I am 5'2" and 245 so I am a big girl too. I have always dieted from WW to Atkins and nothing really worked cause I never stuck with it. Now I am getting older and I feel like if I don't make this change then I will die or get diabetes... ugh. So I am taking it slow. I have been at it 6 weeks with no weight loss but 2 pounds. And slow as it is it is ok cause I didn't put on this weight it took me 33 years to get here and I do feel amazing. I am a clean/paleo/primal type eater and this is something I wanna keep doing. I feel better and hopefully the weight will eventually come off. I don't excersize right now and I eat way more calories that you do. But my goal is healthy weight loss not just weight loss cause then it just comes back with force. I know that I spend all my time reading and researching about Low Carb eating and living to gain more information so that I can do it right.

Just keep your head up.

I would not weigh at all.

And I don't now, in fact.

Just eat real food, enjoy it, stick to the plan and trust the process

If you do weigh then it will tell you nothing about body composition (fat vs muscle) and just drive you crazy.

I just weigh once a week. More often makes me obsessive and unhappy. If I wasn't trying to figure out exactly how many carbs I need to eat to keep losing, I would probably try weighing less often. I lost 3-4 lbs a week for 3 weeks and then "only" lost 1 lb last week. I looked at it as the total for the month (12) and that just sounds better. I'm hoping for 8 in the next month, and am trying to keep in mind that that may be spread out over the weeks in various ways

I weight every morning at the same time (before breakfast, after potty), wearing the same thing (nothing). If I forget to weigh right then, then I don't weigh in that day.

I only log once a week on Mondays. If I'm down on Saturday or Sunday and still around that same weight Monday, that's what I'll use. If I'm up or not down, I won't log.

I do absolutely go up and down. But I know that's how it goes so I don't let it discourage me. As someone else said it didn't take me a day to gain all this weight it won't take me a day to lose it!

There needs to be a disconnect here.
You dont gain 3lbs over night.

You dont gain 2lbs over night.


You current weight is composed of the following: Bone,muscle, organ, skin, fat, blood, water, food consumed, fluids consumed. Every day you weigh in, it fluctuates all the time.

It is not a gain of three pounds over night. You have to stop obsessing with the scale... in fact, I would highly suggest consider once per week, once every two weeks, or even better - once per month.

Every day our bodies will fluctuate. Whether its food you eat, weather contributing to edema, for women - their menses, changes in prescription medication that cause internal changes, etc.

You have to stop thinking you gained 3 lbs overnight - that would mean you would have had to consume 10,500 calories last night for dinner. Obviously you didnt eat that many calories last night, so therefore your assumption of gaining 3lbs overnight, is definitely not humanly possible..... You gain weight gradually - just like you lose weight gradually....

For your own mental stability (and anyone for that matter), stop weighing your self daily - that is an unhealthy thing to do to yourself. Its not a viable tool to calculate weight loss - measuring tape is guaranteed to be a more accurate tool of measurement to determine weight loss. So is a brand new outfit, or an older outfit that has developed more room.

Also - a side note about your 'cleanses' - please make sure your primary care physician or specialist are informed that you are doing that... they should never be done unless under their medical supervision...

Good luck and chuck the scale!!!!!!!!!!

Water water water! I find this diet plan to be salty and if i fall down on my water intake the scale will stall. Also watch the snacky stuff - and log log log. I'm starting with this today logging every bite as the scale isn't dropping as fast as other times i restarted the plan after a vacation hiatus. I am thinking the little bites of pickles, almonds, cheese and such are adding up to being too many carbs to lose. So going to plan out my days better and stay as clean as possible, reduce sweetners etc.

Good luck and i would say weighing less often is good, but in the beginning it can be a good tool to guage how well you are doing on the plan and if your extra foods aside from main meals are adding up.

Are you certain your scale is accurate?? are weighing in at the same time of day?

I weigh myself once every 2-3 weeks. If you weigh yourself every day and you don't see any change in numbers, you will get so discouraged every single day. I try to go off of how my body actually feels, what I look like, how my clothes fit, etc. I think those things tell more than a simple number could.

I would not weigh at all.

And I don't now, in fact.

Just eat real food, enjoy it, stick to the plan and trust the process

If you do weigh then it will tell you nothing about body composition (fat vs muscle) and just drive you crazy.

Im the same I very rarely weigh myself. It can be pretty unreliable - especially if you do it very frequently. I just go by how my clothes fit and how my body looks.