[Georgiana]

Originally Posted by psychoschoolgirl

Would you give me examples of your daily menu. I am eating until I am very full. I will try to add more fat to my diet. I have switched from using blue cheese dressing to using an oil vinegar dressing in order to incoporate more fat into my diet.

From the menu you gave, no one can say whether you are eating too much or too little, or too much fat or not enough. You need to include quantities for this. Could you re-post the menu, this time complete, or provide a link to your FitDay?

In general, if you are eating until you are "very full" then you are either overeating. What Dr. Atkins said is that we should eat until satisfied (not full/stuffed) and eat again when hungry or when six hours have passed since our last meal. For some people though, ketosis suppresses appetite to the point where they are no longer hungry at all and they go forever without eating or average 600-700 calories per day. Eating very low calorie for long periods of time can slow down metabolism and, coupled with low carbing, it may lead to hypothyroidism. So if the "no hunger" advantage of ketosis becomes a disadvantage for these folks, they'll need to tweak their eating to avoid trouble, and one way to do this is by eating smaller meals throughout the day and incorporating veggies into those meals too.

You might also want to check your vitamins and minerals intake. Being deficient in some of them can increase your body's resistance to weight loss. Are you taking a multivitamin? Did you check FitDay to see how much of each you are getting from food? Your doctor can tell you if you need additional vitamin/mineral supplementation.