Thrilled to death with the weight I have lost. Certainly continue to have faith in the LC WOE! Just wish I could start to lose weight again. I was doing so well - until the turn of the New Year. Haven't gained or lost much since then!!

I keep a journal and haven't really had time the past week to write, but I do well with keeping the carbs out - may need to micromanage them for a while!!

Just wanted to vent because I am getting tired of looking at 166# on the scale!!!

The frustration is getting to me - obviously not enough to try Stillmans or Fat Fast yet...

MaryB

Hi Mary, was just poking around and read your post.

What I have found is this. A "stall" is 4-8 weeks in which you have no change in weight or measurements. I have lost inches and had no weight lose and the reverse too. Stay the course for 3-4 weeks and with still no changes, I added a little more carbs to my eating habits for one day. Then right back to the routine. Wait a few days and re-check measurements and scale again. Usually this sent my body into a mild shock, kind of throws off the body for a day or two and then will break the stall.
I also noticed that the weights I paused at for a while are weights I stayed at, on the way up, for a long time. The body seems to remember that weight and thinks it's the weight you should be at. (set-point) Just give it a little time. I personally stalled at 225lbs and just couldn't break thur for 2-monthes! Augh, I hated that one! But remembering that was a weight I was at for a while, while gaining, I knew it would only be a matter of time till I lost again.

Stay the course, it WILL happen! Hope this helped a little.

Cheers, John

Thanks John!

It's nice to hear from someone who has stalled for long periods and then went on to darned near goal! Good For You!!!

mb

MaryB,

I can relate to what you're going through. For the past month I have hovered around 210. Sure, I got to 207.5 and up to 212, yet it has been nothing short of frustrating. Sometimes almost enough to eat that pizza with my son!

What was said in the post about past weights I think is fairly accurate. I seemed to be at 206 for several years, right before I threw on 40 pounds in a single year. I guess I expected to lose it faster than I put it on! hee hee

I read once before (gee, how many books have I read!) that during a stall, the body is transforming into its new weight. Who knows?

Best of low carbing days to you. You have come so far already!

Smile,
Live Love

So called "stalls" are a normal function of the body during a weight loss project. As John mentioned it's not really a true stall until it reaches lengthy periods of time...a month and more. I've survived a few myself and I understand the frustration that goes with it, but I do know that with patience and persistance, you will get going again. Often, posting menus in a journal will allow some of the food gurus around here to look over what you are eating and possibly spot something that could be slowing you down.

Marlaine

Almost forgot I started this thread!! Just an update - I do believe I had an actual stall - no weight loss, no iiches lost for over a month and a week, and even tho I understand it happens to most of us, that certainly isn't much of a pick-me-up day after day after day...

The good news is that I broke the stall! On Feb 9th I weighed in with a 5# weight loss and then in a few days I was down to 159.5# WOW!

I had reread the PP and Atkins sections on stalls, as well as here on the web site - completely stopped eating cheese, peanuts and mushrooms. Didn't take very long for the weight to start coming off again. Maybe coincidental, but I DOUBT IT!

Thank you all for your support and your comments!

One happy dieter,
mb

WTG Mary!!

Thanks for the tip on your foods. I'm going to have to recheck myself. Recently gained 4lbs for 2-weeks now. Going to cut back on the foods you listed and see what happens. Thanks.

Cheers, John

MaryB
Why mushrooms?----omg i live on mushrooms as i love them and they seem to be about the lowest veg about 0.6g carb per 100g according to British info (this is with fibre deducte)-----can they really stall?

The only problem with mushrooms is that they are a fungus and will affect someone who is stalled by a yeast overgrowth. If you are losing, don't worry about it.

Dr. Atkins says its very difficult to lose weight if you have a yeast problem. The most common foods to avoid are (sugars and starches) cheese, nuts, mushrooms, vinegar-containing products and anything else with yeast in it i.e. bread and some vitamins.

I just started a yeast avoidance regime yesterday and dropped three pesky pounds as of this morning. I have been stuck for six weeks. This cannot be coincidence. The food is pretty boring, but it's got to be worth it.

That's why I decided to stop using the mushrooms - I read through the stall tips in several books and websites - and the "fun-guy" can cause not so fun stalls...

Don't know if that was my particular problem, but I find plenty of other things to eat and I've lost another 10 pounds in a month!

mb

So glad to read that so many of you are breaking through your stalls!! I read 265 on the scale day after day for six weeks!! and had no change in the way the clothes fit etc. I didn't think of giving up, as I am committed to this wol, but it is so frustrating, and I know my friends were sick of my whining!! I have finally moved down to 263! Not much of a change but confirmation that the scale isn't broken! I to really cut back my cheese and nuts based on reading other posts and perhaps that was the key! Continued success to all of us!

SusieQ,
I know the feeling well .... I've been at a dead stop since before the holidays... I DID splurge alittle for the holidays and held at the 178, but started behaving myself again after the new year... so that means legitamately it's been for at least 10 weeks no change in the way my clothes felt, or the scale (Good grief I'm starting to HATE that scale!!! )

My next weigh in for myself is the 15th of this month, and I'm truly hoping that I'll have something new to say... other than 178 178 178 178 178 ... as of this morning (3/9/02) I WAS at 176 ... but I've seen that before... but I was so happy -- I changed mystats, as a positive reminder....

Sally

I found that artifical sweeteners were causing my stalls. I seem to be losing now that I gave them up (temporarily that is). At least I know that I can maintain using artifical sweeteners. I'm starting to get used to drinking water with my meals instead of Diet Rite.