Last summer while doing the $25/week grocery challenge I lost 5 lbs. Then I had my kidney stone and ended up in the hospital for 2 weeks and lost 10 more lbs. After getting out of the hospital I had no energy and no appetite and lost another 5 lbs. Unfortunately after that it was the holiday season and instead of building on that loss I gained back everything I lost by April 1st.
Mid-April I started low-carb/primal/paleo way of eating. I weigh on Sunday and Wednesday and when I got on the scale this morning I saw the Whoosh! fairy had visited me and I had lost 2 lbs since Wednesday. This puts me 2 pounds under my low of last year, without the visit to the hospital to help out 
So even though I've lost over 20 lbs my mind wants to tell me only the last 2 count, since the first 19 lbs were re-lost lbs. Bad Head!!! You can't always control your thinking, but either way I'm now on my way to losing 'real' weight
I finished reading the library book Tucker's Claim by Sarah McCarty. Romance - very good.
a new low
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Congrats on the weight loss.
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Then I started reading about the Leptin Reset. Leptin is a hormone that controls your other hormones and your hunger. I've been following the rules for that since Aug 1. And I love the results from this way of eating. No hunger, no cravings, no thinking about food all day and what/when to eat next, great sleep. Just over all feel good. My skin looks better and I think my hair is growing in, it was getting very thin on top.
Dr Jack Kruse has a blog about leptin and reseting it using primal eating. I'm following his rules here:
http://jackkruse.com/my-leptin-prescription/
and the blog about people who are following the reset here:
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread32345.html
I've read the book Mastering Leptin by Byron Richards which does a really good job of explaining how the hormone works.
I also follow Mark's Daily Apple blog. The author wrote The Primal Blueprint, which I just finished yesterday.
I would probably start with Atkins again - especially induction just to get over the carb cravings and then tweek to what you think works for you.
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