What's Wrong With My Body?
 

I've been on atkins diet for a month a half now and i haven't lost A SINGLE POUND yet . I dunno if i'm doing the diet incorrectly or is it my body.. Usually i would have
breakfast -3 eggs and hotdog
lunch- salad or cheeseburger no buns
dinner- salad and 2 or 3 chicken breast no flour...
I do drink a lot of water too becuz i would constantly going to the bathroom 7 to 8 times a day..
PLEASE any pro atkins diet... spare me .. advice or comments ? thanks much.
ps. im so DESPARATE to lose weight.

You are pretty darn close to your ideal weight for someone 5'4". You will lose more slowly the less you have to lose. What is the "no rice" plan you have referenced? Why are you desperate?

no rice means i dont eat rice. coz i gained so much bfr just eating rice.. If i gain weight the frst place it goes to is my face.. i get chubby face w/c i hate and tummy .
im 132 that's not my ideal weight at all i wanna be maybe 112 or 115 ;)

by ideal weight, she means health-wise, not what YOU want to see in the mirror. at 5'4", 112lbs is probably underweight for you. have you ever weighed that much at this height? and how old are you? age has an impact too.

which plan are you wondering if you are following correctly? i've never heard of the "no rice" plan, but if that's "no rice" and you are eating "no rice" it sounds like you are following that plan, but it's not resulting in weight loss.

if you want to follow the atkins plan, you must meticulously track what you eat and how many carbs what you eat contains.

your profile says that you've read the atkins book. i suggest looking at the induction chapter again and making certain that you are following those rules to a t. if not, it will affect your loss.

also, please keep in mind that atkins or any other LC plan is NOT a "quick fix" solution to weight loss. it is about making a change in the way you are eating FOR LIFE.

How big is that salad at the meal? Despite the rep Atkins has as the all-the-bacon-you-want diet, it is best to eat a lot of the allowed vegetables for the best health AND weight loss.
Chill out. If you aren't having eating issues already, this kind of attitude is sure to create them. Then you have two problems to deal with.

Have you read DANDR ???
 

If not, I recommend you read the book first.

It could be you're not eating enough - at least not enough veggies - and not enough fat. You need 20 NET carbs, (that's carbs minus fiber). I had about the same menu as you. Until I started using Fitday (www.fitday.com) I was so sure I was doing it right. Well, I was wrong, I didn't deduct the fiber and it turned out my net carb level was 10-15 carbs. This is not a "count calories" WOE, but I found I needed to control that as well. Atkins recommend 10-12 times your current body weight pr day in calories. (I received this long e-mail from Atkins Support when I asked them for tips to break my 8 weeklong stall) I was having less than 1100 most days. Now I'm averaging around 1500 - 1700 calories. I have been told the recommended breakdown is 70 % fat, 25 % protein and 5 % carbs.

There could be a lot of reasons for you not losing weight. Medications, yeast infection, allergies.......

If you start using Fitday and post a link here, I'm sure somebody will go through it for you and make suggestions. Then at least you'll know IF your're doing anything wrong foodwise.

Weight loss is NOT linear, but if you are doing everything right, the trend is almost always downward.

During Induction, you can REASONABLY expect to lose ~10-15% of the total you need to lose. This means that if you have 100 pounds to lose, 10-15 pounds is very reasonable Induction. If you have 25 to lose, 2.5-4 pounds is not out of the question.

Not everyone will lose at the same rate, especially during Induction. A lot depends on how your metabolism is 'set' and how many times you've yo-yo'd before, and on and on.

I expect the people I consider specialists in this forum will join soon. There are so many people here ready to help you. So don't give up - just hang in there !!!

thanx .. i also found out that my body burns only 1752 of calories a day.
Curly , in your question how old am i ? im 22 not really 5'4 maybe 5'3 or so .. i eat 2 cups of salad a day ..
ps. i just bough a atkins pancake just now ;) but there's no syrup avail.

I would try to find a way to get more fats into your food. (And maybe cut out the hotdog at breakfast. Just cause I thinks hotdogs for breakfast sounds ick.)

Well, not only because it sounds ick, but there are a lot of extars in it. There are better food choices out there.
But Really, follow through on the fitday.com advice. Make sure you get you fats into the 70% ranges.

REALLY? I didn't know hotdog is dat bad.. do u have any recommended foods for increase fat intake? thanx

Its not that the hotdog is bad, just not the best. I just wouldn't have it on a daily basis

You could try adding some alvocado in your salad. Bacon, is pretty good. I eat a handfull of Macadamia nuts every day to help keep my fats up. This work good for me. Some people out there will even just down a tablespoon of olive oil. (Talk about ick)

thanks Marytou.. i'll prbably try that.

Patricia, I didn't mean to sound so harsh in my post above. I apologize. This forum really is about support.

