I struggled with my weight virtually my whole adult life. As a result of my frustration but then eventual success with slowly changing everything about my body and my life via a healthy lowcarb approach, I have become vocal and committed to sharing my experience. I work hard to make people think and see through their own BS sometimes. Lord knows I was full of a substantial amount of it going into this journey, and I had to unload every last bit of it to get where I wanted to go. This is me in Septemer 1996, age 46, after a summer of "trying" to get myself on a lowcarb diet.  When I saw this picture, I stopped trying and did it.  I lost 3 pounds the first week and then, although many long-term chronic health problems subsided and I stopped gaining weight, my weight loss stopped cold for 21 months, despite never cheating, never going off induction level carbs.

The story has a happy (if not quick) outcome (never a conclusion, it's never "done").  With some great online help and by making some surprisingly simple changes I never expected to have to make, I eventually got beyond my goal.  Here I am 4 years later, having been at goal almost a year, modeling that same "one size fits all dress" on my 50th birthday, both content and thrilled to have made good on my long-ago promise to myself to NOT be fat anymore when I turned 50. Since then, probably because I knew I still had a lot of learning, changing and growing to do to be able to hang on to this normal body, I hung around several online lowcarb forums.  This led to opportunities to meet and help some other people as I got stronger and more confident with my strategies for coming to terms with this new eating life.

And now I'm 7+ years maintaining at goal.  Yikes, I'm 10 YEARS older than I was in my before picture!!  There are several reasons why I wanted to create and offer this site to others.  The most important one is because I believe it is still important for me to stay connected to other lowcarbers, to help keep myself centered and to keep this part of my life at a high place on my personal priority list. Because after losing and regaining lost weight twice myself, then watching thousands of others do the same thing on various internet lowcarb sites over the last 10 years, I know all too well that I will always be a recovery-in-progress, never a done deal.  I'm here mostly for selfish reasons...because it helps ME. Not everyone can or needs to approach lowcarb the way Connie and I do, and there are some who may need to eventually but who are simply not ready to do it yet--goodness knows it took me long enough to face my own truths.  I'm not everybody's cup of tea--coming to terms with the fact that it's not important that everyone like or agree with me has been an important part of this journey.  If the views or experience offered here don't click with or apply to you, I hope you’ll ignore them. It won't hurt my feelings, and even if it were to do so, the best gift I picked up along the long road of this journey has been learning to handle ALL my feelings a lot more appropriately than I used to--by medicating them away with food.  In fact, deciding to ignore certain (very well meaning!) people, learning to discern which experiences were relevant to my own and then focusing exclusively on what I could learn from them, turned out to be THE critical piece of how I finally turned my own lowcarb situation from floundering to getting where I wanted to go and staying there. I finally figured out that I wasn't on lowcarb forums to be popular or to make friends, I have those in real life. I was there to learn something I clearly wasn't understanding, to help myself reach a goal that had eluded me literally for decades. And so this is what I have to offer, with no advertisements and strings attached.  So, if you are in any way disappointed with the offerings here, well... how about we agree to cheerfully refund exactly what you paid for them? Adele (Adele@leadwiththediet.com) Lowcarbing 8+ years Maintaining at goal 5+ years 168/140, Size 16/8

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