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    Need Encourgment!!

    Hi everyone! I am on day 23 still doinginduction, drinking lots of water and walking my Gazel for 30 min. day. But my weight loss seems to have stalled. I am at a loss of 12 pounds. I love this diet and I feel great so I am not stoping but I dont want to be at a stall as I have so much to loose. Any suggestions? Thanks

    s/w:236
    c/w:227
    m/G:199








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    Re: Need Encourgment!!

    I'll ask the obvious, are you measuring? You are exercising 30 minutes a day, right? Is this the first time (or first time in a long time)? If so then you are gaining muscle, so the evil metal scale won't budge, but you are probably thinning more than you think. Are your clothes looser?

    I dropped 2 waist sizes and only lost 4 pounds at one point along this journey of mine. All that matters is how you look, nobody knows what numbers are on that little monster unless you tell them.

    Disclaimer: I am a scale slave myself, but an informed scale slave.
    Jim


    Yes I'm eating a smore in the picture, how do you think I got so fat?
    M/41/6'2"
    Original Start 348 6/14/04 Low 275.2 9/13/2005
    Restart 338.0 2/5/10 ---Current 325.0 2/22/10---Goal 210(195?)

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      Re: Need Encourgment!!

      I hit a period of 2 weeks or so where I didn't lose an ounce. I didn't gain it back, I just didn't lose. I do weigh everyday, but mostly because my body is incredibly sensitive to what I eat, and at first finding the right balance took a bit. Any sort of artificial sugars stop me dead in my tracks. My shredded cheese had starch in it. My bacon (which I had only rarely anyway) had added sugars etc. Thanks to reading these boards, watching my weight loss from day to day, I figured out what worked and what didn't. 6 days is nothing to worry about at all. If you hit a month with no inches lost and no weight loss then I'd start worrying.

      In the meantime, look at everything you're eating. Are ALL the ingredients acceptable? I know others here have been bitten by foods they honestly thought were aceptable <raises hand>.
      Ryan

      First time around
      SW: 215 - 1/1/06
      GW: 155 - Reached! 8/27/06

      Second time around (3/26/07 start)
      SW: 170
      CW: 146
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      • #4
        Re: Need Encourgment!!

        Originally posted by tcbrox
        Hi everyone! I am on day 23 still doinginduction, drinking lots of water and walking my Gazel for 30 min. day. But my weight loss seems to have stalled. I am at a loss of 12 pounds. I love this diet and I feel great so I am not stoping but I dont want to be at a stall as I have so much to loose. Any suggestions? Thanks
        Hi! We have the same sw and pretty much have lost the same so far! I moved to OWL following my 14 day induction and have lost 3lbs on that. Maybe it might be worth thinking about? I've stalled for the past two weeks, but I did loose in total 12" during this stall. So I'm just going to wait it out!

        Don't give up, you'll start loosing soon.
        Carmel, F36, 5'10

        SD - 11Apr07, 239/224/185
        Inch loss to date - 47.8"

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          Re: Need Encourgment!!

          hey!!! look at it like this...you lost 4 pounds a week!!! wowie wow wow...have you EVER done that before? keep doing what you are doing...drinking, exercise, making good food choices and i GUARANTEE you will see results....you are just playing catch up i bet...and dontcha feel good? hang in there...you WILL succeed!





          started atkins 2/18/07
          5'7"........193/150/150

          "it's not having what you want; it's wanting what you've got"
          "you can't control the ocean but you can learn to ride the wave."

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          • #6
            Re: Need Encourgment!!

            Try moving to OWL. For a lot of people just adding more veggies will jump start things.
            Re-Start Date 11/29/08
            Height 5'4
            Female 47
            SW 160.2
            CW150
            GW 130
            Mini Goal 150 -met/ New Mini Goal 145


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              Re: Need Encourgment!!

              I agree....move to OWL.
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              • #8
                Re: Need Encourgment!!

                I'd suggest measuring and moving to OWL. Sounds like you are feeling great and if you are losing inches, then you aren't really stalled. I understand the frustration of not losing pounds as fast as we'd like...

                Keep going - don't give up on yourself. Get involved here with others, make friends, join challenges and before you know it, the scale will show a loss. Trying to stay positive and enjoying the journey is very important to keeping motivation to stay focused!!
                Starting Date 3/12/04 285/165/145 - F



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                • #9
                  Re: Need Encourgment!!

                  A big Thank you to all you who are willing to encougrage its what keeps me going. Yes I did messure and its not showing a big differnce but I know my clothes are fitting differnt so I know somthing good is going on, maybe I messured wrong who knows. anyway I think I will try to read my lables real good this week then begin to add more vegies. Can a person stall becasue they arent getting enough carbs in a day? just wondering becasue somtimes I tend to go overboard

                  s/w:236
                  c/w:227
                  m/G:199








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