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Old Thu, Dec-16-04, 19:41
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 219/205.4/125 Female 63
BF:38/36/22
Progress: 14%
Location: Central Jersey
Exclamation A good way to break a stall (or even to help yourself lose more!)

Hey all,

I have been testing out this theory that I found on another forum I frequent, and I have been having TERRIFIC results with it! I was really STUCK in a stall for the last month, couldn't lose a single 1/10th of a pound. I got so fed up until I tried this.....

If you are having trouble breaking a stall (or going up and down the same couple pounds), or just want to lose more, try eating breakfast as your biggest meal of the day, and eating dinner as if it were breakfast. I did this for the first time on Monday night, and immediately the next morning I weighed myself and I was down TWO pounds after being stuck for a month! It really WORKS!!!

To give an idea of what I mean:

A normal day for me before trying this would look like this:

Breakfast ~ 2 hardboiled eggs, 2 strips of bacon, coffee
Lunch ~ 1 cup of salad w/cucumber & 2 tbsp dressing, 1 or 2 turkey/cheese roll ups, water
Dinner ~ 2 hamburger patties, 1 cup of veggies, and another cup of salad

NOW, on this WOE:

Breakfast ~ 3 scrambled eggs w/cheese, 3 strips of bacon, 4 slices of salami, coffee
Lunch ~ 1 lc tortilla filled with something like turkey & cheese or bologna & cheese w/mayo, 2 cups of salad w/2 tbsp dressing, water
Dinner ~ 1 hamburger patty, 1 cup of veggies. (And more often than not I will only have 1 cup of veggies or 1 cup of salad for dinner because I'm simply NOT hungry at night!)

No snacks, and no eating after 6 PM or 7 PM (depending on what time you go to bed..as for me, I go to bed no earlier than 1 am, so I can get away with 7:30.)

ANYWAY, the basis of it is, eat your biggest meal of the day for breakfast and work your way down from there.....huge breakfast, medium lunch, small dinner. I SWEAR this broke me out of my stall and I'm losing steadily again! Finally! Not only that, but there are a TON of other people in the other forum I frequent and almost ALL of them are having the same results!

Just thought I'd share with everyone since it's working so great for me! It's been a lifesaver, and I truly enjoy going to bed not having that 'overfull' feeling anymore! I wake up SUPER hungry, and that helps motivate me to eat a big breakfast, as I've never been a breakfast type person.

I think (and this IS going on theory here) that the reason this works is because at night when you're sleeping, instead of having to digest food, you're body is simply burning fat overnight since there's nothing to digest. This is the only point in time that your body is completely at rest and burning the least amount of calories, so when there's nothing to digest, the body has nothing to do but burn the all-dreaded F-A-T!!! And you wind up eating less during the day when you're burning more calories.

Well, this is a concept I've been testing for the last week and it's worked GREAT for me, I hope you have the same results!
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