IP diet/alternative for last 10 lbs?

Mistapholeezkat
Mistapholeezkat Posts: 80 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Would using the IP diet or an alternative of it (atkins?) work long term for the last 10 lbs? I would love to lose the last bit of weight and it seems to be hovering at the last 10.

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  • DemoraFairy
    DemoraFairy Posts: 1,806 Member
    It would work if you're eating a calorie deficit, as would any diet. All that matters for the last 10lbs is eating in a deficit, same as the first 10lbs. You just need to make sure you're really accurate with your logging since you'll have less of a deficit so less margin for error.
  • NoIdea101NoIdea
    NoIdea101NoIdea Posts: 659 Member
    All diets such as the Atkins are just ways of ensuring that someone is eating at a calorie deficit.

    The only thing that works is eating at a calorie deficit; if you find Atkins helps you achieve that or any other diet, then go for it. But at the end of the day, none of them have a 'magic formula' (like they would have you believe) for weight loss. It's alllllllll CICO.
  • Mistapholeezkat
    Mistapholeezkat Posts: 80 Member
    Thank you, I kind of knew this but needed to be reminded!
  • EmmaFitzwilliam
    EmmaFitzwilliam Posts: 482 Member
    Personally, I wouldn't bother. I think (this is my opinion, not a statement of fact or a prediction) a restrictive diet to kick the last few pounds is more likely to do more harm than good. Weight loss and maintenance are not about reaching number "x", but about *maintaining* (your preferred metric here).

    I believe (again, my opinion) that one of the reasons we have (culturally) such an issue with yo-yo dieting is we all live our lives, decide our weight is an issue, adopt extreme dietary measures to reach a goal, then go back to exactly what we were doing before.

    Adopting a restrictive plan has (as a thought experiment logical consequence) potential to set you up to over-indulge on foods you have restricted.

    Are you willing to stay on Atkins/South Beach/other plan *for the rest of your life*?
    Have you thought about how you will *maintain* your weight once you reach your goal?

    And is losing another 10 pounds the right goal for you? (Only you can answer that, with whatever informed input you choose to solicit/accept.)

  • NoIdea101NoIdea
    NoIdea101NoIdea Posts: 659 Member
    Mistapholeezkat wrote: »
    Thank you, I kind of knew this but needed to be reminded!

    Yeah, I think we all hope that one day they will discover that pill or shake...but i'm sure if they did we would hear more about it :p
  • KittensMaster
    KittensMaster Posts: 748 Member
    I'm at the last 10 or so pounds

    It feels better to me to eat at maintenance and exercise it off

    After almost two years of diet and exercise, I can now do enough to burn off a pound or so a week.

    I just few better burning it off for a change.

    I have been on moderate carb the whole time and it is my normal way of eating now.

    I can't imagine doing one thing and then changing it all up at the end.

    But at the end of the day.... Whatever it takes to get you to home plate!
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    KittensMaster wrote: »
    I'm at the last 10 or so pounds

    It feels better to me to eat at maintenance and exercise it off!
    If you're eating at maintenance then you can't, by definition, exercise it off.

  • pug11
    pug11 Posts: 23 Member
    NoIdea101NoIdea wrote: »
    All diets such as the Atkins are just ways of ensuring that someone is eating at a calorie deficit.

    The only thing that works is eating at a calorie deficit; if you find Atkins helps you achieve that or any other diet, then go for it. But at the end of the day, none of them have a 'magic formula' (like they would have you believe) for weight loss. It's alllllllll CICO.

    This above...
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