On Apr 14, 10:09 pm, "mikesmith9...@hotmail.com"
<mikesmith9...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Give it time, and really up the fluid levels.  Try to drink at least 2
quarts (liters) of non-caloric fluid every day, especially to help the
system move those nasty unmentionables along the path and out your
body.

Personally, I found my weight didn't start moving much until about 3
days after drastically cutting my calorie intake.  After that, it
started falling off.

Are you coming from a trend of weight gain, or stability?  If you're
coming from a gain, you might be cutting calories just enough to
balance.  Even if you're coming from stability, the calorie deficit
you're at could still be small enough to be unnoticeable on your
particular scale (I notice you gave your weight to the pound).
Remember, the weight in food, water, and air you're moving through
your body every single day is a whole order of magnitude (or two!)
larger than the weight difference each day.  This creates a lot of
signal noise.

Rest assured, if you're eating less calories than your body burns, you
WILL lose weight.  Just try to stick to your numbers (don't obsess
over calories, but at least pick a number and try to hit it to within
100 calories each day).

Oh, and if you're having a little problem on the toilet, you might
consider adding a fiber supplement.  A diet can be a particularly
stressful event for your GI tract, and a little extra fiber can't hurt
you.  It's not a big pain to add a little to a glass of water in the
morning and pound it down.  Trust me, the prospects of developing
diverticulitis and having to deal with it (personally, my brother is
actually afflicted by this, and blames Atkin's.  Not sure if that's an
accurate cause, but it IS disconcerting) is NOT worth the convenience
of avoiding a little task in the morning.

STICK IN THERE! :)

Oh, and you might want to crunch the numbers on all the fruit you're
eating.  Fruit, despite being considered quite healthy (and quite
tasty!) packs a good number of calories, because it's sugary.

(snip)

If you aren't doing much physical, then you probably only burn like 2000
calories more or less.  So it is hard to have enough deficit to cause
rapid loss.  Have you been losing up until now?  Or are you just starting
out.  If you have been losing for awhile, staying at the same weight for
several days or even longer is not uncommon.

del

On Apr 14, 7:09 pm, "mikesmith9...@hotmail.com"
<mikesmith9...@hotmail.com> wrote:

It does look like this should allow you to lose wt. Nuts are very high
fat and calories though. A cup of walnuts is about 800 calories, 700
of which is fat. Sunflower seeds are also very high fat. I personally
never eat nuts and Dr. Ornish in his low-fat diet does not recommend
them either. Avocados are also high fat, and you could pick a
different fruit. I always look for the fat if someone isn't losing wt,
cause that's where the concentrated calories are. You got plenty of
protein and fat without them with the salmon, tuna, brown rice, etc.
If you were to substitute a high fiber, low-cal  food like green
beans, you could eat a lot more by weight. A quarter cup of walnuts is
equivalent in calories to about 3 cans of green beans. You wouldn't
need to take the fiber either. Still, your diet looks reasonable to me
and I can't understand why you wouldn't be losing wt. with this. I eat
much more in terms of weight of food and calories, but not fat of
course and I weigh 138. Maybe it will just take more time. dkw