Water weight after returning to moderate carb level ?

icrushit

Not sure if this is the right forum of perhaps the weight maintenance forum. In any event, I'm wondering what are the experiences of those who have lost weight using a low carb programme, with regard to regaining water weight when they increased their carbs again ?

For example, currently I'm eating about 50g net carbs, but I only intend to maintain this level until I lose the weight I wish to. Once I lose that weight, I plan to return to a moderate carb intake, and somewhere around the 150g mark, but wonder what sort of level of water weight I may find myself regaining, as my body replenishes my glycogen stores and thus begins to retain a little more water when I return to eating more carbs. Any personal experiences or feedback welcome

Should it prove relevant, I've been sticking to a low carb regime for almost 6 weeks, and started out at a moderate level of carbs (120- 150g), and reduced that down to about 50g net carbs within the first 2.5 weeks. SInce then I've pretty much maintained my carbs at that level, and with another 20lbs or so to go, I see myself remaining eating this way until I lose these remaining pounds, so probably for at least another 4 months or so.

So basically I'm wondering when I return to a moderate carb intake (150g, give or take), after keeping my carbs down around the 50g mark for at least 6 months, can I expect to regain much weight due to increased water, or shall my body have partially recovered some of its glycogen stores and thus water in the meantime, so the regained level of water may not be as great as that which I lost in the first couple of weeks of low carbing ?

Thanks in advance for any help/ insights

Oh, my original carb intake before any low carbing would have been around the 300g mark or probably more, basically in line with a typical higher carb diet, with no particularly high levels of sodium in my diet.

icrushit

Answering my own post here..

I've returned to a moderate carb intake, in the last 5/6 weeks or so, going from about 50g of net carbs to about 150g. I've done it slowly, and have not really noticed any appreciable weigh gain, something I had been worried about.

Anyway, perhaps this might be useful to anyone else pondering the same.

I will continue to monitor things, and see how it goes, as I envisage seeing my carbs continuing to rise steadily until I find my happy medium

pkw58

Hey, just saw your update. I just keep my carb macro in line, within my calorie goal. I am have been maintaining within my goal range for over two years that way.