We are Connie and Adele, two long-term all-the-way-to-goal and successfully maintaining lowcarbers who are financing and developing this site. We hope it will slowly grow into a healthy and helpful oasis where serious lowcarbers can get meaningful help making the diet and lifestyle changes that will lead to their own long-term, PERMANENT weight loss success, using a healthy lowcarb approach.
Adele's Story: Among successful weight losers, I am a relative lightweight…from my highest non-pregnant weight I’ve lost only 45-50 pounds. But from a longevity standpoint, I’m among the fortunate few who finally learned some fairly simple strategies to KEEP it all off. After 25+ years of yo-yo dieting, I have been able to lose and maintain a healthy weight and bodyfat percentage for 7 years. But what is even more exciting than this to me, is that after getting to goal, I began coaching other women I've been privileged to meet on various lowcarb internet sites to their own stunning successes---almost all of whom are still keeping their weight off! Connie was the first. They are the ones who have encouraged me to branch out, and I expect some of them will be joining us in this helping-chain endeavor! You can read more about my experience and outlook in the essays and articles I have posted here.
Connie's Story: I was always overweight. I did what many women do, I tried the latest diet and lost some weight. Every time I would regain it plus more. This continued until I found myself over 250 pounds and a size 24. A physician told me "If you continue to gain weight and eat as you do, you will be a diabetic by the time you are 40". The very condensed version is that I went on to lose almost 100 lbs and wear a size 8. While that was an accomplishment I was thrilled with, I had to find a way to not regain this time. I am proud to say I have maintained my goal weight and level of health for 4 years. The key has been making and continuing the very diet and lifestyle changes that we want to help YOU make for yourselves. Along with Adele, I will also be sharing more of my story and experiences as this site grows.
Our Focus
This site is intended primarily a place where you can begin exploring and dealing with the later, differently-challenging stages of this journey, the final layers of weight loss and the early months and years of reaching and staying at goal.
It’s a place in the journey where we are often surprised to find we’ve painted ourselves into a corner, a place that often requires even more learning and changes from us, a place where we often encounter some unexpected emotions and urges. Despite what we said we would do and how we expected to feel as we began to close in on goal, a lot of us find it takes even more and different kinds of skills to continue with this unpopular “diet” of ours. We often reach a juncture, a point where we begin feeling entitled and inclined to “test” how stringently we really need to be on this diet, and we are often surprised to find our bodies and our emotions reacting more strongly than we ever anticipated to even slight or occasional deviations.
This is a common breaking point in the journey that keeps a lot of short term successes from advancing into long-term ones. If we gather the gumption and tenacity to return to and remain on the diet and hang on to our hard fought results (and not throw ourselves back into the food fog as, sadly, so many seem to do), we often find ourselves facing a myriad of emotions and choices as we come to grips, behaviorally and emotionally, with the truth that our life on lowcarb maintenance isn’t going to be nearly as fun, flexible or forgiving as we’d envisioned.
If this is the place you find yourself on your own lowcarb journey, we hope you'll find something of value here.
