carbs and losing weight

marie111

Hi everyone just to see if anyone else has found this with there diet last week i lost weight and didnt eat a lot of carbs ie bread rice and so on not intentionally just worked out that way, this week gone back to work and have been having bread ie sandwiches and perhaps rice or potato and have not lost any weight infact looking at the scales this morning 1/2 lb on what does anyone think do i cut carbs out or does anyone no the bare minimum anyone needs in percent so i can change the settings. thanks marie

PBJunky

Hi everyone just to see if anyone else has found this with there diet last week i lost weight and didnt eat a lot of carbs ie bread rice and so on not intentionally just worked out that way, this week gone back to work and have been having bread ie sandwiches and perhaps rice or potato and have not lost any weight infact looking at the scales this morning 1/2 lb on what does anyone think do i cut carbs out or does anyone no the bare minimum anyone needs in percent so i can change the settings. thanks marie

Are you counting correctly? Doesn't seem like it cause carbs don't magically make you fat...anything in excess pushing you over your calories goals will result in weight gain

marie111

No been really good even give up the demon drink on my 2nd week drink free doing 8 weeks in total trying to dry out lol

PBJunky

No been really good even give up the demon drink on my 2nd week drink free doing 8 weeks in total trying to dry out lol

Going all cryptic on me with the demon drink and drying out...you referring to alcohol and going cold turkey?

Lyadeia

Carbs don't make you fat. Excess total calories do.

That said, people see success at first on low carb diets because of water loss. When they start eating more carbs again, it appears that they gained weight when it's most likely just water.

As long as you are under your maintenance amount of total calories, it doesn't matter if you eat nothing but carbs, you will still lose weight. Google the Twinkie Diet.

andy_gilfrin

I imagine what has happened is that with a lack of carbs mean you have eaten in to your glycogen stores, when you use up the glycogen the body sheds water also (I think the ratio is 1 glycogen to 3 water) so you see a bit drop in weight mainly from the water loss.

Once you build those glycogen reserves back up your body holds on to the water. Therefore you can see big shifts in weight in the short term.

marie111

definately sticking to my calories been a really good girl maybe just a blip will carry on and wait and see thanks guys

paulwgun

if your going down the low carb route drink a minimum of 2litres of water a day and up your protein as you need to flush your system

Scoobies87

I am exactly the same! since starting full time work I have gone from smoothies and omelettes to cereal and sarnies. I am bloated and appear to have gained a pound. I might start a thread for some low carb lunch ideas!