This blog will be in one way intimate (about my journey to physical health, including weight), it will be less about my life. As a teacher and therapist, what I can say about my paid for work is limited. I am co-parenting with my children's father in a rather hostile dynamic, and so that will be limited as well.
Here is some more info. I was very successful on a healthy low carb diet about 10 years ago. I ate mostly vegetables and meat. I was not (after research and deprogramming from the cultural paradigm) dietary fat phobic. 10 years ago, my youngest was 2, and I had birthed 3 babies rather quickly. I was just coming off a ethical/health vegetarian "thing". I was a vegetarian for my second daughter's pregnancy and until I concieved her brother. At that point, I was nursing 2 kids and gestating another one. My body SCREAMED for steak. My veggie buddies said "Nah. That's just indoctrination. You need (black beans, nut butters, brown rice, dairy)." I tried that until I gave into the fact that actually my body needed STEAK.
I followed a healthy low carb for a couple of years until life tanked big time. {insert long sob story here} Now, I am in my mid-forties, kids are teens, and I am obese. I am 5'5" and weigh 224.3, size 18.
Adding exercise to my schedule at this point is counter productive. I have 3 jobs, 3 teens and am a full time student. I graduate in December, and although I don't expect to be have too much scheduling freedom at that point since I will be finding a paid for role in which to complete my "LMFT", "LCDC", and "LPC" designations - in addition to teaching 4 days a week and possibly maintaining my full time hours as library assistant at my graduate school.
A few years ago, I tried Weight Watchers (I was an angry, screaming mess eating lean protein, 100% whole grains, fruits and veggies) and did not lose weight. I tried low carb, lost on Atkins' induction and stalled. I did not have the momentum at the time to persevere. I did get my thyroid checked at that time (I was losing hair at an alarming rate). I don't think they did a full, appropriate panel but what they did do came back "fine". I suspect that the preponderance of dairy based low carb legals was an issue for me then.
This time around on Atkins low carb, my clean induction created a just under 10 pound loss. I was fine with that. I didn't expect the rate of loss to continue. I have stalled. I am not sure if dairy is a portion (and therefore) calorie issue for me or that I react to dairy in a way that stalls me, but my gut (no pun intended, but I love puns) tells me that the stall is at least related to dairy.
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