I just finished a year on WW (not to mention all the money I've paid in). I was really gung ho about it but my enthusiasm quickly waned when I saw how slowly the pounds came off. It took me just over a year to lose 28 lb and that was staying strictly OP (except for a brief fling at Christmas where I gained 4 lb back and it took me the next 3 months strictly OP to lose them
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I'm still going to WI at WW because I prepaid for a few more weeks.
My doctor recommended I go back to low carb because my morning blood glucose levels have been out of the safe zone ever since midway through my year on WW so obviously all that bread, pasta, rice and fruit weren't doing me a whole lot of good.
I've now been back on Atkins for a month. I lost 5 lb the first week, which was encouraging. Then I got a bit giddy with my success and overdid it with some macadamia nuts and gained back 1 lb. Then peanut butter was my next binge and I gained back another 1 lb. Last week I stayed strictly on Induction and lost 1 lb. So, it really hasn't been a rapid weight loss for me but losing weight isn't the be all and end all for me. Wellllll, yes it is,
who am I trying to kid. But the side effects of being in ketosis are another wonderful benefit. I feel so much more energetic. No more mid-day crashes. No more wild cravings for sweets (I don't consider nuts a sweet but obviously I have to learn some restraint.
) No more bloated feelings and no more wondering when I can eat again and WHAT I can eat when I do. After my breakfast of bacon and eggs, I don't even think about food until mid-afternoon. That's when I'll have a snack of cold meat and salad or some other low carb food.
This weekend I made low carb ice cream and I can see where I'll have to learn even more restraint, but it has proven to me that I can still have lovely, luscious desserts and stay OP on the Atkins plan.
I also did Atkins many years ago (mid 70s I believe) and lost a LOT of weight but got scared off by the "experts" of the day telling me I was going to kill myself. I had never felt better but who was I not to believe them?
So I now have over 100 lb to lose and this much older body is less willing to give up those pounds no matter what method I use. But, I'm less anxious about it and more willing to be patient and take the slower road.
This is a very healthy, nutritious way to live and I highly recommend it.
LindaBC
Going from WW to Atkins
~ I came looking for a low carb and/or Atkin's diet thread and stumbled upon this one. 
) So come Monday, I will weigh (1 day shy of 2 weeks) and see what has happened.
