Losing Weight, I'm Low Carb!

My last post in January was the GBU and on the bad section I had mentioned that my weight was up 4 pounds. Well sometime in February I decided to mix things up a bit. I had been on Body for Life for as long as I can remember but it wasn't working, my weight was stuck in the 180's, usually around 184 to 185 so I decided to try the low carb method.

I got the idea from my friend Kelly The Happy Texan her blog is all about eating low carb diet and she has all kinds of recipes and low carb links. I figured if she went from 250 to 177 she was doing something right. So around the first week of February I said goodbye to bread, potatoes and any kinds of foods made with flour like pizza and pastas. I welcomed back in to my diet full fat everything, bacon, sausage and cheeses. It was a bit hard in the beginning but after a few days I was surprised to see that I was never hungry.



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I've been doing the low carb thing for 3 weeks now and my weight is down to 176.6 as of this morning. My goal is to be at 173 to 175 pounds. The nice thing about low carb is that most of the weight seems to be coming off my belly. During Body for Life, I was measuring at 40 inches around the belly and now I'm down to 38 inches. I was always a big skeptic of the low carb diets but they work! I'm finally off my plateau weight of 185 and I need to go shopping for smaller sizes.

Low carb may not be for everyone but it works for me, will I stay on it long term? I hope so but I do miss things like pizza, one of my favorite foods and I miss the good beers like Guinness and Samuel Adams. I may start doing a cheat day again once a week where I can eat anything I want.

Anyone else believe in low carb?!

HS