Hello. Hello. Hello.

My names Liz im 24, started the charles clarke diet on sunday 29th July!
Starting weight was 10stone 11 (141.54 pounds)

Weighed myself this morning and have lost one pound. So disheartend, felt like crying

Can you lot tell me what im doing wrong? basic menu below similar pretty much every day

Brekky
2 eggs on half a muffin (20g)

Lunch
Cheese and ham salad (bit of mayo)

Dinner
Literally meat and some veg (last night gammon and coli cheese)

Snacks
12 brazil nuts
1 laughing cow cheese triangle

Drinks
Water
Water with sugar free juice
Diet coke x 1
Decaff coffe tiny drop of full fat milk x 1

Sugar free gum

Im on day five now, i feel drained, i used to do exercise every night after work, but this week i have really struggled to find the energy. im also peeing like crazy.

i just feel really down that ive lost only 1 pound in four days when apparantly you can lose up to 7pounds in the first week. am i doing something wrong?

Did anyone else feel absoloutly nakard?!

Any info would help as i feel ready to throw the towel in if i dont lose any more by sunday xx

Hi Liz, welcome to the forum.

When Dr Atkins was alive a member of a different support forum asked a member of his staff what was a "normal" loss for induction.

She was told that a loss over the entire 2 weeks on induction of between 5% and 10% of the weight the body needs to lose would be considered "normal".

So someone with 200 pounds excess pounds who loses 10-20 pounds over those 14 days would be having a "normal" loss, and someone needing to lose 10 pounds who loses 8 ounces to one pound would also be having a "normal" loss.

How many pounds do you need to lose? What % of that loss does your one pound in only 4 days represent?

I was hoping to go down to 9.7 (135.8) i was looking for a quicker result than this. so maybe its just not the diet for me

why would you give up too fast?
Im a starter like you, its not magic, sometimes you lose weight and sometimes your weight stall.

Lc eating is more a way of life...if your looking to take off a few pounds and go off lc it probably isnt the program for you...If you eat lc and take off a few pounds then stop lc you will most likely put it back on...

So you have lost about 16% of the total amount you want to lose in only 4 days!?!

Looks like excellent progress to me.