Fri, Feb-20-04, 16:58
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Senior Member
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Plan: low cal, low carb
Stats: 196/145/140
BF:23%
Progress: 91%
Location: Coolum Beach, Australia
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My thoughts/2 cents worth. First of all, I think it is a mistake to think in terms of general rules about weight loss or just about any human condition...there is a large amount of variability due to genetic factors. When people do research of large groups of folks, they have to use averages, and those averages all have variations as well, so that big indiviudal differences are sort of smoothed away by the statistics used. From the begining of time, the human body has never been identical...always differences in body types (mesomorphs, endomorphs, ectomorphs), height, etc.
This is why reading personal accounts and anecdotes is useful, as folks can relate their own experiences as individuals. I have read a few posts here from people who have stalled for much longer than a few months, but have realized that this is a WOE and stopped focussing on weight loss and more on muscle gain...invariably, these people report that either 1) they start losing again in time, or 2) their dress/pants size shrinks over time and their BF % decreases.
And yes, there are 'set points' that many of us appear to have... for many, it appears that the body does not want to do any further weight loss...weight loss could be a signal that we are in a state of famine after a certain point, so things need time to regroup and adjust.
One of the problems I detect here is that you and your daughter may have been doing this more as a weight loss exercise than as a solution to previous weight gain.
It is critical to evolve a way of eating that is amenable to not putting on weight...you have managed to improve your health already and have lost excess fat by eating this way....this is a big plus.
Have you been careful not to eat too little? One clear cut reason for stalling is by eating too few calories...assuming that you have not done this (need to keep them above 1200), then my advice would be to focus on weight lifting to increase your muscle mass, which in turn increases fat burning. And to throw away the scales.
Val
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