Study Found Atkins Diet to Reduce Cholesterol

Surprising results, considering the atkins diet promotes adding fat into the diet, instead of reducing fat. The study compared a low fat diet, the Atkins diet, and the Mediterranian diet.

Read the full article here: Low-carb beats low-fat in diet duel.

I suppose this helps me with my decision to go on the Atkins diet. It's about getting healthy! My weight is my main concern right now. According to this study, those on the Atkins diet lost the most weight.

However, according to the study, the low-carb diet didn't do much for the women with diabetes. I don't have diabetes, but I want all my health numbers to come down.... weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and sugar levels. I thought it was interesting a low carb diet will bring down cholesterol but not reduce the diabetes. I would have thought it was the other way around.

Okay then! So I'm going to start the atkins diet this coming Monday. Why start my diet on Monday? Because I've got to plan and go shopping! For the rest of this week, I'll stick to my healthy eating and exercise routine.

Day At A Time

I am reading Dr. Atkins books. This week I talked to several of my friends who have lost some weight, and each one of them mentioned cutting out the white bread. Not necessarily going full out on the Atkins diet, but definately cutting out sugar and white bread.

One of my friends cut out carbs and watches her calories. She use to be obese and now she's so tiny. She has kept the weight off for about 5 years. Her energy level is up and she looks great. I don't want to make it that difficult on myself though. Cutting calories and carbs sounds like a lot of math. Doesn't it?

I'm doing okay with my weight loss. Not great. I need to keep it one day at a time...

Slow Beginnings to my Diet and Exercise Routine

I didn't realize how much time has gone by since I last wrote anything here. I guess, like anything else it's something I need to plan into my day, so I don't forget and let a week or two go by without journaling anything.

It's been a tough few days. I was getting out walking every day, and I felt so good after my walk. Then one day, I was walking and all of a sudden I broke out into a heavy sweat. I had to stop and sit down for several minutes. My walking companion and I headed back to the car and by the time I got there I really didn't feel well. I was worried. I wasn't sure what was wrong. Was I having a heart attack? I didn't know what was wrong. Well. It turned out, I had the flu. So I've been down with the flu for all this time. Thank goodness, that's all it was. Who gets the flu this late in the year? Me.

One good thing about the flu. I lost some weight. Now I'm almost over the flu, but I feel a bit weaker than I did before I started this new diet and exercise plan. I'm back to step one. I feel a little less motivated than I did.

I need to find my motivation to lose weight. I'm not real sure where to look for motivation. It's late, so maybe I'll go to sleep thinking about it, and it will come to me in the night.

New Diet - Why Now

I'm not sure why I put it off. I'm 48 years old today. This week I feel like I've lost a decade of my life. It hasn't been a decade, but nearly. I have gained and lost a lot of weight in the past ten years. I heard a report about yo-yo dieting this past week. I didn't realize it was so bad for my health. It has me a little scared about my health right now.

So this time, when I lose the weight, I have a goal to keep it off for good. No more yo-yo dieting.

I want to be healthy and look good at 50. It's important to me to get in shape by my 50th birthday.

I have two years to reach my goal weight and health goals. For now I am looking at a week by week goal. Maybe later, after I figure out what I'm doing, I'll set goals farther out. Right now I'm not comfortable with goal setting.

All I know is I wish to lose this excess weight as soon as possible, but I want to lose it in a healthy way. I want to have more energy. I need more self control.

Why now? I can't feel like I do this week. I don't like feeling so blue about my life.