I'm stalled and I need some advice
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| Wed, 07-02-2008 - 9:57pm |
I've been doing South Beach for 9 weeks. The first 2 weeks I lost about 6 lbs, but total now I'm only at about 8-9 lbs. I just seem to be losing less than 1/2 lb a week! Some weeks I lose nothing or am up a lb.
I am just at a total loss. Most posts that I have read people rave and rave about how they are losing 1-2 lbs a week.
I don't know what else to do with the diet. I hardly eat any carbs still (about 1 serving a day of healthy good carbs), I drink lots of water, I eat mostly veggies, low fat cheese, meat, and nuts.
Why am I not losing any weight? I should have lost over 20 lbs by now and I'm just sitting here at around 8 or 9. I feel like all this hard work I've been doing has really only helped me maintain this weight.
And it isn't b/c I don't have much to lose. I really need to lose a minimum of 30 lbs, but closer to 45 lbs. With that much weight to lose I should be dropping quicker than this.
Any tips or advice would be wonderful.
The only things I can think of that I may need to stop doing are drinking Propel and diet soda and eating less nuts and all natural peanut butter. But really I have about 1 Propel a day and about 1 12 oz diet soda day (and no coffee ever), and I eat about at most up to 4 Tbsp peanut butter a day.

To be honest, the reason you are stalled is that you aren't eating your carbs.
Jennifer
I agree with Jennifer...you're not in a full Phase 2.
As everyone said, the reason you aren't losing more quickly is that you are depriving yourself of fruits/grains. Read the link Joy posted, there is a post in there from me about fruits/grains. But I will say it again here (imagine this in big flashing neon letters):
FRUITS AND GRAINS ARE NOT THE ENEMY.
Come to terms with it, embrace it and repeat it to yourself daily if you want to succeed on South Beach. Do away with the "Phase 1 mentality" that they are to be avoided. You are NOT in phase 1 anymore. Period. The rules are different now. You have to do the diet as it was designed if you want it to work and it was designed to have 3 servings of grains and fruits PER DAY in phase 2.
And also, as Joy said - 1/2 per week is not a stall. Not losing some week is not a stall. That is all very normal and to be expected. I lost 70lbs, it took about 1 year to do it. I had weeks where I would lose 1 or 2 lbs. Then I had weeks in between where I lost 1/2lb or none. My typical pattern was: lose 1lb, then none, lose 1lb, then none, lose 2lb, then none for two weeks, lose 2lb, then none, etc. Weight loss is not a linear predictable line. There are lots of ups and downs, fluctuations, weeks where your body has to "catch up" to a loss from the week before. Doesn't mean you are doing anything wrong, its just the slow, natural process of weight loss. I actually learned to really love the weeks that I didn't see a loss on the scale because those were the weeks that I noticed the biggest change in the size/shape of my body, my clothing size, inches, etc. I almost never "shrunk" the same week I lost on the scale. It was always one or the other.
belizesig1
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Thanks for all the great advice! I'm just so scared to start eating grains again!
Also, I have found that the book is very informative about how crappy food affects your body, but not so informative about exactly how I'm suppose to be eating in each phase. Is there a link to anywhere that really defines Phase 2 better and spells it all out for me? I just want to do this the right way!
Here's a great link:
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-fbsouthbeach&msg=30979.3&ctx=0
I have problems with the grains, too, so I get them in as part of my snacks.
The closest thing I've had to bread since May is a ww mini bagel.
I don't know about you - but I can say that most people here did NOT gain weight from eating 1/2 cup brown rice, steel cut oats, a small serving of sweet potato, quinoa, barley, bananas, apples, berries, oranges, etc.
I gained it from fast food, chips, candy, cookies, sugar, soda, fried food, white bread/white starches, butter, etc.
No one is suggesting you start eating the types of food that made you gain weight. We want you to eat the GOOD grains, in the recommended portions. Probably VERY different from what you used to eat, so no need to be afraid of it.
belizesig1
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