Low Carb Dieters

Telleup

I have had great success with a low carb diet in the past, but it shot my cholesteral to a very bad point. I lost 20 pounds in two months and was able to keep it for for a year, but when I started eating carbs again I gained all of that weight back plus 10. So I am now trying to eat low fat, low calories and I will tell you it is not near as much fun. I have not figured this out quite yet, but am optimistic - I just hate being hungry.

My advice to you would be to follow the South Beach Diet as it contains many "good carb" ideas and it is what my cardiologist recommended I follow. Another idea if you are planning on doing low carb is to have your blood drawn prior to starting a low carb diet and then again in six months to see if you are affecting your body in a negative way.

zeller2468

essentailly ... withdrawal symptoms!

nancycaregiver

Hi,
You can friend me if you'd like. Check out my diaries. I have found an app that I absolutely love! It is call Spark Recipes I typed "low carb" in the search bar and it pulled up literally hundreds of low carb recipes. I save the ones I liked to favorites so I have dozens of things and the app is free! I'm on here everyday. Good luck!

djm81sp

There has to be a healthy balance. When I was on a low carb diet, I had NO Idea what I was doing. No clue at all. I used to just eat lots of meat, chicken ect, and stayed away from almost anything with carbs. I didn't eat vegetables, I didn't consult a doctor, and I did pretty much everything that goes against sustainable weight loss and healthy eating. While it worked temporarily, I was also miserable and it was totally unsustainable as at the time I had no plan to follow once the weight was coming off to keep it off so I went right back to my unhealthy ways.. after all at the time I figured "well it worked once, it can work again". It didn't. I was just so happy I was losing weight I dealt with it, but long term.. it didn't take long to get off that plan and gain it all back.

oh_em_gee

I would call myself a reduced carber, but not low. I tend to crave carbs and overeat around carby foods, so I decided to cut some of them out. I very very rarely have bread, and if I eat pasta or rice, I prefer not to eat white. I actually am eating bread today, but that's not typical for me. My big problem is sugar, I can't seem to keep it down.

135nicole

Thank you for pointing out the cholesterol. I checked my nutrition and I am in the limit. This app is really good you can check a lot and see what works or not. I found out I am an balanced oxidizer with jillian Michaels and can have carbs, fat, protein in equal portions. With this app I can see if I do and influence my eating in the right direction.
I tried the south beach diet and I only loose weight with phase 1. As soon as I go to phase 2 I gained the weight back in few days. Staying on phase1 made me weak after 2weeks.
The scd diet works better for me. I also learned that I should eat all the required calories which I didn't and that's why my weight goes slowly down or plateaus for a while. I also did a lot of weight training and jillian michaels said that if you have to loose excess weight do extra 2 hours cardio( one at am and one at pm), besides your weight training.
After one week on the scd diet with no more ups and downs.
i will change my exercise program to that now with the hope that I will see great weight loss. 2pounds a week I would be happy.
I started in January with the shred revolution diet and I only lost 2 pound in six weeks with three pounds up and down every three days (frustrating)! But I learned to have my meals at 300 cal. and snacks at 100 or 150 calories- for me I just ate the wrong foods working for me like protein bars or shakes, they are full of lactose which made me bloated, I use them to put my protein intake higher. Now I know that homemade yoghurt, almond bread and lentils are my protein food to go to.
I also learned from Jillian Michaels that cruciferous veggies like broccoli, kale, cauliflower, cabbage need to be slightly cooked to benefit weight loss.
Sorry for those who are getting mad from shared experiences. For all the others I hope it helped a little to find your way to the diet and exercise which fits for you. But all in all I lost 5 inches in the waist, 1 inch hips, calves,arms,chest,neck in six weeks with only weight loss of 3'pounds in six weeks- doesn't that sound crazy? I look like I lost 20 pounds. I gonna add the cardio to really loose them.

spruitt417

I've been doing South Beach Diet since Jan 2, 2013. For the first 2 weeks you can have proteins, non-starchy vegetables & dairy....no rice, potatoes, bread, cereal, fruit, pasta, cookies, cakes, etc. I was never hungry & didn't miss the carbs (I had tried Atkins once before but found it too restrictive & didn't stick to it). After the initial 2 weeks you gradually add the carbs back into your diet, paying attention to what does or doesn't trigger cravings. I used to live on pizza, potatoes, pasta, fast food & now I don't even miss them.

