Any success on zero - lowcarb dies aka atkins diet

shippoaven

I hear this is really good for rapid and shortterm fat lost, anyone out there tried a lowcarb diet? if you how'd it work out for you? where you always hungry?

ljhall8

I am doing a low carb but not that low carb and for me over the course of 19 months I have lost 130 lbs so yes I am trying to stay under 100 grams of carbs and I am never hungry

lLionMindl

I hear this is really good for rapid and shortterm fat lost, anyone out there tried a lowcarb diet? if you how'd it work out for you? where you always hungry?

you used the keyword yourself.. short term
healthy lifestyle is a marathon not a sprint.

Do yourself a favor & Google+Youtube : If it fits your macros

watch Marc Lobliner on youtube.

TamaraKat

I hear this is really good for rapid and shortterm fat lost, anyone out there tried a lowcarb diet? if you how'd it work out for you? where you always hungry?

you used the keyword yourself.. short term
healthy lifestyle is a marathon not a sprint.

Do yourself a favor & Google+Youtube : If it fits your macros

watch Marc Lobliner on youtube.

Agreed; these things are bets done over long periods, not short!

Francl27

Low carb will only work long term if you're willing to eat low carb all your life.

abbieleighton

High protien/low carb is a good way to loose weight and maintain weightloss, but it isn't a short term quick fix and if you resort back to a high carb diet the weight will rappidly be put on. It is more a lifestyle choice than a diet, one I swear by.

hmg90

I'm doing low carb now and feel good about it. I feel more full and that I can stay within 1300 will less effort. I don't do NO carbs, but I've cut out pasta, bread and potatoes. I want to make it a lifestyle and alternatively just have those things in very small portions.

SailorKnightWing

Reducing carbs is one of the easiest ways to reduce your calorie intake just because they're often the most calorie-dense portion of your meal. There's really no property to them that makes them better to cut out other than that. I lost my 25lbs by not eating rice or potatoes with dinner, but still eating cereal and sandwiches for breakfast and lunch.

alyhuggan

Cutting out carbs usually just aids weight loss by dropping a few pounds of water weight and making it harder to get calories in. After the water weight has dropped you will be losing the same amount of fat as you could with normal carbs.

tigersword

I hear this is really good for rapid and shortterm fat lost, anyone out there tried a lowcarb diet? if you how'd it work out for you? where you always hungry?

No, it's good for rapid short term water weight loss, not fat loss. Fat loss it's no faster than any other method.

mamma_nee

Worked fine for me

jimmmer

I was alarmed by the "dies" in the thread title.

But as other have said, there's no real rapid fat loss (without water, glycogen, bone density and muscle losses). Any honestly stated crash diet will say up front how much non-fatty tissue your weight loss will be composed of.

Slow and steady, dude. Slow and steady.

You'll look better in the end.

Stripeness

Yep. I did a medically supervised ketogenic diet with only 25-30g of carb per day. I went from all-time HW of 236 to 215. And I felt great - plenty of energy, and not hungry (although I did get sick of chicken & deli turkey!).

That said, I had co-workers on the same diet who had a rough start - low energy, brain fogging, etc. There's a big YMMV factor, for sure.

I did go from 215 to 223 when I went off that diet. And as you can see, I've dropped that weight and a bit more with MFP (that 10 lbs has been in the last 30 days, btw).

Why stop the low-carb thing? It was really helpful for dropping a nice initial chunk of weight. My lifting and body comp did not suffer, and I lift heavy. Also, it recalibrated my palate so that veggies are more appealing.

Yet, it was really restrictive, and I feel a more balanced approach is the right path for me long-term. I'm not sure *exactly* what the best macro ratio is for me, so I'm not gonna get preachy at anyone else. But for me, ketosis or near-ketosis is not the lifestyle of choice.

Good luck, and best wishes for your success!

bumblebreezy91

Low carb will only work long term if you're willing to eat low carb all your life.

^this.

