lost nothing this week total bummer!

**nikkimacawgirl** · 12-23-2006, 11:43 AM

this sucks! today is been 3 weeks on phen and i only have lost 9lbs. i havent gained at all. lost a little bit with the inches stuff. am i stuck already? i have been good with the way i have been eating. i wasnt perfect of course but very very good. ( i ate mcdonalds one night i know bad bad bad!).

**goodmockingbird** · 12-23-2006, 01:03 PM

Nine pounds in three weeks is about all that a human being can possibly lose and still remain healthy at all.

I too have lost exactly 9 pounds in the same 3 weeks, and I am elated with it. Losing one lb per week is more reasonable for someone my size, while some can lose 2 lbs per week and be healthy.

I started the phentermine on Dec 1, and it sounds like you started at almost the exact same time. I am sure that a lot of the 9 lbs I lost was water weight from reducing sodium and simple carbohydrate intake.

A few pounds up or down can be how much liquid we've consumed, what time of the month it is, even whether we've had a daily bowel movement or not.

And just think, this is the time of the year when most people are indeed gaining weight.

I think we're both right on schedule and doing great.

The phentermine "helps", but it's our own decisions about what we eat and do that determine whether we lose or not.

**nikkimacawgirl** · 12-23-2006, 01:36 PM

hi, well ok i dont feel so bad now that you are on the same track as i am. and yes i started on dec. 2, so we are close. thats cool someone to kind of follow along with.

i read a post on here how someone lost 32lbs in 35 days doing low carb and phen, i think thats gonna be my next move.

rainbow_tears · 12-23-2006, 02:29 PM

Nikki you need to eat a balanced diet, I know that a lot of people say low carb diets and they loose weight very very FAST, BUT slow steady weight loss and you will keep it off a heck of a lot longer than fast rapid loss, as when you start to maintain it you will gain back and more.

xxx

**susanpesek** · 12-24-2006, 01:12 AM

I am in 100% agreement with every post in answer to yours~can't really get better answers than that! Your body takes time to get used to the loss and many changes are made inside you other than the weight becoming less!
I lost 1/2 pound per week and was elated each time. One week I gained 1/2 pound yet I never wavered off the plan...and I needed the folks here to remind me it would be worth it and to stay the course.
YOU CAN DO THIS THE RIGHT WAY, Baby!

**spieldose** · 12-24-2006, 01:34 AM

That's really tempting. I've tried to do low carb and the longest I've ever been able to succeed on it was 2 weeks. Then again, I was living in Germany at the time. Where the bread is oh so good and oh too convenient! I might try low carb for the month of January. I'm going to try and give myself a new goal for each month. December's was to not eat anymore Sakura - my favorite restaurant in the world, and to not eat fast food more than once a week. January - let's try to do low carb for a month! Let me know if you're sticking with it. We can be low carb buddies! We're even at the same weight! Well, add a stupid .2 lbs to mine.