If you’re keeping your calories under 1500 a day and you’re not losing weight, one of four things is going on. (1)
You are going over 1500 calories a day, and you don’t know it. Switch to prepackaged servings of protein (like
packages of cold cuts) and veggies (prepackaged low carbohydrate veggies), that measure your calories for you,
and see if you start losing weight. (2) You are not drinking a gallon of water (128 ounces) a day. You need this
much water on a weight loss program to flush out the fat you are burning, to keep the scale moving, and to
prevent kidney damage. (3) You are exercising and causing muscle inflammation, which can cause temporary
water retention and slow down the scale. You don’t have to stop exercising. Exercise is good for you. But
studies show exercise slows down weight loss because of muscle inflammation, and because exericise makes you
hungry, so you will eat more. (4) You are eating too many carbohydrates. If you are ever not losing weght as fast
as you want to, keep your carbohydrate intake under 5-10 grams per meal or feeding, under 25-30 grams of
carbohydrate for the whole day, and you’ll start losing weight again. Remember that a diet of 1500 calories of
protein fat loses weight twice as fast as 1500 calories of carbohydrate.