Also, you need carbs. You just don't need AS MANY carbs as you're used to. I monitor my carbs, but I focus on my calories more (calories in, calories out is really what matters), and if I go over, it's not the end of the world. I like apples. I eat them everyday. They put me over in carbs like you wouldn't believe.

danimalkeys

It's not a "rapid" weight loss program. You lose some water weight right off the bat, in the 1st couple weeks, after that it's slow and steady. I've been doing it since the beginning of August and I'm down about 24lbs. I wouldn't say that's fast, about a pound a week average. Usually I'll drop half a pound a week and then once in a while, like this week, I'm 2lbs down.

I agree with those who say it's more of a lifestyle change. For me it's easy to eat this way. I target 50 net carbs a day. I can eat a lot of vegetables with 50 net carbs. Remember that net carbs is the total carb count subtracting the fiber count, so depending on the vegetable, I could be eating 100 or more total carbs in a day.

I have a huge salad almost every day for lunch and will have a giant portion (12 to 16 ounces) of something like broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, snap peas, green beans, pretty much anything like that, with dinner. People who think you are totally eliminating foods are wrong, you just moderate them. Just like people who do a low fat approach moderate their fat intake, it's not cut out completely, it's just tracked closely. I avoid certain foods like bread, pasta, white rice, potatoes for the most part, but I will have a portion of them now and then. There are plenty of other good foods to eat that I don't miss any of that stuff.

jimmmer

I avoid certain foods like bread, pasta, white rice, potatoes for the most part, but I will have a portion of them now and then. There are plenty of other good foods to eat that I don't miss any of that stuff.

Wow, I salute your fortitude! I don't think I could live without any of those things...

well, probably I would adjust eventually sometime after I'd modified my eating behaviour, but it would be a hard grind getting there.

ladymiseryali

The first 5-10 lbs lost on a low carb plan is water weight. I've been doing low carb since July. Before the holidays, I was down 30 lbs, but because I went off keto for xmas eve/day and New Years Eve, I gained 8 lbs and am struggling to lose those again. But yea, I feel better on this eating lifestyle and I finally saw results. I plan to eat pretty much like this for the rest of my life, but once in maintenance, I will more than likely up my carbs a little bit so it's more sustainable.

amy1612

Low carb will only work long term if you're willing to eat low carb all your life.

^this.

Also, you need carbs. You just don't need AS MANY carbs as you're used to. I monitor my carbs, but I focus on my calories more (calories in, calories out is really what matters), and if I go over, it's not the end of the world. I like apples. I eat them everyday. They put me over in carbs like you wouldn't believe.

How many apples do you eat?!

danimalkeys

Low carb will only work long term if you're willing to eat low carb all your life.

^this.

Also, you need carbs. You just don't need AS MANY carbs as you're used to. I monitor my carbs, but I focus on my calories more (calories in, calories out is really what matters), and if I go over, it's not the end of the world. I like apples. I eat them everyday. They put me over in carbs like you wouldn't believe.

How many apples do you eat?!

seriously! 1 apple is maybe 15-17 net carbs. Easy to fit into your daily count if you only have 1.

danimalkeys

I avoid certain foods like bread, pasta, white rice, potatoes for the most part, but I will have a portion of them now and then. There are plenty of other good foods to eat that I don't miss any of that stuff.

Wow, I salute your fortitude! I don't think I could live without any of those things...

well, probably I would adjust eventually sometime after I'd modified my eating behaviour, but it would be a hard grind getting there.

Pasta was probably the hardest, I love it and we'd eat it once a week. My problem was I couldn't eat one of those tiny portions, I'd eat half a box and then eat the rest the next day for lunch. Aside from the carbs, it's just giant calories. I still eat rice pretty regularly, as well as potatoes, but it's no longer the football sized baked potato, it's a smaller one. . I was never huge bread eater so I don't miss that.

jimmmer

Pasta was probably the hardest, I love it and we'd eat it once a week. My problem was I couldn't eat one of those tiny portions, I'd eat half a box and then eat the rest the next day for lunch. Aside from the carbs, it's just giant calories. I still eat rice pretty regularly, as well as potatoes, but it's no longer the football sized baked potato, it's a smaller one. . I was never huge bread eater so I don't miss that.

