Inspiration

Kelley from Indiana is 50 years old and 5' 7 1/2" tall. She is fairly new to the low carbohydrate lifestyle and follows Dana Carpender's plan for 50 grams of carbs a day as written in her book How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds!

Tejinder from India is 37 years old and six feet tall. He began the Atkins program on August 12, 2002, weighing 214 pounds and with a 42-inch waist. Today he is nearing his goal weight of 175 pounds, currently weighing 185 pounds!

Emma from Sydney Australia is 33 years old and 5' 7" tall. She has been following the Atkins program for four months, and has dropped from a high weight of 85kg (187 pounds) down to 67Kg (147.4 pounds). She is well on her way to her goal weight of 63Kg (138.6 pounds). She is already at her goal size of 14 Australian (a size 12 in the United States), down from a starting of size 18 Australian (a size 12 in the United States).

Sammy from Scotland is 38 years old, 5’ 10" tall, and has been following the Atkins program for six months. He began the Atkins program weighing at 15 stone, 13 pounds and had a waist size of 36/38. (A stone is 14 pounds, so Sammy weighed 223 pounds when he began low carbing.) Sammy currently weighs in at 12 stone, 10 pounds (178 pounds), and has slimmed down to a 32/34-inch waist. "I never set myself a goal weight. I decided to stop at my current weight as I thought I'd lost enough," Sammy told me.

Last November featured PJ’s journey for "Success Stories." (https://www.carbsmart.com/pjillinois.html) At that time PJ had lost 140 pounds, dropping from a high weight of 313 pounds down to 191 pounds. Today, just 18 months from her low carbohydrate start date, PJ is a mere 4 pounds from her goal weight of 150! I thought it was time for an update on her progress, here is what she had to say.

Cathie from Florida is 5’ 5" tall and 36 years old. Following the Atkins program, she has dropped from 220 pounds to just 128 pounds. Cathie is a mere 18 pounds shy of her goal weight. She has "ungrown" her old size 2X clothes and now wears 9/10’s. And she did all this in just nine months!

Last week I celebrated my two-year anniversary of low carbing. I have had many requests to share "my story" with my online support groups. In doing so, I received dozens of online and offline thank you notes from people for sharing not only the ups, but the downs, and all the mistakes, revelations, and lessons I have learned along the way.

It's been nearly a year since we have checked in on Suzy to see how she is doing after reaching her goal and maintaining it. I recently caught up with her, still cheering others on at her favorite low carb newsgroup, and asked her to bring us up to date on how things are going.

SugarBane from St. Louis is 5’ 1" tall and 37 years old. She began her low carb journey weighing 225 pounds and wearing a size 28. By following the Atkins program SugarBane got down to 155 pounds and was wearing a size 12 prior to her first pregnancy and the birth of her son last summer. She is now pregnant with her second child, and is currently weighing in at 185 pounds and wearing a size 18. Her goal is to weigh 135 and be a size 12.

Every now and then I get a success story letter that leaves me saying, "I can't improve on that." This is one of those cases. Here is a letter I received from Dee in Iowa about her and her husband Lee’s low carb success.

Barry Groves is the author of Eat Fat, Get Thin! He and his wife, Monica reside in Oxfordshire, England, and have been eating "the way we have evolved to eat, mostly carnivorous", since 1962. Barry is 65 years old, 5 9" tall, and currently weighs 156 pounds from his starting weight of 190 pounds. Monica is 63, 5 6" tall, and holding at 126 pounds. Monica's starting weight was 161 pounds.

Anne from Tennessee is 54 years old and 5' 4" tall. She has been following the Atkins program for six years.