Debbie~ Gosh, good information. I never would have thought that my body would think that I'm in "starvation" mode (or whoever said that). I will get the book and read through it. Maybe it will help me understand how to actually approach it all. I have to remember that we are all made up differently. In so many of the posts I read that people on OWL stay anywhere from 30 to 50 carbs.

Tom, also the whole calorie thing you mentioned does make sense, it's just that my mind probably wouldn't allow me to go up to 1600-1800 calories in a day. Maybe I can increase it to around 1200 at first, then if that doesn't work, increase further.

I'm just getting so sick and tired of not getting to where I think that I need to be. I have lost a total of 51 so far so I've been doing something right up to this point. Now just nothing will move that scale....I'm a scale whore (look at it all the time)