Atkins Fat Fast: Day 3

Lindsey Root - Saturday, July 31, 2010

I woke up this morning and stepped on the scale. I was so excited to see the scale drop 2 more pounds!!! I've lost 4 pounds in 2 days. I'm going to keep doing this fast until Sunday or Monday. I'm trying to do it for it least 4-5 days as Dr Atkins recommends. Its not easy, but the weight loss is keeping me going. I was so discouraged to not see the scale move for 6 months and so it's so nice to finally see the weight come off again. I know I'm going to have to be very careful coming off of this fast and eat very healthy, unprocessed low carb food because I don't want to gain back everything that I've lost from the fast. After I'm done with this fast, I'm going to go right back to the Induction Phase. Once I reach my goal weight, I'm going to start incorporating more carbs into my lifestyle. I will keep you posted.

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Lisa commented on 04-Aug-2010 02:36 PM

I have been doing low carb since March and at first I lost about 5 lbs but since I've lost nothing and actually slowly gained those 5 lbs back
I am on fatsecret.com where I track my carbs, etc...
I am wondering if I need to try the fat fast myself?
I initially lost 70 lbs in 2004 on Atkins - I switched to Wt Watchers and that was a three year joke of paying out the butt to only lose/gain the same 10 lbs over and over again...I've kept 50 lbs off but would like to lose another 20 or so...but this time I cannot seem to get the scale to move!
Thanks for any advice you can give!
Lisa

Stephanie commented on 10-Aug-2010 09:59 PM

Lindsey that is so awesome! Way to break your stall. What you are doing sounds challenging and so foreign to everything I have been taught... and yet it is working. I will have to look into some of the science behind it, because I am right there with you on the stall thing. I need to do something to kick things into gear again. So happy for you, Keep going girl!

Mike commented on 18-Aug-2010 11:44 AM

How's the fat fast going? Love the blog. First heard you on Jimmy Moore's show and decided to check out your site. Always good to hear about other's going through similar experiences.

I thought I'd share my experience with busting a plateau.

I did the 'meat fast' variation of this a month ago and it broke me through the plateau. I lost net 4 pounds over 3 days. Net meaning I lost a bit more but 4 pounds is what stayed off after I reverted back to induction.

For the last week I've been doing a further variation. I'm doing the meat fast during the day on week days but evenings and weekends, adding vegetables back. I also stopped eating dairy for now. I don't know what was causing the plateau but I'm down another couple pounds from last week so something is working. I also added in green tea extract as a supplement as of yesterday so that may help out a bit too.

Plateaus to me are pretty much proof that the calories in - calories out paradigm is at least extremely faulty if not misguided.

Keep up the good work!

Fitness Boot Camp commented on 22-Mar-2011 05:02 AM

Many people believe that the Atkins Diet promotes eating unlimited amounts of fatty meats and cheeses.This is a key point of clarification that Atkins addressed in the more recent revisions of his book. Although the Atkins Diet does not impose caloric
restriction, or definite limits on proteins, Atkins points out in his book that this plan is "not a license to gorge.