Thu, Dec-06-01, 11:05
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Senior Member
Posts: 11,512
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Plan: IF +LC
Stats: 287/165/165
BF:
Progress: 100%
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WTG thin2win Welcome to LC and to lowcarb.ca.
10 lbs in 11 days is great; and yes you can expect it to slow down after Induction is over. We lose a lot of water weight at the beginning of this WOE which is why the first two weeks the losses are higher than the remainder. However, you were also losing body fat. Body fat loss is safest at 2 lbs a week for women and 3 lbs for men. Slowing down is normal and desireable. If you lost all the weight in a month you'd learn nothing and end up right back where you started. Slowing down allows you to develop new tools so that once you lose the weight you'll be able to keep it off permanently. That is what this WOL is about, after all. Permanent fat loss.
Take a peak around the place and be sure to stop by the "Low Carb Tips" section (across the top of every page in orange highlight) of the forum as well as the members' journals area for some menu ideas.
Just a comment on the 'stall postings'. A true stall is defined as 6 weeks of no scale loss and no inches lost; many people will panic if they do not lose anything for one or two weeks. The pauses your body takes while losing fat are normal and quite common; the same thing happened when you gained it. It didnt just pile on one day This is why it's advisable to take measurements with a tape measure when you start out. LCing encourages muscle building and fat loss; replacing fat with muscle will result in a smaller you who weighs the same. Remember, the scales will often not tell the whole story.
Glad to have you with us, keep up the good work,
Nat
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