I'm Tatiana. I have been doing LC this time around for 46 days. I'm basically doing Atkins--by the book, with all the rungs and everything! I joined this group when I first rejoined MFP back in August. But I wasn't very active. I'm a bit more active at the moment. I joined because, for me, the key to success is just reminding myself, every single day, that I am committed to this. And when you log in every stinkin' day, it helps to have a bit of fun to look foward too! I know, for example, that I've been doing this for 46 days because most of the time, I not only log my food, I write a blog post on my MFP blog. Why I joined the group--I don't know if I'm looking for support as much as I'm looking for company. I'd get bored otherwise!

P.S. I'm currently around 265 and have about 120 more lbs to lose. I'm 5'7-5'8.

Hi, I'm Jenny. I'm one month into LC, trying to stay under 20g/day or at least less than 25. So far, I've been successful. I lost weight with Atkins probably some 15 years ago but since the Internet has advanced so much, I'm finding it much easier these days. The variety of recipes out there is amazing so I don't feel I have to live on just Slim Jims and cheese. Much easier to sustain!

I started this WOE again for three reasons. A horrible Cheez-Its addiction (I ain't kidding here!) and a dear friend of mine was being pressured to do weight loss surgery by a good friend of hers. That "good friend" was so mean in her tactics that it motivated me to show my friend that it is possible for her to lose weight another way (I'm not bashing WLS here, just explaining about my friend!). The third reason, of course is that I was TIRED of feeling tired and rundown. I had pain in my left leg that kept me up at night (for abt 2 yrs) and a horrible pain in my left shoulder (rotator cuff) that was severly limiting movement with that arm (for abt 1 yr). I'm thrilled to say, since losing just 15 lbs, the pain in my leg is gone and my shoulder feels so much better!

I wish everyone much success this year!

I'm Niccole, just starting out. Hello

Here's some advice: No matter what happens (scale stalls, life drama, the sky falling) take one day at a time (or even one meal at a time if you have to) and Keep Calm and Low-Carb On.

I love this, Jess! I may have to print it out and post it on my bathroom mirror...lol

Candice and NIccole and anyone else...feel free to friend me. I started Dec. 1st. I could use some LC friends :

I'm Abby, 36, working mom of a one year old son. I gained a lot of weight with my pregnancy and am now looking to lose 50 pounds by the end of the year (with a sub goal of 37 by my 37th birthday in August) so I can have a healthy pregnancy the 2nd time around. I just weighed in at 200.4 (ugh - I haven't been over 200 in years), so my goal weight is 150.

I've dabbled in LCHF for a while now and am ready to get serious - my mom has had great success with it and she and I have the exact same body! I like it because I really do find that it cuts down on my hardcore carb/sugar cravings. I'm using Atkins as my guide.

Would love to be friends with anyone in a similar boat - we started a group for anyone doing Atkins Induction over the next couple of weeks. If anyone is interested, please feel free to message me and I can send you the link!

Hi, I'm Sonja. I just turned 40 in December. I'm married, and have a teenage daughter. I've been on MFP since June 2014, and I think I joined this group right after that, when I entered the Biggest Loser competition at my work (I won 1st place for the ladies, btw!).

I know that LCHF works for me, as it has in the past. I've mostly followed the Atkins Induction Phase with <25 NET carbs per day. Somedays like yesterday, I eat more than that and still stay in ketosis. I find that exercise allows me to do that sometimes and still lose weight.

I weighed 205 lbs in 2011, and lost 45 lbs in 5 months that year. I kept it off within a few vanity pounds until January 2014, when I just sort of gave up and stopped caring, and put back on 28 of the 45 I had lost. So, the BL competition at work was my catalyst to do something about how fat and unhealthy I'd allowed myself to become again.

In June I weighed 188.4 lbs, and my new low on Christmas Day was 149. Now, I splurged for the 4 day weekend over Christmas, so I'm up a tad right now, but I'm sure it's not real weight gain. Just water weight and refilled glycogen stores.

So, I've lost just under 40 lbs this time (since June 2014), and 56 total since my highest weight (2011).


After doing LCHF for months, I believe that I may be at a point in my weight loss phase that carb loading sometimes may actually help me. I carb loaded for 2 weeks over Thanksgiving when we were in Mexico, and while I was up 5.2 lbs when we returned, that fell off in 4 days. The two weeks after we were back and I was back to LCHF, I lost another 5 lbs, when I was really down to average loss of just over .5 lb per week prior to vacation. I am close to goal (145 lb goal), so it had slowed down considerably. I do think the carb load pushed me down even further. Looking back at patterns in Excel, I notice there was a big drop after I carb loaded over Labor Day vacation for 5 days, and I just did the 4 days over Christmas weekend, so once the water weight is all gone, we'll see if I start dropping rapidly again.

