How Long Have YOU Stayed On Induction?

[Mija]

if YOU stayed on Induction longer than 14 day can you tell me How Looooooong YOU stayed on Induction? and WHY? and did it work Better for YOU? tomorow is my 14th day and i reeeeeeeally want to stay on Induction for a while... i just need Advice and Information from those of you that HAVE stayed on Induction for a while... I TRULY LOVE ATKINS!!!

[Desertthorn]

Dr A said that you can stay on induction for up to 6 months. Here is a great article about how long to stay on it.
http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...induction.html (How long can I stay on Induction?)

[kibskix]

today is day 31 on induction for me. Why? I'm not bored with it yet, and its easier right now when i'm still getting used to eating this way and working out and all the life changes i've made, I don't want to worry about introducing new things yet.
does it work better? Well I have no idea, I haven't gone up the rungs yet. It works fine for me right now, but on days that my carbs are higher, I lose more weight. Its fine to stay on induction for a while, but don't be afraid to go up the rungs. You will still lose.

[Mija]

Originally Posted by kibskix

on days that my carbs are higher, I lose more weight.

on the days your carbs are HIGHER you lose MORE weight??? how do you do that??? why type of carbs do you eat More Of on those days??? thats VERY interesting...!

[kibskix]

if i eat too little carbs, like 5-10ish, i dont generally lose much. but if i get them closer to 20 or even accidently go over by 1-3, i lose consistantly. the carbs i eat those days come mostly from day i have flax and higher carb veggies like broccoli on the same day. it might cause me to lose more than having less carbs because im sure the rule of keeping them around 20 is there for a reason and thats enough to keep you losing but not so little your body thinks youre starving. maybe its my body telling me im ready to move on. maybe its that my calories happen to be higher that day, I dunno!

[planetclaire]

Both times when I have been successful with Atkins (and I am including this time, even though I am far from goal I stayed on induction 2 weeks. I always wanted more veggies, that's the only thing that I really craved!

Induction is just too limited for me, I want to eat ricotta and berries as soon as I possibly can! LOL

[Kawispice]

For me Induction is a severe way of eating, strong limitations and I check my total nutrition intake every day. I also feel very weak, maybe that is from too much exercise but I found potassium supplement helps. My hair starts to fall out too, I mean really fall out. Also weight loss seems to actually increase for me when I add some carbs.

[Sunny_0ne]

Although I am on OWL 4, I actually end up eating induction meals a lot of days just because that's what I want and they satisfy me. But I like the freedom to eat a wider variety of carbs some days.

And the higher carb days don't slow my weight loss. In fact, although I am a very slow loser, I seem to lose more when I eat a few more carbs.

[kibskix]

see its not just me!

[not2late]

It really depends on your body. Even Dr. Atkins wrote that in the book. The two examples he gave were of a woman with a high metabolic resistance to weight loss and a man with a moderate metabolic resistance to weight loss. The woman stayed on Induction for the majority of her weight loss. The man moved to OWL Phase and proceeded through the Diet.

Dr. Atkins wrote in the book that the only people who could benefit from an extended Induction phase were those people with a high metabolic resistance to weight loss because staying on Induction might correct the metabolic imbalances that inhibit the weight loss. So the question is what is your metabolic resistance to weight loss and how do you find it?

Dr. Atkins wrote that at the end of your 14 Day Induction, you weigh yourself and look up your weight loss in the charts in the book. The problem I see frequently here is that no one bothers to do that. So we have folks who've "only" lost 9 pounds during the first 14 Days, mistakenly believe they have a high metabolic resistance to weight loss and mistakenly believe they "have" to stay on Induction to lose weight. If they had only bothered to take 2 minutes of their time to look up their loss in the charts, they would have seen that they have a moderate to low metabolic resistance to weight loss----like the vast majority of us do----and they wouldn't condemn themselves to staying on Induction. No, they would move to OWL Phase, eat a higher amount of carbs, eat a wider variety of foods and still lose weight. But since they don't bother to look things up, they remain on Induction unnecessarily.

Dr. Atkins spelled it out in the book that we, each, have a specific "critical carbohydrate losing level". That is each of us can eat a certain number of carbs and still lose weight. Only a small proportion of us will have to eat at Induction level carbs in order to lose weight. The vast majority of us can eat above it and lose weight. My CCLL was 50 net carbs daily----that's alot of food. We've had some members here who were eating over 100 net carbs daily and still losing weight. In my time here, there have only been about 5 people whose CCLL was 20 net carbs and the majority of them had medical issues that slowed their weight loss.

So unless you are one of those few people with a high metabolic resistance to weight loss, staying on Induction longer than the initial 14 days does nothing for you in terms of consistent weight loss, rapid weight loss, continued weight loss, etc. Over the years, we've noticed on ADBB that the people with average to low metabolic resistance actually hit a weight loss plateau if they stay on Induction too long. And by that time, they are too scared of carbs and too discouraged by their stall on extended Induction that they are absolutely terrified of adding 5 net carbs of veggies to their menues.

But the choice is yours.