I feel that I am truly what the Dr. calls Metobolicly resistant.I have been doing lc for 4 months with no loss. I stopped using aspertanme. Stopped taking HRT. Ate exactly what was allowed and tried increasing leagle veggies. I took the test for yeast-negative. The book does not really give options of where to turn now. I have a hard time limiting calories with Lc. Im not sure where to turn, or what to do next. Open to suggestions. I like this wol and I dont want to go back to ww. My son and other family members are all losing around me and eating the same food that I am preparing and eating so whats up?

Female
180
Goal 140
Hieght: 5'7"
Age 40ish

Typical menu listed below

Morning
Coffee (1cup) with cream and sweet n low
Usally eggs, or rolled up ham with cheese

Lunch
Salad with ranch or blue cheese, chicken breast, bacon, a few nuts.

Dinner
same as lunch or meat and veggies

Snacks
Sugar free jello
nuts or peanut butter (very small amount)
Cream Cheese whiped with vanilla and sweetner.

Gosh, your menu looks pretty good to me, though a little low in food. The only thing that I can see that you might tweak is ditching the peanut butter and substituting something else. Are you drinking 100 ozs. of water every day? That has made all the difference for me.
Peg
1/1/03
205/176/165 5'8"

I would suggest that you try the KISS way of eating (keep it simple sweetie) Although your menu looks fine, and many low carbers would lose eating this way, sounds like you & I are the same. So, I would suggest that you try this for 2 weeks and see if it makes a difference.
Give up the cream, cheese, nuts, sugar free jello, peanut butter, blue cheese dressing.

Eat only eggs, meat, veggies & olive oil.

Breakfast could be 3 fried eggs
Lunch Green salad , chicken breast & vinegar & oil.
Dinner: Roast pork , 1 cup turnip & a small salad.

You get the picture. This is low carb eating at it's healthiest. You can have a few higher carb vegetables like tomatoes, carrots, onions because you are getting all your carbs from veggies.

HTH



Victors are really just temporary quitters who then regroup with a vengeance.

My sister has never had success with Atkins. Very discouraging for her, when several other family members are doing fine.

You might try one of the other low-carb plans that allows "reward" meals. You don't seem to be eating very much food, and it may be that your body is going into a very conservative mode--just to make sure you're not starving.

Laura Richard's book The Secret to Low-Carb Success might give you some helpful ideas. It compares seven or eight different plans.

Sorry about the frustration. I've been in a holding pattern for about six months, but I'm fairly close to goal and not that anxious. It's hard to figure out just what to "tweak" when you're being very, very careful.

Barb L.
Started Atkins January 2003
162/135/140

Personally, I don't think you are taking in enough carbs. Keeping to Induction levels will stall weight loss and make your body resistent to weight loss when adding more carbs. Why not *slowly* increase your carbs by adding some flax seed cereal or higher-carbed veggies. From the looks of your menu, your carb levels are way too low. You should be way over 30 carbs a day by now.

Just my two pennies...

Kellie, F38
Started Atkins 8/1/03 (off and on for the last few years but sticking to it this time!)
206/186/170-160 -- 14.5 inches GONE! (as of 10/21)

I agree with peg and barb about not enough food and you probably need to add some more carbs too



225/200/150

Sounds like you need some variety. Pick up some low carb cookbooks or get some different recipes. I find that if I eat the same thing all the time to keep me on track I get bored and stop losing!
Make Chimichungas--real easy and yummy
low carb tortillas, shredded meat and cheese inside and cook them in oven with cheese overtop. Top with sourcream, olives and avacados afterward and enjoy.

Try protein shakes in the mornings! Homemade ones are the best with a few berries!

Good luck and keep your chin up!

Kelly
Heathly Mom to a 1 year old

That's baffling. It sounds like a perfectly good meal middle of the road meal plan. Perhaps if you could give more details with a few days of menus with measurements and all that, it might help.

What other medications are you on? I realize you came off HRT already. I wonder if coming off of it is having a temporary stall effect that will go away.

It might be helpful if you tested yourself to see if you're in ketosis.

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"Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door."

Beach

I agree with Chippy. Sounds like you are not eating enough carbs. I had the same problem to some degree and started losing pretty steadily when I increased veggies.

Good Luck.

I went back and read that again. The second time, the cream cheese jumped out at me. I remember somebody else was doing the plan just fine except for large quantities of cream cheese with splenda. You might want to try dumping the cream cheese for a while.

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"Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door."

Are you using a food tracker like www.fitday.com ? It often helps when things aren't going well and you don't know why.

Rob
310/243.5/180

No one is truly "metabolicly resistant". If you ate absolutely nothing, you would starve and eventually die. There are some people who don't get results from LC diets. What other types of diets have you tried? You also may be eating hidden calories. If you ate 1400 calories every day, you WOULD lose weight. Its just physics.

Shark
410/263/240

Beachcat where are you? Come back and tell us how you are doing?



Victors are really just temporary quitters who then regroup with a vengeance.