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[2big4mysize]

welcome to ADBB from a former 300+ pounder.

The beauty of Atkins is after you make it to about day 4 your ketosis symptoms will kick in and one of thenm is appetite suppression! Also on Atkins whenevery you are hungry you eat so you don't have to worry about being hungry and can you make it without cheating to the next meal like you do on other diets.

if you are an emotional eater you will need to do a who what where when why and how you were feeling before during and after you ate journal too so you can identify what your triggering events are and then take steps to eliminate that trigger from your life until you have better control of yourself.

check out our century club form to talk with other swho got more then 100 pounds to lose or are in the process of losing it or have lost it.

Happy Low carbing.

[La_La]

Read the book, do it by the book and come here for support.
Good Luck!

[Lisa M]

Welcome to the board.

I hope you'll come back and post more often so you'll be able to see the awesome benefits of having a place where people understand where you're at and what you're feeling.

Best wishes on your journey.

[Weight be gone]

Hey, you are here, among many like you! Atkins does work, but it does take discipline. You can do this!!!!!! I wish you all the best, I hope you start feeling better, you are worth it!!!

[Outback Jess]

Hey Joteddy,
Welcome, welcome, welcome. Everything you have read it true. We are not informercials, we are real people. This plan really works because we have all messed up our system, and our bodies can't burn up all our carbs, so they store them as fat. We are all fat, and then when we changed our way of eating, took out the carbs, and replaced them with the foods on induction, we actually flipped a switch inside, now our bodies burn our fat as fuel, and it has taken us to new places of peace with food.
So much so, we can stick to this plan.
The first 10 chapters of the book you need to get explain this. Dr. Atkins does a beautiful job of explaining what has happened to our body and why we can't achieve weight loss and why we are crazy in the emotional realms, and how removing sugars and processed foods will change things dramatically on the inside.
You will feel so much better than you can possibly believe in a week, and then the further you go, the better you will feel. Everybody here is telling you the honest truth, because we are you, we have all come here defeated by food addictions, sugar addictions, and we were miserable. We are not miserable any more. You won't be either.
the first week will be hard, you will feel worse before you feel better, but then by day 3 or 4, something starts to happen, it's this good feeling you might not be use to, it starts to pop up in your day... Soon you find yourself smiling and feeling better and better, in these tiny little ways. It's true, we promise.
The advice above is the only way to these good places.
Buy the book, read the book, plan for your induction and go.
Drink the water required, soon you will just love that water
Exercise in some fashion and build up slowly.
Come here daily, post, read joing in and make friends and walk to gether on this journey!
No compromise with any of this. Find a way to bring these things into your life, at all cost and then you will move forward and you will be welcoming newbies and telling them, "IT WORKS" because it does.
Jess

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