Reintroducing Food

hartk001

Hi, I've been doing LCHF now for about 10 weeks and I haven't really paid that much attention to what the figures meant I just weighed and logged everything!

Now, however, that I'm reaching my goal I'd like to reinterduce some of the things I've missed. On this occasion strawberries as it is local strawberry season here

I set a goal of 1450 calories a day with (percent) Carbs 10, Protein 20 and Fat 70. Gram wise that's 36, 73, and 113. I should say that on most days I don't reach those figures; I'm using MyFitnessPal in conjunction with Fitbit Charge HR

On those figures could you give me an idea of how many strawberries I might have per day or alternatively how many apples a day. Apples seem to be very high in carbs

Any advice or links you can offer would be greatly welcomed

kommodevaran

You will have to use your food diary and tweak the amounts of foods to fit whatever goals you think are best for you at this moment. That said, a lot of different setups can be equally good. Variety is also generally good.

hartk001

Agree variety is generally good

No matter what diet you try: low carb, high carb, 5:2 diet, it seems that there does come a time when weight loss stops and sometimes reverses slightly. Now I know that is just a temporary situation which may last for a week, or may last for a month, but eventually will start again

I'm curious though. Is there any body of opinion out there that suggests that if you switch from say LCHF diet to say a standard calorie controlled diet that you can kick start the body into loosing weight again

Just curious

Kevin

kommodevaran

Weight loss naturally slows down as you get lighter and your body needs less fuel. You will have smaller fat stores, and your body can only metabolize a certain percentage of your fat deposits per day. But the loss doesn't stop unless you stop having a calorie deficit. It can seem like your progress stalls or even reverses, because the fat loss gets so slow that normal day to day water weight fluctuations are bigger than the amount of fat you can lose in the course of a week or two. If your weight loss stops because you are eating at maintenance, it will not resolve itself, and you can't kick start it in any way - you will have to tighten up your logging and maybe adjust your calorie goal in order to still have a deficit.