Those last few lbs

Personally I was never able to lose those last few pounds.. I mean, I'm sure if I continued eating at a huge deficit I could but it just made me have no energy and I'd have multiple blood sugar drops throughout the day from exercising hard and not eating enough. A week ago I switched to LCHF (low carb, high fat) diet for many reasons..
1) Apparently the fat just melts off because with a low carb diet you don't release as much of the fat-storing hormone, insulin. So all food (mainly fat and protein) gets used as an energy source rather than being stored and only carbs being used.
2) It helps a lot for people with blood sugar problems. Now I'm not diabetic, but I damn well could be considering how hard I crash when I'm hungry. And I don't think this constant calorie cutting+hard exercise is helping. LCHF keeps your blood sugar constant (it's made a huge difference for me just in a week!!)
3) Not nearly as much counting calories!!!! You don't have to starve yourself (can I get a woot woot!). Here's what I mean.. For me, to lose on a normal diet (which I'd like to add was never ridiculously high in carbs to begin with, I've been gluten free for a while and my "high" carb intake was from fruits, quinoa, beans and honey mainly) I had to eat around 1500 kcals (around 500 below deficit) and the weight would come off and a ridiculously slow pace.. After a while, I would plateau around 55kg (wanting to get to 52-53). So what's a girl to do? Cut back a little more, exercise a little more.. While that does work (slowly…) I put my body through A LOT of stress and I had no energy.. So then I'd up my calories because it's not sustainable and I'd be back around 56-57kg.. AGH the cycle was endless, and those last few pounds were killing me. Now, like I said, it's only been a week but I've eaten almost 2300 kcals/day and I'm now at 54kg… I know, I know, the first few weeks is water weight but that means I'm doing it right! And it's nice to see the scale move without starving myself!
Anyways, I just had to share. If you can get to your goal weight just with just calorie restriction than I'm really happy for you! But if not, don't despair, do some research into LCHF! There's always other options

nxd10 wrote: »

It took me 4 months to lose 33 pounds and 6 months to lose that last 5. I just kept plugging. It eventually came off. It has also stayed off several years, so was worth it. Once it was gone, it was gone.

Also, make sure you have an appropriate goal. It could be too low for you. Make sure you recalculate your goal with your new weight so it lowers your calories.

Finally, macros didn't matter for me when I was losing fast. But when I'm at or near my goal weight, having over 40% carbs stops weight loss or increases bloat.

My story, too, more or less.

Been on the last 3 for over a year. I can lose vacation weight pretty easily (took me 2 months to lose the 2 pounds I gained in July), but every time I'm back to 133, I seem to stop losing again, even though I'm not changing anything to my diet and exercise should still lose about a pound a month.

I've lost inches though, so heck, I guess I'll get there eventually.

tabletmfp wrote: »

E mm likewise I lost the first 12 kilos fairly quickly, but the last 5 kilos were painfully slow. Typical loss would be .2 or .3 kilos every 2 or 3 weeks. However recently I stuffed my face just for 1 day and the weight loss speeded up to .6 kilos in one week! Every other day that week was exactly the same as usual consumption wise, so was this unexpected loss due to the one day calorie increase? I have heard of cheat meals and cheat days. Maybe the op could try this?

I wish cheat days helped with weight loss. Quite the opposite unfortunately, in my experience.

When I started losing At 0.3# per week after typical rate of 2, then 1.5, then 1, I became impatient and super-lowcarbed to crush it down Below goal by 2 pounds. I went To 5% carbs to get off the slow loss-rate phase. Went on maintenance and rebounded 3# in a day (sure, it was water).