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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / February 2005stalled?
Hey all, I'm now into my 4th week of LC and have seemingly hit a block. I am aware of the dreaded "3rd week stall", and seem to have gone through it already (since I'm beyond my 3rd week, and all). ;) If I weigh myself throughout the day, I find that I vary between 238 and 242... or thereabouts. For the longest time, pre-LC, I was 240. It seemed that no matter how much I ate, my weight was the same. Then I gained weight. I found myself at 260 which is what spurred me to LC. I started exercising again.. weights, aerobics. The problem is that despite still eating 20-30g carbs/day, and remaining in ketosis, I can't seem to break this 240 barrier. I try to drink lots of water (although it's probably not the gallon a day I'm supposed to be drinking). Exercise and carbs don't seem to be the problem. Could it just be "drink more water", or is this just some sort of built-in barrier that my body has acquired over the last 5 years that it's resisting breaking through? By the way, most of my weight loss occurred in the first 2 weeks. I've been at this 240 barrier for almost 2 weeks now. Thanks for any helpful thoughts, Mark 260/240/200 since: 18/01/2005 Try eating less.  SignatureMost people are dumb as bricks; some people are dumber than that. -- MFW > Hey all, > I'm now into my 4th week of LC and have seemingly hit a block. I am aware [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > 260/240/200 since: 18/01/2005 :: Hey all, :: I'm now into my 4th week of LC and have seemingly hit a block. I am [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] :: I've been at this 240 barrier for almost 2 weeks now. :: Thanks for any helpful thoughts, Drinking more water is pretty useless for speeding weight loss. Standing on the scale throughout the day is also useless. Get in the habit of standing on the scale first thing in the am - roughly the same time everyday. As for your rate of weight loss...it could just be that you need to wait longer to see some results. Depending on how much food you're eating (independent of carb level) you could just be losing at a very slow rate. If you want to speed weight loss, I suggest you begin using fitday.com (or any other method you like) to track your calorie intake. Do it for a week to get an idea of how many calories you normally eat everyday...and then systematically lower the level. Generally, a good place to start for weight loss is 10x bodyweight, which for you is about 2400 kcals per day. You should be able to easily go to 1900 kcals per day to get a noticable rate of weight loss on a weekly basis. Exercise will help speed things along, too. be patient.. remember when you said no matter how much you ate, your weight was the same? your body is resisting change (stasis....). just give it time. Signature_____________________________ This be Tia's SIG!!! YAY! > Hey all, > I'm now into my 4th week of LC and have seemingly hit a block. I am aware [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > 260/240/200 since: 18/01/2005 > I'm now into my 4th week of LC and have seemingly hit a block. I am > aware of the dreaded "3rd week stall", and seem to have gone through it > already (since I'm beyond my 3rd week, and all). ... > 260/240/200 since: 18/01/2005 You've lost 20 pounds in the last month. What's the defintion of a stall again? Four consequative weeks in ketosis, without a new low, without a lost inch. Dude, 4 weeks ago you were 20 pounds heavier. Get over the stall thing already until you actually are. So you've gone two weeks without a new low. Shrug. After dropping an astonishing 20 in the two before that you're body is reacting to losing too much too fast and it's taking a break. Quite normal and not the slightest sign that anything is wrong. Oh,and it is often called the 3rd and 4th week pause because it's not rare in week 4. You're doing fine other than insanely high expectations. Note that from here on out it will all be fat lost not the fat plus carbs plus the water the carbs were stored in loss of Induction. Follow the process and loss will resume when your body is good and ready. I thought a true stall was not losing anything (weight or inches) for 6 weeks? I can't remember where I heard or read that, though. on 15 Feb 2005 16:14:36 -0800, "Doug Freyburger" <dfreybur@yahoo.com> wrote: >You've lost 20 pounds in the last month. What's the defintion >of a stall again? Four consequative weeks in ketosis, without >a new low, without a lost inch. Dude, 4 weeks ago you were 20 >pounds heavier. Get over the stall thing already until you >actually are. ----- Bev > I thought a true stall was not losing anything (weight or inches) for 6 > weeks? I can't remember where I heard or read that, though. That's right, Bev. A stall has always been defined here as something like 6 weeks "on plan" without a loss of pounds OR inches. Anything less is not considered a true stall. For some reason, on lc weight loss tends for many people to be kind of episodic, rather than gradual. I think the fat loss is probably gradual, but water-weight ups and downs on the scale tend to obscure it. Anyway, a lot of people won't lose anything for a couple weeks, than practically overnight one or several pounds will be gone, then nothing for a couple more weeks, then a little whoosh of a couple more pounds. You get used to it after a while and don't stress too much when you don't lose during a given week, if that's your pattern. HG Thanks Hannah. I'm following Protein Power Lifeplan and I looked it up in their book. It uses the "6 week" definition too. And your description was pretty much my experience. Those little *whooshes* sure were nice. I also found that I'd have a scale-loss whoosh one week and then an inch-loss whoosh the next. They rarely occurred together. :-) on Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:17:27 -0500, "Hannah Gruen" <inriverheights@yahoo.com> wrote: >That's right, Bev. A stall has always been defined here as something like 6 >weeks "on plan" without a loss of pounds OR inches. Anything less is not [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >get used to it after a while and don't stress too much when you don't lose >during a given week, if that's your pattern. ----- Bev I also found that I'd have a scale-loss whoosh > one week and then an inch-loss whoosh the next. They rarely occurred > together. :-) Same here, some weeks pounds gone, some weeks inches. Sometimes nothing, of course, especially as time went on. When I'd been on other plans in the past, I recall my losses as being more gradual. Maybe it's just the difference between an ad libitum plan (like most low-carb plans) and one that rigidly controls calories.(like WW). I find a lot of variation in caloric intake on lc. Some days a lot, some days very low. Likewise, some weeks are heavy on calories, others very light. Unclear why. HG > > What's the defintion > > of a stall again? Four consequative weeks in ketosis, without > > a new low, without a lost inch. > > I thought a true stall was not losing anything (weight or inches) for 6 > weeks? I can't remember where I heard or read that, though. Different plan, different definition. The 4 week one comes from Dr Atkins. Realistically the longer you use for your definition the fewer pauses end up qualifying as stalls, so your 6 week citation is better than Dr A's 4 week one in some ways. > Hey all, > I'm now into my 4th week of LC and have seemingly hit a block. I am aware [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > 260/240/200 since: 18/01/2005 Don't worry about it. Stalls happen. Keep up with it. Hopefully you are enjoing low-carb enough to make it a permanent lifestyle. If so, the scales will become less important. If not, I'm afraid it won't work for you over the long run. Thanks all, for clarifying things. I guess my expectations were higher than they should have been. This is my first time on "straight LC". I had cycled before for weight training, so I'm figuring this out as I go. I also didn't realize there was a definition for "stalling". Thanks. I'll keep plugging, Mark 260/240/200 since: 18/01/2005 > Thanks all, for clarifying things. I guess my expectations were higher > than they should have been. This is my first time on "straight LC". I [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > 260/240/200 since: 18/01/2005 What were your expectations if I may ask? Everyone comes into LC with different ones. Some think it will work, but slowly and have little faith in it at first. Others want to see 30 to 40 years' worth of layering fat to come off in three weeks or they go into "I'm stalled!" What were you expecting exactly? You can't just do this, then lose weight then add weight on and so on. You gotto stay with it. Do you plan to, or you just use it for adjustment? (Will always fail.) Best Regards, Steve Tout est per·du fors l'hon·neur |
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