Low carb

If going low carb helps you maintain your calorie deficit great. Keep at it.

That said, I wouldn't get too excited about 4 lbs in 4 days - it almost assuredly isn't fat loss. Dropping carbs will cause you to deplete your glycogen stores and the accompanying water weight.

If you are interested in low carb dieting, there is a low carb group that you can join.

kelseyjean5 wrote: »

i have decided to go low carb for a little bit instead of cals! I hit a plateau and this seems to be helping me over it. This is my fourth day and I've already lost four pounds!

Any suggestions or helpful comments as I continue?!

Stick at it for at least 2 weeks, up your salt intake and don't fear fat.

dasher602014 wrote: »

If you are interested in low carb dieting, there is a low carb group that you can join.

I'm interested in the low carb group on here what's the name of it?

I started eating lowish carb a couple of years ago due to digestive issues. If you can imagine the worst criticizer of low carb diets who ever existed . . . that was me. Times ten. I made all sorts of fun of low carbers and their misguided (to me, then) way of thinking. And then one day I realized I was feeling better than I had in awhile, and I stopped to consider why that might be. And I realized that for the past few days I'd been eating very few carbs. Normally back then I ate a lot of whole grain bread, oatmeal, baked potatoes--things that are considered relatively healthy carbs. But for whatever reason my diet had been different for a few days. After realizing how much better I felt I thought what the heck, I may as well give lower carb eating a try for a few weeks. And it was an almost life changing experience. I felt SO much better. My GI tract settled down for the first time in years. At that time I didn't particularly need to lose any weight, but eating low carb definitely made a difference in my hunger and satiety levels -- I did get hungry, but that was all it was. Just a feeling of "I could eat now if I had something, but I can wait, too." No big deal, and easy to ignore. It wasn't that overwhelming feeling of "I have to have something to eat right now or I'm going to collapse/pass out/go nuts" that I often got when eating a more carb heavy diet.

FWIW, I do think when it comes to weight loss that CICO is what does it. Years ago I lost 64 pounds on a very high carb/low fat diet and kept it off until my thyroid went wonky last year. But it was hard. The hunger was overwhelming. Mostly I was able to lose due to sheer determination and stubbornness (what would probably be called willpower). I don't have any feelings of overwhelming hunger when eating lower carb. So in the long run . . . . yeah, I do think maybe lower carb eating helps to keep blood glucose more steady, which in turn helps keep hunger at a manageable level and makes it easier to lose weight.