so glad I'm not her!

T0RIEELIZABETH

my roommate is on a low carb diet. shes eating 6 small meals a day, but can only have 40 carbs a day. basically all she eats is eggs and salad! yesterday she was complaining about being forgetful and tired. i was like, umm because your not eating anything of substane and your sugar is probably low because you are not getting any!

why do people do that to themselves?

NikkiJ17

They're are looking for a quick fix not a lifestyle change. Been there, done that, didn't work, now I'm here.

shirley_1984

I wonder that same thing ALL the time... I'm trying to tell myself I don't have to be hungry to be thin... and guess what... I'm NOT!!!!!
I am trying a structured meal plan and it keeps me satisfied all day and even when I wake up I am not starving for food.... It's great and I recommend it to EVERYONE!!!

So_Um_Yeah

Oh my gosh I can't even imagine :noway: ! I'm on a carb focused diet too, but I can have fourty-five each meal and fifteen for two snacks a day and its plenty hard! I hope your roommate is doing something that was suggested by a doctor, because that sounds SO unhealthy to be something to just decide to do on your own.

French140

Me too! I've done it before and lost 60lbs! It definitely works! But it's not a lifestyle change. Normal people don't eat like that daily. I'll leave that one to the superstars who want to drop a few before the Oscars or something. LOL. It's not for people looking for long term weight loss. You gain it all right back. No more diets for me!

yanicka

i see it here, (hello eating 1000 cals and not eathing exercices cals.) and from peoples around me. They starve, then binge, then quit. we can try to educate them but really you can only live your own life. Hopefully as you get heathier and stronger, they will come to ask for your help.

akalei

I've BTDT too. All it did was make me lose 15 pounds in less than 2 weeks then stay the same and stay the same and stay the same. Then one weekend I ate pasta and bread and gained all my weight back +10 pounds.

scagneti

Me too! I've done it before and lost 60lbs! It definitely works! But it's not a lifestyle change. Normal people don't eat like that daily. I'll leave that one to the superstars who want to drop a few before the Oscars or something. LOL. It's not for people looking for long term weight loss. You gain it all right back. No more diets for me!

That is actually a great use for the diet (because it's clearly a DIET) -- to lose a bunch of weight in a short period of time for a special occasion. I lost a bunch of weight on it years and years ago and felt pretty good, but I was hungry all the time on it so I had to ignore constant hunger signals. I think something in my brain only gets satisfied with carbs.

If I'm a few pounds away from my goal at the beginning of June, I'd go on low carb again in a second just to get through the occasion.

T0RIEELIZABETH

I told her I bought some bananas, ya know, really healthy. and told her she could have some and she says, no I cant too many carbs. like she wont even eat stuff that is good for you! surely she is going to get a vitamin deficiency or something! I just hope I'm not the one that has to take her to the ER when she faints. ugh.

_Bro

That type of diet (really low carb cutting) works gets quick results but usually doesn't work in the long run...

I prefer to:
Consume good carbs when I need them so that they are not stored as fat(Before/After workout)
Take fish oil to increase my sensitivity to carbs
Make sure that I'm getting good complex carbs that will leave me feeling full and fueled!

FitJoani

They're are looking for a quick fix not a lifestyle change. Been there, done that, didn't work, now I'm here.

beat me to saying it. it has fast results..so therefore has appeal

mamagooskie

I just agree with you when you say I'm so glad I'm not her!

lyndsloo

Oh no! I can understand if she is trying to stay away from processed foods and white flour by eating less carbs, but to say no to a banana? Fruits and veggies are FILLED with fiber and actually help you feel fuller longer. That's sad!

T0RIEELIZABETH

Oh no! I can understand if she is trying to stay away from processed foods and white flour by eating less carbs, but to say no to a banana? Fruits and veggies are FILLED with fiber and actually help you feel fuller longer. That's sad!

thats kindof what I was thinking!

T0RIEELIZABETH

thats ok though, She can hate me tomorrow when she's watching me eat blueberry muffins for breakfast, and there WILL be leftovers. Gives me a little satisfaction knowing she will spend her day thinking about those muffines. lol, oooh that's mean.

shastacrystal

LOL at the blueberry muffin daydreaming. bwahahaha

elid

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chickadee2010

Above, people were saying this is a great way to loose weight for special occassions. Some people might be able to pull it off, but I definately wouldn't be able to live on salad and eggs for even a day. I have to have some chicken and some fruits and stuff or I will probably get cranky quickly. And not to mention, this :yawn: , oh and here's another smiley for this example :explode: .

sarahmckinley

so my boyfriend and I did this and had one cheat day per week with 60ish grams of carbs per day...i made it through the first week and i told him that if i didn't switch to something else that i was going to eat his face off. i'm pretty sure that he can run on minimal carb-age everyday without an issue, but i just can't handle it...makes me kind of moody and therefore...he's not so much a fan of me on the low carb diet, either!

