Sugar/carb detoxing? How long does it take

Sobus76

My advice, stay away from those diets unless you plan on doing it the rest of your life. the heaviest i was when i did the Atkins diet and stopped, i put on all the weight i lost plus 15 lbs. Now i just count calories on myfitnesspal and try to keep my macros at least close to where they should be.

Positivelement

I agree with you ... I was over weight weighing 174 hardly are at all
Would go all day and snack then eat one good meal at night
This went on for years I didn't understand why I was over weight...I didn't eat alot
Then I started eating 10 oz of protein 2 fruits and two veggies and a gallon or more of water a day... In three months I went down to 134. Yippy so happy I was eating more that I had every done in my adult life lol...after reaching my comfortable weight I increase my protein in take to 15 oz three fruits and three veggies and would each breads and what I would call junk food(pizza, bagels, pb&j )on weekends! Then after three years of keeping this up , we move from fl to nj and were hit by a hurricane, ended up living with strangers for 6 months (nice ones) lol til we could get a house... During all of this I stopped eating this way. I was eating what their family's as eating. Not bad stuff and not even a lot of it, just not the right stuff, I felt the weight going on instantly and felt horrible all the time...it wasn't until I had been in my home for 1 year that I was able to think straight and think what am I doing I feel sick and look horrible.. Just eat the way I did before... So I started back my 10oz of protein and 2fruit 2veggie and gallon of water... Was
170 2 months in at 150:) feel good... my way of life forever, not a diet

dmenchac

I will never understand why people feel the need to restrict what they put in their body.

I eat anything I want ranging from fast food to kale.

Its all about calories in and calories out to lose weight, nothing else.

I gaurentee you I have been happier than you will be on your "diet."

I guess you plan to eat like this for the rest of your life.

But hey, whatever works for you, works for you.



Good luck!

dmenchac

Crap got sucked into a 2 year old thread

ivylawsonfischer

Don't listen to all these negative Nancy's. Do what works for u. There are pros and cons to it all. To get back to ur original question, I've been on a no carb or sugars detox for 13days now... I'm finally not craving the junk. I've read 3 to 14 days is to be expected. Good luck with ur weight loss... I'm on lb -29 myself!

trogalicious

Don't listen to all these negative Nancy's. Do what works for u. There are pros and cons to it all. To get back to ur original question, I've been on a no carb or sugars detox for 13days now... I'm finally not craving the junk. I've read 3 to 14 days is to be expected. Good luck with ur weight loss... I'm on lb -29 myself!

yeah, all those negative nancies that have never lost any weight but try to help folks out.

... not that accurately counting calories has worked for me. at all.

Strong first post, by the way.

JoeCampbell85

Crap got sucked into a 2 year old thread

This made me laugh.

russ1106

Actually sugar is the enemy, as the daily intake recommended is 4-6grams. Most people don't realize this and most doctor's either don';t know this or will not tell you this. I have personally seen diabetics reverse by cutting out all this processed sugar crap. Remember fat free = added sugar, low calories = added sugar. They might change the name around to dextrose, sucrose, ect but it still is sugar. Your body will go through a withdrawal of about a week, it can be tough for some. But once you are through that your body will start doing what it was meant to be doing all along. Using the stored fat as energy. Even those so called diet meals that are in the frozen section are no good for you. Healthy Choice, Weight Watchers Smart Ones, etc, etc. You may lose the weight, but the yo yo effect is horrible and a large percentage of people put back on the weight. Our bodies are not meant to deal with all this processed junk we put it in, and yes folks. Over 80% of the food in your grocery store has added sugar. Kids are introduced to sugar as early as birth, look at some of the formulas. Then we wonder why our kids are more obese. Michelle Obama even started the movement until she wwas shut down by the big food lobbys. Now she tones it down and back and even goes as far as saying these companies are not bad. All those zero calorie sodas, really? You think they are good for you? I am not perfect and I can only talk to what I am going through now and the changes I have noticed. You can listen to your doctor, in fact you should, but make sure your doctor is not taking vacations on drug company dimes. Some of them do that you know. Make sure your doctor truly understands how sugar works on your body and what happens when you have too much (over the 4-6grams). Ever look at one of those weight watcher meals, or nutri-system meals? You are already 3-4x over your sugar in one sitting, and your body can not use all that. So why you think you are losing weight, your pancreas is making the insulin to pass to your liver, so your liver can pass that sugar off right as fat. Anyhow, call it hooklah or boogy woogy magic, or false diet, or whatever you want. But I can only attest to what is working for me. And if it can work for me, it most likely can work for someone else. Just need to get past that sugar withdrawal and not weigh yourself every day. Oh BTW, you can eat carbs, just not the starchy processed carbs. Atkins almost had it right, but if you cut carbs out all together you are damaging your body also. Just get rid of the startchy / carbs. And FAT. Do some research, Fat FREE is worse for you than the product with the fat in it. And the lower calories crap only reduces by 10 calories or so, did you know they can error by a percentage and get away with it? The main fats you need to stay away from are Trans-Fats. But do not switch out a product because it says fat free, look at the sugar in it. That sugar is making it worse for you to lose weight.

