Originally Posted by daisywench
when I started at the beginning of October, it was SLOW. It was my 3rd attempt at Atkins. I think I only lost about 7 pounds in induction. Maybe another 5 pounds the next month total. I stuck with it. Didn't cheat except one night, and it made me so sick to my stomach that I didn't do it again. I've been cheat free since early November now. Not a cookie, nothing over the holidays. In December, I started melting away. I think I lost 10 pounds in December, another 10 in January, and i'm now down 46 pounds. Sometimes I guess it just takes your body a while to figure itself out, and really get into the swing of it. Even though I felt a bit frustrated, I stayed on plan, and stuck with it. One thing that helped me is that I didn't even HAVE a scale until a few weeks ago. I'd weigh myself every few weeks on the scale at my friend's house. So I didn't see the daily fluctuations. I knew I was losing by the way my clothes fit, but it was a good 2 months before I really started losing quickly.
If you stick to plan, and don't stress about the numbers on the scale, and just focus, it will happen. Every body is different. I'm truly not stressing about the numbers on the scale. I know I'm losing inches quickly, and that's the important thing. Sometimes I don't even realize it, where it's coming off. Like, sure, you see your face get smaller almost immediately, that's a given. But I notice new things every day....
This morning I was in the shower shaving my legs, and I moved my leg a certain way, and all of a sudden, I saw definition there in my upper thigh that wasn't there before. And indention of sorts, I guess. I liked it. It was new. So, you see, there's things happening that don't show up on the scale.
I say throw out the scale. But I know that's easier said than done, even for me.
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