a Journey BACK to my reality!

(above)My personal rollercoaster ride 2003-2005

Welcome as I  journey into the Land of being Low Carbing Bandster

Years of PCOS and infertility... My Atkins Baby is now going on 3!

Eating/Living a Low Carb lifestyle is something I must do for life, a simple fact that I know to be true, a fact that I have proved over and over again to myself.  I would LOVE to be like my naturally "thin" sister, but it's not in my genes...therefore it is time for me to get off the weight roller coaster and get on with living....

OK.... I'm leaving this site up because I still firmly believe in living a LOW CARB life, that said.. it is now the year of 2008 and I am 10 months BANDED.  I view my band as an enforcer of eating low carb in that I can not phyically eat bread, not because I get sick, but because the high gluten content gets wet and forms a globby ball that sits in my stoma acting like a cork.... ANYWAY I have a BLOG called

LOSING IT ONE MORE TIME this is the blog I update weekly or more... I'm down 81 lbs working my low carb plan with my band! (I'm not perfect, but I'm in my size 12's again and actually as I type this I'm wearing a stretchy size 10 St. Johns bay jean.

Here it is May 2006, and I stand before you  (ok... so I'm typing ) and for the 3 rd time since first hearing the term LowCarb in 1999, I am faced with losing the SAME 70-80 pounds that I SWORE were gone forever.  I look at the above avatar an am disgusted that the person on the right is ME TODAY....(ok.. I took it yesterday on my lunch break) but you get the point.  Eating low carb has put my PCOS at bay, which in turn gave me a cure for my infertility and blessed me with a son, it has taken me from as big as a size 24 to as small as a size 10, but each time I get to a happy place in life, I wake up months/year(s) later back up at the high end of my weight range........ and it really, really, really stinks!

So, here I am AGAIN in a tight 18, the reason..... love, complacency... and laziness!  Basically I "recommitted" to the plan so many times over the last year, I'm puking sick of my own excuses! LOL  I think that "the" something that needed to click in my head finally did so, and I'm now on day 2 of a totally on plan day... this may sound like nothing to you... but to me it is... it is the beginning of control and the beginning of the journey back to those Size 10/12's in my closet. 

I can't say that Low Carbing is for everyone.... because quite frankly it's not.... but it IS for me... so that is why I've dusted off the hb eggs and bottle of ranch dressing, bought that head of lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli, and all that meat.. getting ready for the rest of my life.  ONE filled with the LOVE of a great man, and our blended family, AND the feeling of single digit jeans against my backside!