Low Carb Eating

PaleoPath4Lyfe

There is truth in calories in and calories out, but most people do not take into account the inefficency of burning ketones vs glucose. Ketobodies have fewer available calories by weight than fat, so it takes more to yield the same number of burnable calories. That is why low carb dieting is so fast. Often faster than fasting, which your body will go after muscle tissue first.

Too bad low carb/keto diets have no metabolic advantage. Any initial faster weight loss vs a mixed diet is water weight, and studies have shown greater fat loss on a mixed diet vs low carb diet holding calories constant

Wow, I guess I had more than 100 pounds of water weight and no fat weight when I lost 100 pounds on Atkins in 2003.

And I can eat the same amount of calories on a Standard eating plan and gain weight where as with low carb I lose weight.

Explain that?

I was just wondering if you had trouble staying on Atkins or do you still do it? Have you kept the weight off? It would benefit a lot of people who are trying to lose with this method. I have had success with lower healthy carbs. but not no carb. I just couldn't do it. Thanks.:flowerforyou:

No, I had no problems staying on Atkins. Atkins isn't a NO carb plan. It is a controlled carb plan that starts out as an elimination plan. As you move along the phases you add in higher carb veggies, then berries, then other fruits, nuts and seeds, dairy, starchier vegetables and grains. Then you are set to maintain your weight loss and you know how much of each food you can have and how your body reacts to different foods.

I kept the weight loss off for 5 years and then was involved in a near fatal car accident and gained weight from eating hospital food, steroids and then rehab and depression.........

I have now transitioned over to a more Paleo approach so there will be no more grains for me and now I only consume raw dairy products too.