3 week stall-check my menu pleazzzzzz!

[Diva217.5]

Ok, I have stalled for 3 weeks now, and need someone who can check this and let me know what could help.

Breakfast:
4 slices summer sausage
1/2oz cheese
2 eggs
1 pat butter
bottle water

lunch:
2 all beef patties
.5oz cheddar
2tbsp fresh crumbles bacon
1/2 cup cucumber
1/2 cup bell peppers
2tbsp ceasar dressing(fresh, carb free)
2.5oz sharp cheddar cheese
bottle water

snack
bottle water
1 can sugar-free orange crush m/w splenda

dinner
4 medium size chicken thighs skinless
2 cups salad
1tbs feta cheese salad dressing(fresh, carb free)
bottle water

snack
bottle water

[Mcfattie]

Are you excerising any?Sometimes you can stall for a bit, and then the weight will start coming off. Did you take your own measurements weekly?When I was on the diet, I would take my measurements weekly...Finding that in some places i've lost 2 inchs,and in others i woulda gained 1inch or so...That's what I would do is check the measurements...

Also, you have toi watch your veggie intake in the book it says you can have 2 cups of uncooked losely packed veggies(or salads) and 1 cup of cook veggies a day...I don't see anything wrong with what you eat. Maybe your not drinking enough water, but as i've suggested I'd take measurements....And also journal everything you eat....

I hope I helped somewhat.

[cypressgirl]

Hi Diva! Good for you for still be patient and seeing this through.

Are you journaling in fitday? That should be giving you some really valuable information about ratios and breakdowns!

I have no idea how to input your sausage (measuremnets, brand) or how you cooked your chicken but I came up with about 1500 cals, 14 carb - 3 fiber so 11 net. This seems reasonable to me but I am sure that if I had more info about preparationa and measurements, the # could change. This is why you should be using fitday, b/c only you know what you ate.

If you are reading labels, using fitday, exercising, drinking your water, measuring your food and eating only until you are satisfied...I think that is about it except for waiting. I absolutley do not buy into the idea that this diet doesn't work for you after what you lost at first and how much you have left to go. Don't let that gain a toehold in your mind and derail you!

[Laurenfra]

I would check the summer sausage for sugar, drink more water, and wait. If you follow the rules you will loose

[Diva217.5]

I checked the summer sausage and theres no sugar in the ingredients.
Also did 20 minutes cardio today (baby steps).
Drank about 6 bottles of water, which is up one bottle from normal days.
I also forgot to add that I had 2 all beef patties with 1/2 oz cheese on top for lunch, my error.Does that change anything?

[2big4mysize]

You need to spread your veggies to all meals as we want some healthy carbs some protein and some fat at each meal.


okay question number one
did you need all the food you had at each eating to satisfy your hunger right then?
if you aren't sure try eatting 1/2 the amount tomorrow and stopping. if you get hungry eat the rest
if not then you are over eating your Atkins legal foods. remember Dr Atkins said just cause the foods are legal and he didn't place serving size limits on the proteins and fats that doesn't mean you have a license to gorge on them. We eat only to feed hunger and stop even if we have room in our belllies, carbs in the budget and food on the plate.
With the appetite suppression side effect of this way of eating you should be encountering the have to eat cause 6 hrs have past rule and having only a small snack of a protein/fat with your carbs (veggies). if you don't have the appetite supression then something you are eating is triggering you. learning our feelings of hunger and not the I wants is a big stepo in learning how to do Atkins successfully.

tommorrow see what happens if you only eat 1/2 the food. you will not go into the dreaded starvation mode cause we have more then enough protein intake for cellular repairs and growth on Atkins and we have pleanty of stored energy in our fat cells.

Happy low carbing.

[Diva217.5]

Ok, I will try it.

[iyamamaschke]

I am not too sure but, Maybe the cheese is stalling you have you just recently added more some people are very sensitive to dairey I am one of them and stall right out eating cheese or cream so I try to limit it as much as possible, Your cabs can be low but, if your body doesn't like something you are eating it will stall.

Sarah

[Tommy]

Have you checked to see if you are in ketosis?

[sunflowergrl]

Please try Fitday. If you measure your food, and log it into fitday you will know for sure that you are doing everything right.