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Originally Posted by leicester
Thankyou for your interest and help. I have discovered that I can't skip breakfast because I wake in the early hours of the morning ravenously hungry. I am going to try the extra oils or butter tomorrow. (A messy busy day today) I don't believe I have any other option but to continue as a calorie controlled diet with carbs included sees me constantly hungry and feeling awful. At least on this diet I feel quite well. I am well into ketosis so don't know why I am not losing anything. Thanks again.
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Key to switching over to a very low carb menu like Induction phase of Atkins is EAT when hungry
Do not limit those calories at all. In fact, the more you put the 'dieting mentality' on your food menu choices you are actually working against yourself. You can not control what the body requires. We believe we can but we can not. Never, ever
Dr. Atkins said eat ALL the induction foods you want as necessary to control your appetite. Now, he also said that a 1500 kcal menu will lose faster than a 2500 kcal menu, BUT that is a true statement but never did he say to limit your food choices until your body finds it sweet spot. You eat as needed.
Cheese at breakfast if you wake up ravenous is useless. Eat the big old omelet at breakfast if you are starving. Your body is asking for real food.
Once you give your body what it requires when it asks you will settle into a real pattern of eating.
Our bodies are wrecked. It takes TIME to heal them from the inside out.
Key is you are feeling great. You are dropping some med troubles such as reflux by the wayside. ALL this is healing before the body puts its' mind to losing lbs. Fat on our body is a symptom. As is reflux. Low energy etc. As we change our menu we will start to fix troubles and you already see you are feeling better. The body will fix things as it needs to fix things and dropping the lbs. will come as the body wants to drop them.
In other words you hold this plan
It takes time. We all want it today, all the lbs off today but it truly doesn't work that way for all!!! One size does not fit all here when we change our menu. Our bodies are so different you can't expect what results another will get.
When I started Induction I was ravenous. I ate ALL the induction foods I was allowed on the list. It took time for the body to heal up. Others would lose SO fast and I thought what in the heck is wrong with me
Not a darn thing, cause about 2 months into it I was on my way. Lbs starting dropping off fast....my appetite changed from ravenous to super content, I got more and more real differences such as from tired all the time to extreme energy and more.
You are ok and not hopeless in any way
Our hopelessness comes from no fast results. The results will come as long as you hold your plan
They come as your wrecked body heals up and will give them to you!! Time is required for many of us to see these changes.
best of luck and hold strong!!!