what to do if one is not losing weight on a low carb diet?
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Many people's diets on here lack a full nutrient profile. But no matter WHAT she chooses to do, it's gonna be hard to get all the nutrients without a lot of vegetables. Granted, she doesn't say she won't eat them...just that she wants them cooked.
It would seem to me if you don't like vegetables...low carb is going to be a challenge.I can understand your frustration. I have been on a low carb diet for a little over a month now. My calories for wt loss of about 1 1/2 lbs per week is 1200 cal. I am having difficulty getting to 1000 cal/day, since I don;t like vegetables unless they are cooked. I'm also getting very tired of chicken. Fruits have so many carbs that they have to be limitted.
not to mention unhealthy. 1000 cals of dry chicken and no fruits or veggies sounds like a bad idea to me. any method chosen has to be rounded out so that a person gets exposed to a full nutrient profile, and this is sounding deficient.0 -
Look at me! I am telling you LOW CARB DOES NOT WORK! I've been doing it for several years. Poor me, I have lost all my muscle due to all that fat and diet sodas I drank. I was so week from not having carbs I could only work out with weights for an hour followed by 30 minutes of cardio. I was starving myself on 2000 to 2500 calories a day!
God I love Sarcasm! LOL
Wut?0 -
Look at me! I am telling you LOW CARB DOES NOT WORK! I've been doing it for several years. Poor me, I have lost all my muscle due to all that fat and diet sodas I drank. I was so week from not having carbs I could only work out with weights for an hour followed by 30 minutes of cardio. I was starving myself on 2000 to 2500 calories a day!
God I love Sarcasm! LOL
Look at you. You suffered so. Poor thing. Could hardly move to work-out and starving all the time...
:laugh:
Sarcasm aside, THAT is the way it's done. Congrats on the hard work.0 -
seems pretty simple-change things up0
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Last I looked Atkins wasn't just "meat and cheese".I lost about 30 lbs (really FAST) on Atkins when I was in my 20's. It was because the diet was so restrictive, and I got so sick of meat/cheese, that I essentially just stopped eating. I believe I uttered these exact words before dropping the diet: "I would rather starve to death than eat one more bunless burger".
"Diets" are so much fun. :indifferent:
Yep. It's lots of different veggies, too. Then you get to add more stuff after 2 weeks. It has several rungs. You can add beans and nuts later. To your meat and cheese and other veggies you are already supposed to be eating.
http://www.atkins.com/Program/Phase-1/What-You-Can-Eat-in-this-Phase.aspx
Which is a list of all you can eat in the first phase. You can click around to find out all the other things in the other Phases.
Too restrictive for me (been there and dropped that), but I have friends on it and doing great.0 -
Look at me! I am telling you LOW CARB DOES NOT WORK! I've been doing it for several years. Poor me, I have lost all my muscle due to all that fat and diet sodas I drank. I was so week from not having carbs I could only work out with weights for an hour followed by 30 minutes of cardio. I was starving myself on 2000 to 2500 calories a day!
God I love Sarcasm! LOL
Look at you. You suffered so. Poor thing. Could hardly move to work-out and starving all the time...
:laugh:
Sarcasm aside, THAT is the way it's done. Congrats on the hard work.
I agree, his calorie deficit eating plan worked extremely well0 -
Seriously...ignore button significantly shortens the thread & argumentative posters are banished to the naughty corner :laugh:
pfft...pissing contest -___-0 -
You need to find out what works for you. While you need to eat a deficit to lost weight, it's not a guarantee that you'll lose weight. There could be a food group that screws it all up. You might need to go gluten-free, reduce sugars, eat whole/natural foods, try paleo, go vegetarian, etc.. Everybody's different.
I've found that I can try anything for a week. "It's only a week." I'm doing without sugars and sweeteners this week, and so far so good.0 -
Not only does modern science show that artificial sweeteners are difficult for your body to interpret, but they also have been linked to cravings for refined carbohydrates and MSG. MSG, you know, what they use to fatten up mice so that they can experiment on them. My pre-medical studies incline me toward agreement with the vast majority of the above statements.
references:
http://www.medicalcorps.org/fat-rat.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/0 -
When your doing a low carb diet correctly. The calories don't work the same. Low carb usually get me more fat loss and helps me keep muscle. I add exercise to help me get the fat burning. When I'm in ketosis I can tell.0
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Seriously...ignore button significantly shortens the thread & argumentative posters are banished to the naughty corner :laugh:
pfft...pissing contest -___-
Already done. :bigsmile: Def feeling lighter.0 -
Seriously...ignore button significantly shortens the thread & argumentative posters are banished to the naughty corner :laugh:
pfft...pissing contest -___-
Already done. :bigsmile: Def feeling lighter.
I know right?
When I got done, had to add a couple more.
Poor poor horsie :brokenheart:0 -
When I look here:
Last I looked Atkins wasn't just "meat and cheese".I lost about 30 lbs (really FAST) on Atkins when I was in my 20's. It was because the diet was so restrictive, and I got so sick of meat/cheese, that I essentially just stopped eating. I believe I uttered these exact words before dropping the diet: "I would rather starve to death than eat one more bunless burger".
"Diets" are so much fun. :indifferent:
Yep. It's lots of different veggies, too. Then you get to add more stuff after 2 weeks. It has several rungs. You can add beans and nuts later. To your meat and cheese and other veggies you are already supposed to be eating.
http://www.atkins.com/Program/Phase-1/What-You-Can-Eat-in-this-Phase.aspx
Which is a list of all you can eat in the first phase. You can click around to find out all the other things in the other Phases.
Too restrictive for me (been there and dropped that), but I have friends on it and doing great.
http://www.atkins.com/Program/Overview.aspx
Vegetables is the first thing they say to eat.0 -
Seriously...ignore button significantly shortens the thread & argumentative posters are banished to the naughty corner :laugh:
pfft...pissing contest -___-
Already done. :bigsmile: Def feeling lighter.
I know right?
When I got done, had to add a couple more.
Poor poor horsie :brokenheart:
How many more off-topic posts should I expect from you two...
...bragging about how you de-cluttered the thread with the ignore feature?
Because I love hypocrisy.0 -
what happened here?0
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what happened here?
Just one of the many "features" I'll miss when MFP changes forum platforms.0 -
That was strange. I can only see my own reply. Same for you guys?0
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I can see my replies and now these wtf replies - Oh MFP, never change :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:0
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That's clearly because the thread got on a low carb diet and lost all the extra fat.0
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That's clearly because the thread got on a low carb diet and lost all the extra fat.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:0
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