Tue, May-17-11, 14:19
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Posts: 28
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Plan: Atkins/Optimal Diet
Stats: 230/149.8/130
BF:
Progress: 80%
Location: Montana
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I don't want to get flamed, but have you considered the Hcg diet? I did a round when I had been at 185-190 for 2 years. I just got down to 155ish, and started doing the Optimum Diet. Maybe if you really shock your body, it'll go "WTH?" and accidentally startle enough to let go of some weight. You can do it for 26 days and then go back to LC, which is what you do in Phase 3 of Hcg. I liked it because, as long as I only had to do the 500 calorie diet with no fat and no sugar for 23 days, and then I would get to LC again, I was fine.
Hope you find something that will work!
As far as people on the LC boards that go back up in weight, there are always going to be a certain percentage of people who always go back to their original WOE, because they have a diet mentality. If you want to maintain after ANY diet, you can't go back and eat the same foods you did before, that's usually what put you there. I found, through Hcg, that I am extremely gluten intolerant, because in Phase 4, you add back carbs one at a time. I had a day of LC, except for 1 piece of whole grain toast.....gained 7 pounds in a night. Now that was obviously mostly water weight, but I also got a bad rash, and I saw a pattern of water weight/itchy rash whenever I ate something with wheat in it.
You have to make your new eating plan a way of life. I have great losses on LC in several forms, but I know what I can and cannot have now, and if I eat the bad stuff, I know I'll gain again.
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