No. Your problem is you're not eating enough. You exercise alot and you're only consuming 1200??? Thats starvation mode if you're really exercising that much. Also try upping your carbs a little.

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What would be the right amount of carbs to consume?[B]

Nobody can tell you that.. Everyones body is different but I'm guessing you're already consuming way less then 20.. But try upping them by 5 atleast, and keep upping little by little and see what happens.

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Mabe over the next few months (along with exercise) I should bounce back and forth between the induction Phase of Atkins and a 50 Gram version???

NOOOO Yer doing it again. That yo-yo thing is what you really need to break out of. You went back and forth from diet to diet, and now you're trying to do yo-yo induction .... That's the same thing. Induction is only really to get you into ketosis..once your into ketosis its time to move into OWL and stick with that.

Btw, going back and forth from 50 to 20 would just make you gain a few pounds and its gonna make your stall even longer and harder to break then it is now.

And sicne you're lifting weights, you're building muscle which is replacing the fat... And again, 1200 cals is so not enough for that. Should atleast be drinking a protein shake an hour after you workout if you don't want to eat that much..