[7Miriam]

Your messages have helped me soooooo much - thank you all!!!!

I got through 2 days of Induction, though it was very, very hard to get started again. Last night, at the end of the second day, the ketostix indicated I'm back in ketosis. I also went down 5 pounds in the two days, so I really only regained 15 pounds and am still down 50 from where I started. Today I am going to start exercising again.

Before I found it much harder to do Induction than OWL - I was fine on OWL at 25 net carbs and Rung 3 (nuts). When I went up to Rung 4 (berries) and 30 net carbs I started running into problems - of course it was also hugely stressful in my life then too, so I'm not sure how much of the problem was attributable to berries, the extra 5 net carbs, or stress.

My inclination is to do Induction for another day, and then go back to 25 NC and rung 3 for a couple days, and then try rung 4 staying at 25 NC for a couple days, and if that works stay there for a while. I kind of think that the berries were not a problem and that I will be ok here, but don't want to jump right to it. Any thoughts you have about whether this is a good plan would be most appreiciated.

Also, I was just reading another post about stalls and your body used to being at certain weights. I found this very interesting b/c the weight I am at now, (after the 15 pound regain) is a wieght that I was around for several years. I wonder if my body was fighting to not go below that weight. Because I didn't eat that badly that I think I should have gained 15 pounds in 3 weeks, I ate carbs and slightly bigger meals, but I wasn't way overeating or eating lots of junk food. In fact I'm shocked at how quickly I gained, particularly given that I wasn't eating all that badly.