girlygirl1
Banned
I owe this way of eating many years' worth of slender maintenance. Thanks to Atkins I can eat. I used to feel guilty about every single thing I ate. Even salads and carefully-weighed diet food. Whenever I ate off-plan - which as a carb addict was depressingly often - I would feel crushing guilt and shame. Slips would quickly become all-out binges. There was no-one in the world, I honestly believed when young, that was as bad, greedy, useless etc. as me. A greedy fat pig. (At maybe one stone overweight, back then, or two, tops!)
Diet after diet came and went. I lost TONS, regained it, lost tons more, regained it. And on and on and on. Until, finally, having lost five stones by eating less and exercising more, and then finding myself unable to stick to CD any longer (but having lost a further three stones very rapidly) I turned to Atkins. In the end I lost a total of 140 pounds. Even now it's hard to believe I once had that much weight to lose - but I did.
That was a long time ago and I can truly say that, whilst I have wavered from time to time and even had a small regain recently, I never lost faith that Atkins would help to keep my huge losses off, gone forever, history.
This is a very forgiving 'diet'. It is also truly life-changing. I wasn't mad, bad, greedy etc. I simply have a serious addiction to carbs. No more, and no less. What a wonderful revelation! That simple truth freed me from YEARS of pain, guilt and self-hatred. I am not exaggerating; at times I felt almost suicidal.
I isolated at home, mostly alone, would not go out, would not let friends or even family 'see' me. I put my life, limited as it already was, on hold until the magic day when I would lose the weight again and THIS time stay thin.
Atkins made this dream a reality, and continues to allow me to live in the here and now, unashamed of how I look or what I eat, unafraid to face new challenges. That to me is freedom from food addiction. I may slip but I will always get back on plan again. That way, I - and all of you - will stay free.
Never, ever give up!
Diet after diet came and went. I lost TONS, regained it, lost tons more, regained it. And on and on and on. Until, finally, having lost five stones by eating less and exercising more, and then finding myself unable to stick to CD any longer (but having lost a further three stones very rapidly) I turned to Atkins. In the end I lost a total of 140 pounds. Even now it's hard to believe I once had that much weight to lose - but I did.
That was a long time ago and I can truly say that, whilst I have wavered from time to time and even had a small regain recently, I never lost faith that Atkins would help to keep my huge losses off, gone forever, history.
This is a very forgiving 'diet'. It is also truly life-changing. I wasn't mad, bad, greedy etc. I simply have a serious addiction to carbs. No more, and no less. What a wonderful revelation! That simple truth freed me from YEARS of pain, guilt and self-hatred. I am not exaggerating; at times I felt almost suicidal.
I isolated at home, mostly alone, would not go out, would not let friends or even family 'see' me. I put my life, limited as it already was, on hold until the magic day when I would lose the weight again and THIS time stay thin.
Atkins made this dream a reality, and continues to allow me to live in the here and now, unashamed of how I look or what I eat, unafraid to face new challenges. That to me is freedom from food addiction. I may slip but I will always get back on plan again. That way, I - and all of you - will stay free.
Never, ever give up!
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