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I was 195.6 today, I think. Once again, I haven't pooped in what feels like a month. I think I'm gonna call the Roto-Rooter guy today.

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If you go 5-10 lbs below your goal, that will give you some leeway and allow your body to adjust to your new "normal" non-diet eating habits.

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I've been worried that I'm gonna play hell trying to keep weight on once I hit my goal, which I don't have. I always thought 185, but we'll have to reassess when I get there. Whatever the doctor says, I suppose.

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i've been stuck around hte same weight for longer than im happy,t hats why i was thinking about this "cheating to kickstart weightloss" again stuff we talked about

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I've stalled for no apparent reason before, Myles. Maybe you're not noticing how much more you're doing and you're swapping out fat for muscle? That's the last thing that stalled me. Maybe keep doing what you're doing and wait it out, since you already know it works.
If anything, cheat the other direction and take in less calories and see if it gets you bump-started again. You may have just changed your whole metabolism and your body doesn't know which way is up?
It's probably wondering who the hell you are and what they ddid with Myles. :D

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We'll see what the scale says Saturday for the official weigh-in but I think I"m hitting a plateau right now. I know I'm losing fat and putting on muscle. I can see it in the mirror. I'm good with that just as long as I eventually go down.

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LOL! I ilke this idea "cheat the other way" - I have been trying this actually, ive been trying higher calorie one day, lower the next - to no avail. This stall is the longest ive had, over 2 weeks now, very unusual for a low carber. I definitely haven't been replacing fat with muscle (unless one can get muscle without doing any exercising) - so i'm going to start trying pushups, squats and crunches every morning to see if that does any good!

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That's another reason to also use "the tale of the tape" to see if you're dropping fat. Esp. around the waist.

My weigh-in is mañana, might not be pretty as I caved and have eaten too many butter toffee peanuts this week!

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Got some new shorts today.... 35's and 36's. 42 - 3 months ago. 38 just a couple weeks ago. I agree with the inches thing. When the weight plateaus focus on the inches to keep motivation.

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I finally caved 3 days ago and bought a new pair of jeans. Size 38. I have been avoiding it becuase I just bought all new jeans and shorts about 2 months ago(I DONT shop often). Finally I decided enough was enough when I ran out of belt loops and my pants were on the verge of falling off my ass if I wasnt wearing my gun.

The shorts are annoying too...I found another belt that works but I have to slide the lack in the shorts to the side so its not all bunched up under the belt...I guess I will have to go shopping...AGAIN.

Today I weighed in at 208.4

I think I will buy like two pairs of shorts and one more pair of jeans and see if I drop anymore. I am quite wide framed so I have always worn about 4 sizes larger than what people thought. :confused:

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my mom invited me over for dinner and said she brought fresh figs - THERE WILL BE SOME "CHEATING" :)

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I'm a bit bummed cuz I did a mid-week check and I was at the same weight under the Atkins induction. It seems like I should be losing more weight rather than holding. I don't feel like I'm eating too much in volume and I'm drinking a ton of water every day. Figure if I don't see some results on Saturday I'll be changing things up and maybe going back to WW. Pee on this.

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nah don't give up.

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I'm scared of finding my plateau. Right now I am not dropping much but I am also nursing an injured foot and have not been able to go to the gym. Hopefully that will change. I will have to work off some major poundage increase from IPCPR parties.....eeek!

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Tried the Fat Burning routine in the Power 90 program today. Holy crap that was tough, but well worth it. Lot of leg work which is good cause that's where I carried most of my weight.

Somewhere in my house is the tape measure that came with the program. I've looked everywhere but can't find it so I can actually take some measurements. I'm not worried though as my pants are rather loose around the waist. Like a few of you have already found out, I just bought these about a month ago. Now they look too big. Might be time to go buy more.

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No way I can hit a plateau yet. I did great the first week and went up a tiny bit week 2 (although I must admit the blueberry ice cream cone breakdown did me in the night before weigh in). I started induction all over again.

Just feeling like if I can't see good results doing atkins in the next 2-3 weeks, I'll just go back to WW.

