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Originally Posted by Slidesdownmountains  I had no idea it was going to be so controversial! |
Controversial isn't the best word for it. It's more puzzling because Alli lowers fat absorption and is more suitable as an aid in low fat diets. Atkins is a high fat diet and depends on that high fat intake to fuel ketosis/lipolysis. So taking something that lowers fat while on a diet that depends on high fat intake is contradictory.
Anyhow, I re-read your posts and it looks like you were eating more fat than necessary. 164 grams of fat is the equivalent of eating about 1/2 pound of butter. That amount also yields 1475 calories. So you were essentially eating a 1500 calorie diet---from your fat intake alone.
Based upon that and based upon your eating-in-case-you-got-hungry habit, you did overeat. As Dr. ATkins wrote in the book, you do not have a license to gorge---and eating an equivalent of 1/2 pound of butter daily is gorging. Frankly, I don't know how you managed to avoid or ignore the appetite suppression of ketosis with that amount of fat in your diet.
Rather than using a medication to lower your fat absorption, you could have done it in a non-pharmacologic way, by simply lowering the amount of fat you were eating, like eating the equivalent of 4 tablespoons of butter rather than 1/2 pound.
When you moved to OWL Phase and stopped losing weight at 70 net carbs daily, you probably found your CCLL. It's absolutely NORMAL to stop losing weight when you exceed your CCLL. And it's absolutely NORMAL to have a CCLL. It's not a cause for panic. It's a cause for celebration, because you have found how many carbs you can eat and still lose weight.
Just be aware that we give advice on ADBB is based on Atkins, specifically the 2002 ed. That information may or may not apply to your modified low carb diet. In fact, it might hurt you rather than help you. We've had people here who follow the 1972 diet come away very disappointed because the 2002 diet advice we give doesn't work for them.
