I remember you now, you were the one I got mad at for eating so little (chicken soup all the time)
. Glad to see you are finally eating normal and just having self control with your portions
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My family ate like they were starving. I just controled myself. I ate what everyone else ate, just a small fraction of what I used to eat.
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Perfect 
This is exactly how it works, and exactly the main reason I am against Atkins. A healthy diet, in my opinion, it is all about self control, and with Atkins I feel that it is just a way to enable people to still binge yet have only certain foods they can be gluttonous with.
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I am 26lbs away from my goal of 200lbs and its getting tougher and tougher. So who knows what I may have to do to see more results.
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Ugh, the dreaded plateau. As you approach your plateau (the point in which you are not losing anymore weight) it becomes increasingly difficult to shed the bodyfat. To explain it as simply as possible, your body is a lot smarter then you realize. When it comes to trying to build muscle or shed fat it remembers routines and adapts to them. To keep those gains noticable you need to continually "shock" the body by changing up your routines via new exercises and nutritional variety. In your case, I didn't see that you are exercising. If you aren't, now is the time to start. If you are, then switch up your exercises, or even the days in which you train. Also if you eat the same thing everyday, try some variety in the foods which you eat. Keep your body "guessing" what you are doing and your results will even be more apparant
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***IMPORTANT***
Just because your weight loss is slowing down, DO NOT START EATING LESS! Cutting back on how often you eat can have a negative impact on your diet plateau and your metabolism. Many studies show that small, frequent meals are more satisfying and produce better weight-loss results than the same number of calories consumed in three large meals. Starving yourself, as strange as it sounds, will actually make you gain weight in the long run due to the fact your body will enter starvation mode and store everything that enters your system. When you get off of the starvation diet, your body will continue its storage and you will blow up like a blimp because your metabolism is screwed up. I know this probably doesn't pertain to you, but there are too many people that starve themselves because of lack of nutritional knowledge and it not only is totally unhealthy but can lead to some very bad eating disorders.