365lb ~~ my quest to lose weight!

[Helena-in-England]

Re: 365lb ~~ my quest to lose weight!

Hi Rita and thank you

I carried on with the induction veggies. In fact, just salad, or brussels sprouts, or broccoli. Weighed in today and have gained 2lb. I feel very, very depressed about this.

Either it means I can have no veggies at all, or it means that after "shocking" my system by instantly ceasing to eat chocolate, sugar and all carbs overnight, and losing 11lb, that 11lb is all that my body was ever going to lose.

So, it's happening again: every time I embark on a new diet that is going to change my life, I don't lose any weight. This has happened to me about 50 times in 33 years.

[RitaCeleste]

Re: 365lb ~~ my quest to lose weight!

A little of that, like two pounds could be water weight, not actual fat. You could try cutting the carbs again and see if goes away again. Again a body can like to hold on to water. I wasn't kidding about my dad holding water for a month. He really does. If you feel more comfortable on a lower carb diet, go there again and see what happens. Its so easy to hold water or to loose a little weight and stall, its gonna take time for you to find out what your body is truly doing. Just hang in there, your body seems to be trying to get in gear. Make sure you take multivitamin low in iron. Have you tested for yeast? I had to do a yeast cleanse once and stay away from cheese and mushrooms when I did it. There are a few things that can truly make difference. Sometimes its one of the supplements in the book you are low on and need to burn the fat. Remember, persistence pays off! The other times, you gave up, this time you won't and that will make all the difference!

[RitaCeleste]

Re: 365lb ~~ my quest to lose weight!

11 pounds isn't nothing lost! 9 pounds isn't nothing lost! Do read up on yeast and see if you have any of those symptoms. It was explained to me that they can literally grow carbs inside you or something weird like that. Its been a while since I read up on it. But doing the yeast cleanse got my weight loss in a better place.

[Helena-in-England]

Re: 365lb ~~ my quest to lose weight!

You are right Rita when you say that this time I won't give up. I cannot ever go back to the way I ate before. That makes me sad, and at the same time there is a kind of sigh of surrender to this WOE.

The most depressing thing is that any carb at all knocks me out of ketosis. It means much less variety, feeling even more like a freak than the average atkineer, and the knowledge that I will never, ever, be able to creep up the rungs like normal people.

And you really do get sick of the flavour and texture of meat, meat and more meat every day. I tried with omelets and with chicken but they just don't hold me for as long as proper red meat.

But for all the miseries of a protein-only diet, I still think it is more palatable than being a vegan!

[Aways2Go]

Re: 365lb ~~ my quest to lose weight!

I would think it might be possible as you lose and continue to move closer to a more normal weight, your body chemistry may change some, functioning more normally, and it might be that you can begin to try some other foods and maybe they won't affect you so negatively in time.

It's just a thought.

[bizzlekitty]

Re: 365lb ~~ my quest to lose weight!

I would really be surprised if eating any carbs throw you out of ketosis. How are you determining this? The ketostix aren't necessarily a good measure. Did you know when you eat excess protein it gets converted to glucose?

Several times I've tried to do Atkins "my own way" thinking that's only what will work for me. I was wrong. Once I started following the book and advice here (ex. tuning my menu to get rid of trigger foods, hidden sugars, too much sodium and other things that could spiral me out of control) and found foods that I could eat, the weight loss improved and has kept me in control and I'm eating many nutritious veggies while still keeping my net carbs under 30.

And there's many other tips and tricks here that can help you. One thing I found for trigger foods is to only make and put on your plate the bare minimum that you should eat and put the rest away. I'm rarely hungry to eat more, and if so, I try and examine what I've been eating lately that could be triggering hunger (sausage is a big one for me, so I limit that). Snacks and measuring careful and examining when I'm hungry and why has been really helpful.

This program does work if you follow it carefully. If someone like me with a very damaged metabolism due to thyroid, arthritis and fibormyalgia can make it work, I'm pretty sure it will work for anyone, as designed.

Anyway, good luck. I think you're missing alot of the nutrition that you can only get from veggies and that may make your situation worse rather than better.

[RosieC]

Re: 365lb ~~ my quest to lose weight!

Helena, are you aware of the dangers of zero carb diets? I know Dr Atkins mentions a 'fat fast' but the maximum time for this is 4 to 5 days. It sounds like you have already done a lot more than that. What you are currently doing is not the Atkins diet and it could be very dangerous.

I don't want to scare you but you may have a choice between losing weight very slowly with enough electrolytes and other nutrients to survive, or not. If you have a very resistant metabolism, it may just not be possible to lose weight fast. Put your health first!

[RitaCeleste]

Re: 365lb ~~ my quest to lose weight!

How is it going? Have the scales moved? What are you eating? Where did you go? I ate a dinner with my daughter at her school and gained two pounds of water overnight. I have been kinda stuck at this weight for awhile. I did eat off-plan some though. But small amounts and lots better choices. I had stuff go on and ended up going back to smoking so gonna give quitting that another go. I'm disappointed in me at the moment. But I've been wondering if you managed to get any green stuff in or shed another pound or two. Sometimes with a stall you have to just eat a little green stuff and wait it out. And don't freak out if the green stuff ups your water weight a little, it tends to balance out in time. Weighing more often might help you see the differences in water weight, but it can feel discouraging too so do whatever you feel comfortable with. I miss you!