LOW CARB DIET from today.- who's with me?

I just got done doing low-carb (Keto) for about 10 months. It wasn't a difficult diet if you eat at home a lot. Me being me I was all about eating nothing but meat, cheese, and some veggies.

A lot of the issues I came across were social settings and going to eat with friends. Taking the stuff out of a meal that is hi-carb is sometimes difficult and can complicate what you want to order to eat. Most of the time, you can be accommodated though. As a social drinker too, you can get away with drinking diet mixers + liquor.

I will say this for sure, sticking with it requires preparation, dedication, and A LOT of discipline. There are ups and downs to it. You'll lose weight fast and easily, however sometimes you can slip up and gain a lot of weight overnight (once shot up 8lbs because of a cheat day). Many people on low-carb make claims that they don't need to calorie count on low-carb, but I will call total bull**** on that. Counting calories will get you the results you want, no matter what diet. If you don't you could easily resume unhealthy past eating habits when you are through sticking to a specific diet. It's by no means a cut-and-dry diet. There's a lot of unexplainables that have occurred in my time with it, so there are obstacles to overcome.

All of this being said, I would easily recommend and help anyone who wants to try low-carb. It's helped me out a lot with my weight, and I don't regret it for a minute. I strongly encourage anyone to try it.

Me!!

Please add me, I have just been reading about carbs and how the wrong kind can make us fat and unhealthy!
I would think there needs to be a balance?

A caloric surplus makes us fat.

A caloric surplus makes you gain weight... Excess carbs increase insulin, insulin increases fat storage/decrease fat utilization

Are you saying protein does not increase insulin?

So a lot of people are saying they did low or no carb and lost a load of weight.....and then put it all back on .....and now want to do it again.

This is a vicious circle.

Can you honestly eat 'low' (however low you choose i do not know) carb for the rest of your life...?

I am being cautious of carbs - less bread and potatoes but things like rice and pasta will always be in my life!!

I think Low Carb is the only plan that gets so much blame for weight gain when people STOP following the plan. It's actually funny to me. When someone stops doing Weight Watchers and regains weight, no one places the blame on the Weight Watchers program - because their gain came when they didn't follow the program. Why is Low Carb judged differently?

Because it's easier to "fall off the wagon" when you restrict entire food groups, or label foods as good or bad. It's true that no matter what you do, quitting anything will cause regain but I personally found low carb to be too hard to stick to and say with certainty "I'll do if for life"

Please add me, I have just been reading about carbs and how the wrong kind can make us fat and unhealthy!
I would think there needs to be a balance?

A caloric surplus makes us fat.

A caloric surplus makes you gain weight... Excess carbs increase insulin, insulin increases fat storage/decrease fat utilization

Excess as against what? Also, what about excess protein? What does that do?

How "low" on carbs are you aiming? I lost 30 lbs on diabetic, carb-limited diet. It was not as restrictive as Adkins or other LC diets, but definitely made a big difference for me. My goal is 30-45 carbs per meal, and 15 per snacks, but no more than 165 per day.

Right in it, keto that is, goes fantastic, feeling fine, don't miss the carbs... Maybe it needs discipline in the beginning, but once you're used to it there is not much more effort you have to put into it then any other diet...

Definitely joining - I only seem to lose when I do low carb!! Thanks for the group!!

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i was on low carb for 8 years...wasted my life !!! went from 218lbs to 101lbs...now i am at 160lbs...my insides changed. never never will i do that to myself again.

I posted earlier and this post made n=by this nice lady speakes eons ?

I used tro as in 30 + years ago Body build and since knowledge has changed a full 180* she stated her body changed ? As with myself this does happen with age and will happen to every one that is why blood work and knowing how to read it makes so much sense ! I have BW done every 3 mths and I am in the normal catogory every where except my kidneys and a little high there due to Opiates from a sever traua of being ran over by a truch and told I would never walk again well I ride a MTB 20 miles a day !

At age 54 I am on about 3000 calories a day , I eat every 3 hours , my biggest and heaviest carb meal is my am meal. My soal is a healthyone and from what I have read many people of this forum are of the opinion that when you loose weight you have reached your gaol and through ? Nothing could be further from the truth !

By the way thr obsession of loosing weight is a sickness and treated by Dr to save many peopls lives so have the proper mind set !

Your goal any and everyone's should be FAT loose and not WEIGHT loose the low carb or smart food diet is a life style change and yes if you stop the fat will return

WHY ? Because you never loose fat from your body short of liposuction ! You get all of the fat cells your body will ever have a keep when in the womb and during pubirity ! You will never loose these fat ceels you only shrink their size through exercise and healthy life styl ! That makes for a very simple and healthy food ingestion system and no calorie counting is needed when you are living a healty life style you need a garm of protien daily for every lb you weight or you will loose muscle and store fat so you need the protein and exercise to be healthy when you exercise you burn energy which is fat or carbs ! I eat 3000 calories a day give or take and I have lost a steady 60 lbs of fat over the past year and added about 20 lbs of muscle and I have made a healthy life style change ! At 54 I do not plan to go back to junk food , canned food or processed food , and yes I am human this Thanks Giving and Christmas I will cheat and eat a few simple carbs and I will gain an increase in the size of my fat ceels but with in 1 mth I will be right back under control and at my balanced endo system weight !

So for everyone ungup on weight loose and calorie counting you will loose weight and you will be a yo-yo chanpion you will fall off the wagon and gain it back and become depressed !

So why not be healthy study a lot don't take so mch from just this forum as fact read others and your own self health and wel being is your responsibility ! Make a healthy life style change and if what half the people on the forum state is a fact then I am a liar and ai will put my pic beside theirs any day and compare ! Skinny is not healthy healthy is lean and low BF% and weight is of no concern it is how you look in the mirror because muscle weights more than fat and according to the sick skinny people on this forum and my Dr who can't even read my BW I am obese ! 6 ft and 220 lbs ?

Look at my avatar and tell me that man is obese ! I am now gaining muscle and loosing fat slower so I am going to cut calories to 2500 a day and keep same macros ! I weight more now that I did in my avatar and I have dropp 2 inches more in my waist by looseing fat and mataing muscle ! If you loose 10 lbs a mth for 3 mths you are not loosing fat you are loosing muscle and holding fat so get off the weight loose tread mill and be healthy for life !

This ladies statement makes me sad I know many women 5 10 at the dym and they weight as much as 145 and 150 lbs and they are sexy hard bodies and not muscle freaks they are sexy pretty women and yes they date men !