Low carb diet

psuLemon

jqueme5 wrote: »

My nutritionist advised me to raise net carbs one day a week in order to avoid metabolism stalling. For instance adding 1 starchy veggie or small portion of a favorite dessert. Try it. It works.

That is not how the refeed science works. It's more than just increasing carbs one day. It's multiple consecutive days, along with, eating at maintenance. But one should also be consuming adequate protein (1.5-2.2g/kg) daily and doing some sort of resistance training.

perez5628

Heatherann78 wrote: »

And as for not feeling full, from what I've recently read, a person should up their daily cals enough to just feel content, but not too full. If after eating and you never really feel content throughout the day, it prob means your eating too little calories. Just add in a little more cals til you hit that sweet spot cal range where you do feel satisfied!

That might help my situation as well. I'm eating a lot of veggies for snacking during the day and salads for lunch, I'll add some protein throughout the day maybe that will Help.

perez5628

altairego21 wrote: »

so by limiting your carbs to about 50 g while eating 1300 calories you lost weight?

No I lost weight by going to a 1200 calories and the low carb is now my health goal

TeaBea

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

altairego21 wrote: »

so by limiting your carbs to about 50 g while eating 1300 calories you lost weight?

By limiting to 1300 cals they lost weight.

or this..........................

By limiting to calories to anything less than maintenance they lost weight

AtLeastOnceMore

Hey mate. I've been keto for the last 3 months - I've been on calorie restricted diets, high protein, low fat, the whole gamut... what works for my body composition is keto (11kg or 24lbs in 13 weeks). That's not to say that it works for everyone and I know people who lose purely using CICO, but that's not the case for me. Every month or so, I have a pre-arranged high carb day - mostly because my friendship group does High Tea as our catch up's and I'm not not going to those. I don't worry about it, but I go straight back onto keto and monitor more closely for the 3-4 days after. If it doesn't work for you, that's fine - keep searching until you find what does. And don't get discouraged by people whose bodies do follow the simple CICO rules and who make out like it should be that simple for everyone. Sometimes, it's not, and that's OK. You'll find what works.