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Originally Posted by MOLLYM  Hi i'm new to this and about ready to scream. I'm 28 yrs. old and been in induction for 11 days now when I started I was 150.1 lbs and now I'm only down one freakin pound I weighed in this morning and I was only 149.1 aaaahhh. Its driving me crazy. And its like I'm stuck I weighed last week as well and still was exactly the same as this morning.. I exercise 4 days a week which I mtn. bike for at least an hour. and do low weights for about 30 mins 3 days a week. Here's and example of what I eat maybe I'm just really doing something wrong.
1 cup of coffee with 1 tbs of heavy cream
Breakfast 2 eggs scrambled with 2 tbs of butter and 2 slices of bacon
Lunch a can of tuna with mayo
Snack a string cheese
Dinner a hamburger patty with a few grilled onions and a slice of cheese and mayo and mustered to dip...
and I drink at least 125 oz of water a day
I also cut out all artifical sweetners and limit my caffenine to one cup of coffee...
I feel really good and my pants are a loosening up and I'm not hungry at all.
I hope someone can give me some insight into what i'm doing wrong, I really appreciate it..
Molly | Where are your veggies? Did you just forgot to write them down? You should have 3 cups of them during Induction, either 3 cups of salad vegetables (can be cooked), or 2 cups of salad vegetables and 1 cup of "other" vegetables.
Caffeine could be affecting your results too. There's no way to know this unless you eliminate it for at least a week to see how your weight loss rate changes.
You only have 10 lbs to lose, so 1 lbs is not bad. Someone with 100 lbs to lose may lose 10 lbs during Induction for a 10% loss. But for you, a 10% loss means 1 lbs out of those 10.
As Niko said, take body measurements and see how those change. If your pants are looser, that's what you want. I don't think the number on the scale is important as long as you fit into "those pants" or "that dress". Inches are often a better indicator of fat loss than the scale, as the latter does not differentiate between water/muscle/fat weight.
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