Anyway, I hope everyone is feeling good about their goals for 2015 and feeling well and happy on LCHF. I read a lot, but only post on occasion.

About Me, TQ:

Lost body fat, dropped 2 sizes in clothes
over the year 2014 doing LowCarbish
lifestyle.

Joined MFP about May '14, had a few
weeks of unstable weight trying different
LCHF plans.

Began following Tommy in Sweden,
just couldn't get my head around that
much fat in his successful diet until
he posted his blood work health
markers over several years of him
doing Mr Skaldeman's LCHF WOE.

Began experimenting w/ Mr Skaldeman's
8+ plan in Dec 2014, 3g C/meal; 12g C/day,
leading to a much reduced appetite,
increased slimming,
higher body heat,
much better sleep pattern,
feelings of ebullience.. Yikes!
Will it last...? Will it last...?

"...If you belong to the 8+ group, you need
to avoid unnecessary increases in your blood
sugar levels.

That is why your recommended food consists
of meat and fat.
Three parts meat and one part fat is ideal.

Measured in terms of energy content, this
means that you eat 15–20 percent protein,
70–80 percent fat, and a maximum of
5 percent carbohydrates.

The high proportion of fat leads to high
metabolism of fat..."

Sten Sture Skaldeman (2011-12-01):
'Lose Weight by Eating', Kindle Edition."

'Why I want to get in shape'
I already have a shape, I want a different shape.
~Old Joke

'My Inspirations':

Mr Tommy: eatlowcarbhighfat.com
Mr Skaldeman: skaldeman.se/home.html
Low Carber Daily Forum... http://tinyurl.com/qaeww7d
"Eat More Fat? -- Amazing Results" http://tinyurl.com/kk8njr7

Always happy to have more friends of LC lifestyle.

Hello I am Wythout...been mfp for almost a year....Low carbing about the same...had great results.....then set back with surgery and other medical problem.....grrrr. with the holidays coming soon i just kind of gave up. But last monday my mind was made up...and here to stay on track. Am hoping by adding some friends who are low carbing also will keep me focused on my new WOL.

Susie here...mid 50's, yo yo gain/loss 20# year after year. Was successful on LC and stumbled across the whole LCHF/keto principles so am interested. Doing some experimental days here leading up to Monday where I'll decide whether to do Atkins induction or jump right in to keto. Been on and off MFP for years; read alot, don't always post much. Want to get the 20 off again and find an WOE that I can sustain the weightloss.

Oh, Wow. I didn't know so many people were reading the forum. It's great.

I'm Vicki, 48, and I'm an Aussie pining to live in England. But that's another story. I want to travel some more and I need to be smaller and fitter just to be more comfortable and achieve what I want to do.

I haunt Imgur and in Jan 2014 I saw a whole lot of people post before and after pics showing major weight losses. I thought that if they could do it, I could too. I have pretty much half my body weight to lose so I started slowly. I increased my activity, developed an interest in gardening and spent more time outside moving around. I already ate a "healthy diet" with lots of home cooked fruits, veges and meats. After tracking everything I ate for a while I discovered I was eating at about a 20% deficit. By November I felt better, had improved my fitness but hadn't lost any size at all.

Then I discovered Keto and reddit. Taking into account that my Dad progressed from diet regulated diabetes to insulin dependent diabetes I thought this could be the key so I'd give it a go. It was the key. I aim for <20g a day which I've found pretty easy to do. The Christmas/New Year week has been a little higher but still mostly under 50g. I've gained about 3kg but my waist measurement is the same so I'm anticipating that most of it is water weight and will shift again and going back on track today.

I started low carb (keto) on Nov 9. I still eat pretty much the same calories and to date my waist is 30cm smaller and I'm 6kg lighter (taking into account the 3kg gained over Christmas).

I like the forum. I check it almost every day. Having people to share and interact with is what keeps me going. If I ever stop interacting it's because I've lost my way. Feel free to send me a message and tell me to get back into it.

OK, checkin' in - DD, deansdad, - whatever's your pleasure, (just not late for....)
As you've probably guessed, the moniker refers to our Son and is my email addy at just about anyplace, been roaming the web since long before it was the web (do you have a TRS80 in your attic?<g>)

Other than our Son, the other "bestest" accomplishment in my life I hold dear is my "first wife" (of 42+years). First in so many ways, 5 time Who's Who Teacher, 6 time HS Graduation Marshall (nominated by kids she had in Elementary School). I'm biased of course but don't need to blow her horn - her "kiddos" and their parents, some still from over 40 years ago, do it for me on a regular basis.

