Good morning Owensmath, it looks like the crew have all chimed in with good advice.....which one is right for you is left to be found. So why has your
weight loss stalled? Currently your body is in perfect concert with your food intake, you are neither losing nor gaining. Mathematically it simply means you are burning all the fuel you are taking in, no more no less, it really is as simple as that.
I've gone back and looked at some of your meal plan posts and although I'm not a big fan of Atkins shakes or Atkins anything the food doesn't look out of line. With that being said we still face the same facts as stated above.
I think you can do a couple of things to shake the apple tree, the first thing I would suggest is starting back at the beginning and go through a three day test to analyze your true food needs, then I would only fulfill those food needs with "dense" protein and greens AND I would eat very slowly with half the food on my plate that I was eating a week earlier AND I would stop as soon as the hunger subsided. Dense protein like red meat, pork, poultry and lamb will satisfy your hunger needs with a much smaller quantity of food than less dense sources of protein like shakes, whey and bars. The result is less food and faster/longer satisfaction. Dense protein also requires your body (engine) to rev up more to digest the food than less dense proteins.
Remember the basics;
If you want to
lose weight rev up the engine and decrease the fuel.
If you want to gain weight slow down the engine and increase the fuel.
If you want to stay the same weight keep your activity level and fuel at the same level.
