Sunday, March 3, 2013

Photoshoot!!!

On the weekend I had my first ever photoshoot for just me! 
It was a bit of fun playing dress ups for a couple of hours.  
Crazy to think that the picture of me on the left was close to 5 years ago, taken back in October 2008.  It certainly keeps me motivated to keep the weight off, after all one of the biggest challenges after losing a lot of weight is keeping it off!!! 80-90% of people gain it all back and then some within 5 years which is pretty alarming.  October 2013 will be 5 years since I started this journey so by the time October 2014 comes around I will be 100% confident that all the weight I have lost is gone permanently.




Photographer: Dayna Jury
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1 comment:

  1. Wow! (Lose the lipstick, though.)

    Anonymous (have to remain this way, I'm married :-) )

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A bit about me….

I started low carb eating in November 2008 after tipping the scales at a scary 107.1kg. The huge gains came after believing that I ‘needed’ whole grains to produce serotonin. I have suffered with Panic Attacks for the last 7 years and I’m stubborn when it comes to medication, I knew that there was more to my anxiety, because along with the anxiety I had the ‘hypoglycaemia’ symptoms..you know lightheaded if I didn’t eat every 3 hours etc etc.... The whole time I was eating the supposed ‘healthy’ carbs I knew in the back of my mind there had to be a better way. So after many months of research I discovered that true low carb is really the only way to live if I want to have a fufilling life....to have a healthy body and mind. I had done ‘Atkins’ back in 2003 and lost a good amount of weight but I wasn’t really eating well, a lot of diet coke and pork rinds not really what I’d call healthy, I hadn’t interpreted Atkins very well.

This time luckily I stumbled across so many wonderful sites including Mark’s Daily Apple which is my favourite site, it has given me the most informative information. I am doing great in terms of my anxiety, my blood sugar is stable so no more ups and downs which can mimic anxiety. I’m not strictly primal or paleo because I eat a little dairy, being in New Zealand we have wonderful dairy so I don’t cut that but I also don’t have a lot of it, mostly cream, butter and cheese...but it’s good quality. I don’t avoid saturated fats in fact I embrace them, they keep me full and satisfied, and I don’t eat much fruit - mostly berries. I
stick to about 50gms carbs per day to lose weight and 50-100gms carbs per day to maintain. I still can’t believe I get
to eat this way!