shawnacrutchfield's Journal, 26 September 2015

Is that your real food intake? If so, please eat more for energy. I just attended a summit that explained that too low of calories and too much exercise causes your body to go into conservation mode. 

What Sugar Waffle said. For one, your diet calendar says on each day "some of what I ate". I am not sure if you didn't log or you didn't change the settings. Also, are you really measuring or you are just eye-balling? I.w. for yesterday, you say "collard greens from fresh" and "1 cup fresh". Now 1 cup fresh barely makes a tbsp cooked. Did you actually go through the trouble of cooking one cup of fresh collard greens or you just eye-balled? This is just an example. You actually need to measure not eye-ball. I got a small counter-top scale from Walmart (I think it was like $14) for myself when I started LCHF and I measured strictly everything. The rules are very simple: 1. not more than 20 netcarbs a day; 12-15 of those from foundation vegetables; 3. 6 x 8 oz water; 4. keep fat at around 70% and 5. at least 6 hours of sleep. But, if you did all that accurately, yes, it is possible to gain 1 lb. From various reasons. You might be mildly constipated. You might have eaten too much salt and your kidneys hiccuped and you retained water. You might actually start switching from fat to muscle. Did you do the measuring? I went 4 times through stalls in which I was going up and down 1 lb and I was going nuts trying to figure what was wrong when, in fact, I was losing sizes and inches.  

Also, I know a lot of people say "weigh in only once a week". Myself I weigh in SEVERAL TIMES A DAY, and log in every weight then corroborate the information with my food intake and daily activities, to see what affects me in terms not just of weight loss, but also energy, pain level, need for supplements, etc. 

water weight..  

dayberndt, great advice!  

This happens to me all of the time. I just eat more fiber and well, you know! Don't give up! 

No, I've just been eyeballing. But I have a kitchen scale and will start measuring and weighing. Yes, I forget to change the settings to "all of what I ate" but it IS all of what I ate. Yes, I'm a bit backed up. I'll hit the water harder today.  

^^what dayberndt said lol. Ive been waffling back and forth losing a couple pounds for awhile now but I am down almost 2 dress sizes. 

I don't know how I can get more fiber. I've eaten more cabbage the past few days than I ever thought I could. But I'll keep at it.  

Ditto Redgirl...water weight. I deal with it constantly  

Try this! http://fiberone.com/cereal-challenge 

Up the chia seeds. 

Actually, I just took a look at your food diary; I don't think you are getting enough calories daily so your body thinks you are starving and it is slowing down your metabolisn to hang onto each ounce. When you stay below 1000 per day that can happen. 

I've been in Atkins induction phase for 5 or 6 weeks. Maybe I should move up to the Ongoing Weight Loss for a bit. I eat vegetables all day long so I can get my net carbs from vegetables, but then I'm not getting enough calories. I'm making fat bombs today. 

The recommendation is that if you have more than 20 lbs to lose, you stay in induction until you're 10-15 lbs from your goal, and only then get in OWL. OWL is the phase where you lose way slower and it prepares you for the maintenance phase. I don't think going in OWL right now is a good idea. Try first the actual measuring of all that you eat, instead of eye-balling, and also start weekly measuring neck, upper arm, forearm, wrist, waist, hips, thigh, calf and ankle. You might be surprised. 

Whatever you do don't give up! Weight is only part of the story. As others have said inches lost or body fat % are other ways to measure progress. You definitely need to eat more calories, however, if your food diary is correct.