Milled Flax seed causing stall?

Here is another comment I made over at lowcarber forum on a post about a stall on a low carb diet

Myers728 asked:

You all know me and my posts by now. So 2wks 10 lbs gone, week 3 and 4 nothing. Need to get the pounds off. I have removed heavy cream, peanut butter, added veggies for lunch and dinner, what about my breakfast of milled flax seed? I have 1/4 cup. Could this be causing my stall? I am removing this week to see if the scales move? Dr atkins says no more than 2T, my comment is that with 2T = 4 carbs, 4 dietary carbs, so zero carbs. Maybe this is too much to be having, causing stall?

My response:

When we follow a low carb diet there are so many changes going on in our bodies. It’s hard to keep up with what’s going on.

Providing we’re giving our bodies the types of food it needs in order to thrive, we then simply need to be patient while it works through the various processes it has to go through to firstly adjust to the change in diet and secondly start dealing with the excesses that our old diet caused in the first place.

The simple fact is that none of us got fat overnight, it’s something that slowly crept up and by the same token none of us will get thin overnight.

So the bottom line of what I’m trying to say here is stick with your plan, don’t be tempted to add in things just because they seem like they might be okay and be patient. You will get the body you want just give it time.

As for milled flax seed, that’s one of those things that I stay right away from. I’m not sure it has any nutritional value but it certainly contains lots of temptation.

Hope that helps,

Mark