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Originally Posted by kylie Ok - take a deep breath - there are a couple of things right off that I see
1) Your FAT needs to be higher. Maybe if you post a couple of menus in the review my menu section, or give an idea of what foods you are eating each day here, we can give you some easy ways to bump that fat percentage up without resorting to a butter snack.  It really only takes a little tweak here and there to really adjust those percentages. Atkins is HIGH FAT - not high protein - your protein should stay around 30% regardless of which phase of Atkins...The fat will eventually lower as carbs increase through OWL, premaintenance and maintenance - but during induciton - the fat needs to be 65% or close to that. |
I'll post it, not a super exciting menu .. but I guess part of the issue is(?) that I do not eat much red meat (makes my tummy hurt) and i've always tried to limit the pork.
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Originally Posted by kylie 2) 2 pounds a day? Where are you getting that info? Each person is different in terms of starting weight, age, gender and how much he/she needs to lose...Someone that needs to lose 150 pounds will probably drop more pounds in the beginning that someone that needs to lose 50 pounds - Say a 300 pound man has an ideal weight of 200 - he needs to lose 100 pounds. Say he's not very resistant to weight loss and loses 30 pounds during induction - that's not typical but since you used the 2 pounds a day I'll start with that...that's 30% of the weight he needs to lose - well above the typical 5% - 10% you can expect to lose during induciton with average resistance. Now, lets say you need to lose 50 pounds - if you were to match his percentage - you would lose only 15 pounds during induction and that would still be way ahead of the typical 5 - 10% which would translate into 2.5 - 5 pounds...So you can't compare pound for pound with people that have different amounts to lose. Make sense? |
Makes sense, i'll readjust my viewpoint .. I guess you hear those 'amazing' stories and sometimes you think that's what your body will do to and it will never do that
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Originally Posted by kylie 3) Induction is 14 days - give it the 14 at full effort and then decide if you are happy with the results. |
I plaln on it, not gonna give up now
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Originally Posted by kylie GOOD for you for cutting out the heavy salt!
So, tell us -
age, how much to lose, gender, what you're eating...and we'll see if we can't help you tweak those percentages |
28years, SW 179.5 CW 175.8 GW 155, Male
Typical Menu:
Breakfast: 2 eggs ( scrambled or over easy ), 2-3 links turkey sausage (or turkey bacon, or turkey patty ), usually with a little cheese on the scrambled eggs.
Lunch: Raw meat, chicken breast or turkey italian sausage or similar or costco chicken.
Snack: Mozzarella cheese stick
Dinner: 2 cups spinach greens, 1/2 avocado, small amounts of tomato or cucumber (maybe totally 1/2 cup collectively), some real bacon bacon bits, 2 tbs blue cheese dressing, and some meat (either on the salad or on the side).