Another weight rant from yours truly,

So of course today, when I've decided to wake up and be low-carb..I'm running late for work, after rummaging through my purse can't find my "buy one get one free" Diet Mtn Dew cap, and because of those two things, abandoned my hope of the pepperoni stick/cheese stick combo and diet caffeinated wonder that makes the Atkins, and or low carb diet wonderful. I am not saying that my run with Atkins in college was at all healthy...my two week diet (in preparation for vacation) of Slim Jims, Diet Pepsi, and Pork Rinds, but I am telling you that in those two weeks, actually just in 11 days, I did lose 14lbs. Again, I'm not claiming it was healthy, and I'm here now b/c I got those 14 back...plus some!

BUT I am saying...that I honestly think that different diets work for different people. It's all in what you believe in, and what you find works for your body. For instance, I can (and have) be a die hard WW girl for weeks, months, and still only drop a couple pounds. "Losing weight slowly is healthier, if you lose it slowly you are less likely to gain it back" yeah, I've heard that. BUT being where I am now, I would really like to think that as miserable as I am right now, if I lost the weight, I'd really really REALLY try to do all I can to NOT gain it back. A good example...my good friend Melinda...diet after diet after diet, pill after pill after pill, and nothing, not a thing. Till she decided to do low-carb, and LOTS of yoga. She lost about 60lbs 3years ago and she's kept it off.

WE CAN KEEP IT OFF! ...once we lose it. How much do we really want this? How sick are we of wallowing in our misery over the extra weight we carry?

When Suzanne Sommers put out one of her books, she mentioned that if you look in the mirror and you have an "intertube" around your center, you need to back off on the carbs. She says that excess carbs just kinda hang out on our hips and bellies, well b/c it does. Not saying I buy into everything that SS says, but it makes sense ON MY BODY. It might not on yours. My old Personal Trainer, who still comes over to my workplace to catch up on me, he and I have seen that cutting out the starches helps me lose.

I don't know WHY I keep torturing myself with the "next trick", when I know what will work for me. So that is what I am going back to. No, not going back to the Slim Jims, Diet Pepsi, and Pork Rinds exclusively, but I've got to cut it out.

I've also gotten a walking buddy..woot woot!

So I know I've told you before, but..I think I have a new plan!

Happy Friday..geeeez..FINALLY!