Thank you for the advice! OneCrazyHorse where did you find your calorie intake? I used Web MD, and put in my height, weight, pant size and put myself in as 'very active, hard exercise" and is says 1645 calories per day. If I change it to moderatly active, then it takes me down to 1427 calories per day. Maybe my exercise is considered 'moderate'? I didn't think, but who knows?

I always work out as hard as I possibly can with each workout. I never take shortcuts, and most of the time I am a little too hard on myself if I can't keep my form in strength training and have to lower my dumbell weight. With cardio, I give it 100% and burn about 200-250 more calories than other people who are around my size weight at the Zumba class (I make it more of an aerobic workout than a cardio dance class)

My strength training is a full body workout, but certain days have more emphasize on certain muscle groups. We always do squat and lunges of some sort for about 10 minutes straight. Then we might work bi's and tri's, then we might to wood choppers with the weighted ball, flies, then some ab work. Then on Thursdays, squats again, then more emphasise on legs like dead lifts, and ankle weights with leg lifts etc. I use 10 lb and 12 lb weights for most of the weighted workouts. My Butts and guts class also has lunges, but we the focus more on pushups, planks, more core work I guess. It never seems like I am working the same muscle groups, but maybe I should ask specific questions to the instructors. Each class has completely different type workouts each week though, so it's not like every Tuesday I know I will be working mostly bi's and tri's...the instructors are constantly mixing up the workouts.

I will start looking at my fat intake too. I was so used to really doing like the low carb/Atkins type diet that I wasn't too concerned with my fat intake before. I do not eat any fruit with the exception of what I put into my protein shakes, as I always thought fruits had too many carbs for someone eating low carb. You can see in my diet calendar where I even tried carb spiking, but didn't realize they had to be 'good' carbs for that..so I was eating bad carbs!!! So, sounds like maybe I need to change up my diet and my exercise LOL...I do thank you so much for the advice, and I am going to look over my diet/exercise calendars and see what changes I can make !!

I've got a question, perhaps someone knows the answer, or even just has some thoughts on the subject.

A lot of people always go on about the first two weeks of induction being mostly made up of water weight loss.

Ok yes I understand how that is true and how it works but what if you started Atkins and you were already losing weight for a few months or however long before, is the majority of the first two weeks still going to be water weight loss?

Thanks for any thoughts on this subject.