Anyone lost over 100 pounds with low carb?

I've lost close to 150 LBS doing low carb. I started out with doing Atkins Phase 1 induction for 6 months,then I slowly moved to Phase 2 without all the fruit and kept my carbs from 25-30 and I am back doing around the same. I notice when I eat more than 30+ carbs a day I don't lose weight as quickly or I even plateau,which is what happened for 3.5 months. My carb intake was around 100 grams of carbs for those months and I ate around 1300 calories,exercised like a mad woman and decided to lower my carbs back down and the scale moved again. My body is pretty sensitive to high amounts of sugar,even sugar that is natural from fruit which can add up quickly when you consume as much as I did,I was an apple,banana fanatic and those are pretty high in sugar and carbs. For some reason if I do have a small piece of fruit my stomach hurts badly so I don't touch it anymore.

... depends on your definition of "low carb"...

I have released over 100 pounds - and my eating is more of a protein focus, with veggies and fruit added. I don't worry about carbs from the veggies and fruit... I don't really eat a lot for breads, pasta, potatoes. I find that with this approach - I feel better. It's not that I don't ever have grains - I have bread occasionally but will choose say quinoa versus rice or pasta. However? I find that lettuce works well for wraps, mini peppers hold chicken salad, etc. Oh, and I ignore the carbs in say - milk. I do end up with carbs/sugars in some of the salad dressings, marinades, etc. that I use - but I try to vary those and use the lower sugar ones when possible. I also eat a lot of peanut butter (have a low sugar, low sodium kind that I love) - but that's been due to needing to up my calories and PB with a banana? Great for increasing cals! ha, ha.

I do eat more calories than what you are looking at... but I also exercise like a madwoman most of the time. It's easy for me to burn 20-25,000 calories in a month. I love to exercise - and therefore have had to work on getting more cals in. Who knew that'd be so hard?!? ha, ha.

My biggest drops in weight were when I started - going from one meal a day to eating 3-4? HUGE difference. The other big drop was when I started exercising few months later. Now? I took about 2 months off from focusing on things like I had before... so, I'm hoping that as I refocus and get going again in September I can see the changes start again. To lose the first 100? Was under a year... it could've been faster, but I figure it happens in the time that it should... Since getting to that monumental mark? It's been slow and more frustrating... but again - September is gonna bring some great changes... It's fall, the weight is about to fall as well!

Gooooood Luck!

I want to get it off as fast as possible, whatever it takes. Please don't respond telling me to take it slow-- even my doctor agrees that I need to get it off as fast as possible, and is pushing me to do gastric bypass, but I want to do this without surgery.

Define fast? It's taken me over a year to lose 85lbs. I still have another 65lbs to lose. I've not done low carb, but done low GI which is sustainable.

It's fine to say you need a diet that will make you lose weight fast, but if you're not going to keep it up and therefore not lose at all what's the point?

Having that much to lose you will lose a lot fast eating that low. I hope it's sustainable. Eating at 1800-1600 calories I lost 55lbs in the first six months. I had a LONG plateau which has slowed it down but I currently have an athletes resting heart rate, play sport to a high level and can splift very heavy weights. I'm incredibly healthy and am losing the weight I have now for future health reasons and vanity.

Losing it fast is going to have an impact on loose skin, if you go slow then you have a better chance of toning up as you go. You can not have it both ways, pick the lesser of two evils and go with it. The evils are which you want more, fast loss but loose skin or slow loss with toneing. You've got to choose it. I'm choosing fast with loose skin. I've got 44 more lbs to go before I slow it down.

Yes :happy:

bumping to read later. I am very interested in the low carb diet, I just eat too much fruit which I shouldn't. Mostly apples and berries. I've lost 88lbs. so far. I'm coming back later to read this again..

I'm just about to start a low carb diet. I suggest you search the groups for "KETO" and join those groups. Both of them are full of success stories. I fell upon this plan on reddit.com/r/keto . It's worth a look. Full of success stories.

Hi Slimmereachday,

Yes I have but not all at once. The first time I went on the Atkins Diet, and that is why it did not work for me in the looonnnnng run, LOL No PUN intended...

I found that after losing the weight I would incorporate the carbs back into my diet, (that is a bad word by the way) D I E T...rrrr
I would gain it back. Then going back on the diet, ....rrrr loudly this time as it did not kick in, did not work.

I really have tried every diet out there. All of them. Well, I got the picture one day, and I took all my knowledge and I started doing what I felt would be the best way to go. So here on MFP I did all the right stuff, and came up with how many calories etc I should eat. I dropped weight like crazy, I started walking, then swimming, and so on.

If you want to go low carb, that is a good start, but I would suggest, and this is my case only, maybe keep more carbs than 20 per day. You need the good carbs that are out there. You will feel much better in either case, just be careful if you do continue the low carb as your planning as it will have to be done by the book, which means eventually you will need to incorporate carbs back in sometime in your walk.

I wish nothing but the best for you, sincerely do. Please keep in touch as I would love to hear your success story.

Rob

There are many ways to lose 100 pounds and most of them are better than surgery. If low carb is the route you want to take, it can surely be done. I would only suggest that you choose a method that you can stick with permanently and I understand that many low-carb eaters do. Only a permanent lifestyle change will bring permanent results. For me, that means the opposite, a diet of about 80% carbs. It's not only gotten the weight off, but it has also gotten me off all my medications and health-related issues. And I love the food now more than ever.

Find what you like, educate yourself, and act on your knowledge. I wish you all the best!

There are many ways to lose 100 pounds and most of them are better than surgery. If low carb is the route you want to take, it can surely be done. I would only suggest that you choose a method that you can stick with permanently and I understand that many low-carb eaters do. Only a permanent lifestyle change will bring permanent results. For me, that means the opposite, a diet of about 80% carbs. It's not only gotten the weight off, but it has also gotten me off all my medications and health-related issues. And I love the food now more than ever.

Find what you like, educate yourself, and act on your knowledge. I wish you all the best!

Well said!

I lost 100 pounds in 6 months eating between 50 and 125 grams of carbohydrates a day. I walked for 1 hour a day -- traipsed really -- while doing mostly strength endurance work (13-20 repetitions) of compound exercises: deadlifts, squats, push-ups, pull-ups, dips, and kettlebell swings.

Once I began eating around 1.7 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight and carbohydrates before my workouts, nearly all of my weight loss was from fat.

I am no longer "low carb," by any definition, because my insulin sensitivity has been restored through weight loss and intense exercise.

Parenthetically, my body fat percentage has, so far, fell by 24%.

Not quite 100 lbs ... yet

I lost my wt. in a year. I lost it too quickly at first and had problems: hair falling out and thinning, nails became brittle and loss of muscle mass. I slowed down my wt. loss and increased my protein intake. I am supposed to eat 75-100 gms. of protein every day and keep my carb. intake low. I was told to lose wt. or I would die. I am healthier now but still have another 50 lbs. to lose. I wish you luck on your wt. loss. Also, make sure that you workout 5 days a week for at least 30 min. a day.