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I've been on a plateau for several weeks and i haven't given up, so i don't know why you're giving up after only a few weeks. I stalled after 1 week, then started again - start-stop-start-stop. I don't know why you say "no way i can hit a plateau yet" - everyone is different, some people hit one sooner, some people later - the difference is those who stick to it always get over it. Also you can google "atkins plateau breakers" and find all kinds of methods people use to overcome them.

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I shouldn't be hitting a plateau while on induction on weeks 2&3. It's one thing if I had been on longer and lost half of the 60 lbs I want to lose, but I'm just not going to keep wasting my time eliminating all of the carbs and make no progress doing it.

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Stalled for a couple of days, but headed back down as of this morning: 245.8.
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Plenty of people stall on weeks 2 and 3, and i've read at least a dozen cases of it happening. You refer to it as "wasting" your "time" - you've already got a defeatist attitude, and the hardest part about this is the mental, so whatever, nothing i can say.

p.s. - have you bothered taking measurements? Sometimes inches come off and lbs don't. Dr atkins didn't even consider it a plateau unless it was over 4 consecutive weeks.

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Yup- no loss this week. Boy, the body is pretty unforgiving when it comes to weight loss!

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195.2 this morning. Hang tough today, gentlemen!!! :tu

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218.8 this morning, down 2.4 lbs from a week ago. Total over 3 weeks now is 10.4. Hoping to get in 3-4 cardio sessions/week from here on out, but time in my schedule is quite difficult.

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Awesome job Duane. :tu

Official weigh-in this morning. Drumroll please.....220.6. I've hit my original goal of 220. Now to drop another 20.

Skydiving, here I come. Now to pick a weekend.

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244.5 this morning.
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i gained llike a lb or 1.5 somehow, but hopefully its just b.s. fluctuation, official weigh in is tmrw

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Finally broke through the 209-210 pateau yesterday. Had nicorette adn coffee for breakfast and lunch. Worked out before dinner. Went from the bike to the scale.... 205.6. :)

Not a stable weight but its what the scale said. :banger

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194.4 this morning. :tu

Congratulations, Dave!!! Those plateaus are nice. You're not far from the sub-200. I'd bet you make that by Shack, easy.

Well done, Bob. I bet you're thrilled. :D

Everyone else, well done, and keep hanging!!! :tu

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I'm looking forward to seeing what happens, Myles. You're perplexing the living sh1t outta me. :sh

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still 208.4 which is fine by me since I have not been exercising at all. Stupid foot.

IPCPR next week so way to much eating and drinking but LOTS of walking. Hope I can behave. And then the following week assuming a healed foot it is GAME ON!!! Lets break 200. Once I do that the goal will be redicing body fat to the low teens. I think the last time my body fat was even in the teens was in 2nd grade before I plumped up.

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perplexing YOU? Imagine how confused _I_ am!? lol

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If I were you, I'd take it really easy on your heels or you'll end up battling it for 2+ years like I did. I recommend getting a cortisone shot asap if the aleve isn't cutting it.

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193.8 this morning. I was pretty shocked, I thought I ate a lot yesterday. I suppose macaroni salad and watermelon doesn't account for much, but I had a few slabs of cake throughout the day. I'll take it. :tu

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Good morning Guys.
Having missed my July 4th goal, I started to slip a bit.
I started to get back into things a bit this past week and am ready to start again.
After 2 weeks of slipping, I jumped on the scale this morning to find my weight at 262.
Shocked as hell, right where I was before the binge!
So with that good news I'm eager to restart my journey south!

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I'm out of shape... started getting back into the swing of it right after the SoCal HERF. Down 4 lbs already. Only another 15 to go LOL. I'll be checking in with you guys hopefully fairly often.

I'm on a self-imposed 1300 calorie limit per day

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I've been stuck at 205 forever. I haven't been sticking with the program, I'm just glad I haven't gained any back.