You have to find something YOU can commit to. If you're not willing or ready to make healthy eating a lifestyle change you'll always struggle on some level.

megan__johnson

If you're so used to eating a lot of carbs, trying to take them out of your daily eating WILL be tough, and you WILL have withdrawls.

But the only advice i can give is to make it past the first couple of days, you will be amazed at how much better you feel. Literally from the inside out, i feel completely different.

I started out doing only 1 carb serving per day, just to not shock my body so much.. (1 cup rice, 2 slices of bread)
But after doing that for a month, I gave them up completely, started doing larger servings of veggies.

135nicole

The diets I tried I sticked to it at least 4-6 weeks or even 3 months, when it wasn't working for me and made me bloated and weight gain I tried another one. I tried weight watchers old and new program, the gorgeously green diet (my husband lost 20 pounds and i gained 10 pounds,) south beach diet ( phase 1 works for me), you are what you eat from Gillian McKeith( lost 10 pounds but gained 4 inches from bloating), fasted for 40 days,cabbage diet, shred revolution, cleansing, I tried laser acupuncture for weight loss over 6 month, iris diagnostic, apple cider before meals,Brigitte diet, p90x diet ( which is kind of work and a lot of calories), gluten free diet.
I hardly put salt and sugar on my food and celery tastes salty for me now and milk tastes too sweet.
I just came to the point where I thought that I can't have certain healthy carbs, so I found the scd diet and am on it for a week now. I like it, I lost a pound in one week. I just hope that's the one.

iris8pie

*bookmarking

366to266

I'm a low carber and have just been told by two nurses that it could kill me.

So I asked them - "Let's get this straight ... if I have meat, green veggies and potatoes on my plate I will live, and if I throw away the potatoes and eat the rest, I go to an early grave?"

The biggest irony is that they both smoke.

Hmph!

135nicole

I substitute potatoes with butternut squash which is allowed in the special carbohydrate diet. That worked, after I had it with the dinner, I didn't gained weight. Eating potato I would have.

JessicaOnKeto

Is anyone else on a low carb diet? I've been struggleing lately staying within my allowed carbs. Just curious if anyone else is out there on a low carb diet & have any pointers for me?

It's so hard in the beginning, I remember it well, and kept slipping up, but finally I just snapped out of it and I have a few tricks that I did that help myself stay motivated and on track.

My advice,

-Focus on what you CAN eat, make yourself a list of what you can eat and tape it to your fridge. I made one. It lists: Bacon, Pepperoni, Nuts, Cheesesticks/Cheese, Celery w/peanut butter/cream cheese, spinach dip, sugar free jello/pudding, whipped cream, diet soda, peanut butter, pork rinds, deviled eggs, gucamole... etc etc etc.

-Make yourself a list of WHY your trying to get healthier and what will happen if you do lose weight versus if you don't. My list is enormous. Just an example: If you do lose weight: You will be in the single digit clothing again If you don't lose weight: You will always be plus size.

-Focus on how far you've come, I read you lost 6.6lbs, and thats AMAZING! This change your making is lifechanging, and challenging. Just making the first step is achievment enough.

Hope this helps, my diary is open, and my instagram is FULL of delicious lowcarb food, username: jessicaonketo ANYONE can feel free to add me/follow me.

busywaterbending

very low carb since oct 2011
no problem.

high amounts of efas, raw dairy creams and butter and complete proteins. The only carbs you should be eating are low glycemic index, nutrient dense greens. No sugars, no starches, no alcohols.No problems!

happy training! Heavenly eating!

JaceyMarieS

I eat 20-25 NET carbs a day.

For ME carbs ARE evil.

I get so sick of people trying to tell others that carbs are OK.
For some people they aren't. Some people cant have them. Some people dont like them. And some people just cant metabolize them.

No bread, pasta, rice, cereal, wheat, grains, legumes, starchy vegetables or sugar (with the exception of the natural sugar in a few pieces of fruit I eat). Meaning I dont eat beans, corn, and things of that nature.

It is a personal choice. And I see a lot of the "advice" given here is actually a personal opinion.

