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Not losing. Please help me.
Nobody can say I'm not trying! Here is what I ate in the last few
days. Am I eating healthy? Not much physical activity, and not much stool in the last few days either. I'm going for an-hour walk right now. I need to move it. DAY 1 (182 pounds) BREAKFAST Apples, 2 Psyllium LUNCH Sunflower seeds Coffee DINNER Brocoli, carrot, cowliflower Salmon, 1 can Brown rice, 1 cup Sunflower seeds ==================== DAY 2 (182) Strawberries, 6 Apples, 2 Figues (700 calories) Walnuts, 1/4 cup Coffee Homemade veggie mix (One tomatoe, red pepper, one carott, romaine lettuce) Cowliflower Sweet potatoe Almonds, 10 Brown rice, 1 cup ============================== DAY 3 (182) Pears, 2 Banana Avocados, 2 Psyllium Prunes, 15 Salmon, 1 can Romaine lettuce Sunflower seeds =================================== DAY 4 (182) Strawberries, 5 Figues (800 calories) Banana, 1 Pear, 1 Avocado, 1 Coffee Tuna, 1 can Parboil rice, 1 cup Sunflower seeds Peas in can, 1 Mineral water Tomatoe, 2 Parboil rice, 1 cup Sweet potato |
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Not losing. Please help me.
On Apr 14, 10:09 pm, "
wrote: Nobody can say I'm not trying! Here is what I ate in the last few days. Am I eating healthy? Not much physical activity, and not much stool in the last few days either. I'm going for an-hour walk right now. I need to move it. DAY 1 (182 pounds) BREAKFAST Apples, 2 Psyllium LUNCH Sunflower seeds Coffee DINNER Brocoli, carrot, cowliflower Salmon, 1 can Brown rice, 1 cup Sunflower seeds ==================== DAY 2 (182) Strawberries, 6 Apples, 2 Figues (700 calories) Walnuts, 1/4 cup Coffee Homemade veggie mix (One tomatoe, red pepper, one carott, romaine lettuce) Cowliflower Sweet potatoe Almonds, 10 Brown rice, 1 cup ============================== DAY 3 (182) Pears, 2 Banana Avocados, 2 Psyllium Prunes, 15 Salmon, 1 can Romaine lettuce Sunflower seeds =================================== DAY 4 (182) Strawberries, 5 Figues (800 calories) Banana, 1 Pear, 1 Avocado, 1 Coffee Tuna, 1 can Parboil rice, 1 cup Sunflower seeds Peas in can, 1 Mineral water Tomatoe, 2 Parboil rice, 1 cup Sweet potato Give it time, and really up the fluid levels. Try to drink at least 2 quarts (liters) of non-caloric fluid every day, especially to help the system move those nasty unmentionables along the path and out your body. Personally, I found my weight didn't start moving much until about 3 days after drastically cutting my calorie intake. After that, it started falling off. Are you coming from a trend of weight gain, or stability? If you're coming from a gain, you might be cutting calories just enough to balance. Even if you're coming from stability, the calorie deficit you're at could still be small enough to be unnoticeable on your particular scale (I notice you gave your weight to the pound). Remember, the weight in food, water, and air you're moving through your body every single day is a whole order of magnitude (or two!) larger than the weight difference each day. This creates a lot of signal noise. Rest assured, if you're eating less calories than your body burns, you WILL lose weight. Just try to stick to your numbers (don't obsess over calories, but at least pick a number and try to hit it to within 100 calories each day). Oh, and if you're having a little problem on the toilet, you might consider adding a fiber supplement. A diet can be a particularly stressful event for your GI tract, and a little extra fiber can't hurt you. It's not a big pain to add a little to a glass of water in the morning and pound it down. Trust me, the prospects of developing diverticulitis and having to deal with it (personally, my brother is actually afflicted by this, and blames Atkin's. Not sure if that's an accurate cause, but it IS disconcerting) is NOT worth the convenience of avoiding a little task in the morning. STICK IN THERE! |
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Not losing. Please help me.
Oh, and you might want to crunch the numbers on all the fruit you're
eating. Fruit, despite being considered quite healthy (and quite tasty!) packs a good number of calories, because it's sugary. |
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Not losing. Please help me.
wrote in message ... Nobody can say I'm not trying! Here is what I ate in the last few days. Am I eating healthy? Not much physical activity, and not much stool in the last few days either. I'm going for an-hour walk right now. I need to move it. DAY 1 (182 pounds) (snip) If you aren't doing much physical, then you probably only burn like 2000 calories more or less. So it is hard to have enough deficit to cause rapid loss. Have you been losing up until now? Or are you just starting out. If you have been losing for awhile, staying at the same weight for several days or even longer is not uncommon. del |
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Not losing. Please help me.
Thanks for everyone's help. REALLY appreciated. The weight has been
fluctuating between 180 and 184 in the last 11 days. I started keeping tracker of my weight and all the food I eat since September 28, 2007. I started at a time when I was eating a lot of bread, pizza, cookies, sandwiches and the like. I started at 191 pounds and quickly reached 182 pounds. I lost 9 pounds in 12 days. It has been a roller coaster since then. The weight has been fluctuating from 174 to 185. At one point I went from 182 to 174 pounds (8 pounds) in 9 days. I'll post a link to the chart tomorrow to give you a better idea of the fluctuation. Now I'm looking at the chart I made two or three years ago. Boy, I reached 168 and kept the weight between 170 and 173 for several weeks. I thought I had made it, but I lost my way ever after that. I'm realizing now that I was eating really differently back then. I was starting my day with 500 ml of prune juice and had walnuts, brown rice, vitamine C as supplement, and whole almonds. I may have to come back to that. |
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Not losing. Please help me.
