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foutzt
foutzt Posts: 8
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Happy sunday morning mfp ppl :D Do any of you follow a low carb lifestyle? If so please add me. If not please add me. I'm starting tomorrow and am fairly stupid on the whole process,lol.

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  • Calliope610
    Calliope610 Posts: 3,775 Member
    edited January 2015
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    I suggest you read the following in order to educate yourself...

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1331482
  • foutzt
    foutzt Posts: 8
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    It's telling me I don't have permission to educate myself on that particular link. Mind telling me what you posted?
  • foutzt
    foutzt Posts: 8
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    Calliope610 wrote: »
    I suggest you read the following in order to educate yourself...

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1331482

  • foutzt
    foutzt Posts: 8
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    What are you educating me on, link won't open?
  • ketorach
    ketorach Posts: 430 Member
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    foutzt wrote: »
    It's telling me I don't have permission to educate myself on that particular link. Mind telling me what you posted?
    No education for you! (I can't see it either.)

    Go ahead and add me. I eat a ketogenic diet, which is LCHF (low carb, high fat, moderate protein). I've been losing fat and am really pleased with the improvements to my body. I've lost 22lbs since September, which is a pretty slow loss, I suppose, but my body has changed drastically.

  • Calliope610
    Calliope610 Posts: 3,775 Member
    edited January 2015
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    Sorry you can't see the links - they work fine for me.
  • Zhost
    Zhost Posts: 97
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    There's nothing wrong with low carb, been doing it for about a year now. I'll be happy to show my bloodwork from the past?
  • Zhost
    Zhost Posts: 97
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    foutzt wrote: »
    What are you educating me on, link won't open?

    A warning for doing low carb/keto though is the "keto flu" you might encounter though.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited January 2015
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    foutzt wrote: »
    Happy sunday morning mfp ppl :D Do any of you follow a low carb lifestyle? If so please add me. If not please add me. I'm starting tomorrow and am fairly stupid on the whole process,lol.

    If you are going to low carb for life go for it

    All you really need is calorie defecit, but if low carb is your way of getting there then fine.

    Wasn't something I could maintain and resulted in my highest weight gains the 3 times I fell off the low carb wagon
  • foutzt
    foutzt Posts: 8
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    Well that doesn't sound good. Thanks for the heads up.
  • baconslave
    baconslave Posts: 6,958 Member
    edited January 2015
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    I'm doing keto. <20g net. I've been doing it for 7 mo.
    Like any other diet, you have to keep an eye on your calories. And you don't have to do low-carb forever. If you are low-carb enough that you are in ketosis, then if you switch plans later you will gain approximately 5lbs of water weight when your body replenishes your glycogen stores. But if you mind your calories, you'll be fine. You don't mind your calories, you'll balloon up like gangbusters, just like coming off any other diet. Calories are always important. Too many and you gain weight. Period. Doesn't matter which diet you've fallen off of. It's never too early to plan your maintenance phase. I still have 30lbs to go, and I have mine all-set and waiting in the wings.

    If you feel like you'd like more support, I help mod a Low-carber group. Come check us out. All different kinds of low-carb diets are used there. Not just weird keto-folk like myself.
    community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group
  • foutzt
    foutzt Posts: 8
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    Zhost, I'm going to Google that, thank you!
  • Zhost
    Zhost Posts: 97
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    foutzt wrote: »
    Well that doesn't sound good. Thanks for the heads up.

    It does vary person to person and you may not get it at all, it's just dropping water weight and some electrolytes go with it. Drink plenty of water, maybe even PowerAde zero too if you really feel out of it.

    Give it a solid month and if it's not for you no biggie, it's all calories in vs calories out for most people anyways.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited January 2015
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    You sound like you're not sure what you want to do ...or know much about the "specialist" diets

    I would recommend you start off with a calorie defecit

    Eat anything you want but weigh it (digital scale) and log it and don't go over your calorie defecit ...that way you can work out portion sizes, how foods you love fit in, how to adapt recipes to your available calories, what fills you up most (protein and fat is famous for satiety)

    Calories in lower than calories out = weight loss with no hard and fast rules like low carbing although you may find that you naturally cut down your carbs as you learn about your nutritional needs
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
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    if you do not have a medical condition that makes you sensitive to carbs, then low carb is not necessary for weight loss…

    you can eat carbs and lose weight.

  • Zhost
    Zhost Posts: 97
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    baconslave wrote: »
    I'm doing keto. <20g net. I've been doing it for 7 mo.
    Like any other diet, you have to keep an eye on your calories. And you don't have to do low-carb forever. If you are low-carb enough that you are in ketosis, then if you switch plans later you will gain approximately 5lbs of water weight when your body replenishes your glycogen stores. But if you mind your calories, you'll be fine. You don't mind your calories, you'll balloon up like gangbusters, just like coming off any other diet. Calories are always important. Too many and you gain weight. Period. Doesn't matter which diet you've fallen off of. It's never too early to plan your maintenance phase. I still have 30lbs to go, and I have mine all-set and waiting in the wings.

    If you feel like you'd like more support, I help mod a Low-carber group. Come check us out. All different kinds of low-carb diets are used there. Not just weird keto-folk like myself.
    community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group


    This and www.reddit.com/r/keto if you do want to stick to low carb.

    If you find neither are for you then what Rabbi said works just as well.
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
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    foutzt wrote: »
    Happy sunday morning mfp ppl :D Do any of you follow a low carb lifestyle? If so please add me. If not please add me. I'm starting tomorrow and am fairly stupid on the whole process,lol.

    The low-carber-group link below has threads with lot of details.

    I got into the low low carb eating lifestyle for pain management but have lost 16 pounds over the past three months because I cut out food with added sugar and made up the calorie gap with Fats and still do 100-120 grams of protein daily.

    There is nothing magic about low carb but after 40 years of always regaining more than I lost on any diet I had to go to an approach that killed off the cravings and sugar crashes followed by me poking my face full of carbs to recover from the crash. I still get hundred but if needed I can delay eating another four hours without mental fog or physically crashing.

    All diets work at some level. Read all you can. Going low carb just to lose weight is hard if you have a strong addiction like attraction to sugar/quick carbs. It took me going off carbs 'cold turkey' and the first two weeks was hellish. Everyone is different so read and read. Five months later some of the concepts are just becoming clear as I work at staying in nutritional ketosis for health reasons. The new very low level of pain most days lets me now walk daily.

    Best of luck in 2015.

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