What do you guys think?

[hydroflame]

For the last two months it has been getting harder for me to eat because of the loss of appetite. I sometimes almost forget to eat , but i still manage to get a meal in about six hours apart. Anyway for some reson I dont think that I am losing as much weight as think I should be losing. I stayed cheat free from the beginning and I get my cardio in about 5 days a week for about 45 minutes.

Breakfast:
3 Eggs, 3 tbsp butter
1/2 small tomato, 1/2 cup cucumber, in olive oil and 1 tbsp vinegar

Lunch:
1 cup diced pork
1.5 cups of lettuce

Dinner:
Chicken salad with shredded chicken 1/2 cup of celery and 2 tbsp mayonaise.

What do you guys think?

[alaska1204]

sounds great.. i can't see anything wrong with it! keep up the good work!!! lots of protein, fats and veggies from what i can see!!!

[julirama723]

Try plugging a menu into fitday. www.fitday.com

This will tell you how many calories you're eating each day, and if your ratios are balanced. You should be striving for 65% fat, 5% carbs, 30% protein on induction.

If you're eating too much protein, excess turns to glucose and is stored as fat in our bodies. If you're eating fewer than 1200 calories a day (or perhaps less than 1500, based on your exercise regime) your body might be in starvation mode. It is important to eat enough!

Check out this bmr calculator to find out your daily caloric needs. Don't forget to use the Harris Benedict formula to factor in activity level.

http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

How much weight do you have left to lose? As we get closer to our goal, our weightloss gradually slows down. Also, things such as age, medical conditions, prescription drugs, etc. can affect weight loss.

My final thought is that you need to move on to OWL. This will give you more food options, and really there's no benefit to extending induction unless you're metabolically resistant. If you lost weight, you're NOT resistant. Don't be afraid of not losing weight once you move to OWL--many members (myself included!) had a jumpstart to their weightloss once they moved to the next phase of the plan.

[hydroflame]

Thanks for the advice guys, an I will go and check fitday.com out. I still have a lot to loose. I do feel better and my clothes are fitting a lot better on me. I did also have to punch another notch in my belt (yeah I know, art school student in S.F.). I just have to stop looking at a mirror then lol!!!


Edit: Hey just checked out FitDay. This sure makes things a lot easier for me to count all of my food intake. THANKS TO INFINITY!!!!

[higgies]

Yeah, Fitday is my best friend. Make sure you eat enough food. It seems like your calories might be a little low. Keep us posted!

[mitzimarie]

Originally Posted by hydroflame

Edit: Hey just checked out FitDay. This sure makes things a lot easier for me to count all of my food intake. THANKS TO INFINITY!!!!

Hello

Just wanted to give you a few tips about Fitday that has made it easier for me. I enter everything I can as a custom food. I sat down one day with my laptop in the kitchen and went through my refrigerator and pantry to enter the info from every label I could get my hands on. On things that we count as a carb that aren't listed as a carb on the label, I enter as 1 instead of 0 carbs... for example, cheese and eggs. (yep, I even enter eggs as a custom food)

Also, when I started using Fitday I starting actually measuring my portions. I had always just eyeballed a cup of something. Now I use the weight in ounces or grams to measure a cup of something. I use an inexpensive food scale I found at Walmart. It is so much easier to measure out x amount of grams or ounces of something versus trying to eyeball how full an actual cup should be.

I also need to remind you to set a fiber goal in Fitday so it will count your grams of fiber for you. You do this under "goals" on the left side of the screen in Fitday. It doesn't matter what number you set your goal at - mine is set at 1 just so it will count the grams for me. It will display your fiber count right next to the other count info... you need to subtract your fiber from your carbs to get your net carbs and this is the number you go by. Once you start measuring and using Fitday, you will probably find that you are eating way less carbs than you think you are. Julie is so right about OWL... the better variety of food makes you enjoy this WOE so much more and it is likely to jumpstart your weight loss.

Good luck to you!

Edited to Add: Here is the link to get you to a list of foods and their weights. After you click on the link, you need to then click on NUTRITIONAL SPREADSHEET to get to the list. I love it and printed it to use all of the time.

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...ad.php?t=42713 (Nutritional Spreadsheet)

[hydroflame]

Thanks for the tips Mitzi, I guess I barely scratched the surface of FitDay. You now what I think that I have a food scale hidden somewhere in my house just dying to be used. I am home for the summer, so this is the perfect time for me to get in shape before I go back living in the dorm.

I took everyones advice and incresed my calorie intake, and you know what I feel fuller specially when I go work out. I hope that this at least gets my metabolism going again and stops this plateau effect that I have been going through after my initial 14 day induction.