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Originally Posted by Georgiana  In the meantime, eat whatever foods you can tolerate, but increase your calories---as long as your caloric intake is higher than your total energy expenditure, you will stop losing weight and if you go up high enough with the calories, you will even gain a few pounds. |
Perfect advice, Georgiana. Even in Maintenance, I have to eat mostly at Rung 1... I occasionally have berries, but that's about all I can get away with. I don't have the kind of blood sugar symptoms that Riverj describes when I eat from the other rungs, so much as I have portion control issues. So I am living, breathing proof that you can eat from Rung 1 and not lose (and maybe even gain a few pounds!) when calories are increased enough.
And, no, I don't believe "a calorie is a calorie"... meaning, I don't believe that it is a straight up case of calories in, calories out. HOWEVER, just because Atkins said that you don't count calories, that doesn't mean that calories don't count. If you eat enough of them, you can halt your weight loss.