41 years behind the desk (during which she actually "sat" at her desk probably 10 hours total) was all the body could take though and we both retired (tearfully) from the district Feb 1. It was a very difficult "divorce", never actually seemed "real" until this Sept, but we both stay in very close touch and for the first couple months she was back in her classroom nearly as much as before.

My tenure was significantly shorter, 15 years, in Transportation and Training. Before that, 5 or 7 "mid-life career changes" by the age of 40 - construction project manager, corporate pilot and operations manager, started a custom home construction company and a energy efficient building products firm, and a small IT and networking consulting company.

Either couldn't "hold down a job", or, "burns out quickly" - take your pick.

If I had to pick one, it would be a close call but in the end it's my time with the kids - there just is no greater satisfaction than seeing the look in their eyes that says you've made a difference in their lives - nothing else comes close.

My bride ("Her Sveltness") and I began shortly after retirement with a CICO plan, switched to MFP shortly after and finally found LCHF around March lurking here since shortly thereafter.

She hit (and surpassed her goal a month or two ago losing 35 or so and now whining about not being able to find "pants that fit". Intended to stop, first at 125, then 120, finally settled in at 110ish - same as when in met in HS and she looks and feels like a million bucks - I couldn't be prouder for, and of her.

I was pushing 230 when I finally woke up - thanks in part to my cardio who launch the T2 bomb...."....don't get it in check by your visit and we'll be talking meds....."

After watching my FIL go from "pre" to "full blown" (needles and all) in a little over a year and helping him as best we could but watching the slide, we both said ".....whatever it takes....."

What it took was LCHF.
The First Lady's hasimoto's, her arthritis, her years of joint pain - all in major reversal. My impending date with T2D stopped in its tracks, turned tail, and running away.

So life is good, we can focus on our travels (now that we "finally" don't have to go only on school vacations) and doing what we can to pay back at least some of what we've been privileged to have received over the years.

Like those who have gone before me, I too am amazed at the number of truly dedicated and committed folks here but if I had to pick one "highlight" of LCD, it would be the incredible "diversity" of the group's members.

Not just in the "traditional" meaning of that word but also in terms of the numerous variations of LC lifestyles they've adopted or "morphed" to.

That's what I see as LCD's greatest accomplishment - not only can we accept and support each other's choices despite our differences, but equally importantly, we can (and do) learn from each other about LC things we might (probably) never have even considered if not for encountering someone with a different point of view.

Many, many, years ago, one of the "room Mother's" in her classroom presented my favorite teacher in the whole world with a poster sized print of a photo she had taken during a summer vacation on Cape Cod.

5 brown wood ducks, lined up like little soldiers with a white duck in the middle, all paddling ducky style through the salt marsh with a golden sunset reflecting off the glass smooth inlet waters.

Below the duck parade were the words "Dare to be Different".

It became the mantra she instilled in each and every of the over 1000 students that had the privilege and just plain "good luck" to sit in her classroom over the years. (and a bit of it even rubbed off on me)

Hello everyone!
My name is Crystal.
About 8 years ago I did Atkins and lost 100lbs. 7 years ago I got pregnant and gained it all back plus some. In July of this year I was gonna take my daughter to an amusement park and realized that I probably was too fat to ride most of the rides. That was a huge eye opener for me. I want to be healthier. I want to bike ride with my daughter, go to amusement parks and ride all the rides. I want to look good again.
I started low carb back on 8-06-14 and since I've lost 44lbs. I've got a lot more to lose but I will.
I'd welcome any new low carb buddies and good luck on your journey.

Hey, I'm Becky. I just started Low-Carb again recently, but have done it in the past. I lost 65lbs in 2013 and slowly gained 20lbs back in 2014. So, here I am again I just have to accept the fact that this is a way of life! Everyone feel free to add me!

Day 2 -- wishing I had no carbs in the fridge/freezer, especially baking from Christmas. I think I will give it away :-) I have been trying to be relatively low carb (except Christmas) for about the last year. I have been mostly off wheat and grains (again except Christmas - you see common thread here lol) I just watched my oldest sister lose almost 30 lbs in 12 weeks on ketogenic diet without exercise. I have 16 lbs to lose, but this is as much about health as it is about weight loss. Love the fact I can read your posts online to keep me motivated and inspired! Add me if so inclined!
Caro