Wed, May-26-04, 23:17
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,472
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 229/205/170
BF:I have Body Fat!??
Progress: 41%
Location: Idaho
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Hi Nadine. I can sympathize with what you're going through. I lost 19-20 pounds within a short time (October-December) and was so happy! Then after the holidays I came down with the flu and had a nasty side effect which left me pretty inactive. For the next almost 5 months I never lost any weight, saw the scales go up and down within about a 5 pound range to the point it was completely frustrating. To this day I'm not sure what was causing it--maybe it was my inactivity, maybe it was the fact I didn't have the wherewithal to even care if I kept track of what I was eating, maybe I wasn't eating enough, maybe I was eating too much.
Even though there were days when I felt like 'I just don't even care!' I knew deep down I did. I didn't want to re-gain everything I had lost, and I knew better than going back to my old way of eating. (To my mind there's not much incentive to eat high carb foods because they just make me sick anyway, and LC tastes so much better.)
It took me almost five months, but by George, the scales are finally moving again with a 1-pound loss (1/2 pound of that was while on vacation) and I lost a complete half-size in clothing from loose 18s to 16s!
So just hang in there, and when your body's ready it will cooperate with you.
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