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I hope I can join you because this seems such a friendly thread. I’ll tell you a bit about me, and then you can see for yourselves that I’m going to need a lot of support and advice.
I am 58 married with a grown up daughter. I have been overweight all my adult life and have tried every diet known to man. Yes, I lose weight but as soon as I start eating again it piles back on. I have become so philosophical about this happening that I have 2 sets of clothes: Fat clothes and thin clothes!
Last year I did the Cambridge diet and the weight dropped off me. In a year I managed to lose 5 stones (70lbs) I was having to buy the formula for me at over £30 a week, plus food for my family. When I slowed up with the loss to just 2lbs a week, it seemed an awful lot of money to pay. I came off it and the weight piled back on rapidly. I regained the 5 stones plus another 14lbs.
I am at my lowest ebb and quite honestly, have decided to resign myself to always being fat.
Yesterday I was in a Charity Shop (your Thrift or Good Will I think) and knocked a book off the shelf by mistake. I bent to pick it up and it was ‘Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution’ costing only 90p! I brought it home and I am gradually working through it. It has been like a window opening on a whole new world for me. I’m not jumping into it, I want to read and understand it before I start so I’ve given myself 2 weeks to read it from cover to cover, and get myself into the right mind set.
I have, through being over weight, become very achy in my joints and from the little I’ve read so far, I think as I settle on the new diet, my general health will greatly improve.
I feel that instead of sinking into frumpish old age I now have the ability within me to achieve something I thought was unachievable.
It’s a big book and I’m taking it slowly so have patience with me! And please let me join in.