Sparren

Carbohydrates are actually necessary for the brain to function.... you say that she's getting forgetful etc - she needs more carbs just to function. Seems a really restrictive eating regime, and may lose her some weight, but its also showing how important carbs are for brain activity....

like you said - glad I'm not her!

TaraMaria

Let me say this...I did it because I had PCOS and its supposed to be great for someone who is insulin resistant. When I was younger, it worked! I could stay lower on carbs and loose weight instantly. As I got older, gained a ton of weight and then wanted to loose it, I decided to try it again. But the big difference was I had a hysterectomy. I lost NOTHING. My body completely rebelled. And I felt miserable. Cravings, headaches, exhausted.

Eventually I gave up on the idea last summer and just ate carbs and counted calories. WELL! Fancy that, I lost weight! For me, my body changed. I could no longer follow the PCOS/Atkins diet and have success. I think all of our bodies have different needs. I know that if someone says to me "Tara, I have severe PCOS. I'm 80 pounds overweight and I'm not loosing weight counting calories." The first thing I would recommend is lowering your carbs. Maybe not to 40. But lowering them and cutting out sugar. But its a specific instance.

aceyfz

I agree with NikkiJ17.

Never say diet! ...BL. A lot of folks do not realize it is a change in lifestyle.

T0RIEELIZABETH

I definitely agree, I'm not on a diet, I'm changing my life. She, on the other hand, keeps calling it a diet.
I understand it as a quick fix, but she seems to act like it's long term.
I hope that she soon sees that she's just hurting herself, but it's not my place to tell her, I've known her for 5 months. I guess she saw a nutritionist a few years ago and thats what he or she toldher to do, but I think shes taking it a little drastically. theres a difference between being healthy and starving yourself. just last night she came back and said 'I havent felt hungry all day, but now I'm starving' so she made 'taco salad' basically a bowl of fritos, taco meat, a little lettuce, and cheese, and ate TWO BOWLS. She's already driving me nuts and it's day 2.
surely a person can't live on low carb tortillas and turkey, and lettuce and italian dressing for too long.

dancah18

OK so first off, WOW! That is crazy! I have to watch my carbs but not like that. She could get really sick from doing this so I hope that she is going to a nutritionist or doctor with this. If a professional recommended this diet I would strongly suggest that she go back and tell them she is feeling run down and then have them revise it! Good luck to her!

LuckyLeprechaun

my dad restricts carbs in this way so he can "diet" but keep on drinking. :ohwell: :noway: :frown:

Frappuzzino

That sounds like a horrible thing to do to your body. Your body NEEDS carbs to function, I could never imagine depriving my body like that! She should be eating 40 carbs every meal atleast, not 40 carbs a day.

Pattilynne

i used to work for one of those companies (i wont say which one) that sells vitamins, diet suppliments, protene and everything else you can think of, and there were so many people that would come in doing the Atkins diet that thought that they knew everything about it, and they were doing it entirely wrong, and you could tell with some of them with the lack of carb it totally affected thier brains.... when you have to pull out your driver's license to remember your address, one that you have lived at for a number of years, then you have taken it too far, as some of these people had done, and sounds like your roommate is doing too. there is a reason why you can't find any of those nasty atkins chips and everything else they used to offer, and that is because people have found out that carb free is not the smartest way to go. your body needs to have carbs for energy to run on, you just have to pick smart carbs, not just loading up on sugar, that's when you will crash....
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Lyadeia

my roommate is on a low carb diet. shes eating 6 small meals a day, but can only have 40 carbs a day. basically all she eats is eggs and salad! yesterday she was complaining about being forgetful and tired. i was like, umm because your not eating anything of substane and your sugar is probably low because you are not getting any!

why do people do that to themselves?

I do the low carb fad thing a few years ago. For about a month, maybe 2 months, I was losing weight so fast it was crazy! But, at the end of the month and a half or so that I was doing it, I forced myself to stop because I was tired...so tired that I didn't want to get out of bed! I couldn't hardly exercise at all. I was moody as crap. I was getting headaches constantly...

As I just said to someone else in another thread, losing weight is not worth losing health.

T0RIEELIZABETH

she is insane. and she's making her bofriend.. MAKING, him do it with her.

oh and she is sooo mad abut the muffins hahaha

believetoachieve

I think it's important not to judge others, their lifestyles, or their eating habits. The only thing worse than this is coming online and sharing it with the world. It's classless and distasteful. Now I'm not sure, but I don't think (at least I hope she doesn't) talk about your shortcomings behind your back. Different things work for different people - just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's wrong for everyone to. This is not a place to judge others!

It's important to develop a healthy body, but also a healthy mind. Be more accepting of others, even if you don't agree with what they do.

Just my two cents.