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    Average??

    I just wanted to ask everybody what they lost the first month on atkins? I know its based on metabolic resistance and how hard you work, but I am still curious to know the numbers...is 20 pounds normal? I think at the rate I am going I will hit 20 at my 1 month mark. So if everyone could give me a number that would be great just wanted to see the average I guess...Thx!

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    Re: Average??

    20 pounds is very good but it all depends on how much you have to lose. I lost about 8 pounds.

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    • #3
      Re: Average??

      Originally posted by FAT2PHAT
      I just wanted to ask everybody what they lost the first month on atkins? I know its based on metabolic resistance and how hard you work, but I am still curious to know the numbers...is 20 pounds normal? I think at the rate I am going I will hit 20 at my 1 month mark. So if everyone could give me a number that would be great just wanted to see the average I guess...Thx!


      According to the book, metabolic resistance is determined on your results of the first 2 weeks you were on Induction. With that said, Dr. Atkins wrote the average loss during those first 2 weeks for men is about 10 pounds, for women is about 6 or 8 pounds.

      So you would really need to look at your first 2 weeks results in order to determine if you are average or not.
      ~Megs~
      242/141/160 (130)
      dress size 26/10/8
      5'4", Female, May 2, 2003
      My blog:
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      • #4
        Re: Average??

        I lost roughly 10 pounds in the first month - a bit less than 1/3 of what I ended up losing.
        Sheila, Founder of SugarFreeSheila.com
        5'3", medium-framed & muscular, & maintaining since 2001

        What's allowed on Induction

        My new YouTube Before/After slideshow

        Then: 140+, size 10-12
        Late '98, on top of the Empire State Building



        Now: 109, size 0
        January 2010 - Malta

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        • #5
          Re: Average??

          I lost 6 pounds on induction then stalled the rest of the first month and half the second month.
          Age 56, height 5', highest weight 175 lbs. 2002
          re-re-re-Restart 1/2/08, 159 lbs.
          159/128/115
          OWL veggie rung 3/2/08
          OWL dairy rung 3/24/08
          OWL nuts rung 4/10/08
          OWL berries rung 4/27/08
          My Fit Day
          Mini Goals:
          150 - 3/2/08 (148lbs)
          140 - 5/2/08 (139lbs)
          130 - 9/6/08
          120 -
          115 -





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          • #6
            Re: Average??

            I lost 16.9 lbs the first four weeks on the diet, but I don't know if that would be considered average. I started out having to lose about 230 lbs.

            I'm in this for the long haul, though. Here's how I look at it: Someday, eventually, I will step on the scales and that magical number 158 will pop up. I will then maintain my weight between 158 and 162. Until then, every tenth of a pound I lose is getting me toward that goal. It won't happen tomorrow, it won't even happen this year, but it will happen. Someday.

            What I am doing now is becoming healthier than I have ever been in my life. I am ensuring that I will be alive to watch my daughter grow up and have a family of her own. To be honest, the number on the scales means far less to me than getting my hips under 40 inches and my waist under 30 inches. This is a process, this is a journey, this is a lifelong commitment that I am undertaking.

            Good luck to you!

            Lish
            Lish: F/45/5'8"

            Start date: April 16, 2007
            HW: 388.3
            CW: 299.1
            GW: 158.0

            Mini Goal #1: under 330 Met 10/12/07
            Mini Goal #2: under 300 Met 04/23/08
            Mini Goal #3: under 270
            Mini Goal #4: under 235
            Mini Goal #5: under 200
            Mini Goal #6: under 170
            Mini Goal #7: reach 158

            "...[T]here are people who still can't accustom themselves to this diet because they can't get past the primitive, popular notion that a diet is something you get on and then get off, as you would a bus. But a diet is not an excursion..." Dr. Atkins

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            • #7
              Re: Average??

              In three weeks, I've lost 17 lbs.
              F ~ 5' 5"
              262/262/135
              Restart 1/1/10
              2 week Induction



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              • #8
                Re: Average??

                Originally posted by LishJustLish
                I'm in this for the long haul, though. Here's how I look at it: Someday, eventually, I will step on the scales and that magical number 158 will pop up. I will then maintain my weight between 158 and 162. Until then, every tenth of a pound I lose is getting me toward that goal. It won't happen tomorrow, it won't even happen this year, but it will happen. Someday.

                What I am doing now is becoming healthier than I have ever been in my life. I am ensuring that I will be alive to watch my daughter grow up and have a family of her own. To be honest, the number on the scales means far less to me than getting my hips under 40 inches and my waist under 30 inches. This is a process, this is a journey, this is a lifelong commitment that I am undertaking.
                That's such an inspiring way of thinking, I need to make something similar my mantra!

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                • #9
                  Re: Average??

                  I as well lost 17 lbs in 3 weeks. Stay focused. God Bless, Joe

















                  HW371/SW371/CW325.4(08/04/0/GW225!!!

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