I'm 2 months in and pretty much where I started out. It's so depressing! I've gotten past all the cravings and honestly don't struggle with cravings. I stick to kind of the same meal plan each week because it's easier to plan and I need some fast go to meals with a sometimes crazy schedule. I exercise very regularly, walking at least 2 miles per day and doing more if I can. I'm not on any medications and have really worked on maintaining portion control. And no change whatsoever...I've gone down and up a little week to week but as of today there is no net change.

Below is a typical plan

Breakfast - 1 cup coffee with liquid splenda and 0 carb cream, either OMM or egg/turkey bacon or a muffin fritatta. I try to keep breakfast at or below 2 carb

Lunch - usually 1/2 cup of the sausage stew recipe which I love and I try to keep the tomato as low as I can and get the flavor and add in black soy beans. I will sometimes serve that over 1/2 cup raw spinach.

Dinner - blackened fix with cauliflower or tofu noodles with shrimp and alfredo or Doug's southern pork chop with asparagus or some form of cauli or brocoli  or the turnip au gratin maybe

Snack - homemade beef jerky, small handful of almonds (I keep to 2net carb serving size limit) or GG brancrisp with cream cheese or a bit of whatever cheese is in the fridge

I've been weighing my veggies so keep the portions correct there. I know that cheese is my weakness so I'm going to cut that out except for what I need in cooking.

I don't eat out much but when I do I'll either get sashimi, no rice, or yesterday I had blackened fish no sauce and steamed brocoli at a restaurant.

I'm just flummoxed over what is going on. I definitely feel much better and finally got past cravings so kept feeling I was going well. I stopped weighing frequently so this is my first weigh in for 3 weeks. And nothing. I was so disgusted, I can't even describe. If I were struggling with the plan I would take my lumps but I love the substitutions, it's going well. At Easter dinner I carried turnips au gratin, had just a little, maybe 1/4 cup steamed broc and a small serving of turkey breast. And it was great. My extended family were all over incorporating low carb options at dinner so I only missed out on the candied sweet potatoes.

Any suggestions would be great. I'm starting to really despair I'll not be able to lose the weight again. It's not causing me to fall off the plan because I have been enjoying it very much but would love to figure out how I can be on the plan and lose weight. I know it works. I know there's some trigger I'm missing somewhere, I just need to find it. 

Oh geez this isn't a good day! Sick with fever and ToM day 1 on top of that. I'm starving! But can't eat much with feeling bad. So I've been grazing trying to control both. Grazing on low carb, my house is stripped of sugars. But I finally caved in to the sweet craving...no, the bran crisp just didn't cut it!! anyway I made a modified single serving cheesecake. I have these itty bitty baking dishes for single serving. I mixed some cream cheese, teeny tiny drop of vanilla extract, little egg white, 2drops liquid splenda. And baked. It was hard to figure out the ratio for single serving so worst case I get baked cream cheese. Lol. Probably not ideal to give in to a sweet craving this early in my transition to this plan but I'll be huddled on the floor, rocking, and begging for a Snickers if I don't mitigate soon. Hopefully tomorrow is a better day. I have acupuncture in the afternoon and that Always balances me out.

I made dinner for a friend and I hope I didn't stray too far from the path on the conversion. I wanted to try Italian so I made a baked ziti-ish dish. I used a bag of shirataki tofu macaroni noodles, a bit of ricotta cheese, a little egg white, grated mozzarella and low carb spaghetti sauce. Mixed that all up and topped with a little grated Parmesan then baked. It made 2 servings. I think it was about 8 net carbs per serving. Not super low I know so I worried I had gone too far for being in the beginning stages. But boy it was yummy. Was this an ok conversion?

Hi everyone. I've been reading a lot of the posts and what a lot of great information! I found the FTS book when I despaired of ever being able to lose this weight...again. Yep, I lost it before and kept it off for about 2 years and then it slowly slid back on when life got hectic. But what worked before just isn't working now. No matter what I did,  no matter how few calories, how many points, how much exercise, I just wasn't losing. And then I found FTS and I lost 4 lbs in the first 6 days. I feel good about that... Especially since I've really been enjoying the food! I've made several changes including cutting out Splenda in favor of Stevia, drinking more pure water instead of Crystal Light and logging all my food intake to track carbs. (love the ipad app for carb manager)

My first challenge is this weekend. I have a 3 day conference. And you know how they pack those things with bagels and pastries. Yikes! I've got a couple of quickie low carb snacks packed, confirmed the hotel serves some low carb options for breakfast and then I'll have to avoid the pastry cart for 3 days. Oy. Wish me luck!