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Subject: Wow.......I truly empathize

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Dreemdanser

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Date Posted: 10:48:57 02/18/03 Tue
In reply to: SapphireMist 's message, "Re: My latest attempt" on 15:05:46 02/17/03 Mon

That was the reason I tried and quit so many times before....just like the experience you are having I would try and I mean really do everything right and the scale would not budge or it would g up and down and down and up with the end result the same....no progress. I had this experience for years. It is more than frustrating, I know.

I am not sure what was different this time when i started out this summer....perhaps I was just too afraid to quit. And even though I had initial sucess i hit a number of times when the scale bounced back up making me think it had all been for nothing....or when it just wouldn't budge no matter how hard i had tried. I just kept hitting the "wall" over and over and as you know the progress was very slow and very irregular. I felt like I fought for every single little 1/2 lb. My metabolisim seems so be very sluggish.

I am not feeling great about this atkins plan. But I figure that the same thing is happening that has been happening for about a month and a half....the scale goes up and down and I don't seem to break any new ground. I am hoping to try and stick with this for at least a week to be fair in evaluating whether I should continue on this.

Today the scale was back up a lb and a half. I feel like I am eating huge amounts of food that I never would think it was ok to eat. I excercised yesterday and that made me feel more "normal". I went to the atkins website and they advocate excercising 5X a week for at least 20 minutes aerobically to lose weight. Geesh....I thouhgt that the usual recomendation was at least 3X a week. So Acording to them what I have been doing (thinking I was really going to the max) is minimally what is necessary in terms of excercise. On the forum for the wendy plan the people there are talking about their excercise and they do like and hour and a half of aerobics 6 times a week!!!! Good grief...I don't think that realistically I can do that consistently. I am so proud of myself when I do my 35 minutes of aerobics 5X a week. I know I was doing like 6 or 7 days a week in the beginning and perhaps that is making the difference with me not losing weight now. I don't know. It has been since feb second since I lost any weight...but the really agravating part is that I am back to where i was in the middle of january...and pretty stuck.

i understand your urge to want to stop eating altogether just to see some kind of progress. Yeah...we both know that would make things worse since it would hurt your metabolisim. But....i have a thought. It is what I am going to try next if this atkins thing is a bust....

Try using a meal replacement shake for 2 of your meals every other day for 1 week. in other words....drastically reduce your calories every other day and the days you are not eat normal weight watchers type of meals. the shake thing takes our mind and focus off of food and food preparation. I have done like 3 days in a row before but then it wrecks my metabolisim for weeks afterwards, making ti impossible to lose. However, looking back at my food journal there were days I got really busy and had to just have a diet shake...I went back and added up those calories for those days. It was like on those days I was only eating one meal and then the next day I would eat normal (for a diet). Those were the weeks I lost the most....like 2 or 3 lbs. I don't know if this helps or if it is an idea you can get into or not. All I can say is don't give up.

Do go get a check-up....makes sense. But I had lots of thyroid tests done during the years and they all said I was fine and I still felt that dieting wasn't working. The only difference this time around is that I haven't quit.

*sigh*.....I am with you....know that!
Dreemy

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