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Originally Posted by Coloradodivegirl
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Congratulations on making your goal!!
I also just wanted to say hi! How's your poodle doing? I just got one in from rescue as a foster. She is a gorgeous 8 yr old red from a Georgia breeder that has fallen on hard times and needs to close her kennel. She is such a different personality from my other two.
I don't get why your coach wants you to do the phase 1 thing for so long. You should be able to do just one week like that with some enzymes and your body should be ready for phase2. Phase 2 is still ketogenic so, sorry love, you will still be losing for another 2 to 3 weeks. You should do phase 2 for the 2 weeks really to be better prepared for phase 3. Some say 1 week but, that is really the absolute minimum if you are rushing off the phases.
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Originally Posted by Lalison
Hey everyone. I thought I would join in here since I don't really feel I get paid any attention to on the other threads and it is frustrating! I am having a hard time. For some reason I am an extremely slow loser. Like Sherry, I am only five feet tall but I have much more to lose. My loss has slowed to only about a pound a week and I am getting very frustrated. When you still have 65 lbs to lose, a pound a week is maddening! Perhaps I could give you guys a big of background on what I eat and we can figure out how to boost my losses!
Breakfast is cereal. Lunch is my restricted (yes, I have a restricted daily, (maybe that is my problem but I was told by a nutritionist that it isn't good to go below 30 carbs per day or you run into problems). Afternoon snack is a RTD. Dinner is usually 6 oz of protein (chicken, turkey or lean burger). I stick to just a few veggies as I have gotten sick of most of them, I eat cucumbers, turnips and zucchini. Occasionally I will eat brocolli or spinach. I don't eat the lettuce that I am allowed to have during the day, perhaps that would help my losses. I drink 100 oz of water daily with the occasional coffee. That is about it. Here and there I will put some mustard on a burger or hot sauce in my turkey but I stay pretty strictly to this.
On that note, why are my losses sooooooooo slow? I am getting so discouraged that I just want to give up.
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Hi there! I know you may be resolving your issue. I hope you don't mind my chiming in.
I know 1 pound a week can be hard but, you are moving in the right direction. In the hope of getting things going again, I was looking at what you are eating and, based on your choices saw this. (based on not seeing an evening dessert snack)
Breakfast is Crispy cereal. calories 90 fat .5g carbs 5 fiber 0 pro 18g
Lunch is my restricted. cal 110-160 fat 2.5-7g carbs 8-17 fiber 0 pro 11 -20g
Afternoon snack is a RTD. cal 100 fat 1 carb 4 fiber 3 pro 15g
Dinner is usually 6 oz of protein avg. cal 300 fat 8g carb 0 fiber 0 protein 53g
a few veggies I eat: based on 1c or equivalents of 1cup
cucumbers ...... cal 16 fat 0 carb 3g fiber 1g pro 1g
turnips ............ cal 34 fat 0 carb 8g fiber 3g pro 1g
brocolli fleurette.. cal 20 fat 0 carb 4g fiber 0g pro 2g
brocolli whole..... cal 54 fat 0 carb 12g fiber 6g pro 4g
zucchini raw...... cal 14 fat 0 carb 4g fiber 1g pro 1g
zucchini cooked.. cal 12 fat 0 carb 3g fiber 0g pro 3g
spinach. cooked.. cal 12 fat 0 carb 1g fiber 1g pro 1g
spinach raw ..... cal 7 fat 0 carb 1g fiber 1g pro 1g
I don't eat the lettuce per cup minus (cal 8 fat 0g carb 2g fiber 1g pro 1g) and lots of necessary vitamins (IP Natura Multi is a supplement intended to complete the diet as prescribed.)
I drink 100 oz of water daily
SO, out of that, if I assume 15g carbs average for the restricted items, you are getting roughly :
veggies(cucumber, turnip, zucchini):
80cal 0fat 18g carbs, 6g fiber 4g protein
IP foods: using avg of 140 cal for restricted
330cal 6g fat 24g carb 3g fiber 49g protein
Meat:
avg. 300 cal 8g fat 0g carb 0g fiber 53g protein
Olive Oil:
1tsp 40 cal 5g fat 0g carb 0g fiber 0g protein
ROUGH TOTAL: 750cal 19g fat 50g carb 9g fiber 106g protein
total carbs 50g net carbs 41g
Anything above 40g total or 25 g net MAY take you out of ketosis. Anything near 60g will definitely get you out of ketosis unless you are a very physically active person. AND, the numbers above do not allow for hidden carbs used to sweeten drinks (splenda, truvia, purevia, etc), torani syrups, garlic used to cook, onion used to cook, any prepared item with a carb or trace of carb (it will add up eventually).
Some people can only handle 30g of carbs TOTAL per day to continue losing especially if those carbs are coming from refined sources.
What I see is you may be getting too many carbs, not enough fiber, and POSSIBLY too much fat.
You are getting about 39% of your daily calories from fat. It should be closer to 25% and some people won't lose well with it over 30%. The rtd and the restricted are working together to provide the extra fat.
To lose most easily you need about 12-15g of fiber a day on this plan. By dropping the 4 to 6 cups of lettuce a day you are taking yourself right out of the proper range of fiber. Fiber helps offset the increase in fat by the way so, you are creating a synergy that makes the added fat a greater slow down.
Last the carbs are mostly from the restricted foods about 1/2 of them actually and those are more refined and include both starch and sugar which are higher glycemic index and glycemic load. If you are sensitive to carbs these will hit you hard and slow you down fast.
Anything under 1750 calories a day will cause you to lose at the weight and height you are. So, you are creating a 1000 calorie deficit. IF you are deeply in ketosis your body will take the equivalent (actually a little more) of those 1000 calories from your fat so, about 1.94 pounds of fat per week. Some fluid will disappear too.
My guess is you need to drop the restricted (cuts fat and carbs simultaneously), add the lettuce (as much as you can) and, broaden your variety of veggies.
Also, if you started to add light walking 3x a week to your plan it would cause you to burn about an extra 250 calories a day more. Or, another 1/2 pound.
I bet things start coming off more quickly if you will.
Love the new pic! Whatcha been up too?
It's also hard anyway and then when you have to dead with lose ends it makes it even worse! But really happy to hear the guy is finally gone and you have a new beau ♥ 
