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Max Hollywood Harris
Guest
Hello all,
My name is Max, and I had a love/hate relationship with carbs. It
started in 2002, when I first read the New Diet Revolution and decided
to do something about myself. I weighed 256 the day I finally started.
I lived in LA, worked in TV production and was in a crappy relationship
(that I didn't realize or want to admit was crappy). My time on Atkins
was great. I lost weight, I felt better. I worked out 6 days a week (I
lived across the street from a gym). I posted frequently to this group
back when ANA was in the early days of the "network effects" (Atkins
shakes were just getting into the supermarkets of LA, at $9.99/4). No
South Beach yet, and supermarkets were very thin on processed LC
product. I used to drive out to Pasadena to shop the warehouse of an
early LC mailorder house (I forget the name, and I think it's changed
since then anyway).
Any rate, I lost 50 pounds which was about my goal (I used to sign
256/x/210). I loved the community of this group and found it really
useful. I moved to St. Louis with the bad relationship (which became a
lot more apparently bad after that move). I stayed in touch with the
group, but lost touch with the diet. I started a graduate degree (in
business). I restarted the diet, unsuccessfully twice. I ended the bad
relationship during my first set of finals (these would be my first set
of finals involving math in 13 years, which is a weird time span for a
guy of only 30 years to be able to use). I found myself, for a year and
a half always about month or two away from restarting Atkins. The
battery in my scale died, and I didn't bother to change it.
I gained it all back. With interest. A lending institution would have
to be a loan shark to charge this kind of interest. I graduated this
May weighing inat 273, feeling pretty fat, a little doomed, unhappy
with every aspect of my life, save two, one of which ended, officially,
on May 20th, with my graduation. I had the fullest and best experience
of my life in B-school, made great friends, joined clubs, became a
leader of my peers. Made the Olin school of B at Wash U in the Lou
better than it was before I got there. Really. Created a new
institution. Contributed a lot of thought in some course redesign.
Broadened the horizons of my peers, just as they opened mine. With all
of us moving on, many spreading out around the world, I was, probably
understandably unhappy.
I'm gonna go back in time a little here, so please bear with me. Right
after I broke up with the bad relationship, I met the woman who would
be the other light of my life. In all ways, she is wonderful, which
probably explains how I, full of fears of committment, especially after
the bad relationship, managed to ask her to marry me. Amazingly, she
said yes, and a month after graduation, we got married. Despite being a
pretty surreal day, emotionally speaking, it was one of the happiest of
my life. If I didn't have my wife right now, I suspect I'd be in a
pretty dark place.
My wife has recently started a diet with LA Weight Loss, which she
likes and I don't have a problem with, since she's had success when she
wanted it with them before, and is having success with them now.
Motivated by her wonderful example, the pressure in my head, and some
free time, I started Atkins on Tuesday of this week. This time, I know
it's going to work. The support system is actually supportive (instead
of competitive). I'm applying my business administration skills to it
(Excel is a fun tool for diet and exercise... I suspect charts will be
very motivating...). I have a fridge full of good stuff to eat. And it
seems a lot easier to do now than when I first did it.
I hope to rejoin the group, as an active participant, maybe even meet
anyone here in the Lou. I hope to meet and exceed my goals. I hope to
develop the rockstar body that my rockstar personality deserves and
that my wife deserves as well.
It's day three. I'm in ketosis (this morning, at 4 AM, I turned the
strip very purple, which tells me I should probably drink more water).
I don't feel tired, cranky, weak or crave-y (Days two and three have
been miserable for me the previous four times I have tried this,
sabotaging me once right there). I feel kind of optimistic about the
future, which is a little strange right now, but I'm enjoying it.
Hollywood Harris
264/263.5/206
40/40/20 (body fat % by my Tanita scale)
My name is Max, and I had a love/hate relationship with carbs. It
started in 2002, when I first read the New Diet Revolution and decided
to do something about myself. I weighed 256 the day I finally started.
I lived in LA, worked in TV production and was in a crappy relationship
(that I didn't realize or want to admit was crappy). My time on Atkins
was great. I lost weight, I felt better. I worked out 6 days a week (I
lived across the street from a gym). I posted frequently to this group
back when ANA was in the early days of the "network effects" (Atkins
shakes were just getting into the supermarkets of LA, at $9.99/4). No
South Beach yet, and supermarkets were very thin on processed LC
product. I used to drive out to Pasadena to shop the warehouse of an
early LC mailorder house (I forget the name, and I think it's changed
since then anyway).
Any rate, I lost 50 pounds which was about my goal (I used to sign
256/x/210). I loved the community of this group and found it really
useful. I moved to St. Louis with the bad relationship (which became a
lot more apparently bad after that move). I stayed in touch with the
group, but lost touch with the diet. I started a graduate degree (in
business). I restarted the diet, unsuccessfully twice. I ended the bad
relationship during my first set of finals (these would be my first set
of finals involving math in 13 years, which is a weird time span for a
guy of only 30 years to be able to use). I found myself, for a year and
a half always about month or two away from restarting Atkins. The
battery in my scale died, and I didn't bother to change it.
I gained it all back. With interest. A lending institution would have
to be a loan shark to charge this kind of interest. I graduated this
May weighing inat 273, feeling pretty fat, a little doomed, unhappy
with every aspect of my life, save two, one of which ended, officially,
on May 20th, with my graduation. I had the fullest and best experience
of my life in B-school, made great friends, joined clubs, became a
leader of my peers. Made the Olin school of B at Wash U in the Lou
better than it was before I got there. Really. Created a new
institution. Contributed a lot of thought in some course redesign.
Broadened the horizons of my peers, just as they opened mine. With all
of us moving on, many spreading out around the world, I was, probably
understandably unhappy.
I'm gonna go back in time a little here, so please bear with me. Right
after I broke up with the bad relationship, I met the woman who would
be the other light of my life. In all ways, she is wonderful, which
probably explains how I, full of fears of committment, especially after
the bad relationship, managed to ask her to marry me. Amazingly, she
said yes, and a month after graduation, we got married. Despite being a
pretty surreal day, emotionally speaking, it was one of the happiest of
my life. If I didn't have my wife right now, I suspect I'd be in a
pretty dark place.
My wife has recently started a diet with LA Weight Loss, which she
likes and I don't have a problem with, since she's had success when she
wanted it with them before, and is having success with them now.
Motivated by her wonderful example, the pressure in my head, and some
free time, I started Atkins on Tuesday of this week. This time, I know
it's going to work. The support system is actually supportive (instead
of competitive). I'm applying my business administration skills to it
(Excel is a fun tool for diet and exercise... I suspect charts will be
very motivating...). I have a fridge full of good stuff to eat. And it
seems a lot easier to do now than when I first did it.
I hope to rejoin the group, as an active participant, maybe even meet
anyone here in the Lou. I hope to meet and exceed my goals. I hope to
develop the rockstar body that my rockstar personality deserves and
that my wife deserves as well.
It's day three. I'm in ketosis (this morning, at 4 AM, I turned the
strip very purple, which tells me I should probably drink more water).
I don't feel tired, cranky, weak or crave-y (Days two and three have
been miserable for me the previous four times I have tried this,
sabotaging me once right there). I feel kind of optimistic about the
future, which is a little strange right now, but I'm enjoying it.
Hollywood Harris
264/263.5/206
40/40/20 (body fat % by my Tanita scale)
