Hello, alt.support.diet.low-carb.
I'm 6'2", 33 years old, and this evening when I stepped on my brand-
new scale, I weighed 283 pounds, possibly my all-time high weight.
I have been overweight since the second grade and have been going up
and down in weight since I was 17. When I say "up and down in weight,"
I mean from 280 to 180, the lower number being close to where I want
to be.
Something has to change.
Slowly, over the years, I have come upon ways of doing this that work,
and ways that don't. Three of the ways that work are low-carb dieting,
writing, and reading, so here I am. Reading what others write about
this topic will be a fresh experience. Sharing what I write about
weight, food, and losing one while cutting back on the other is a
frightening idea, but I'm determined to go through with it.
In public, I come off as a perfectly reasonable individual with
exceptionally polished social skills. I'm one of those types who live
a double life, and my weight problem has always been a part of my
private life, in which I am a lunatic. There are reasons for this
duality, but hey, different strokes, as they say.
With this in mind, I feel obliged to warn regular readers of this
group that I'm not holding myself to even an NC-17 rating in this
thread. I've never flamed anyone without provocation and I don't
intend to start now, but I'm not just talking about language.
The story of my weight problem is the story of my life, and it's been
strange. Bits and pieces of it have been well beyond the brink of
garden-variety insanity. I'm going to do my best to be true to that.
So wish me luck, or not. Read, ignore, contribute, or not. Life is too
short and my problem is too pressing for me not to try everything to
do something real about it.