Try not to fall into that trap of being obsessed with changing your lifestyle just to lose weight. Obviously it is going to happen (as it already has!). It is best to focus on “getting healthy” and that is more than just weight. It’s how you feel inside. While eating this way your body will be detoxing and that might not feel too good for a while but then afterward, it will be very different. I don’t react the same to the old food I used to grow up eating. Also, realize that cortisol is what holds onto your fat and that is caused by stress! So try not to stress and just know that if you keep it up, you will reap the rewards!

I had a similar experience when I started green smoothies almost two years ago. I lost weight like crazy for about 2 months. Then, when I really concentrated on other steps of the 12-step program, my weight loss really tapered off. Like you, I was frustrated. And like you, I don’t really know why it happened. But . . . the weight eventually started coming off again. In all, I dropped 60 lbs and felt great. So just keep going!!! You’re doing great!!! Definitely don’t give up on the smoothies or the other steps. They are the key to vitality and health.

Kari-

I started my journey just a few weeks before you and have had a similar pattern with the weight loss. However, I am certain that good things are still happening beyond the weight loss based on my body’s reactions to unhealthy foods now, so I can only suppose that I am physically going through a regenerative period where everything is being held onto for restoring and restructuring inside. In my reading about cleansing, I have learned that it can take several months after the initial detox burst for the deep cleansing to take place, and that the weight loss can sometimes be “on hold” during that time. I believe that in my case. Or, maybe it’s that handful of dark chocolate chips I still have every evening. =)

My “last supper” was a meal of pizza topped with meats and hot chicken wings. I felt terrible and sick that night and the next day. That’s when I said enough is enough. I went vegetarian January 1st of this year. My intention is to progress to vegan, then raw vegan. It’s been difficult because my husband insisted on having meat at every meal. I do not cook it nor touch it. He eats it away from the house or when we go to restaurants. But he’s been eating more vegetarian meals and often asks me to make salad for dinners. Hallelujah!

I lost 15 lbs probably within the first few months. I have maintained that weight loss, but I was at a plateau for several months. I have every confidence it will whittle away when my body is ready. My body probably needed to use its store of fat to maintain my weight loss and allow my organs and other bodily functions to acclimate to the changes in my diet. I have been incorporating green smoothies into my diet again. The result is that I am already beginning to lose about one pound a week.

Let your body “do its thing”. It knows its stuff. When it adjusts, you will reap the rewards of patience and persistence and constancy.

Ladies, I have been struggling with weightloss for the past three years and have a vegan diet that is 90% raw and race bicycles. I gained weight on green smoothies though still have them in half servings every day. I found out a couple of weeks ago though that I have Liver Flukes that are likely causing my chronic anemia and resulting in malabsorption of what I need and inability to digest the things I am putting into my body for it to use. I was flabergasted! Since starting my initial natural cleansing I am loosing about 4-5 pounds a week and feel marvelous!!!! It may not be a problem for many, but since learning that about 70% of all Americans have parisites of one form or another, I cannot help but wonder… how long have I really been affected by these buggers!