I've been telling everyone I've been a low carber for 3 years, but I looked at my profile here this morning (to find out how to add a signature which I still can't do) and discovered I began on May 2, 2010. 4 years, 1 month and 9 days. Where did the time go, how did I mentally wipe out a year?

Don't know why I felt the need to post this, except perhaps that I've never stuck to a "diet" in the past for more than 2 weeks, so 4 years is a helluva milestone for me.

Congratulations! Time flies when you're in good health.

Thanks, Liz!

Oh, the signature worked! This is becoming a good day, LOL.

AWESOME!! Huge congrats and wishes. You are truly a wise woman and a great inspiration to me. Thanks for being here.

Deanna

It's a lifestyle no wonder you didn't remember. Congrats!

Congrats! Very inspirational. It can be done. Easy? No. But it can be done.

Wow, how great that you've done with this, I'm impressed! Good for you...I know the longer a person does this successfully, the better it "sticks."

I never thought of that! I bet that's exactly why.

Congrats Whofan -- by the way, I am a big fan of yours! I'd like to see your stats as my own someday.

You will, you will. After all, we started at the same weight and live in the same place! Just one more item left.

Congratulations! You prove that weight loss can be maintained.

I love that you posted this.
Agree it is a life style not a diet.
Now to remember that myself.
N2L

WHOOP!!!!!! Congratulations! Yes, lifestyle.... good description.

Thanks for posting - you long term successes are such a huge inspiration for me, mostly for the fact that you're still engaged rather than the actual numbers in fact.

And I love your new signature : "Some, a few, a little, a slice: these are not your friends"

... especially as the past few days I've been having
SOME cherries
A FEW bites of peaches
A LITTLE apricot
A SLICE (well, sliver, but still...) of the raspberry bars I made for my son's school picnic...

That quote is going into my "best of"... thanks!

Somebody else said those words in a post on this board quite some time ago and I wish I could remember who, to give them credit. It resonated with me just as it has for you. I use it as a mantra literally every day, sometimes several times a day because, like all of us, I have those choices to make everyday. When I've suffered carb creep in the past it has always been due to rationalizing that "a little won't hurt". Which is a dangerous, head-in-the-sand, lie!