Hi Everybody!
My name is Brigid and I started the South Beach diet on August 29th. I have two more days left of Phase 1. I weighed myself on sunday and I was down 5.2 lbs!! I will weigh again this sunday to see how much I lost the second week. I was thinking about staying in Phase 1 for another week, but I think I will move on to Phase 2 and very slowly add things back. Does anyone have any recommendations on what is best to add back? I was thinking berries and apples and perhaps oatmeal (not all in the same day of course!). I don't want to undo my weight loss!!
Now I'll tell you a little about myself. I am 19 (will be 20 in November) and I have had a weight problem for as long as I can remember. I weighed about 130 lbs when I was 8 while all of my other friends weighed 100 or less. I reached my highest weight when I was 15 - I was 220 (I'm 5'6" by the way.) I lost about 30 lbs when I got involved with my school play mainly because I increased my physical activity and I ate a lot less. Before I would go home from school and have an afternoon snack (which would usually be a meal) and then have dinner and probably dessert). While I was in the play I didn't eat much at all.
I stayed at 180 lbs for a while and then decided that I needed to lose more weight. The telling factor was when I was being driven to school by my boyfriend and I went to get out of his car and the seam of my jeans ripped so my butt cheek was sticking out. Then I realized that I was a little too heavy still!! So I went on the Atkins diet after Christmas week of 2002. I stayed on induction until the beginning of May 2003. By that time I had lost about 25 lbs. But I got so bored of the diet that I began to cheat. I didn't like the idea of having to figure out how many carbs I could eat in one day. I don't like counting things. So I went back to the way I normally eat and luckily I didn't gain anything. After that I tried the Zone diet which was much too complicated, Sommersizing which was just really stupid to me, and Body for Life which didn't work at all. So....here I am and I will succeed this time. I know I will.
Wow...I'm sorry that this is so long. I didn't realize I was typing that much. But thanks for taking the time to read my intro!!! I look forward to any replies!!!
Have a great day!!!
~ Brigid