Once again back in diet land!

Long time no see/read right?  I know, but like for most people my life is crazy all the time!  My little guy has hit terrible twos and he is not even two yet.  He doesn't say much, but man is he smart!  He has his little hands in everything and I spend most of my days going crazy making sure he doesn't kill himself!  You would think with all this running I would not be fat.... but I am!  So I have been going to the gym everyday and low carbing it for the last 31 days!  I have been doing very well.  However, I have an egg allergy and they are a big part of low carb diet so what to do?  Yeah you can do the drinks (shakes) from Atkins (or others like them) but they are kinda gross.  Well I have only tried one type because they are also very expensive.  I would love to be able to try all of these different drinks and low carb things to tell you about them but its hard because I don't have much money to test them all out being a full time student and all.   However, as I do try them I will start adding info about what I think about them.  I think I am also going to add some recipes I try and let you know what I think of them too.  That way you can have the best of whats out there!  One thing so far that I love are Breyers carb smart chocolate covered ice cream bars.  Man they are so yummy!  They have 7 carbs (5 if you don't count sugar alcohol, but I do) they are a nice treat though when you up your carbs a bit.  I am going to post at least weekly now because I feel like it would be nice to have something like this all in one place.  The best of the best and so fourth.  Of course you can try things for your self but I hate going to sites and seeing a recipe and then "I didn't like this" or "really hard to make"  and so fourth.

So far for this month I have lost 18lbs and 16 (total) inches.  I expect that to slow down drastically but I am still on what they call induction level carbs.  I don't do atkins the way it was intended so I will not be calling this the atkins diet or anything like that.  I use their products at times but I am just living a low carb lifestyle.  Happy healthy living! 

CARBS CARBS CARBS!!!

MMMM I love them but they are EVIL!!!

OK so I remember back in the day when Atkins became popular I was working at Wendy's and I remember people coming in and ordering a double burger with cheese no bread and it made me roll laughing. I thought these people are so dumb do they really think they can eat all this fat and not be a fat ass??? Well turns out YEP!

Ok so in the past few years in school with out looking into Atkins I have learned that our bodies run off of ATP. Whats that you ask... well ATP is Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) basically it is the way we pay our light bills in our body :P you want the lights to stay on you have to have ATP. Its our energy. So ATP can come from three sources CARBS, FAT, and PROTEIN. If you give your body to many carbs then it will use what it needs and store the rest as fat. BUT if you don't give your body carbs it will use fat to make ATP.  In lay very lay terms :)

Turns out these people weren't crazy at all they actually were on to something amazing. So as of yesterday I started Atkins just as a trial because hell why not I have tried every other diet known to man and turns out I am still fat. However, in just two days I have lost weight, feel amazing, and am in Ketosis. Ooo there's another funny word! whats that you ask well ketosis is...Ketosis is a condition in which levels of ketones (ketone bodies) in the blood are elevated. Ketones are formed when glycogen stores in the liver have run out. The ketones are used for energy. Ketones are small carbon fragments that are the fuel created by the breakdown of fat stores. Please don't confuse this with ketoacidosis which is a dangerous thing for diabetics.

Anyway I am working hard on being the best me I can be! I want to be healthy, fit, and beautiful for once in my life. Oh boy there went the low self esteem but the truth is I haven't felt beautiful or even pretty in oh I don't know maybe 9 years. Which is really a big change from who I was when I was younger.

SO... Here is to being the best we can be no matter what that is no matter how we get there! You will get to see this journey in action including all my successes and failures. I want to inspire some one who feels the way I feel right now to be the best they can be right along with me. I am not there yet but I will be soon enough!!!

3/15/2011 Me at my heaviest And my new little man Sam :)