Thread: Why did YOU 'go' Low carb???

To prove I couldn't follow it. A friend mentioned it and I said "No way can I give up bread, etc." She told me to give it a try so I did (after reading every other "diet" book out there). I was determined to prove I couldn't do it. Only, it turned out I lost 50 pounds. Go figure.

Pure and simple. Vanity.

Primarily I began Atkins to lose weight. I chose Atkins/low carb because this is how I like to eat. To think, I can eat butter, bacon , steak etc and still expect to lose weight...still expect to normalize blood lipids. I was lucky to begin a diet that would prove to be my ultimate diet.

Don't laugh, but my husband dared me to. I was trying all kinds of diets - trying to lose some weight. Stupid stuff like the cabbage soup diet and so on. Hardly eating anything...and then caving in. So - my husband had tried a low-carb diet before in the past (before we met)...and suggested I try it. I'd never really heard of a low-carb diet before and after hearing what it was all about - I thought for sure it was totally...

I first started Low carbing because I wanted to lose weight quickly and it was a plan I could do because I don't eat fruit or salads so low cal didn't work for me. Then I just yo-yoed up and down throughout my adult years always ending up heavier then the time before. I was so disgusted with myself thinking I was just weak and had no self control. Then I figured out that I am not weak. I am addicted to carbs. I can't have the...

I knew intuitively that LC made sense for weight loss. If I started my day with a carb, it was a twisted and winding food road. Within 2 weeks of eating LC, I was hooked. I have strayed once or twice but in the long run it feels so right.

Tell us all why you started the Low Carb program...weightloss or sugar troubles...or other reasons...?? I started out for weightloss but I'm feeling soooo much better that I think that in its self will keep me motivated!

weightloss (quick crash diet for my wedding, or so I thought, lol) and then finally maturing enough to realize that it wasn't going to be quick and easy, but I felt much healthier and was losing slowly, so this was the way for me.