Cutting carbs

Here is serious advice. As specific as it could be given what little info we have.
OP, and anyone else interested.

• Stay below your desired carb level. Whether that be 15%, or whatever. Focus on green leafy veggies and other non-starchy veggies that grow above ground. Have some low-carb dairy (if you can tolerate it). Nuts are yummy, too.
• Reach your protein limit. The minimum should be approximately 1.2g of protein per kg of ideal body weight.
• Fill the rest of your intake in fat.
• Determine an estimate of how many cals you should be taking in based upon your, height, weight, and activity level using a TDEE calc. Scooby's is a good one. Remember though that it is only an estimate. You may have to raise or lower a suggested calorie deficit to suit your personal needs.
• If you have a medical condition, you can certainly read our advice, but run it by your Dr before listening to us interweb big mouths.
• Drink enough water and watch your electrolytes.
• Perform the search suggested by DAM5412 on page 1 on vegetarian protein sources.
• Go to the Low-Carber group linked above.
• Exercise a little. It isn't necessary to lose weight, but physical fitness can help a lot of other things. Like mood or being able to escape zombies.

Good luck.

Sugarbeat wrote: »

JoRocka wrote: »

JPW1990 wrote: »

cwolfman13 wrote: »

JPW1990 wrote: »

MrM27 wrote: »

Let's see how many pages this goes until the OP comes back if at all. My just be baiting. But if it's not then how about we get the questions below answered. All this nonsense and who knows, based on just 1 profile picture maybe the OP needs to lose like 2 pounds, or 20 or maybe she's trying to be underweight. Who knows. Might be a good idea to actually ask for more information before people give out thoughtless advice just to be supportive.

MrM27 wrote: »

You will need to find other sources of protein to hit minimums which should be between .6.87g per lb of bodyweight.

If you say you were eating at the caloric intake it takes to be in a deficit and lose weight but you were not losing weight then you were eating too much and not in a deficit.

How tall are you?
How much do you weigh?
Do you weigh and log all your food?
What's your training like?

Just curious, which was the thoughtless advice - the one suggesting a website with low carb vegetarian protein sources, or the one suggesting OP was doing something akin to suicide?

Ironically, the "suicide" comment was made by a fellow low carber who was telling the OP how all of the non low carbers will compare it to suicide...which nobody did...*kitten* hilarious.

Um....no

Try again

so- asking which bridge I should jump off of is okay- but don't you dare tell me jumping off a bridge is a good idea or not.

Got it.

I wasn't making a parallel to low carb = suicide.

I was making a parallel about how one could/can/should give advice. it has nothing to do with low carb = suicide.

I was going to extremes to point out how one can offer advise when one is asking about making potentially poor decisions- and the answer isn't always "she didn't ask for that advice- she asked for this instead."

What makes her decision potentially poor? I found your analogy to be poor taste.

I would say the fact that she said she didn't really like eating meat but stated she wanted to low carb and do 55% protein...

herrspoons wrote: »

Holy nutballs!

No one cares if anyone got butthurt over some text on the internet. No one will ever care. Well unless they're a weepotron from the plant of the hand wringers, and no one cares about them.

Move on. Cheese wrapped in bacon is far more worthy of discussion than 'dem feels'.

Yes...let's discuss this further....

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MrM27 wrote: »

kgutz90 wrote: »

Thanks to those who gave advice. I'm new at looking at my macros rather than just soley my calories and unfortunately im new at MFP... Didn't realize I was in the wrong "group discussion" just needed some honest/ good advice from the fitness community. Whether you are trying to loose, gain, maintain, etc good luck to all you on your journey!

Are you going to tell us how tall you are, how much you weigh and how many calories you eat per day?

I think that would be a bridge too far. . .

OP, there's no need to go to extremes like drastically reducing carbs. We need every food group in moderate amounts, and drastic cutting like this can be terrible for your health. I think it's healthier and more pleasant to enjoy a full variety of foods (unless there's a good reason to monitor carbs, of course)

Mistizoom wrote: »

FunkenWagnel wrote: »

OP, there's no need to go to extremes like drastically reducing carbs. We need every food group in moderate amounts, and drastic cutting like this can be terrible for your health. I think it's healthier and more pleasant to enjoy a full variety of foods (unless there's a good reason to monitor carbs, of course)

No, we don't need to consume carbs. Please name the disease state that will befall you if you exclude carbohydrates from your diet. Wait...I'll save you the trouble from looking - there isn't one.

No problem!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14672862
http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/negative-results-eating-carbs-4182.html
http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e4026
http://islet.org/forum026/messages/23446.htm