Carbs after keto

sadaf674

Hi everyone, for the people who have done keto and reached their goal weight (wooop well done btw!) have u been able to up your carbs and still maintained the weight? If so how much are u able to eat? Thank u

cmriverside

If you are switching from low-carb to a more normal macro split you WILL see a bump up on the scale. Probably 3-5 pounds...give it a week, then you can believe whatever the scale is saying is true.

Those last few pounds you can lose on a higher carb plan. You might even feel better.

mmapags

cmriverside wrote: »

If you are switching from low-carb to a more normal macro split you WILL see a bump up on the scale. Probably 3-5 pounds...give it a week, then you can believe whatever the scale is saying is true.

Those last few pounds you can lose on a higher carb plan. You might even feel better.

Just for clarity's sake, that bump will be because your body will store more water weight to hold the increase in glycogen from increasing carbs.

lgfrie

Indeed. I worked in an office where virtually everyone went low-carb at the same time like some sort of madness-of-crowds craze. Most of them lost a ton of weight fast, like 15 lbs in a month, and then gained much of it back as soon as they stopped doing low-carb a month or two later, which bummed everyone out hugely.

At the time, I didn't understand the carb-water retention thing, nor did anyone else in the office, so a kind of superstitious "cargo cult" mentality set in, wherein folks would go back to low-carb to curtail the weight gain and, voila, the weight would drop off again. Unfortunately, the cargo cult mindset, in which the Gods repeatedly prove that they really do favor you if you just do what the priests tell you to do, does apply to low carb diets. You WILL lose scale weight fast if you cut carbs, and you WILL gain scale weight back if you go back to carbs, but it's just water rebalancing, as @mmapags explains above. Since very, very, very, VERY few people will remain low-carb forever, due to the fact that carby food is great, that water rebalancing and scale increase is going to take place sooner or later, and therefore the artificially low scale numbers achieved on a low carb diet are best seen as temporary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

ninerbuff

Lol, when I used to compete and low carb for 12-16 weeks, after our mandatory cheat dinner after competition, it wasn't odd for me to gain an easy 10lbs-12lbs in one day. Of course the majority of that was water, but carbs need water to push glycogen into your cells.



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