Can you help explain my rapid weight loss?

[MrsChesterDogg]

Re: Can you help explain my rapid weight loss?

The comment about this forum being "dogmatic" made me laugh. It is after all Atkins, isn't it? Coming here and saying that you are doing stuff that is outside the guidelines of what Dr. Atkins advised is kinda like going to an AA meeting with a Bud Light in your hand. Not advisable!

[hopejoy]

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Chicklady, come back!

[Georgiana]

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Guys, Chicklady is not getting in her email more than one reply to this thread, so she can't read what you post unless she logs in. If you want to contact her, the best way to do it is by sending her a PM.

[Sherri]

Re: Can you help explain my rapid weight loss?

Guys, Chicklady is not getting in her email more than one reply to this thread, so she can't read what you post unless she logs in. If you want to contact her, the best way to do it is by sending her a PM.

FYI, she does log on and will be reading this thread and folks comments. So please members, continue to post here if you wish.
Sherri

[ErinB]

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I read Everlosing's point as "please don't call your meal plan Atkin's Induction when posting here unless you are actually following DANDR rules of induction." IMO, her point was valid. I think, unfortunately, DD and Chiklady took it as more of a harsh critique of DD, perhaps as an attempt to silence his opinions or dictate what he personally should do? Just my interpretation of what happened here.

It would have been happier, from my point of view, if all parties could have talked it through and come to a better understanding of one another's points of view, while answering DD's question (that was actually done, IMO). It would be a happier outcome if nobody felt the need to withdraw.


Edit: I also want to say I appreciate the posts of both Everlosing and Chiklady. I wouldn't want to lose either of them.

[RitaCeleste]

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The big initial drop on induction is water-weight, not actual fat loss. So the larger you are, the larger the amount water you can loose is. So yeah it's possible to drop it fast. I drop the water fast at first now too. Then I start holding water and dropping off weight in chunks as my body finally gives up on putting fat back into those cells.
I know what you mean when people tell you not to say your on Atkins if you don't do everything perfectly the way they feel its ment to be done. It sucks. Its wrong. Ofcourse they are trying to be helpful and I suppose its a form of caring. Although I'm not always sure they want to help me or protect Atkins from slanderous use of his diet. Bite back the tears, these same people can save you when you hit induction stall and need some menue changes. Still I would never have lost weight and continued with any diet if I had to be so perfect or go around punishing myself everytime I ate off diet. So I guess I'll stop saying I lost my weight on Atkins too. I was eating low carb then is that fine to say? I think so, plenty of low-carb diets. I learned a lot from Atkins but I drank real coffee the whole entire time so I can't give Atkins credit I guess. lol He deserves it though, his book showed me how to take that weight off.

[ErinB]

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Of course they are trying to be helpful and I suppose its a form of caring. Although I'm not always sure they want to help me or protect Atkins from slanderous use of his diet.

Trying to help was my interpretation in this thread. However, if unsure, why not just ask them? That always seemed simpler to me and a good way to avoid misunderstanding. Sometimes it takes several back and forth comments/questions to reach understanding and that is made more difficult in this flat medium than in face to face conversation, but it can be done.

... these same people can save you when you hit induction stall and need some menue changes.

You bet they can and they have. All the more reason to work at the communication difficulties which will definitely crop up from time to time.

Still I would never have lost weight and continued with any diet if I had to be so perfect or go around punishing myself everytime I ate off diet. So I guess I'll stop saying I lost my weight on Atkins too. I was eating low carb then is that fine to say? I think so, plenty of low-carb diets. I learned a lot from Atkins but I drank real coffee the whole entire time so I can't give Atkins credit I guess. lol He deserves it though, his book showed me how to take that weight off.

IMO, it would be your choice whether you call it Atkin's or not, just as it should be a choice for someone else to point out it is off plan, that doing induction as far off plan as DD was doing can both be an induction killer and throw things off down the line. In this case, I really think Everlosing's concern was for new ones in induction and the fact the bars, ice cream, etc. have been induction wreckers for so many. That, of course, was my interpretation of her probable motivation for posting. I could be wrong. I didn't ask her, obviously.

My point, in case I didn't express it clearly before, is that I think it is sad when people are unable or unwilling to work through differences in opinion and possible misunderstanding, sad if we lose the company of good people over same.

[susan423]

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Gosh, I always feel sad when an important member feels the need to leave. I was almost through this thread before I realized it was from April
Wonder how he's doing now.

[msanjelpie]

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He hasn't posted since May 4th... I hope he is still on the diet

[Sherri]

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That......And I hope Chicklady will post her wisdom of this WOL and WOE on this board again........

[RitaCeleste]

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I missed Chicklady when I came back and wondered what happened to her. I didn't see how old the thread was or how long when I posted to it. Still, I wouldn't like to receive some the comments this guy did in the way they were given. Sorry, but its true. I have received some negative comments and posts before and its no fun. I have received some very good and helpful ones too. But you feel totally rejected when people tell you not to call what you are doing Atkins at all. You feel like you don't belong on this board. I was told my diet didn't have enough variety and green stuff to be called Atkins. When I cited that I was poor and eating what was affordable, I was then told to quit smoking, cut my cable, my internet and do whatever it took to make my diet better. I've been gone awhile but this kind of thing I remember. Its way easier for me to do it alone than try to live up to impossibly high demands. I still like rollcall, but miss chicklady too.

[ErinB]

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... I wouldn't like to receive some the comments this guy did in the way they were given. Sorry, but its true. I have received some negative comments and posts before and its no fun. I have received some very good and helpful ones too. But you feel totally rejected when people tell you not to call what you are doing Atkins at all. You feel like you don't belong on this board. I was told my diet didn't have enough variety and green stuff to be called Atkins. When I cited that I was poor and eating what was affordable, I was then told to quit smoking, cut my cable, my internet and do whatever it took to make my diet better. I've been gone awhile but this kind of thing I remember. Its way easier for me to do it alone than try to live up to impossibly high demands.

No need for apology. This sounds like an honest expression of how it makes you feel when certain types of comments are made.

If I say something which makes you feel "totally rejected," "like you don't belong on this board," or any other kind of bad, I would want to know that. Given such a scenario I would want to try to rephrase, try to get across my point in a way less hurtful to you. I would hope you would bear with me because I wouldn't wish to hurt anyone. I haven't seen many here who I think would want to do that.

That's what I meant about the difficulty of communicating in this flat medium. It is hard to know what will be a trigger for someone else unless they let you know. I think you did that well in that post.

[RitaCeleste]

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Oh, I won't be run off too easily. Sometimes I do have to take a step back and know I'm just being touchy. heh. Sometimes it can take me a day or two really get over being touchy and try out some good advice. But I eventually come around. I am coming to realise sometimes people think a person needs tough love when in fact they may be someone that's really just put off by that style of delivery. But I'm doing better this time around because I've kinda learned what my body is going to do. Lots of people all trying to get along is bound to go wrong sometimes. If ever Chickylady reads this, she needs to come back!

[ErinB]

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You made me curious, so I read some of your previous posts. I'm glad you came back.

[Rayley]

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congrats on your weight loss, but I do have to agree with everlosing and several others, before i even started the diet and became a member on here, i was kinda just lurking around and reading different forums and i did see people saying how they could eat all these foods that ARENT allowed on induction like the low carb bars and diet sodas so i dranks diet soda and low carb bars in my first week and that totally messed my whole diet up! and im still trying to get back on track....so i woudn't suggest you bragging about how you can eat all those foods and still lose weight.....