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Please help - not losing
I'm a bride with 12 weeks to go until my wedding. I weight 240, and really want to get down to at least 210 by the wedding. I started Atkins a little over a week ago, and plan to continue with it past the wedding.
I've done Atkins about three times in the past, and the last time was exactly a year ago. I lost 20 pounds in one month of induction, and the weight just melted off. This is how it's been every time I've done Atkins. I never had any "stallers" - I could eat Atkins bars for breakfast, diet coke with Splenda, cheese, etc - as long as the ketostix were turning pink, the scale moved almost every day.
This time, I am so disappointed after over a week of Atkins, it's not working. The ONLY think I'm doing differently than the other times is that I'm on the antidepressant effexor as well as the birth control pill. I lost 5 pounds after my first two days, but the day that showed the 5 pound weight loss was also the day my period ended, so I'm pretty sure it's just water weight. I was eating things like low car ice cream bars the first few days (one per day), but still eating the right number of carbs, and this was absolutely never a problem the other times I did Atkins. However, when the scale stopped moving, I eliminated these things. I've also been in moderate to large ketosis the entire time.
Here's a typical day:
50 - 72 oz water
breakfast - Atkins bar
lunch - hamburger patty with a slice of cheese, tomato, lettuce. Veggie on the side, such as grilled zucchini.
dinner - baked chicken, some sort of veggie - usually steamed broccoli
snacks (one to two a day) - sugar free jello, celery with peanut butter (I measure it out and of course it's the natural, sugar free kind), a couple pieces of cheese.
What the heck is going on? Please help - I will be SO upset if I don't get this weight off before I get married! Is it possible that I'm not eating enough calories? There's no way I'm eating too many!! Should I go off the effexor?
Thanks in advance.
I've done Atkins about three times in the past, and the last time was exactly a year ago. I lost 20 pounds in one month of induction, and the weight just melted off. This is how it's been every time I've done Atkins. I never had any "stallers" - I could eat Atkins bars for breakfast, diet coke with Splenda, cheese, etc - as long as the ketostix were turning pink, the scale moved almost every day.
This time, I am so disappointed after over a week of Atkins, it's not working. The ONLY think I'm doing differently than the other times is that I'm on the antidepressant effexor as well as the birth control pill. I lost 5 pounds after my first two days, but the day that showed the 5 pound weight loss was also the day my period ended, so I'm pretty sure it's just water weight. I was eating things like low car ice cream bars the first few days (one per day), but still eating the right number of carbs, and this was absolutely never a problem the other times I did Atkins. However, when the scale stopped moving, I eliminated these things. I've also been in moderate to large ketosis the entire time.
Here's a typical day:
50 - 72 oz water
breakfast - Atkins bar
lunch - hamburger patty with a slice of cheese, tomato, lettuce. Veggie on the side, such as grilled zucchini.
dinner - baked chicken, some sort of veggie - usually steamed broccoli
snacks (one to two a day) - sugar free jello, celery with peanut butter (I measure it out and of course it's the natural, sugar free kind), a couple pieces of cheese.
What the heck is going on? Please help - I will be SO upset if I don't get this weight off before I get married! Is it possible that I'm not eating enough calories? There's no way I'm eating too many!! Should I go off the effexor?
Thanks in advance.
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