Tagged As: Does The South Beach Diet Work
Question:
Anybody experience a situation where you stopped loosing weight after about 4 or 5 days on the South Beach diet? Lost a lot in the beginning and then leveled off. Been holding steady for 4 or 5 days now. Not gaining, but not loosing. Do you go down in steps? Does the south beach diet you tried work?
Answer:
Now here's why it's funny. Diets aren't something you do for 4 or 5 days, and the results are measurable only over great periods of time. Some of us only weigh in once a month, some weigh in once a week... but discussing a 4 or 5 day plateau is a joke. Talk to us when you've been plateaued for four or five weeks. Or four or five months. I've managed to maintain a weight loss steadily at a rate of about five pounds a month for the first 8 months, then it has leveled off gradually to about 2 pounds a month and now it's more like 1 pound a month as I get closer and closer to eating at a maintenance calorie level. But water weight fluctuations, time of the month, salt intake, time of the day, whether you're holding onto a BM... all these things relate to how much you weigh on any given day.
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