So here's the deal. The past week or so I've noticed a new problem at night. More so last night and it scared the crap out of me. As I mentioned before in another post, I've gained 20 pounds recently. I've gone from feeling okay to feeling awful. The new problem is that when I start to doze off, I'm having trouble breathing, I startle awake, take a big gulp of breath and then start to doze off again. It went on for about 15min before I finally went to sleep.
I'm scared.
In the past few days I've gone from starting a low cal diet, to researching weight loss surgery, deciding against that, to a new plan I cooked up about 10 minutes ago while talking to my husband.
The new plan is this:
Lose 50 pounds on Atkins
switch to
Southbeach for the next 50 pounds
and finally a
LowCal approach for the last 37 pounds.
My idea is that by starting with Atkins, I will a) have an initial fast weight loss that will at least get me breathing at night again b)bring me a steadier increase in exercise ability.
Southbeach will help me transition between atkins and lowcal.
Lowcal will give me the oppurtunity to eat in every setting (family dinners, birthdays, etc.) that southbeach and atkins won't. Besides the fact that I can't imagine not feeling safe to eat certain foods ever again.
Think it will work? I know it's a lot of babbling but I haven't thought it through totally yet.