...or as I had originally intended to name it, the "please line up here to feel sorry for me" thread.

My tale starts off in storybook fashion. The weigh in after week one was amazing! 9.5lbs! That's the best I've ever done on a diet plan that I followed strictly, and believe me when I say, I've tried and succeeded at more than my fair share of plans(only to fail miserably during maintenance).

After week two, I'd lost an additional 2.5lbs for a total of 12lbs. Now that total was the "expected" loss for someone with an average metabolism and more than 50lbs to lose according to Atkins, but I was a bit disappointed. That was my worst second week ever on a diet plan .

My third weigh in showed an additional 2lbs lost. Not too bad, and I figured this diet is working differently than all the other plans because it is different and convince myself that 1-2lbs lost will be great because I'm eating well, I'm never hungry, and I'm feeling good. Slow is the way. This way I'm ready for maintenance because I'm living it all the way down, right?

Today I weighed, and it was EXACTLY the same as it was last week.

My wife tried to cheer me up with the "have you measured yourself" approach, but while I know I have lost inches (I measured last week), I'm pretty sure I haven't put on two pounds of muscle over the past 3 weeks by walking 4o minutes a days four days a week.

I use fitday to keep up with everything I put in my mouth, including the amount of oil I use in the frying pan to cook things. My calorie average over the past month is less than 2,600 per day, and I'm burning at least 1,000 calories a week exercising.

I spent my first 3 weeks on induction, and this past week the only change toward OWL I've made was adding peanuts. Boiled peanuts to be exact, and I only added 1 cup (measured in the shell) on two different days. These were measured strictly, and each cup only contained around 6.5 digestible carbs. Each of the two days I did this, I still remained at 20 carbs or less, so I have no doubt that this change had nothing to do with my weigh in.

I do drink diet drinks, but I have since the beginning without a problem. In fact, I probably drink fewer now than I did during the first week.

I'm not eating any Atkins' bars or cookies or shakes. Heck, I won't even chew sugar free gum that I know should be ok.

I continue to drink 80-100 ounces of water a day.

Oh well, I hope it's a minor stall, and I not ready to give up by any means, but I just needed to whine a bit... well ok, I needed to whine alot...lol.