Sun, May-02-04, 10:30
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,320
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 185/151/145
BF:
Progress: 85%
Location: Adirondack Mountains, NY
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Hi! I'm very happy for that you find this way of eating so satisfactory. That was exactly my my feelings when I went low carb, and I lost 40 pounds.
If you are concentrating on losing weight; yes, the bars do stall some people, as do nuts. But I urge you to keep thinking long term and find ways to stay with low carb, and if the bars and nuts help, and you can trade off a slower weight loss for it, that is something everyone has to work out for themselves.
Me, I didn't do induction. I cut my carbs from 350-400 a day to 40 a day. I ate bars and nuts and lots of coffee. It took me 6 months to really settle on the weight I am now.
I think the fact I spent a decade seriously exercising helped my metabolism, and the fact I took care of emotional food issues in my twenties. My only problem was that the way I had been told to eat made me constantly hungry, and I couldn't help eating more than my body needed.
Weight loss is great, I'm certainly enjoying mine. But I just wanted to caution you that being too strict when you have thirty pounds to lose can backfire. They aren't going to come off as fast as you'd like (which is true of anyone.) If nuts and bars and Splenda cheesecake keep you on this Way of Eating, then have them.
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