Can I lose weight without going low carb?

I have found it much easier to lose weight while eating ~100 carbs a day, most days.

I still eat whatever veggies I want, any fruits I want. But I try to limit bread to 1x a day. So I'll have a bagel with breakfast, or a roll for my steak sandwich, but not both. And some days I won't have any bread stuffs.

I do have blood sugar issues, so bread carbs mess me up and make me hungrier which is why I think it worked for me.

I think it's easier because eating protein, fats and veggies fill me up more quickly. I can easily crush a whole frozen pizza, but feel more hungry afterwards than if I ate some fish and broccoli. Basically it's easier to eat less food, and feel more full when you're not eating a lot of bread-y foods.

good luck!

Absolutely. In the end, it's about Calories(in) versus Calories(out).

The reason why I recommend going low(er) carb is proteins and fat have greater satiation than simple sugars do.

Seconding the person who said "learn to eat for life, not for a diet."

Improving the quality of food that I eat helps me eat less of it. Eating more whole grains, and whole fruits and vegetables increases the amount of fiber I eat and that helps me feel more full with fewer calories. Increasing the amount of beans and legumes has helped with that as well. When I combine carbs with a small amount of protein and fat at each meal, the food digests slower (learned this in the nutrition class I look last summer in college) and I feel more full for longer.

I'm more than half way to my goal of losing 40 pounds, and I eat anything including ice cream, cookies, etc. I just budget for it (most of the time) in my daily or weekly calorie intake.

The two coolest thing about changing how I eat is that I never feel like I'm "on a diet", and when I stopped logging my food for a few months due to increased job stress, I didn't gain weight back. That's a signal I'm on the right path. I think.

Re: I like them bad.

As do I. Unfortunately they don't agree with the flat belly look I'm striving for at the moment...

please explain?

I eat any and everything I want and have from the beginning. No restrictions just calorie counting, haven't even watched macros & honestly haven't counted calories in sometime. I was too big, got pregnant and was huge. Now I have a somewhat misshapen stomach due to those things and a c-section. When I eat sugared up carbs it give me just enough belly bloat to appear pregnant again, which I've worked way to hard to look that way.
Now in saying that I can and do still put away cake, cookies, ice cream, etc on occasion. My new rule: if its yummy enough to be worth it, eat it. If its just eh...choose a 'healthier' option.

I eat low carb...but sugar = carbs so I'm not sure what "sugared up carbs" are.

I listed a few in my post. As opposed to real oatmeal or whole grain or brown rice for example.

My point is all carbs get turned into sugar by the body...no matter how complex. Some just take longer to do so.

I guess with my one pound weight loss I was wondering whether I was doing things wrong. When I tried the low carb diets, I would lose as much as 5 pounds the first 2-3 days. Crazy but true. I will be patient. I don't eat cake everyday but I would probab;y feel deprived if I couldn't enjoy a slice at a birthday party or out to dinner.
But how do you log in those calories?
I haven;t goine out to eat yet on MFP. Is there a way to log in restaurant food?

A healthy weight loss is .5–2 lb. per week, so 1 lb. per week is great.

There are tons of restaurants in the database, and many restaurants post their nutritional info online. Look it up before you order, not after you eat—you'll see lots of posts here from people who were gobsmacked after ordering something that sounded healthy but wasn't.

yes!! dont eliminate any food group! just eat balanced WHOLE foods.

While there is nothing wrong with eating whole foods, and your diet should definitely consist of some, this is not needed either to lose weight or be healthy.

Eat what you want, meet your macro/micro goals, stay under your calories...profit!

This is true... but your macro goals change based on your personal body comp, goals and history. What should be the macro goal for insulin sensitivity? low fat oxidation?

I didn't see the OP mention that she was suffering from either of these.

After my husband was told by his doctor to get his carbs to 100grams a day, he lost weight. I believe it was 20 pounds over a six month period(give or take). He also exercised, so I am sure that helped.

But, to answer your question, I think you can loose weight without going low carb.

your husband lost weight because he was eating fewer calories. the carb restriction was a caloric restriction.

Ummm, ok!

People die on low carb diets. Not the people who are actually on the diet, but the people AROUND them lol. I tried low carb for a split second before my boyfriend started complaining that I was not being very nice. My head was cloudy, couldn't think straight, I also wanted to eat everything in sight.

Since Jan 1st I've tried something super new to me: raw vegan :P I eat massive amounts of fruit or veggies in one sitting. I never restrict on calories because most of the time I get too full before I reach a high amount. In a typical sedentary day of mine I will eat 1600-2000 calories. Yesterday was on the lower end of that, just weighed myself and I lost 2lbs...since yesterday. A lot of it is water, but I drink over 1 gallon each day plus there is water from fruits/veggies. Eating this way is super high carb! So you definitely don't need to go low carb to lose weight. I am super overweight (need to lose a little over 100lbs) so this is partially why my weight is coming off so quickly. If you're way small, it's going to take longer to lose weight. But you'll feel amaaaaaazing!

If you do decide to do this, I would definitely recommend researching before you jump in :P Here's a few places to learn about your food, where it comes from, and the 80/10/10 lifestyle:
Netflix: Farmageddon, Hungry For Change, Food Matters, Vegucated, Food Inc.

YouTube: Fit On Raw, Rice and Raw, Happy Healthy Vegan, kat green, FullyRawKristina, Victoria D, The Vegan Zombie, Freelee the Banana Girl, 40BelowFruity, Rebekah Borucki, Megan Elizabeth, okraw

Books: the 80/10/10 diet by Dr Douglas Graham. I haven't read any books yet, but that one is recommended a ton

Note**: If you're female and you cut your carbs low for a longer period of time, you can do damage to your body! It will become extremely hard to lose weight next time and I've even heard of women not being able to get pregnant or having miscarriages. I'm no professional, so if that info seems wrong to you in any way, you should be researching it. Not just from doctors :P

I do love a good carbohydrate and I have lost almost a third of my body weight with no problems.