Hi all!

I'm approx one month out-one month and ...three days!

I lost 32 pounds the first two weeks and gained 2 pounds the last two weeks. I'm a little discouraged, to say the least. I will assume it's one of these "stalls" and keep trucking...you guys are such good encouragers!<..that's not a word.

Anywho, I was wondering if I could ask a favor of some of you experts...let me tell you what I ate today...and you give me some advice? I would be so grateful!

Breakfast

4inch piece of turkey sausage-it's sort of shaped like kielbasa (8 grams protein)

1 tablespoon of peanut butter-(5 grams protein)

a few bites of watermelon

(i didn't eat that in one sitting-it was spread out throughout the morning)

Snack

6 pork rinds-(8 grams protein)

a few bites of cucumber

lunch

3 ham roll ups-(14 grams protein)

Snack

1/3 cup of no sugar added ice cream

dinner

chicken thigh (10 grams protein)

1/3 cup of spaghetti squash (1 gram protein)

(ate those two things separately, too much at once)

plus a couple glasses of ice Water and a glass of crystal light

I would appreciate any input!

I think that you need to watch your sodium intake and your carb intake. I was at a stall for two weeks and I started tracking my food and was getting way to many carbs. As soon as I started lowering the carbs to around 30-40 my stall broke. Sounds like most of your protein is processed and will contain a lot of sodium. The web site "my fitness pal" has a great calorie counter that has tons of food already in it along with carbs and thats how I figured out I was getting 75-100 carbs a day.

I am definitely not an expert at all, but if I counted right you only got about 45 grams of Protein, and you didn't list fat grams but I know that the sausage, the pork rinds, the ham and the chicken thigh (oh and the PB) all have a pretty high fat content. Just looking at your list, I would start by swapping the pork rinds for something that is SOLID protein like albacore tuna fish for example. And the chicken thigh could easily be swapped for a chicken breast (my NUT said NO meat ON THE BONE...too high in fat!)

The other thing you could do is add some Protein powder to your ice cream treat (or pudding or whatever your treat of the day is) and bump that protein up. I think you are not getting in enough, low-fat, solid, dense (and filling) protein.

Just my $.02 cents!

I think everyone hits some sort of stall at some point or another..... I wasn't told to count cals, fat or Protein, or carbs at all... but I was careful and still managed a stall of sorts, which sorted itself out when my body realised what I had done to it.

I would possibly have more liquids in mine at the same time, with maybe a Protein Drink in there to highten the protein count as well.

1st off congrats on your weight loss thus far that is awesome. But I agree with the above posts your protein needs to be a little more lean and have less sodium, don't forget the water!

I think a protean shake could do wonders especially if you working out. I basically have a milk, frozen berry's, Honey and unflavored whey.

I am not expert but have been dieting in preparation for my surgery next week since July and right off the bat I was thinking Fat grams right off the bat followed by sodium. Ham is high in sodium as is and kind of sausage. Most sausage no matter what meat they pack into it, is usually laden with fat. But like I said I am not seasoned veteran, just looking at from the day to day in efforts to lose weight ( 46 pounds now) and that is what jumped out at me.

32 pounds in two weeks??? Simply AMAZING! I was also wondering if you body is having whoa there partner moment I might be giving away too much too fast.

Liquids?

Liquids?

LaSaJaTa if you you are asking me about fluids, I should clarify, I have been on the liquid part for 2 weeks today, until liquids I did a low fat low carb diet replacing one or two meals with a Protein shake.