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Talking to Lisa, I realized that I hit the 30 pounds lost mark today. That's since I started, when we went on our honeymoon on March 8th.
That's around 120 days, I think. That'd amount to a 1/4th pound a day, or 1.75 a week. That's a bit aggressive, I usually lose at about 1.6 lbs/wk, or as low as 1.2 lbs/wk. Anywhere in that range is great for me.
I suppose if I checked the days exactly, it might be closer to 1.6.
I did nothing but decrease my portions and quit eating when I know I should. I eat a lot slower, too. That's pretty much habit now. It makes me wonder where I'll end up? I don't really have a goal, but I'm excited to see 185. I was buffed out at 185 when my daughter was born almost 15 years ago and it's been downhill from there. I guess my goal would be to listen to my wife tell me "you need to eat" every day. :D
I think 165 would be fair for a guy my age. That'd leave room to put on muscle if I'm ever able to get to the gym again. That'd kick ass. :tu

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my official weigh in yesterday sucked, i must have been retaining water, but today i was 315, the lowest i've been since i started, down 22 total in almost 3 months :) Lowest i've been in a while. My initial short term goal was 310, so hoping to achieve that before Aug 9th which is the 4 year anniversary of quitting drugs, and if i do, i may celebrate with a small piece of cake! :)

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Go Myles Go!!!

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hi! my body feels like a roller coaster in weight: up and down..for years. I have lost weight around 25+ lbs. but i am still heavy for my size. i cut my food and i have been busy so no time to sit and watch tv and veg. as much. but all it takes is a couple months on the couch im back to the same weight. does anyone recommend a certain type of elliptical machine or treadmill? thanks:)

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There's nothing wrong with those numbers at all, Myles. Actually they're great. Just keep doing what you're doing. I'm not sure how much food you're taking in a day, when I was on Atkins (lots of years ago) I overdid it a lot because I could. It just made me lose more weight. If I was to go back and do it over, I'd eat less. It never occurred to me that it'd let me burn more fat because my metabolism was a lot higher at that point. I was a good ten years younger then. :D

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hahaha, same here, last time i did it i pigged out and lost weight really fast. I don't want to lose it so fast tho! I just want to lose consistently

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I think if you're making habit of very reasonable portions and learning to eat like skinny people, that's the biggie. It's something I never learned from Atkins, and why I gained all the weight back almost immediately. The diet bored me, and left me longing to eat stuff I wasn't allowed to, and that sent my addictive nature into overdrive.
Comparing that against what I'm doing now, which is loosely watching calories, and just creating good eating habits while not denying myself anything, I just feel like that's a more healthy and "normal" approach. Simple, too. Just don't eat too much, rather than throwing myself in food jail.
The diet for my neural stuff just makes me watch my potassium intake, which isn't all that hard and it's not very restrictive. Plus I have to make sure I get plenty of carbs. Why carbs, I have no clue. It's just what it is.
I just want to get "normalized and mainstreamed" and not have weight loss/control hanging over my head forever, ya know?

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How about just a simple pair of shoes? I find walking around my neighborhood makes it much easier to stick with it than on a treadmill. Plus it's a lot cheaper.

If you're heart is set on a treadmill or elliptical, check out your local craigslist. I"m sure you can find deals on there. Don't know of any brands to recommend though. Good luck with the weight loss.

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i read that as "learning to eat skinny people" - i was like wtf !!!

yep, and im planning on eating like this forever, not just for now temporarily.

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If I had to eat like you're doing it, I'd probably eat skinny people, too. :D
Hang tough, my brother. You're kicking ass!!! :tu

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I think I've decided I'm gonna switch plans from Atkins to Weight Watchers. Atkins is nice, but I just have far too much stuff outside of my limits in a house with a wife and 3 children. It'd be nice to enjoy a bowl of cereal or whatever else to hearts content as long as I stay within my points, particularly when you can eats lots of fruits/veggies that don't count against your point total at all.

In honor of my transition, I have baby backs on the smoker now and I'm gonna sauce them up. :D

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lost 6½ lbs in 3 days due to food poisening, i'm at 242lbs now. What a difference with two years ago, when I was approx 396lbs

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:tu

Perhaps I've missed it mentioned elsewhere, did you do it all on your own or did you have some sort of gastric bypass done? Congrats.

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That's awesome Ferdie.