Who says Low Carb Doesn't Work?

Daniel, my stepson, has made tremendous progress on the Atkins Low Carb life! He started at the end of November 2007 at around 270 lbs and now weighs somewhere between 215 and 220 lbs! Look at the tremendous difference achieved in just a few short months (Before and After)!!!!

Dan is now planning on moving into maintenance levels of low carb life. 

He is healthier, he can jump higher than ever before, and is just doing awesome. 

And as for mental performance on low carb - Dan just completed his second year of college, winning accolades for his academic performance - graduating summa cum laude, receiving the Student Leadership award for his campus, and was named the department student for the area he is focussing his studies in. 

Now we just have to convince a few more members of our family to join us in the low carb life!

Tonight Dan made an awesome killer low carb pizza (pepperoni & supreme style)! I think I liked it better than regular pizza!!! He found the recipe on the Net, but I may post it here later for those interested! It is absolutely wonderful!! It is great that he is finding all the good things you *CAN* have on the low carb life, rather than lamenting those things you cannot have!

WAY TO GO, DAN!!!!

 

The TDC (Triple Digits Club)

One of the support forums available online at the lowcarber site http://forum.lowcarber.org or http://www.lowcarber.ca is called the Triple Digits Club (or TDC). It is a forum for members with at least 100 lbs to lose, and also for folks who have already lost 100 lbs or more.

Recently there have been posts by members in this forum recognizing those who have lost 100 lbs+ that are so encouraging to read! Some of the folks are there long after they have lost 100, 200, or 300 lbs (or more). Their posts are encouraging and they never fail to lend support, encourage, and share advice to others that are working their way down to goal weight. The nice thing I see is that many bristle at the suggestion that low carb eating is a "diet", when for them it is not something you do and then stop and start eating like they always have. They are there to continue maintenance, and to keep in touch with the community, and ideas, and way of eating that have changed their life. In fact, those returning members who treated it as a "diet" are often back to re-lose the same pounds all over again!

It is so encouraging to me to read the member posts, advice, and journals, and to check the gallery for their before, in-progress, and after pictures. Some of them look so much healthier, prettier/handsomer, and in some cases they even look like even younger and more vital people! In fact, a few even look like an entirely different person altogether, and if they didn't include their progress pictures throughout their weight loss journey - you would suspect some sort of fraud was in effect.

I need all the encouragement I can get, and this is a tremendous place to give and to receive support and to get a sense of community - that you are not in this alone!

It is always encouraging to read when someone has broken through a new barrier in weight loss, and read about their journey to ONEderland (being in the hundreds from 100 - 199 lbs).

As for me I have a long ways to go to get to Onederland, but I am on my way.

http://forum.lowcarber.org/forumdisplay.php?f=49