[Lkemybab]

The wife is having a bit of a crisis moment this morning. Here is the basic crux of it.

Yesterday I posted at having lost down to 228, a net loss of 13 pounds since January 8. I spent a few weeks plateaued where my weight fluctuated until I discovered the carbs in Splenda and half-and-half which were affecting my daily carb counts. I brought that back down and am losing again.

But not my wife. She started on January 15 and lost five pounds after about three weeks and has floated back up ever since. This morning she is one pound under where she was when she started. Her carb intake this entire time has been below 20g of carbs per day, most days have been around 10g.

She's distraught and nothing I have said this morning has helped. She thought she could handle the lifestyle change with a bit of Lavash bread and flax-seed waffles and flax cereal, but now she thinks she will have to go total zero-carb and eat nothing but meat and the thought has evidently pushed her to the edge. Lots of tears today.

Any ideas?

[EDIT! She also believes that if a very-low or zero-carb diet gets her down to her ideal weight, she will be stuck there forever and will never be able to add any carbs back for fear of gaining the weight back. This seems to be a BIG sticking point for her]