Mon, Jul-21-03, 21:18
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Senior Member
Posts: 287
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 165/148/148
BF:23%/15.3%/15%
Progress: 100%
Location: Belmont, MA
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That's a good question. One thing I've learned about weight loss on this board is that there are more questions then there are answers! I think this is also one of those questions without a straight forward answer.
About a month ago I started increasing my carbs and got up to 25g or so, and stopped losing weight. I too started to wonder if my CCLL was destioned to be that low. I dropped them again to less than 20 for about a week, and the weight loss picked up again. However, since then I've worked myself up to 35g and am still losing weight... go figure.
If you think about it, back before you were on Atkin's you were probably consuming about 200g carbs per day. Chances are the weight gain with this level was fairly small, over a short period of time. Now that your body is "tuned" to low-carbing, the insulin response from even moderate amounts of carbs could result in relatively high fat storage, compared to what would have happened pre-Atkins. However, the idea behind OWL and pre-maintenance is to continue "re-tuning" your body gradually to higher levels of carbs.
From what I've read in the Maintenance forum here (even though most people stop counting carbs when they reach this level), it should not be unreasonable to attain a CCLL of 50-100g or so. I know it sounds like a lot considering what we're now used to, but if done gradually, it should be doable for most people.
So I'd suggest just keep doing what you're doing. The 1lb increase could be for a number of reasons -- most likely water retention if you haven't changed your diet.
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