DATE: Oct 23, 2011
USERNAME/REAL NAME: cellie / Celeste
AGE: 23
BIRTHDAY: April 1st (yes -- no joke. It's always a laugh when I go out on my birthday get ID'ed
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MARITAL STATUS: Committed relationship
FAMILY INFO (anything you care to share about your family, children, hubby, etc.):
I'm a halfie. My mother is Filipino, and my father is British. They're both meat-and-potato-atarians.
I also have an older sister. Both my mother and my father are short and overweight - my father much less now, as he's had some major stays in the hospital lately due to heart issues. My sister is tall and skinny as ****. I spent most of my life being tall and skinny too, but I have a bigger sweet tooth than she does and it caught up to me.
HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Design (Interaction design, graphic design, web design and industrial design!), Cooking, Anime/manga (big nerd. Went to Japan last fall. good times!)
PETS: 1 cat, Calvin. The most morbidly obese of them all in the household!
ATKINS START DATE: 10/21/2011
WHAT MADE YOU CHOOSE LOW CARB / ATKINS:
A few things. Like most people, I ballooned when I entered university - it took me until now to realize (despite my mother's warnings) that my metabolism wasn't the same was I was when I was a teenager. I kept eating like a teenager, but wasn't digesting like a teenager anymore.
I entered university at 122lbs, but by 2nd year was hovering around 150lbs. I was unhappy with my weight at this time, but was incredibly busy (an interaction design degree = no spare time for anything, really) and enjoying going out for meals with my new friends.
In my 5th year, I took an 8-month internship at a leading technology company in Canada. I moved away from home, and took on a desk job for 8 months. When I left, I was 150lbs. When I came back, I was 169. I weighed myself on the 20th, and was shocked to see that number go up to 172. I decided to put my foot down, and fix this problem while its still a small one. I didn't want to see 175.
I chose Atkins because a friend had tried it and had success. Another reason I chose Atkins was because the information was free, and of all the things in my life I loved to indulge in, carbs was definitely #1.
TOP WEIGHT: 172.2
CURRENT WEIGHT: 166.2
GOAL WEIGHT: Short-term goal: 145lbs. Long-term: less than that.
HEIGHT: 5'7"
EYE COLOR: Brown
HAIR COLOR: Black
OCCUPATION: Student (Interaction Design)
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION: Vancouver
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST PROBLEM IN WEIGHT LOSS: I'm not sure how I'm going to sustain the Atkins lifestyle - frankly, my dad makes an amazing spaghetti bolgonese and I'm not sure I want to give that up forever because I can't eat pasta. I'm considering transitioning to a calorie-counting diet after OWL or pre-maintenance.
WHAT IS DIFFERENT THIS TIME THAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL:
First time dieting; there is no "this time".
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