OK, I understand that when you drop your calories down WELL BELOW 1,200 calories that your body goes into starvation mode and your metabolism slows way down. On the other hand, at some point, especially on diets like Medifast where the calorie count is 800, clients do lost a lot of weight and very fast.
The problem is that they are generally gain back the weight equally fast (or they can't sustain the diet) because their bodies have been deprived of the nutrition it needs.
You are supposed to be learning a HEALTHY way of eating. That means that you eat every 2-3 hours so that your body's metabolism works at its optimum.
You are learning the way you need to eat for the rest of your life. When you go on maintenance, you will be able to add a couple of hundred more calories but you're still supposed to be eating healthy.
Now we say that we're on a 1,200 calorie a day diet but that's an average. And the fact that your JCC is freaking out because you're taking in about 60 less than you're "required" intake is kind of amusing.
I suspect she either has never had a weight problem, hasn't been doing this job very long or she's so brainwashed by the JC training that she doesn't have a realistic view of this diet and that each person is going to see different results based upon our age, metabolic rate, exercise, etc. In other words, if 10 of us ate the EXACT same menu and did the EXACT same activity, we would still see slightly different weight losses.
As for not losing more than you did in the first week, chances are, if you stuck to the JC plan and drank all of your water, you had already shed the water weight that most of us lose in the first week so it didn't show up on the scale.
We are older, ladies, so let's face it, we don't have the metabolism that we did when we were younger. We're going to lose more slowly. It's as much of a fact for most of us as going gray and seeing more wrinkles.
We're all different. Think about going to a 20th or 30th or 40th high school reunion. I bet if you have you would have seen that some of your classmates have "aged" at dramatically different rates.
If you truly don't want the snack, then don't eat it. Try that for a week or two and see if it makes a difference. Then try a week or two of adding that snack to your diet and see if that makes a difference. (Just don't tell you JCC what you're doing because apparently she's "going by the book" and wouldn't "approve" of your experiment.
Personally I know that when I eat on a more regular basis I actually lose weight faster. It goes against everything I've done for the past 60 years but it's true...at least for me. By eating more and eating more regularly and in smaller portions, I know I'm keeping my "engine" running at its optimum speed.
Anyway, that's my two cents on this discussion for what they're worth.
Phyllis
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