I think ANYONE who is curious about what foods they should or should not eat should seek out a qualified medical person to help them.

Not to mention, most diabetics eat low-carb. So if it is so bad, why is it so good? Makes no sense to me that so many people follow low carb no matter what disease they battle or dont and do so well with it.

I have PCOS which causes me to be insulin resistant. For me carbs are evil. I can't lose weight if my diet is too high in them.

Since adopting low-carb I have HIGHER energy, clarity and focus. I sleep better and I am a long time sufferer of insomnia. I have been treated for clinical mental problems in the past and I am now off all my medications. I am also now off all of my medications for my PCOS. Low carb helped me with that. I feel better overall. No more IBS, no more GERD. And plenty of other things that are positives since going low carb.

I get my carbs from vegetables and very rarely some fruit. I eat meat from a butcher that processes from a local farm, my eggs are farm fresh. My produce comes from the farm behind me in season. I don't eat bad and all of my doctors tell me I am getting better every day.

I have osteoarthritis in my hips and degenerative disc disease in my back. It is painful. Going low carb helps with the inflammation which helps me get on the treadmill every day.

So, for some, certain carbs can be bad.
For some, the only way to find out is with the help of a medical professional.

Personally, I see no nutritional value in a bowl of spaghetti drowned in pasta sauce that is full of sugar despite the tomatoes. Not to mention, I dont like the crap feeling I get when I do eat them.

Carbs are a personal preference and members here shouldn't be told to give up their lifestyle choice.

ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I've been eating low=carb since January, 2012. Since eliminating grains and strictly restricting legums and fruit, I now have blood sugars in the normal range (and not "normal for a diabetic...normal) My cholesterol is well into normal range, my HDL:LDL ratio is approaching optimum, my triglycerides are excellent.

Heartburn has competely disappeared and IBS flares maybe once a month v. mulitple times per day. And energy? I workout 6 days a week for 45 minutes - 2 hours.

Carbs aren't evil for everyone, but they are sure something I avoid now that I've seen their effect on me

366to266

Eating a low carb diet will alter your Leptin and Ghrelin levels which will effect your apatite in a bad way. Eat your carbs but pick the right ones, high in fiber and lots of nutrients.

So says the man who has one pound to lose. Good luck with that, buddy!

ndj1979

you could just eat in a deficit and work out ....

Trust me you do not need some "fad" diet to lose weight

It is all about controlling what you eat and working out.

Sometimes I eat lower carbs, sometimes a little bit higher..just depends....


Good Luck.....

staceyd90

Hii!! *Waves*

Im on day 5 of being low carb and trying to stay under 1200 cals a day (pretty easy when you take the carbs out) but im pretty clueless still, Im eating what i think is healthy and reading packets but sometimes i look at my diary on here and wonder why there are so many carbs in a tomato or a pear! Haha, but feel free to add me

peepsnmax11

I'm on a very low carb, low fat, low calorie diet. I eat 600-1000 calories a day, less than 25g of carbs, less than 35 g of fat. Before anyone gets on their high horse, I'm under a doctor's supervision, I go in for weekly check ups. I also take appetite suppressants before each meal, fiber pills, vitamins, and biweekly b12 injections (for energy). For me it was a hard switch. I love bread, and milk... etc. This is what I have to offer you.
I eat five times a day with this calorie break down:
Breakfast: 200
Snack: 100
Lunch: 200-250
Snack: 100
Dinner: 200-250
Some days I don't eat any snacks, other I eat all of my alloted calories. For the first three days, all that I ate was lean protein. It was tough, but kicked me into ketosis. I then got to add good veggies, which was semi difficult given my carb allowance. Day 15 you add fruit 1-2 times a week.

The biggest thing that helps me stay on track is keeping low carb snacks handy (Sugarfree Jell-o is a god send). I also precook/portion my food so all I have to do is grab a container and heat it up.

Walden Farms makes a bunch of awesome everything free dressings, sauces, etc. They really help. Chicken gets old after awhile.

Are you doing Medi-Thin?

japerkins65

Love al the low-carb recipes! It has been working for me. A favorite "treat" is microwave full fat pepperoni for 1 minute and then put cream cheese on it. Yummmm!