Okay, it's been six weeks since I've been on Atkins. I have not cheated one bit and in the first week I've lost about 10 pounds, then nothing for five weeks. What's going on? I'm getting really frustrated.
I read somewhere I should up my fat intake hmmm...
What is the ratio of protein to fat to carbs anyway. I read so many things I'm just so confused
I went on fitday.com and put in what I ate, I'm not sure I know what the heck that all means, since it's really not accurate. I tried to put in that I ate two scrambled eggs for breakfast and it put that I had one whole cup of dry eggs. Huh? I had two scambled eggs without any oil and I had six strips of bacon.
I couldn't rely on the count because it's not accurate on fitday.
Help, help, help...I'm going nuts going back and forth between lowing my calories to 1000, adding more carbs, than dropping carbs, adding more fat, than less fat, errrgg. I'm going insane trying to keep up. No wonder I haven't lost another pound. My body is probably so confused, it doesn't know which way is up or down anymore. I need serious help and advice here.
Addie

It is the worst thing, isn't it?? Well done for keeping with it.

I have read very good posts about this, in the Tips and stalls area. They boil down to these main points.
1 You can be losing inches and not weight for a while, so measure..
2 Keep your calories up, not down,or your poor body starts slowing up..
3 Eat more fat. I think somethng like 60% of your calories should be fat..
4 Drink more water..
5 Do more exercise..
and if all that doesn't work, start looking at salty food, coffee, alcohol and the artifical 'low carb' stuff.

Good luck

Fitday has some strange default amounts but you CAN change them... when you choose something like: "egg, whole, fried"... you click on the drop down arrow next to the measurement and you can choose: small, med, large, etc... so you put 2 in the amount spot and then choose the appropriate size.

Fit Day is really good for tracking foods... but you need to <u>select</u> serving sizes. Fit Day provides a pull-down list to pick from. They have so many choices for eggs. for example.. when you select scrambled eggs and put that in your daily menu.. you can then select the number and size of the eggs... like 2 large eggs. It'll take a bit of time to get used to, but try clicking on everything listed and see what happens. It can't hurt, and it'll give you a foundation for learning.

Also... a good source is the Atkin's Carbohydrate Counter found on this site (look under quick links).

One of my DH's friends has already lost 40 lbs on this WOE. When he started to lose alot of weight he started to have a difficult time staying in ketosis and stalled, despite his low carb count. He decided it was because he wasn't working as hard by carrying around that extra weight. He had a great solution. He bought leg weights and wears them every day under his clothes. Extra excercise with no extra time commitment!!! This worked for him.