I started Atkins last monday (April 13), my ketone strips have been in the pink, but I'm not losing any weight. My reunion is in two months, my baby is almost a year old, and I'm running out of excuses for being fat. I 27 years old with two great children, and I worry that they will be ashamed of me because of how I look. I have been steadily gaining weight since my son was born almost 8 years ago, and I just want to be thin and pretty. This is my cry for help.

Hi April my name is Luz .....I am also on the atkins and have been for over a year( stopped about 4 months) i have lost alot on the atkins about 70 any way i remember when i first started I was really frustrated i heard other folks having lost 10 in the first week grrrrrr! Maybe at this time u are doing better its the second week in may. I hope u kept it up. And if u didnt its ok because no one said it was going to be easy. We are addicted to carbs like some are addicted to drugs and we get strange withdrawls the same just diffrent kinds. Well Im here if you wanna talk my msn and yahoo ids are on my profile. feel free to pm me anytime.

Lulu

Hi April. My name is Kendra and I am new to fatchicks. Saw your post and wanted to reply.

Are you getting ready to attend your 10 year reunion? I just had mine in late 2003. I was sick to my stomach months before the reunion because I wondered what everyone would think of me because I had just given birth and was huge compared to the way I looked when I graduated.
The whole time at my reunion I didn't enjoy myself because everyone I talked to I had to mention that I had just given birth and that was my excuse for being gaining weight. When I look back on it now I wondered if anybody really cared what I looked like. Take my word, over 10 years alot of people had changed. People who were skinny had gained weight, people who were fat had lost weight, geeks were gods. One thing I can say is have a great time at your reunion & don't worry about the way you look. I know it's much easier to say that, then live it.

Right now my goal is to loose this weight from having my baby so I'm not fat for my 30th b-day. Turning 30 is killing me as it is the weight just makes it worse.

Kendra
CW-180
GW-140ish