One thing that might be masking your loss is water retention from the salt in hotdogs, etc. So if you take the above advice to limit hotdogs, make sure you are eating enough, eating enough fat, and other tips, you should see results.

Hi ya,
you could add good fats like Flax oil.. you can use it on your steamed veggies or salad.. good omega oils..

Girly Girl is right, you will need to watch the water retention you get due to processed meats.. even some deli meat can cause you to retain water.. and bacon too....

You may not want to hear this, but I too agree that maybe you dont have all that much weight to lose, and it is really hard to get it off.

Have you tried other approaches too.. like maybe what you are really after is toning up abit more?

cheers,
j

no prob.. the only thing i was doing wrong was not eating enough fats...

Im joining a fitness club hopefully but im still in school so its hard with my schedule , etc. iT'S ALSO hard when you are a student and you're doing LC.. cafeteria food kinda sucks

Hi there! Hey, also keep in mind that if you're eating exactly what you should be eating, your body is going to increase its lean muscle mass, which means that you will be losing more fat than your scales show because you're increasing muscle. This is a GOOD thing, and it may mean in the long run you will absolutely no way ever reach 112 pounds. However, you will reach the SIZE you want to be. :) Shoot, I have an 18-year-old daughter that is 5'4" tall, and her lean body mass is 107 pounds right now. Imagine her trying to get to 112. The percentage of body fat is much more important than the actual weight.

Best of luck to you! :)

for the past few days.. ive eaten a lot of fats .. and i went to the bathroom to check it with the ketostrips and it went dark purple w/c i was really happy about.. bUT MINE just take a long time to lose weight.. and ive been eating the right foods.

If it went really DARK purple you may be either registering DIETARY fat or even be dehydrated. GO up to teh orange bar at the top of teh page, and click on "Low Carb Tips" you'll find a really good article about the strips and their "quirks".

what is dat mean? is it bad that it went purple

What is dat mean? is it bad?

usually if they are DARK purple it means you are dehydrated. Make sure you dont eat 3 hours before bed then test with strips in the morniing before you have anything to eat....that way you KNOW its detecting you and not the food you ate.

good luck.

hi there! i dont think i was dehydrated becuz i had been driking 1352oz of water..
ps. do u happen to know if its okay to take pain killer medication like vicodin or antibiotics? i just had my teeth pulled out yesterday and it swelling. im just scared to take any antibiotics coz it might stall my weight.. and i thought that if the ketostrip turned purple means you're losing weight but there are reasons besides that, huh?
thanks

It might not be the way you eat at all it might me that you need to excercise. I would die to be the weight you are now. Actually I would say that majority of us posting 135 pounds is our goal weight. My Ideal weight is 140 pounds however I would be satisfied at 150 to 160. I excercise every single day. As you said earlier you don't have time because of school. Well I don't either. I am a mother of 4 ages 8, 6, 5, and 2. I work full time from 8 am in the morning to 5 or 7pm at night. When I get home all I do is bath the kids, cook them dinner and check home work. I go to bed at 10 pm after the news. Now that is no time. However I do wake up at 5:45 am before the children wake up and excercise for 45 minutes. So at 6:30 am I wake the kids up to get ready for school.

If I can do it you can too!!!!

It won't hurt just to try.

i know what you mean.. some ppl tell me that i dont need to lose more weight i just need to exercise to tone my body.. but as i said before i just can't .. i work full time and i go to school. i would be dead literally if i would work out.. Good for you that u exercise.. well goodluck !

patriciar,
If you want a toned and proportioned body, you aren't going to get it by loosing more weight. Unless you tone the muscle as you lose you'll still be flabby. You'll be dissatisfied with that, and want to lose even more weight when you should be toning and working out.

Honestly, no one has time for exercise. How many people to hear about going to personal trainers because they have absolutely nothing to do? Not many.

Look for a plan that takes maybe 20 minutes a day. What would work best for toning is a weight lifting routine. Weight lifting is also good for your bones to prevent ostiopreosis. I hope that helps. :)
~CindyLynn~

On the hot dog front, you have to check what is in them. I have here a package of chicken weiners that I use for training my dogs. The second ingredient is wheat flour. The third is cornstarch. Farther down the list is dextrose (sugar). Sausages can be a challenge too, but I am able to find some without these fillers or nitrites (except I haven't found breakfast type sausages without wheat in them...)

CindyLynn is right. You don't have to spend hours in the gym every day to get good results. Focus on the excercises that give you the most benefit for the shortest time which would most likely be some form of weight resistance training. I think you'd be surprised at the results that even 20 minutes a day at home using free weights would give you.

...and that could be 20 minutes a day, three times a week. :thup: :thup: That's all I put in, and it works nicely.

As I tell my son when he tries to get out of his physical therapy. There is no such word as "can't".

It can be a challenge to fit everything into a day, but you're only shortchanging yourself if you refuse to follow the very sound advice you've been given in search of an easier answer.

If it were easy, we'd all be thin.