Hard as it might be, stay away from the scale.

I agree! Your diet can make wonderful changes in all other aspects of your life, and your mood will be ruined all day because of Mr. Liar McLiarpants.

I just read an article about a woman who gained 20 lbs over six months of zero-carb eating, and then it all dropped off. She says her body was healing from years of abuse before dropping the excess weight. Hang in there and focus on NSVs

I also have an SI joint injury that led to a herniated disk which later led to pinched nerves in my neck. All these things have felt uncharacteristically improved since I started this WOE in February.

I've lost just over 27kg since the 4th of January and my scales do NOT show a loss every day. I lost 1.5kg last week (Sunday to Sunday) but some days I was up 200g, down 400g, no change, up 100g etc. I was 87.6kg for 3 daya in a row and this morning I was 87.85kg. But that is 100% normal and I know not to worry now.

I've had weeks where I gained 800g overnight but a week later that was all gone and I had a decent loss.

The smallest lost I have had in a week from one Sunday to another (official weigh in day for me) was 800g. Still not bad really!

Even with my weight being the same for 3 days and up on the 4th day, I've lost a cm from my waist in that 4 days :-)

One inch equals 2.5 cm ( centimetres). 800 g = 0.8 kg = 1.76 pounds.

Not seeing anything in your diary, sorry.

I have not had any net weight change in 3 months but during that time I have lost another inch in my belt and the funny part is people are telling me I am continuing. I have lost 20 pounds since going off carbs cold turkey (<50 gram daily) the first of Oct 2014. Today I comfortably hit the smallest hole in my belt that I bought last Oct that was size 46. The last hole measures 41.5 inches so that is four inches I have lost in 7 months at the waist. Looking at some shirts that I had popped off button I estimate I have lost 8+ inches around my belly.

LCHF was an accident in my case. I was just trying to cut my pain/inflammation level and some medical professional had told me to cut out sugar and I saw some improvement so if cutting carbs a little helped I wondered what cutting carbs a lot could do.

Now that summer is here and I am out messing around with the tractor and backhoe I can tell I am much more agile. It was a good 6 months since when I have lost my balance and fell to the ground. I have limited movement above the waist my waist especially but now can better counter balance myself.

LCHF is not a get poor fast scheme in my case but I am getting smaller and physically more healthy than in 25 years. I encourage anyone interested to give LCHF a try if you have health issues yet I understand for some overcoming a strong Carb addiction just is not going to happen. I thought I was going to die for two weeks when I went off carbs cold turkey after failing to 'taper' off after trying for two months.

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It's still frustrating. I am on day 11 and I haven't even lost 2 full pounds yet.

I ate low carb (<50 grams daily) for two months before the scales started dropping but I was losing inch wise.

LCHF works but it can be very different person to person. I think I was at risk for a major health issue or death and after I started eating better my body had to address issues more important than removing my fat. A fast weight loss could have killed me with a low functioning liver, etc for example.

Remember weight lose is not just a CICO issue. If organ health is failing weight loss may not be possible I expect. It may take 180 days of LCHF eating before one sees a lot of good things. Weight loss will come when the body organs become more healthy in my view/experience.

Remember we are NOT here to lose weight but to add quality years to our lives.

Weight is managed by our body systems when they are working correctly and we are eating LCHF. Some report they have to stay low carb (<30 grams) and moderate protein (around 70-80 max grams daily) to get into and stay in nutritional ketosis and see the pounds drop off.