For those who may have been following my recent posts, and others as well, I
will very briefly summarize what is going on:

* I started on Atkins over a year ago. Lost a lot of weight - about 40 lb -
over the first six months. Then I leveled off for about 6 months and my
weight started creeping up again.

* Almost a month ago I started restricted calorie intake and letting carbs
creep up more. I lost 3.5 kg = 7.7 lb that way. But hunger started getting
worse after about 10 days.  Plus I seemed to be stuck at 114.5-115.0 kg
(252-253) lb for almost two weeks, which was completely incomprehensible to
me, since I was eating on the average of just 1600-something calories per
day. At my weight I should have been losing more rapidly. My past experience
with low-cal dieting had been different.

So yesterday, I decided to "go for it" and try to throw myself back into
ketosis (which I had fallen out of after my first 3-4 months) and see if
there really is or is not a "metabolic advantage".

Yes, I know it is way to soon to report on the results. It's just been one
day. But it was so interesting that I thought I would report anyway.

Yesterday, I highly restricted carbs to induction levels of below 20. I ate,
to my most accurate measure, just 18.9 carbs all day. (This wasn't literally
induction, since I drank green tea and also had some cottage cheese, which
is forbidden on induction even though it was only 3.8 carbs).

M caloric intake ended up being much higher than my average over the last
month - I had a total of 2462 calories of food.

My hunger was under control though. At least more than it had been.

And this morning when I weighed myself I had mini-whooshed down to 113.5 kg
= 249.7 lb, not only continuing weight loss in a dramatic way, but breaking
through the 250 lb barrier again.

So I am psyched enough to continue very-low-carbing for the time being (I
would have been anyway; one day is too small a time period to judge
anything).

I'll report again next week or at the next milestone - whichever comes
first. :)

doug