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Old Sat, Mar-17-18, 11:21
wallyj wallyj is offline
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The only diet that has ever worked for me (and it always seems short term) is Atkins. I've been on an 'Atkins like' diet, I say that because I don't eat a lot of the things on the acceptable list. I needed some quick success and started on NO CARBS 3/1/18. I was fasting for 16 hours and then only eating some kind of meet and lettuce and an Atkins bar for 2 weeks. I dropped 17 pounds and feel great. But now I'm coming to the point where my weight loss is slowing (plateau) and I need to jump start it again. I've got about 50 more pounds to lose. Is it possible for a finicky eater to lose the weight on atkins? And please don't answer "don't be so finicky".
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Old Sat, Mar-17-18, 11:37
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As long as you don't mind a fairly repetitive diet, I don't think being finicky should be a setback. Meat and lettuce can get you pretty close to where you want to be nutritionally. A fair number of people do nothing but the meat and are successful--personally if I went that route, I'd throw in a multivitamin, not because I think it's necessary, but because I'm not convinced that it's not necessary.

It's not unusual for people to experience a plateau following rapid weight loss like you describe to then go into a "stall." When it goes down that fast--it's likely you've lost a fair bit of water, and it's easy for a recovery of some of that water weight to mask further fat loss for a period, you have to sort of stay the course to be certain whether that's the issue or not, I think Atkins suggested about 4 weeks.
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Old Sat, Mar-17-18, 13:20
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A slowdown is not a plateau. A true plateau is when you're not losing anything at all for a period of a few weeks or more.

Beyond the initial water weight, it's actually quite common for people's rate of loss to wobble a bit along the way. I'm one of the "other" ones in that my weight loss was fairly consistent at about 2lb/week for 8 months straight before it started to level off, but then I didn't have any great jumpstart upfront either.

Regarding finicky eating, one of the things that definitely helped me along my way was to try all sorts of things that were supposed to be good for me under an LCHF regimen. There are a lot of things I don't eat just because I don't like them either: bacon, olives and avocadoes come to mind. But then I discovered a few other things that I do enjoy, like macadamia nuts for example.

If you've tried stuff and found that you don't like most of it, then that's fine. You gotta go with whatever works for you, whatever you find sustainable. I heard an anecdote recently that I think came from a presenter at Low Carb Breckenridge, where someone had a patient that lost weight just by eating bunless burgers from McDonalds. Perhaps not 100% ideal, but it was still an improvement on what he had been eating previously so he still got results.

In any case, patience is key. It took me 15 months to lose my weight. As long as things are improving for you, however fast or slow it may be, you're doing OK.
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Old Sun, Mar-18-18, 18:13
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Most people find it hard to hear but weight loss usually doesn,t happen in a straight line downward. It goes down levels off rinse and repeat and occasionally even goes up. As long as the overall trend is downward you will get to the point you want to be at .
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Old Mon, Mar-19-18, 08:37
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Thanks all. I think I was a little premature. Still losing, down 20 now
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