Less to Lose

[mamato1]

Can anyone share any success stories of those who only had 20 lbs. or less to lose? Thanks in advance!

[BellaCarol]

Re: Less to Lose

I wish also that some one post their story, I wanted to lose only 10 pounds. I have not weighted myself since last week, entering in my 4th week of (extended) induction. What I am going to do is to buy one of those fat analysers scales and see if my fat % is normal. If it is , maybe the 10 pounds are muscle and I am going to consider myself at goal, but still will do atkins (ppp, premaint and maint)

[Brook]

Re: Less to Lose

The first time I lost over 90lbs of fat. I maintained it for a year and then had a 20lb slip up. It took me 2 1/2 months to drop the 20lbs again. No worries.

It doesn't matter if you have 10lbs or 300lbs to lose. Atkins is a healthy, effective way to get the job done

BellaCarol- Know that the body fat scales are less than accurate. The numbers will only be as consistant as you are in taking the reading (i.e. in the evening, nude, a couple of hours after eating - and do so consistantly). They're a great way to gauge overall progress and trends, but the only truly effective way to get a body fat reading is to do the dunk tank. Even the callipers are only as good as the person doing the measuring.

HTHS
~Brook

[Analog6]

Re: Less to Lose

Brook, what is the dunk tank?

[Elizellen]

Re: Less to Lose

Here is an interesting site showing the different ways of measuring (guessing) body fat, which explains the different methods with diagrams.

http://www.new-fitness.com/body_fat_analyzing.html