northbanu

kgeyser

Well folks, it's been nice knowing you. That apple I just ate had more than 6g of sugar, so I'm a goner. I leave all my gifs to my FL. As I cross over to another plane of existence, I ask you not to mourn me with heavy hearts, but to continue on in your journeys and to raise your gelato briefly to the heavens in my memory.

montanem

Actually sugar is the enemy, as the daily intake recommended is 4-6grams. Most people don't realize this and most doctor's either don';t know this or will not tell you this. I have personally seen diabetics reverse by cutting out all this processed sugar crap. Remember fat free = added sugar, low calories = added sugar. They might change the name around to dextrose, sucrose, ect but it still is sugar. Your body will go through a withdrawal of about a week, it can be tough for some. But once you are through that your body will start doing what it was meant to be doing all along. Using the stored fat as energy. Even those so called diet meals that are in the frozen section are no good for you. Healthy Choice, Weight Watchers Smart Ones, etc, etc. You may lose the weight, but the yo yo effect is horrible and a large percentage of people put back on the weight. Our bodies are not meant to deal with all this processed junk we put it in, and yes folks. Over 80% of the food in your grocery store has added sugar. Kids are introduced to sugar as early as birth, look at some of the formulas. Then we wonder why our kids are more obese. Michelle Obama even started the movement until she wwas shut down by the big food lobbys. Now she tones it down and back and even goes as far as saying these companies are not bad. All those zero calorie sodas, really? You think they are good for you? I am not perfect and I can only talk to what I am going through now and the changes I have noticed. You can listen to your doctor, in fact you should, but make sure your doctor is not taking vacations on drug company dimes. Some of them do that you know. Make sure your doctor truly understands how sugar works on your body and what happens when you have too much (over the 4-6grams). Ever look at one of those weight watcher meals, or nutri-system meals? You are already 3-4x over your sugar in one sitting, and your body can not use all that. So why you think you are losing weight, your pancreas is making the insulin to pass to your liver, so your liver can pass that sugar off right as fat. Anyhow, call it hooklah or boogy woogy magic, or false diet, or whatever you want. But I can only attest to what is working for me. And if it can work for me, it most likely can work for someone else. Just need to get past that sugar withdrawal and not weigh yourself every day. Oh BTW, you can eat carbs, just not the starchy processed carbs. Atkins almost had it right, but if you cut carbs out all together you are damaging your body also. Just get rid of the startchy / carbs. And FAT. Do some research, Fat FREE is worse for you than the product with the fat in it. And the lower calories crap only reduces by 10 calories or so, did you know they can error by a percentage and get away with it? The main fats you need to stay away from are Trans-Fats. But do not switch out a product because it says fat free, look at the sugar in it. That sugar is making it worse for you to lose weight.

Did you watch Fed Up before you posted this? Lol its not a judgement, just an observation.