[MD2004]

Hi all - I posted under new members but thought I would say hi here too. I have been reading for a while and just started taking phen last Thursday - so I guess that means I have been on it for a week! I have noticed that I do not snack at all like I used to. I am drinking tons of water and eating reasonably well. I am not on the Atkins diet but have decided to try as much as possible not to eat carbs. Oh, I am a single mother of a 4 year old daughter - and I am in my second year of medical school. I do not have a scale so I have no idea if I have lost any weight yet - I think I will just go in every month and weigh at the hospital. My ideal weight would be somewhere around 120, I am only 5'2" so extra weight really shows on me. Perhaps more than that would be if I could fit into a size 8 - what really got me going on the diet was the fact that over the Christmas holiday I had to buy new clothes because nothing fit me - I had been wearing either scrubs (which are quite roomy) all day and then pjs at home for at least 4 months so I put on a lot of weight. Anyway, eventually I ended up going to Lane Bryant because no one else had anything that fit right - and I was stunned that the size 18 was a little tight on me. I decided then that for my health I needed to lose the weight - so that is my story and here I am.