Yeah, pasta would be a tough ask - we have it at least once/sometimes twice a week. I have a sandwich for lunch everyday - so that would suck without the bread! Practically all native UK and Irish food seems like it's potato-based...

I'm not so bad on the whole portion-control aspect of it (I weigh dry-weight pasta and rice before I cook it) so that's not such an issue for me.

Apart from the whole adherence-thing (as in I don't think I would), I worry that I wouldn't cope with the demands of training sans carbs.

danimalkeys

Pasta was probably the hardest, I love it and we'd eat it once a week. My problem was I couldn't eat one of those tiny portions, I'd eat half a box and then eat the rest the next day for lunch. Aside from the carbs, it's just giant calories. I still eat rice pretty regularly, as well as potatoes, but it's no longer the football sized baked potato, it's a smaller one. . I was never huge bread eater so I don't miss that.

Yeah, pasta would be a tough ask - we have it at least once/sometimes twice a week. I have a sandwich for lunch everyday - so that would suck without the bread! Practically all native UK and Irish food seems like it's potato-based...

I'm not so bad on the whole portion-control aspect of it (I weigh dry-weight pasta and rice before I cook it) so that's not such an issue for me.

Apart from the whole adherence-thing (as in I don't think I would), I worry that I wouldn't cope with the demands of training sans carbs.

Once you get past the 1st couple weeks, it's really no different. My cardio hasn't been affected in the slightest. My lifts are affected more by my weight loss than anything. Weights I could get 5 reps of at 230lbs I'm getting 3 reps of now, but I expect that, when I was powerlifting at 260lbs if I lost 10lbs the 1st thing result was my bench went down, so I always tried to keep my weight up to maximize my lifts.

Since strength is now a secondary goal, I'm not worried about it. Pound for pound I'm probably just as strong as I was at 230. If I could bench bodyweight for 8 reps before and now I bench bodyweight for 10, I'm still doing ok.

SingingSingleTracker

I hear this is really good for rapid and shortterm fat lost, anyone out there tried a lowcarb diet? if you how'd it work out for you? where you always hungry?

Yes. I had been living overseas for a decade and moved back to the states in 2003. I wasn't walking as much due to the need for a car, my job was more sedentary and the food in the states all contributed to additional weight gain. I did the Atkins diet (version 2003) at the time and dropped 32 pounds which took the better part of 6-9 months for me. No, I was not always hungry during that 6-9 month period. In fact, I was quite full and satisfied.

I have maintained my weight this entire decade with usual weight gain during hibernation/holiday season of 5 - 9 pounds, which I then shed from January to June due to my exericse (cycling). I've read a lot on low and lower carb eating and pretty much avoid certain things, but do eat just about everything in moderation. This combined with a dedicated exercise/training plan has helped me stay at the weight I shed through the Atkins diet. It's only during the initial ketosis that carbs were avoided. The rest of Atkins does include carbs, but at a lower quantity. No idea what the Atkins Diet is today (a decade later), but their website had a modified Atkins approach for athletes back in 2004 that I followed (a bit more carbs than those not exercising as much as an athlete was).

I'm way late to the Smart Phone revolution, but finally traded up from my old flip phone to an iPhone in December and downloaded the MyFitnessPal App which I started to use on December 22nd. I've dropped 5 pounds since then using the App and being aware which has helped me get an early start on trimming some of the holiday/winter hibernation weight gain I typically experience.

Best of luck with your goals. Low or lower carb eating is a great way to go. I love one of the new Doctor gurus on Doc Oz who claims carbs are a source of most of our health issues. Lower carbs, and higher fats are what he was preaching and studies show a reduction in Alzheimer's and ADHD to boot.