Ancestral Weight Loss Registry
  • Home
  • Join
  • Results
  • Testimonials
  • Science
  • Blog
  • About

Meet Sheri.

7/27/2015

1 Comment

 
Picture

Meet Sheri.

I started gaining weight after high school. Up until then, I was fairly skinny (about 105 pounds), but I noticed that when I ate anything out of the norm, I would quickly and easily gain weight, so I kept my calories extremely low. When I got married, I weighed 150 pounds. I am 5'2". After having two children, my weight was at an all-time high of 194. I had gestational diabetes with my second child. I lost about 10 pounds doing the South Beach Diet. When I added carbs back, my weight loss stalled. 


A year later, I was at a health fair, and the nurse doing the blood sugar testing told me I had pre-diabetes. I was in denial. I didn't believe him at all. Still, I wanted to be sure, so I started taking readings on my old blood sugar meter. It was right. I did have it. I was so shocked and sad. I started following a carb restricted diet. I lost about 30 pounds just doing that, but then I stalled again. I read about something called The Primal Blueprint, so I stopped eating grains of all kinds. It really worked. I lost another 25 pounds or so. I've been stalled since June 2011, but it's been my own fault. Every time I get on a roll with my carb restriction and lose a pound or two, I have a carb relapse and eat pizza or something, and gain the pound or two back. It's been over and over like this. Still, I think of carb restriction as the most successful plan I've ever tried. My husband is not on board with me, and I know that if he were, I could lose the 20 pounds more I would like to lose. I'm not giving up, though. I feel much, much better when I don't eat the carbs. I have more energy, and I sleep better. 


If I eat carbs, then I have headaches, and mental fuzziness. I am also more irritable. I feel like carbs are a drug for me. Anyway, that is my story. I hope someone will benefit from my telling it. 

Picture

The new Sheri.

CHALLENGES: 
Family members who are not supportive, especially when they buy things I should not have. 

ADVICE: 
For me, it is life or death. I don't want to die of diabetes complications or heart disease. These things are rampant in my family. I don't know if I would have changed anything about my diet if I had not been diagnosed pre-diabetic. I just was not wiling to give up the foods I loved, until it became a health issue. If you need to lose weight, please don't let it get to this severe a point before you do something. 
1 Comment
Andi
7/27/2015 05:42:23 am

That's really hard when all family members are not on board. My husband and I are both low carb but our children and not. They eat lower carbs than SAD but higher than myself. One thing I do is serve meals with carbs that are added at the end and I just don't eat them. Examples are:
Stirfry with rice for the carb eaters
Italian sausage with sauce and pasta for the carb eaters
Taco night where I just make a salad and beans/taco shells for the carb eaters
Meat and veg with potato for the carb eaters
Breakfast with eggs and bacon and toast/hashbrowns for the carb eaters.
This has really made my life easier.
Best of luck to you.
I'm not a snacker but maybe your family could store carby snacks in a separate cabinet so you don't see them.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    RSS Feed

    Subscribe and Receive our Updates

    Archives

    June 2020
    October 2018
    January 2018
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    March 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011

    Categories

    All
    1000 Members
    Aha
    Ancel Keys
    Atkins
    Carbohydrates
    Chicken
    Chipotle
    Cholesterol
    Conference
    Counting Calories
    Criticism
    Crossfit
    Diabetes
    Documentary
    Dr. Vernon
    Dr. Wahls
    Exercise
    Farming
    Fat
    Gary Taubes
    Grand Opening
    Harvard
    Hdl
    Heart Disease
    Heart Health
    Insulin
    Introduction
    Low Carb
    Low Fat Diet
    Low-fat Diet
    Marketplace
    Multiple Sclerosis
    Obesity
    Ornish
    Paleo
    Photocalorie
    Policy
    Primal Blueprint
    Results
    Robb Wolf
    Satiety
    Saturated Fat
    Saturated Fats
    South Beach
    Success Story
    Sugar
    Testimonials
    Transformation
    Triglycerides
    Updates
    Weight Loss
    Willet

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.