I'm on a low carb diet, per my endo's recommendation, not just low sugar, but I started in January. I've lost 20 pounds, more inches than that, and about 3 pants sizes. I've shrunk out of my undergarments and lost more than 1/2 a shoe size. For me, it's about about health gains and fat loss! Not to mention the energy. Just be careful to watch your sodium. Carbs tend to hold sodium in to process themselves, and dropping carbs, you lose sodium naturally. Water, too.

So up your water, and depending on how low your carbs are (anything under 100 grams of carbs daily is low carb), make sure to up your sodium. If you feel crummy at all, tired, rundown, get muscle cramps, add in sodium. Most adapting to low carb have to aim for 5000 mg a day minimum due to water losses facilitating sodium losses.

And fats are crucial to our hormonal creation and balance, so if you're upping your fats to coincide with dropping your sugars/carbs down (which is what you SHOULD DO), naturally, you're going to get some hormonal boosts there! Congrats.

I've significantly cut sugar as well and my energy level is so much higher! I saw a lot of weight loss at first, but now that I can balance my diet more easily (upped my fats so I didn't feel so ravenous), I am not naturally losing quite as much. Which is ok because I don't have a ton to lose. I'm much more interested in controlling my hormones and feeling good than I am in losing weight.

It took me about a month to settle into my new lifestyle and I still have some "growing pains" about giving up some foods I miss (hello, pasta, talking to you!), but I just keep reminding myself how good I feel now vs. how hungry I am when I do eat sugar now. I see a difference when I have a bad eating day vs. when I have a great eating week. Keeps me going!

I didn't cut sugar at all. I cut carbs, but only slightly, just so that I could get enough protein. I've dropped 67lbs and my hormones are completely normal now A lot of improvement comes just from weight loss!