My Story
A little background... I am 34 years old and have struggled with weight my entire life.
When I was around 19 or 20 I finally sat down and counted every single calorie that I put in my mouth. Literally.
I would sit down at least seven times a day with a pen, paper and a calculator making sure I didn't go above 1200 calories for the day and if I did it was to be deducted from what I ate the next day. It was very much obsessive behaivior. I lost though. I lost about sixty pounds and got into a size 12. The diet was helped out along the way by the fact that I had gotten gallstones and anytime I ate fatty or spicy foods I had an attack. I pretty much lived on cereal for about a couple of months until I could have my surgery.
Once that sucker was out I went a little crazy with the fatty foods and gained some weight back. In my early 20's for emotional reasons I never connected at the time I turned to bulimia and lost 30 pounds putting me into a size eight.
I'll spare you the emotional drama but let's just say that two years later I woke up and realized I no longer wanted to kill myself. It wasn't that easy of course. It took me years to finally quit purging alltogether and I still get the urge and probably always will when I overeat.
So eventually the purging stopped but the binging did not.
End result: a whopping 300+ lbs.

Over the course of three years I cut back a little at a time on what I ate and managed to lose almost 50 lbs but I stalled out for a log period of time.
When my in-laws vistited us in April of 2002 they had recently started low carbing and had lost about 35 lbs each but more importantly my mother in law has been able to cut back dramatically on the medications she had to take on a daily basis. It was that May that I decided I'd give low-carbing a try. I had great success with it and it was fairly easy to stick to with some preperation.
But like any "diet", if you let yourself get bored and "cheat" a couple of times, those couple of times turn into a daily routine and well...I gained about 40 lbs back.
Now I'm back and I'm determined to stick to this and get the rest of my weight off.
Watch me go, hear me roar!!

UPDATE 12/6/08: Okay so I got a little sidetracked...AGAIN! I don't know how many times I have to go off lowcarb and gain a lot of weight before I realize that other diets DO NOT work for me. I can't do them.
No sense dwelling on the past. Hubby and I are back on this thing full blast and I will get the rest of this weight off!!!

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