On Apr 14, 7:09*pm, "
wrote: Nobody can say I'm not trying! Here is what I ate in the last few days. Am I eating healthy? Not much physical activity, and not much stool in the last few days either. I'm going for an-hour walk right now. I need to move it. DAY 1 (182 pounds) BREAKFAST Apples, 2 Psyllium LUNCH Sunflower seeds Coffee DINNER Brocoli, carrot, cowliflower Salmon, 1 can Brown rice, 1 cup Sunflower seeds ==================== DAY 2 (182) Strawberries, 6 Apples, 2 Figues (700 calories) Walnuts, 1/4 cup Coffee Homemade veggie mix (One tomatoe, red pepper, one carott, romaine lettuce) Cowliflower Sweet potatoe Almonds, 10 Brown rice, 1 cup ============================== DAY 3 (182) Pears, 2 Banana Avocados, 2 Psyllium Prunes, 15 Salmon, 1 can Romaine lettuce Sunflower seeds =================================== DAY 4 (182) Strawberries, 5 Figues (800 calories) Banana, 1 Pear, 1 Avocado, 1 Coffee Tuna, 1 can Parboil rice, 1 cup Sunflower seeds Peas in can, 1 Mineral water Tomatoe, 2 Parboil rice, 1 cup Sweet potato It does look like this should allow you to lose wt. Nuts are very high fat and calories though. A cup of walnuts is about 800 calories, 700 of which is fat. Sunflower seeds are also very high fat. I personally never eat nuts and Dr. Ornish in his low-fat diet does not recommend them either. Avocados are also high fat, and you could pick a different fruit. I always look for the fat if someone isn't losing wt, cause that's where the concentrated calories are. You got plenty of protein and fat without them with the salmon, tuna, brown rice, etc. If you were to substitute a high fiber, low-cal food like green beans, you could eat a lot more by weight. A quarter cup of walnuts is equivalent in calories to about 3 cans of green beans. You wouldn't need to take the fiber either. Still, your diet looks reasonable to me and I can't understand why you wouldn't be losing wt. with this. I eat much more in terms of weight of food and calories, but not fat of course and I weigh 138. Maybe it will just take more time. dkw |
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Not losing. Please help me.
I'll keep the "fat factor" in mind. I did buy fresh green beans
yesterday. I will steam them this morning. This morning I weight 181. Hopefully it's the begining... |
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Not losing. Please help me.
" wrote:
Thanks for everyone's help. REALLY appreciated. The weight has been fluctuating between 180 and 184 in the last 11 days. A bit of advice from Dr Atkins that really applies to all dieters - A stall is 4+ weeks without a new low, without a lost inch, without a cheat. It says that size matters and that's easy to miss when staring at the scale reading. But water, fat and crap all respond to gravity. Water and crap once lost can no longer get lower but they can get higher again. That makes the scale reading noisey. The time scale is not arbitrary. Like it or not, because of factors like the scale bounce you have been seeing the time scale for fat loss is month to month not day to day or week to week. There has probably not been a single dieter in history happy with this fact, but disliking a fact does not magically convert it to fiction. Eleven days is TOO SHORT a time to conclude that anything is wrong with your loss rate, though it is plenty long to not have bowel move. But you mentioned "not much stool" and there is nothing wrong with being empty as long as you aren't plugged. I started at 191 pounds and quickly reached 182 pounds. I lost 9 pounds in 12 days. Initial water loss. Not to be confused with fat loss. It has been a roller coaster since then. In other words you don't understand the concept of signal noise in an instrument reading. Check. There are articles about "Why the Scale Lies" that you should read. If you weigh daily it is extremely important you average over at least a week to have any sort of number with meaning. The weight has been fluctuating from 174 to 185. At one point I went from 182 to 174 pounds (8 pounds) in 9 days. I'll post a link to the chart tomorrow to give you a better idea of the fluctuation. BTDTgtTS. My water retention bounce is also 6+ pounds. If my readings are within 6 pounds of each other, that means I have neither gained nor lost fat or lean. And I'm not here to lose water. Now I'm looking at the chart I made two or three years ago. Boy, I reached 168 and kept the weight between 170 and 173 for several weeks. I thought I had made it, but I lost my way ever after that. I'm realizing now that I was eating really differently back then. I was starting my day with 500 ml of prune juice and had walnuts, brown rice, vitamine C as supplement, and whole almonds. I may have to come back to that. If that worked without hunger then you should do that. |
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Not losing. Please help me.
"But you mentioned "not much stool" and there is
nothing wrong with being empty as long as you aren't plugged. " How can I know which one I am? |
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Not losing. Please help me.
wrote in message ... I'll keep the "fat factor" in mind. I did buy fresh green beans yesterday. I will steam them this morning. This morning I weight 181. Hopefully it's the begining... read up on the "hacker's diet". It has a lot of good information. |
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