Well, there ya go.

Low carb isn't for everyone. Atkins' version was developed to help
seriously overweight people with health issues lose weight despite
being metabolically and/or insulin resistant. If you're small and
don't have much weight to lose, you could end up eating more calories
than you need and not losing weight on a low-carb diet.

Just because it's the popular diet-of-the-moment doesn't mean it'll
work for everyone. As you seem to have discovered.

Good luck,
Dawn

Don't low carb. Count calories and exercise and eat healthy. This diet
really is not for you.

i

With so little to lose, it is extremely unrealistic to expect to
lose that amount of weight immediately.  If you are patient and
work at it, it will happen.  

If I don't blow it

IMHO, you are starving yourself.  Anyone needs at least 1200 calories a day
so your metabolism doesn't go into starvation mode.  Eat more.

sue k

Sounds like you are already in starvation mode.  If that's the
case, and you can't add any carbs without adding too many
calories, it would seem to point to another approach.  

If I were in your position, I'd give it another few weeks on phase 1.
I don't think you can say it isn't working for you this quickly.

You want to make sure you are getting enough protein for your needs,
limit the carbs, and if I were you, I'd aim for about 8-10 times your
weight in calories.  Don't go lower in calories than that or you'll
risk trashing your metabolism and end up gaining when you go on
mainenance.  Just experiment a bit in that range... try a week at 10x
and a week at 8x and see what works best (but you *can't* tell in just
a few days cause weight fluctuates over a few days).

BTW, I wasn't picking on *you* when I did the two lbs of butter post.
I've seen posts complaining about rate of loss for years in here.
Just occured to me suddenly what 2 lbs of fat actually looked like and
how *much* it was.  My loss hasn't been as speedy as I'd like either.
I lost 9 lbs the first two weeks and knowing that 5 lbs of that is
water, I probably only lost 2 lbs of fat/week.  Then the scale didn't
budge for most of the next week and finally another 1 lb loss showed
up yesterday.  The visual of what a couple pounds of fat actually
looks like was encouraging to me... I was hoping it'd be encouraging
for others too.

But scales are notoriously unreliable for measuring *fat* loss...
since water gain/loss can account for a few pounds itself and a gain
of muscle can mask a loss of fat.  How do your clothes fit?  Are you
looking better?  Are you feeling better?  These are good markers for
how it's going.

BTW, since the scale doesn't always move regularly for the above
reasons, a "stall" is not 4-5 days.  A stall is 4 or 5 weeks.  Rather,
experience in this newsgroup seems to imply that the scale doesn't
move for a while, then moves suddenly a few pounds at a time for the
above reasons.  Google "woosh fairy" for info... people post about
this often.

So... if I were you, I'd continue for another couple weeks, then
gradually increase the carbs and calories - you want to increase a bit
at a time until weight loss stops for a couple weeks, then you'll know
what you need to do for maintenance.  Then back off a bit if you
haven't lost all the weight you want to lose.

Also, those who have mentioned weight training are right-on, building
muscle mass is going to increase your metabolism for both weight loss
and maintenance.  Since you are at the "end" of your weight loss (in
comparison to most of us, who find the last ten pounds the hardest to
lose).

And make sure you're getting enough protein so you don't lose muscle
during the process... which will sabotage your maintenance since it'd
lower your metabolism as surely as a severly limited calorie count
could.

P.S. I haven't read SBD, but am assuming their phase 1 is similar to
Atkins induction (20 g carb per day) or Protein Power phase 1 (30 g
carb per day) carb per day.  Protein Power would've recommended you
start at phase 2, 55 g per day.  So I wouldn't sweat it if you're
eating a few extra carbs, you're definetly in ketosis and losing at 33
g, ya know?

Personally, I think Atkins would be a better plan -- and it sounds like
you're doing it already anyway.  The problem with SBD is that it is too
unstructured (imo) and I think you need more of that -- plus patience.