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Originally Posted by kiskeya  Breakfast
3 eggs scrambled w, 1 slice cheese
1 cup spinash or lettuce
Lunch
6-10 pieces of chicken wings not breaded
Dinner
Tuna salad or shrimp w/ broccoli
or fried pork w/ lettuce
I drink water, diet sprite and 1 diet jello ( 10 cal) I also snack on 2 slices of ham w/ 1 cheese
What do you think? I need to lose over 100 lbs, 9lbs seems so little in comparison
Thanks |
Vegetables. You should be eating 3 cups per day, with maximum 1 cup coming from those on the "Other Vegetables" list. Spinach and broccoli are both on this list, so you are eating over 1 cup. I don't know whether your total is 3 cups.
If Diet Sprite is sweetened with aspartame, you should avoid it. Aspartame is known to trigger cravings and stall weight loss for many folks, which is why Dr. Atkins recommended avoiding it whenever possible. Same for the Jell-O, which has aspartame.
Check whether there is any form of sugar (e.g. dextrose) in the ham.
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Originally Posted by kiskeya Thanks. you're right w/ the water cauz I'm really not drinking enough. Maybe that will make a difference in how fast I lose. I feel like 9 lbs is such a low number. |
During Induction, one should expect to lose 5-10% of the weight. So if you have 137 lbs to lose, 9 lbs is 6.6%. You can determine your degree of metabolic resistance using the table on page 158 of
DANDR.
You should drink quite a lot of water. As a rule of thumb, 64 oz plus another 8 oz for every 25 lbs you have to lose -- for you this means 108 oz. Others say you should drink half of your weight in ounces, so for you that would be about 150 oz. Whichever "rule" you follow, the more you weigh the more water you need.