Well, as I had mentioned in my blog I was acting as a guinea pig for the calorie shifting method of doing 3 days low cal 1 day high. And this past week I had a few days of stall anyway.. So my body was able to get used to this pattern a bit anyway. I wanted to be truthful about this as I was just testing it. The true zig-zag method is supposed to only shift a couple hundred calories and not a drastic amount like my 3 days around 800 cals and 1 day around 1800. I still think the method helped me some the first few weeks, but in itself has not been a stall preventer. So I am going to go back to a low carb focus and try to randomly vary calorie amounts each day instead of a strict 3 to 1.

Tiffykins method of low carb the first few months is where I am going to try and focus now. For me I was calorie focused this first month and did not count carbs--I did get protien and liquids in, but did not even worry about carbs past that. I get to start some exercise this week too since I will hit 6 weeks out, and this will help as well.

Anyway, I said I would test and report my results back so although I would have liked to continue to drop 5+ pounds every week on my shifting method it has not been the magic pill.

Thanks for the update Swiftflow.

I was curious about this myself.

Will

great thanks for the info.....i'll try it as well, make sure to keep us posted.:thumbup:

Thanks for being our guinea pig swiftflow....its all good info. It looks like stalls just may be part of the package.

You're still doing great my sleeve buddy.

Scale doesn't seem to be moving much over here...sigh.

Good news.. The addition of new cardio has kicked the Weight loss back into gear!

My favorite cardio outside of running is the Stairmaster stepmill (small escalator looking stairs)--it really kicks my butt. I tend to push myself pretty hard in cardio as well. I like getting up right near my limit of tolerance and pushing it hard (30 mins for now), and then I cooldown with a easy treadmill walk.

Great news Swiftflow. I love that escilator thing. It is a killer. I think it does me better than anything else they have at the gym.

I'm still not weighing but I've got my fingers crossed for when I weigh on the 21st (my sleeveaversary)

Thanks for the report! I am sticking to the low carb, high Protein and seems to be working ok for me. This week I am going to add some exercise but it will just be walking as I am not released to do anything like the elliptical until 2 months out.

You are doing great!

Stacey, can't wait to see your success on the 21st!!!