Chemica's weight loss Journal

[darkandlovely478]

Hi, my name is Chemica(shameka) Smith from Georgia. I'm 30 years old and have two boys ages 8 and 5 who happens to be my reason for living. My kids mean the world to me. I can't imagine my life without them. They are my everything. Everything I do. I do because of them.

I've been on Atkins since August 14, 2006. It's been going pretty good, but the scale was being mean to me for a while. My weight loss progress is as follows: I started out at 204, by the way, I never thought I'd reach the "200's". But anyway, 204...199...194...193...188...188....188...186. As you can see, it took the scale awhile before it finally start moving again. My goal weight is 145-150. To be a little more technical, I'm tired of buying double digits clothes. I want to get to a 7/8 at least. I wanted a 9, but that's too close to the doubles. I was on this diet before and lost 20 lbs in a month. I got off of it and of course gained ALL of it back. I now realize that it has to be a lifestyle change rather than a lose the weight and start back eating what I use to eat. I'm in a weight loss contest the editor of our newspaper is giving and that has been my motivation for staying on the diet. They publish our name and how much weight we loss each week; I would die if I'm ever in there as having gained weight. So, far I've been lucky. I'll post more tomorrow. Good night!!!