Another 100 pound yo yo

rsouthland

As a former Marine, I've had fitness deep ingraiined, but once out, married with kids, exercise seemed to take a back seat. My heaviest weight at the time, was reached in late 2007 when I topped out at 298, I grabbed my boot straps and headed down the Atkins road and found major success. By June 2008 I was down 100 pounds.

Now that I'm 40yrs old, I've really been noticing things slowing down. Last week I stepped on the scale to find myself back up to 296. For the love of all that is holy!

Like Deja Vu, here I go again with Atkins, with the mindset that this is the last time I'll swing 100 pounds, one way of the other. I'm looking for other former Marines looking to lose close to 100 pounds to get down to fighting weight. Lets motivate eachother.

Not as lean, Not as mean, Still a Marine!

ghammac

Semper Fi!!!! I dont have 100 pounds to lose but, regardless, you did it once, you can do it again. This time you need to remeber. Once you reach your fitness goal, you need to keep eating healthy, Meat/veggies. Limit your pasta and bread intake, unless you are going to keep your exercise high. Regardless of all the junk you will hear and people will talk, i loved the atkins diet. Lost about 60 and kept it off. I did change my eating habbit to eat cleaner, but I still splerge and wolf down a pizza with the kids or scarf down a pan of cookies occationaly but when I do, I go to the gym and burn even harder for the day or week. It is trully about calories in and calories out, The reason atkins works so well is it eliminates the biggest offenders of empty calories i.e soda, sugar, pasta, bread. and eliminates the insulin spikes associated with these food. regardless, keep up the good work. remember what we said in the marines..... **** the dumb ****.... just eat right and work your *kitten* off and your *kitten* will come off. Later my friend..... urah