The scale finally moved!!!!

Hey ya'll! I've been exercising and doing this Adkins thing for the past three months. I've been sitting at this damn plateau for what felt like forever and finally---3 pounds gone since early last week!!! It's about time! Hot diggidy!! I've been working my butt off--literally---exercising 5 days a week and abstaining from most of the foods I crave with a vengance! The jerks in the insurance booth say, "no way babe," so I'm doing this Adkins diet, and hoping against all hope, that I can stick to this diet. It's gotten considerably easier in the three months I've been on it. It helps that my partner is on the diet, too. The only real reason I have been able to stick with this diet for as long as I have been, is that I saw her lose 100 pounds on this diet. I never believed it worked until I saw it. I've been told by many that, if I pray, and really believe that "God" will hellp me, that I would be able to stick to any diet. Let me tell you, I can't handle people that tell me to believe in some entity that I've never seen, that THEY'VE never seen---some dude in a book that how many thousands of years old??? I'd been to Overeater Anonymous and that was the basic premise: if you turn over you control to " a higher power " then weight loss would certainly follow. What a crock of sh**. Basically, you pretend that some power you've never seen, heard, smelled or tasted---will return your warped mind to one of sanity. Let me tell you, I'm never gonna be sane, no matter what "God" wraps "his" arms around me!!! Anyway, on my own, with the help, love and support of my partner, my friends, and really people on OH, I am losing this weight. It's hard work--period. No God. No invisible entity that's going to make my life worth living. Just pure, unadulterated hard friggin' work! Thanks for listening, Jessica 302/263/175

YOU ROCK HARD GIRLFRIEND YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!! I'm very happy for you! I can understand how your partner's success would be very inspirational for you! I'm glad somebody sees the fatal flaw in 12-step programs that I've always seen. If you buy into it, it's like trying to play a trick on yourself... all that stuff about "admit you are powerless" and "turn my life over" to some entity. It's about relieving yourself of responsibility, believing you don't possess the power to accomplish anything for yourself, AND if you succeed, YOU GIVE THE CREDIT TO SOMEBODY ELSE!!! There are rational reasons for why everything works or doesn't. Weight loss can be so difficult; your body can play so many tricks on you like this crazy **** about how you can eat TOO LITTLE and stop losing weight. It takes persistence, discipline, consistency, discipline, determination, discipline, and lots of sweat. And discipline. GIVE ALL THE GLORY TO JESSICA!!!