No loss on induction, I eat more carbs and loose the weight

[rockon]

So what is going on here?

On my two weeks of induction I virtually lost nothing, I was on just under 20g carbs a aday, granted I did loose my apetite but I was definately still eating close on 1500 calories...drinking plenty of water..

Week three I decide to carb up, still following my diet I include over a period of seven days, 2 beers, 1 glass of wine, 3 bananas, a tub of yogurt, a ball of vanilla ice-cream, 3 bars of choc, a spoon of rice, a bag of wine gums, 2 slices of bread with marmalaide, a teaspoon of pickle and a delicious half pint of cider........and the weight starts to fall off of me and I litherally get thinner overnight but I dont feel so good, me and suger do not get on so well, and I am constantly hungry again....So today I am back on my induction `cause I like how I feel on induction...

So maybe the secret is induction with a carb boost and then induction carb boost and so on and so on.....

What is happenning here....

[peppersmom]

I went for about 2 weeks with nothing happening in extended induction. Then I have a really bad cheat day (my father cooked me lunch! he's an awesome cook) got back on induction the next day and i've dropped 2 pds this week. I was eating alot of beef before and I've cut back on that and that might be the difference.

[Georgiana]

Many people experience a stall if they do more than two weeks of Induction and their weight loss restarts once they move to OWL and increase their carbohydrate intake.

but I dont feel so good, me and suger do not get on so well, and I am constantly hungry again....

This is exactly why the OWL phase of Atkins has 9 rungs. When one moves from Induction to OWL, he/she does not immediately add ice cream, beer, bread, rice, chocolate, bananas, etc. (and by the way, that's not "following your diet"), because the results are the ones you saw -- hunger/cravings, bloating, etc.

Your weight loss results would have probably been the same if you had had an extra 5 g of net carbohydrate coming from vegetables in the first week, from diary in the second and so on, depending on your strategy for OWL.

So maybe the secret is induction with a carb boost and then induction carb boost and so on and so on.....

The "secret" is Induction, followed by Ongoing Weight Loss, followed by Pre-Maintenance and Maintenance, which is exactly the correct way to do Atkins. You "carb boost" as you progress through the rungs of OWL by adding foods in 5-net-carbs amounts, but you have to do it slowly and with the foods appropriate for the rung you're at.

[chinadoll]

I would say you are incredibly lucky. For the overwhelming majority this would be disastrous and there is no telling what might happen the next time you choose this course.

[not2late]

We've had members here who do not lose anything during Induction----very strict Inductions, then lose weight when they move to OWL Phase. So there isn't anything "wrong" with you or the Diet.

Why this happens, I don't know. My guess, however, is that we have a "critical carbohydrate losing level" as Dr. Atkins wrote in the book, but it's the upper limit of a critical carbohydrate losing range. That is, we have a carb range in which we can lose weight. Go above that range, we stop losing. Go below that range, we stop losing.

Another theory I read is from Dr. Pescatore, who was the Associate Director of the Atkins Center during the 1990s. He wrote that your body gets used to being in ketosis, or that Induction degree of ketosis. So your body begins to function efficiently on that level of carbs and you stop losing weight. It's almost like a "starvation" state of sorts, where your body knows it won't get more than 20 net carbs of food daily. So it thinks the famine is upon us and begins conserving its body fat for the really hard times. So you stop using your body fat and start using every bit of energy you get from your foods and from the ketones you produce.

Whatever the reason is, it only makes the case for moving to OWL Phase. You'll find your CCLL, you'll add more nutritious foods. That will make your weight loss journey less stressful and more do-able.