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... But, I figured, I needed something to shake up my
metabolism -- even if I lost nothing at least I would be shocking
myself off the plateau. Sure enough, after a monthlong stall, as of
day seven ( today) -- I dropped six pounds.
Let's see. You just barely qualified for a stall (you did use the
tape measure and confirm you weren't losing inches, right? If
you did not you weren't stalled because you were probably losing
inches. It's very common to alternate between losing pounds
and losing inches and when it comes down to it inches count
more for most folks).
Of course rather than trying the first, second, third or fourth
things on the stall buster list, you tried something not on the
list. You're giving in to the temptation to try the most extreme
option available and that's bad news for chances of surviving
maintenance.
Quoted message said:I just can't figure out WHY. Six pounds in a week is pretty fast --
There's no reason to think your recent activity caused it. You
were doing fine so there's no reason to believe that it wasn't your
regular plan that caused the whoosh.
That said, I have long believed that change matters as much as
whatever ou current plan is. No matter what the current plan, a
sudden change tends to trigger a whoosh. Taken only as a plan
to make sudden radical ranges the week you're on a qualified
stall, this is terrible because it sets up a vicious cycle of
alternating
between plans.
I offer a different perspective for how to use this feaute that change
is better - Whatever your quotas were last week, pick different ones
this week and different ones next week. During early Atkins OWL
the quota increases weekyl until out of ketonuria and that counts as
change. The normal process is to cruise at 5-10 under the amount
that kicked you out of ketonuria, steady at a stable quota. I suggest
being at that level every other week and the other weeks picking some
different carb quota. Shake it up week by week. It seems to work
great by the few who try it.
Quoted message said:and it can't be water because I've been on straight lowcarb for two
months. The bellyball that was depressing the hell out of me a week
ago is...gone? How can that be?
Possibility that has nothing to do with calories or carb counts
or calorie shifting - Is there some food that you almost always
eat that isn't in that wierd plan? You may have a previously
unknown food intolerance that expresses itself as 6 pounds of
water bloating. Maybe this is the first time in years you've gone
a week without eggs? Or without dairy or whatever? Consider
it a suspect and in a few weeks add it back in and see if the
whoosh reverse. If it does, remove it again and write off whatever
it is as a personal poison.
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So this is what they eat in Alternate Reality.
Chortle.