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[motherof6]

Hi everyone, I'm a longtime lurker of this forum. This is my first post. I am 36 years old with 6 active children including 3,4 year olds. I am on week 9 of induction. I started at 204 and am down to 171.8. Lost 32 pounds so far. I have lost between 2-5 pounds a week.

My concern is I'm on day 4 of not losing an ounce , I have NEVER cheated and stay on the guidelines 100%. I still do the same amount of exercise and I can't for the life of me find a reason why I "stalled". I haven't gained though continue to remain at 171.8.

I'd love some feedback from you longterm dieters and would love to hear if others had this problem and how long it took to get the weight moving again.

Many Thanks

[fefelia]

It could be a Plateu..
It is where you try to hard to lose weight but your body is resisting... maybe you should move on to the OWL

[Brook]

You can not reasonably expect to lose at that rate consistently. It's just not going to happen. I'm amazed it's taken 9 weeks for you to see a slow-down at all. Most people get smacked with it between weeks 3-5.

A healthy, reasonable expectation is .5-2lbs a week. That's not going to be consistent either, so brace yourself because you've been spoiled horribly rotten up until now! Now is when the real work begins.

You're not stalled. You're not any where near stalled and shouldn't be thinking stalled thoughts. A stall- by definition- is no pounds OR inches lost for 4+ weeks. If you lose 1/2 an inch in those 4 weeks, you're still not stalled!

Weight loss is not a linear process. You're going to go up/down/down/up/plateau/down/up/etc etc....lather/rinse/repeat. It's the way it goes.

You're doing an amazing job. Stick with it.

[Scribbler]

well.. it sounds like a plateu as fefelia says. Remember, weight loss is not linear.. it might be due to some hormonal change..like when you are getting near of those days..
Are you sure you haven't got off track by mistake?
In any ways, 4 days is not a stall..just keep in there and you will see..

[liv]

It is a long journey and we will see some pauses here and there. I certainly have.
But also you have been doing the same thing a lot. So the body may have adjusted somehow. That is why many find that moving to OWL and adding extra veggie carbs actually gets them going again. That would be my advice - along with also shaking up your exercise if you have been doing the same thing all the time.

[Elizellen]

Hi

Welcome to ADBB

How many more pounds are you hoping to lose, Motherof6? Unless you still need to lose a lot more than you have already done I would agree it is probably time to leave the 'kick-start' phase of Atkins and move to the 'ongoing weight loss' phase so you will have time to discover your CCLL as well as see if any foods upset your losing.

Remember Dr Atkins expected us to have done OWL and be ready for the 3rd phase 'premaintenance' by the time we have only 5-10 pounds to go.

[motherof6]

Thanks everyone for your great comments. Thankfully on day 5, I started losing again. Actually a pound the last two days. I actually wore size 12 pants today and how great that felt. Tomorrow marks week 10 of induction with a total loss of 34.3 #. I hit the 160's too. (Just barely 169.. Though it still feels good. Hope to lose at least another 20-30 lbs. so going to continue induction until it drives me crazy. Thanks again for the help. motherof6

[Elizellen]

Congratulations on losing that extrea pound

Originally Posted by motherof6

Hope to lose at least another 20-30 lbs. so going to continue induction until it drives me crazy.

OWL is much easier to do if you have quite a few pounds left to lose and are still in losing mode
Once you get near your goal weight you will have a hard time knowing if you are losing at all when you add the extra net carbs and different foods and so will not know when you find your CCLL. Thgat will definitely drive oyu crazy!!