1. Have you read the book for, and followed your chosen plan to the letter for at least a month? No digression in the food front at all? No skipping meals?
Yes, Yes, Yes.
2. Do you figure out your carbs/calories each day? Do you use a carb counter or a program like fitday.com? Or if you cant be bothered with micro-managing, do you know what your critical carbohydrate level is and eat accordingly?
Yes I use fitday
3. Do you regularly drink alcohol?
No.
4. Are you scale or Ketostix obsessed? Compulsively weighing or using Ketostix will make the process seem slower and more erratic than it actually is. If you must weigh yourself everyday, chart your daily weight and figure out a weekly average. Dont take it personally. Its only a hunk of metal and a piece of plastic.
No I haven't used a Ketostix in months and I only weigh once a week.
5. Are you trying to do a low fat version of your chosen plan?
No
6. Have you been a yo-yo dieter? People who have severely restricted their calories in the past due to low-fat or calorie restricted dieting may find it difficult to lose weight initially. In this case, using low-carb as part of the process of metabolic healing will help. You will lose fat once your body learns to trust what youre doing. Persistence will pay off.
No
7. Are you consuming any or all of these items on a regular basis? If you are, stop consuming them one at a time, for at least two weeks to see if it initiates weight loss.
Processed meats, including bacon
Caffeine
Cheese and dairy products
Alcohol
Nuts and Nut Butters
Peanuts and Peanut Butter
Artificial Sweeteners
Diet Drinks
Protein Bars
Low carb food products that imitate high carb food
Eating a wide combination of food in one day
Overly salty foods? For example pork rinds? Processed meats?
Sugar Alcohols
I am currently doing a two week fast of caffeine and sugar alcohols. I eat cheese and dairy. I drink maybe one can of diet Rite a day. I have pork skins but not daily.
8. Are you drinking at least 64 oz. of water a day, plus 8 more ounces for every 25 pounds you want to lose?
64 minimum and trying for higher, sudceeding a few times a week. I hate water, I use the pork skins to make me drink water.
9.. Prescription drugs or hormones which impede weight loss:
estrogens and most synthetic HRT's including birth control pills
Anti-depressant drugs - Insulin and insulin stimulating drugs
Anti-arthritis medications including steroids
Diuretics and beta blockers
None
10. Underactive thyroid (hypothyroid) function which can be present when blood tests indicate no abnormalities
Had it checked a few years back.
11. Ovewrgrowth of the yeast organism Candida albicans.
Dunno
12. Often overlooked but are you getting enough sleep? Or, are you going through an unusually stressful period? Stressing over what is perceived as lack of progress, being to hard on yourself and obsessing on scales or Ketostix is stressful.
Yes I get a minimum of 8 hours
I'm going on like 10 weeks with only a 1lb loss. I have a fitday journal if anyone would like to look.
I've been told to go back to Induction but I don't know how that would help if I haven't screwed up enough to come out of Ketosis?? In December I had a tiny bit of cake for my bday and two days later I checked to be sure I was back in Ketosis. I haven't cheated since! I don't know if I should do Induction again, change plans to I don't know what... or just keep going like I am.