A Diet that Works!

I had been gaining weight all of my adult life and seemed to be gaining at an accerating rate since my early twenties. When I was about twenty-five I weighed about 175 pounds. In my thirties the average had jumped to the mid 180's. Then I hit the fourties and went into the 190's and beyond. By the spring of year 2000 I was bulging along at 204 pounds.

I had never given dieting a serious attempt because my affinity for junk food seemed just too strong. I tried starvation once, and it worked... until I stopped starving and gained it all back, and them some. I also tried hard labour employment combined with five nights per week of weight-lifting and judo. This worked extremely well but was difficult to maintain for a lazy smoker who hates excercise.

One day I asked my doctor for advice on losing weight. She suggested I try the Atkins Diet. She explained I could continue to eat a lot of the foods I like, such as steak and eggs and bacon and cheese. Well, that didn't sound too bad.

So I finally got around to buying a copy of the Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution and read a few chapters. Some of it sounded pretty good to me. Then I put the book down and got into something else. I didn't lose any weight at all.... but I did switch from using sugar in my tea to artificial sweetener. Then one day while putting on my pants I noticed I had to tighten the belt an extra notch. That made me think again about this diet... if all I did was cut sugar to lose an inch what would happen if I actually tried to follow the advice in Atkins' book?

I then finished the book and started following the advice. I quit all breads, pizza and pasta and any other foods or drinks that were high in carbohydrates. I quit beer. I lost about fourteen pounds in the first two weeks.

That was around May of 2000. I kept on losing weight for the rest of the summer. The loss slowed down with time but continued steadily until September when I finally broke the 170 pound barrier. That's not a bad result.

The beauty of this diet is that you never have to go hungry and you still get to eat a lot of stuff you like.

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