Height: 5′ 6″
Starting Weight: 198 lbs
Final Weight: 146 lbs
Total Lost: 52 lbs
Start Size: 16
Final Size: 8
Laura Lost 35 Pounds in 6 Weeks
My story starts back in November 2007. I went to a family reunion and saw my Aunt who I hadn’t seen in a year and she had lost about 50 pounds! I was amazed by how good she looked and asked her what the secret was and she told me all about Kimkins.
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I wanted to lose weight so bad and had tried every diet since the birth of my daughter 4 years earlier. I tried Weight Watchers, I tried watching my calories, I tried the starvation diet, I tried no sugar & whole grains — pretty much every thing you could think of. I spent hundreds of dollars on diet pills and tons of hours killing myself in the gym. Nothing worked.
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I felt so discouraged and a failure. I hated being over weight, I felt like people just saw me as a ‘fat girl’ and not as the kind, loving mother that I was. It felt horrible. I never wanted people to see me eat because I felt like they were judging me and thinking, “She shouldn’t be eating that.”
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I decided that starting on Monday, December 30th 2007 I would start Kimkins. I knew in my head it would work. I thought if it worked for my Aunt it would work for me.
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After Christmas I went on the Kimkins website and read everything from the diet plans to the grocery lists. That Monday morning was the first day of my diet and I weighed in at 198 pounds. The first week was hard. I did feel hungry without my usual high carb foods and a little sluggish, but I knew it was the transition to ketosis.
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That week I spent a lot of time in the Kimkins Chat Room, asking question to all the Kimkins veterans. The following Monday I weighed myself and I weighed 187. I lost 11 pounds in one week! I was so happy! I knew I could stick with this diet. The weighed just kept falling off. By the middle of February (6 weeks after I started) I had lost 35 pounds. I stayed on Kimkins for six more months and lost a total of 50 pounds. I went from a size 16 to a size 8!
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Now it’s a year later and I am maintaining my weight. I follow the Kimkins diet Monday through Friday and usually take the weekends off from dieting. I feel wonderful. I feel so healthy and in control. This is the first time in my life I feel like I have the secret to weight loss and the power to control my weight. I get tons of compliments and it feels great!
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I wish I could tell everyone about this program and how it really works. Just remember don’t cheat and really stick to the diet. When I first started Kimkins I had a goal in my head to just make it 2 weeks without cheating and see where my weight was. Of course once I saw I had lost almost 20 pounds I knew I had to keep it up.
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This diet is so easy to do even when you’re cooking for a family. My family’s favorite meal is grilled chicken, grilled yellow neck squash and for the ‘carb eaters’ rice or potatoes. I always keep Crystal Light around the house and work. It kills the urge to cheat plus taste really good!
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I promise you coming from an overweight single mother, you can do this! Just stick with the diet, don’t cheat and get support for the website. I’m here if anyone needs to talk out a craving!
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Laura aka “Babypack26pack” in Kimkins forums
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I’m 5’6 and started at 198 and ended at 146:
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30 December 2007: 198 lbs
30 January 2008: 183 lbs
28 February 2008: 171 lbs
20 April 2008: 166 lbs
30 July 2008: 160 lbs
30 October 2008: 157 lbs
15 January 2009: 151 lbs
15 February 2009: 146 lbs
