LCHF

I tried eating low carb about 4 years ago. I lost 40 pounds in a very short period of time. As soon as I started eating carbs again - I regained the weight plus more.

Try eating healthy, weighing/measuring your food, and finding exercise you love enough to keep doing. That's what is working for me now. I've been doing this for a little over a year. No cravings, No bingeing, just happy. Good luck.

Do you log your food every single day? Accurately -- everything weighed and measured? Everything, even when you "mess up" and eat something you shouldn't? That's the first step and the most important.

If you're doing that, if you open your diary people will be able to help you figure out where the process is breaking down for you. Your body absolutely can lose weight it's just a matter of figuring out the right plan for you, sticking with that plan and giving it a chance to work.

Best of luck to you. Everything works differently for everyone based on what their individual needs are. Which you already know. I hope everything goes well for you, and I hope you never give up on your health.

Lowered cars look slick. They're typically accompanied with a firmer suspension, so it's a more bumpy ride, especially uncomfortable over speed bumps.

Do you log your food every single day? Accurately -- everything weighed and measured? Everything, even when you "mess up" and eat something you shouldn't? That's the first step and the most important.

If you're doing that, if you open your diary people will be able to help you figure out where the process is breaking down for you. Your body absolutely can lose weight it's just a matter of figuring out the right plan for you, sticking with that plan and giving it a chance to work.

I did log every day, everything, even when I ate more than I should.
As I said, I have given up.
This is and will be my last fight.
All I was looking for was how other people had experienced LCHF
I´m not looking for more advice from people, I have gotten enough advice that didn´t work, it only pulled me down to depression, some people don´t know where the fine line ends.
So I won´t be opening my diary.
But thanks anyway.

Oh! I thought you meant you were sticking to your calorie limit and weren't losing weight.

If you're having trouble with being hungry all of the time and struggle to keep to your calorie goal ABSOLUTELY try LCHF. I've been eating this way for just over a year now and the term I've used to describe the change in my appetite was miraculous -- it took about 3 weeks. Try and keep your carbs around 50g or lower in mainly vegetables and maybe some small servings of fruit. Your macros for each meal should be more fat than protein, more protein than carbs and that should keep you on track. My diary is open if you want to take a look.

Changing my diet away from what's typically considered healthy to LCHF has absolutely been the best decision I've ever made diet wise -- I only wish I started eating this way years ago. Good luck, I hope it works as well for you.

LCHF for beginners
http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf

I started LCHF this past April. If you don't have metabolic dysfunction, you will like ly find it tough to stick to. That being said, I've lost 22# since starting to eat this way in April. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 more pounds to lose, your mileage may vary.

That and weight training 3 x wkly, in addition to walking every morning and evening, which I might add, I had been doing all along. My DH also eats this way and he's taken off quite a bit of fat and for the first time in many years has begun to put on size again. We thought it was a natural decline due to our age (mid 40's).

If you fall off the low carb wagon, I hear it you can end up in the same boat as you started or worse. We do it because of metabolic dysfunction and so our future quality of life totally depends on our ability to stick with it.

Research this diet really well, google Peter Attia, Johnny Moore, Gary Taubs, etc. I don't always agree with what all is said about why some people fatten on high carb diets, but at least it's an alternate hypothesis that offers possibilities for what's going on when calories in vs calories out doesn't work for you, as was our case.

So far, we both find it perfectly sustainable and we've noticed that we shop twice weekly instead of every 3 weeks. i'm not hungry and when I am, I eat...sooo simple :drinker:

Lowered cars look slick. They're typically accompanied with a firmer suspension, so it's a more bumpy ride, especially uncomfortable over speed bumps.

Ha!

If you get off keto you must slowly add back in Carbs. Like +10 per week until you find your sweet spot where you are not putting back on weight.

The lower your body fat the more carbs it can handle, but to a certain point. You just have to find where that sweet spot is. You may require a body fat test (bod-pod, clippers) to figure that out.

If you fail to add back in the carbs slowly then expect to gain most of the weight back. On keto you trained your body to use fat sources as fuel, so now you must do the same with carbs. The body doesn't know what to do with the carbs if you go back to eatting the way you were prior to this type of diet. Being in ketosis is like being in starvation mode. The moment you chow down on carbs the body will begin to restore muscle and liver glycogens. Once glycogen stores are full (usually takes 2~3 days). Any extra will be stored as fats. So if you add in carbs daily and glycogen stores are full -> Goes straight to fat storage.

I've had friends who did Atkins, Keto, Paleo diets. When they decided to quit and go back to regular eating they just ballooned in a matter of weeks. Some putting on more weight from where they originally started...

The lower your body fat the more carbs it can handle, but to a certain point. You just have to find where that sweet spot is. You may require a body fat test (bod-pod, clippers) to figure that out.

If you fail to add back in the carbs slowly then expect to gain most of the weight back. On keto you trained your body to use fat sources as fuel, so now you must do the same with carbs. The body doesn't know what to do with the carbs if you go back to eatting the way you were prior to this type of diet. Being in ketosis is like being in starvation mode. The moment you chow down on carbs the body will begin to restore muscle and liver glycogens. Once glycogen stores are full (usually takes 2~3 days). Any extra will be stored as fats. So if you add in carbs daily and glycogen stores are full -> Goes straight to fat storage.

I've had friends who did Atkins, Keto, Paleo diets. When they decided to quit and go back to regular eating they just ballooned in a matter of weeks. Some putting on more weight from where they originally started...

Always great answers full of useful information from you. Thank you!