Low carb high fat dieter here
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I have noticed that LCHF will not work to lose wt if we dont count calories. I learned the hard way. Followed it for four weeks straight out of Dr. Hymans book at the end of four weeks I gained 1.6 pounds boy was that a surprise to me. This past Monday I started it again but this time I am eating the allotted amount of calories figured by MFP.6
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I just started Low Carb, High fat today! I'm doing up to 1,200 calories a day for the first three days and then bumping that up to 1,500 calories afterwards. I do up to 25g of carbs a day and everything else protein and fat.2
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Low carb here too1
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i am going to start this soon, but am VERY nervous!!! I am not a big meat eater or vegi eater either!!!1
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I'm on the LCHF diet too! Did it before a couple years ago and fell off after just a couple weeks but this time I'm Not Stopping! Started the last Thursday in March of this year and still going strong! Any low carbers are welcome to add me!4
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Been on LCHF for almost 3 weeks now. I have already lost 13 lbs! Yay! The first 5 days I followed the Adkins fat fast to get into ketosis faster. And after the 2nd day, I lost all cravings for carbs but I did feel a little nauseated from eating so much fat. Now I have added moderate protein so I don't have that problem. I still watch my caloric intake as I believe a calorie is a calorie. I have a goal of losing another 50 lbs.6
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low carb high good fat here. lost 58 pounds in 17 weeks without exercise7
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Jo4applerose wrote: »I have noticed that LCHF will not work to lose wt if we dont count calories. I learned the hard way. Followed it for four weeks straight out of Dr. Hymans book at the end of four weeks I gained 1.6 pounds boy was that a surprise to me. This past Monday I started it again but this time I am eating the allotted amount of calories figured by MFP.
I also learned to track cals. I was so satisfied that i didnt reaize i was only eatng about 800 cals. lost weight for 3 weeks then stopped losing. Jumped it up to 1200 to 1500 and was back to losing.3 -
Jo4applerose wrote: »I have noticed that LCHF will not work to lose wt if we dont count calories. I learned the hard way. Followed it for four weeks straight out of Dr. Hymans book at the end of four weeks I gained 1.6 pounds boy was that a surprise to me. This past Monday I started it again but this time I am eating the allotted amount of calories figured by MFP.
I agree. Keeping tracks helps with accountability for healing food addicts like myself.8 -
I just started today Looking for friends on the same plan8
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Hey there1
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Another low carber here! I started low carb lifestyle on 1st of march and have lost over a stone now. I would love to have low carb friends here on MFP to get some advice, hints and tips from. I'm on Instagram under name low-carb.finn_uk. I post a lot of pics of food, if anyone needs ideas what to cook. Please add me!!4
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Hello! Im doing LCHF too since May 11 lost 6lbs so far. I'm a type 2 diabetic with high blood pressure. Since starting lchf, my b/s are within the normal range and even too low ( i might need to have meds adjusted). My blood pressure is doing better too. Im sticking to 30 g of carbs or less and 1200 calories. Im also excerising atleast 3 days a week but only for an hour (im a mom, full time employee, student and caregiver) Im looking to better my health not just for weight loss to fit into skinny clothes lol. