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Originally Posted by not2late  1. How long did you stay in Induction Phase?
2. When did you move to OWL Phase? That is how many pounds from goal were you when you decided to move to OWL Phase?
3. How fast were you going through your OWL Phase? If it took your months of Atkins to reach your low weight, then most of those months should have been spent in OWL Phase and you should have found your CCLL long before you reached a BMI of 18.8. |
I didn't do Atkins to lose weight to begin weight. I was trying to stop my energy and blood sugar swings. So I did what was necessary to feel better in that sense, in spite of what happened to my weight. I have been two months and half on Atkins diet and I had three weeks of induction and 7 levels of OWL.
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Also, why haven't you move to Pre-Maintenance Phase? You are probably at goal or past your goal weight. So you should have moved to Pre-Maintenance phase when your were 5-10 pounds from your goal weight.
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I wanted to reintroduce carbohydrates back as slow as possible to avoid sabotaging the results I had in balancing my sugar. In a forum I read people who are forever on induction in order to control their blood sugar swings. I don't want to limit myself to 20 grams of carb per day forever, so I needed to be very careful with each phase, since during induction blood sugar swings disappeared completely.