice

[Mom2Boxer]

I am so glad you posted your experience, fluffyman! I am so new at this and am absorbing all I can from those that are having positive experiences with low carb like a sponge. lol! I apologize for taking up fozzy's post with my own.

[fluffyman]

Queen,

I don't think you are going to get any grief for hijacking Fozzy's thread. We are all in this together after all. I'm trying to reform my poor eating/exercise habits after a few years of being a very bad diabetic. I need to drop 50 lbs and improve my A1C, and Atkins is the way I will do both without being hungry, moody, or full of carbs.

[Fozzy]

Thanks! I am basically sticking this out for the long haul. I took a vacation and ran out of metformin and had to get back and get back on the whole program again, but I'm down another two pounds. This surely isn't a heck of a lot of weight.. but every little bit helps..

[imagood1]

Hi Fozzy -- wanted to stop back and see how things were going for you. My doctors don't know what I'm doing to loose weight but both the endocrinologist and internist were very happy with the fact that I've lost weight and ask me to continue on the right path....so, without knowing it they have given me their blessing to continue on the Atkins WOE.....sneaky? Maybe, but I know this works and I don't want someone who has never been on the plan to tell me I'm making bad choices. I feel I was making bad choices before I found Atkins....now my choices are good ones.

I went to a dietician and lost 20 pounds then I stalled.....I didn't eat anything not on my list....I stayed within her guidelines and food increments -- 3 months later I hadn't lost any additional weight no inches gone, nothing.....I quit, once again I failed.

When I started Atkins my life changed - I'm not hungry, I can't wait for my next meal because it tastes good - not because I'm famished. I make my meal plans out in the evening and know when I wake up what I'm going to eat. Unlike her plan I don't "have to eat because it's 10:00". I spent most of my day before waiting to eat, now I just eat what's on my meal plan and I'm full.

There are so many doctors & nurses who don't believe this plan works because they haven't taken time to read the book OR go on the plan themselves. My mother's oncologist was the first person I knew who actually used the plan and believed in it. He now asks his patients to use the plan because cancer cells feed off sugar - we don't eat sugar, so cancer cells don't have as much to use to grow. When mom was going through cancer treatments he hadn't lost his weight yet, but soon after her surgery he lost 40 pounds and sings the praises of Atkins now. When she goes for her annual checkup with him next month I'll tell him I'm on Atkins - I'll let you know what he says then!