Mon, Jul-16-07, 17:26
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Senior Member
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Plan: No grains, no sugar.
Stats: 001/045/525
BF:
Progress: 8%
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Originally Posted by gawdess
I am with you on this. The last time I did Atkins, I started at 240 and couldnt get under 180. It was like my body just stopped losing and it frustrated me enough to quit LCing. I regained my weight and then some. Don't let this frustrate you. Learn to be happy with where you are now because its still way better than where you were at the start!!!! This time around, I am happy with every pound, and even if I never get under 180, its still way better than 256! Hang in there Bat Spit!
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I'm not a fan of "set point" theory, but have been stuck at a size range I've been at often before in my life, probably around 300 pounds or so, this after a loss of between 200 and 250 pounds. I don't focus on weight loss per se so I haven't been all that bothered by it, but I'm now curious enough so that I'll start trying to restrict calories and do some exercise to see if I start trending down again. I know what happened (I started eating a lot more food, although it was low carb), I just don't know why for sure.
As an aside, albeit an important one, the one thing about all this I'm dead sure of after 2.5 years is that focusing on weight loss is doing it backwards, and takes more work than just focusing on changing the way you eat and letting the weight take care of itself, which it will do to a large extent, if you'll excuse the pun. I've been "maintaining" without counting calories and with no exercise, and it's quite easy, even though I'm not losing anything (and still need to, according to my mirror). I think if I was stressing about losing it would have been much harder for me than it has been just steering clear of grains and sugar. Always worrying about the number on a scale is adding a goal (losing weight), to the already difficult one of avoiding the garbage that is pushed on us by society wherever we go.
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