Weight stall question...

[hbrooke03]

I have been on Atkins for 37 days cheat free and following everything to the T. I have lost about 30lbs since. The past 4-5 days I have stayed at the same weight. Nothing has changed in my diet or anything. I was placed on some pills to start a period. I was just wondering if anyone knows if that will stall the weight. I have currently been off of them for about 5-6 days now and am wondering if my weight loss will start back up soon???????

[not2late]

Hi.

A weight loss plateau, or stall, is defined as 4 weeks without loss of inches or pounds.

Female hormonal therapy can possibly affect weight loss, which is one of the reasons why women don't lose weight as quickly as men. Estrogen can interfere with the thyroid.

Ride it out this little bump in your weight loss journey. Start measuring yourself if you haven't been doing this from the beginning as Dr. Atkins said to do. Loss of inches is more indicative of loss of fat than the numbers on the scale. Loss of inches more closely represents the emptying of fat from your fat cells.

[iwillbethin]

Just stick it out! You've been 37 days cheat free that's awesome! I just had 3 weeks without any weight loss then bam! Just keep up the good work!

[iyamamaschke]

Yup stick it out I know it will come off there are others on her who have not lost in a long time then start losing I didn't lose for 7 weeks then I lost 15 pounds but, it has been slower now I lost a lot of inches in that time but, I was one of those ones I really wanted the pounds off. Well now they are comming off about 1 -2 lbs per week so it's pretty awesome. That's not without a lot of work though.

Sarah

[2big4mysize]

Congratulations on your great start to becoming that healthier smaller person you want ot be.

As Megs pointed out 5 days no scale weight does not a stall make. 28 dys of no inches nor scale weight lost is Dr Atkins definition of a stall and what we on ADBB use. weight loss isn't going to be an every day event. We didn't gain it daily and wewill not lose it daily.

Didi you tell your doc you were doing Atkins when you saw them for this new medication?

Hormones can cause trouble for many folk on weight loss plans. Yes it will slow your weight loss as there are many body systems being impacted by that other then just your reproductive ones.

Are you PCOS by chance that you added the hormones for? If so know that your low carb program will help raise your estrogen levels naturally if you are insulin resistant and you might like to talk with some of our other PCOS folk in the PCOS forum. I'm sure you doctor did a full battery of tests on you to determinewhy you need those hormones to generate a period and will closely monitor changes in your free T4 andT3 amoung other things as you progress on your treatment.

Happy low carbing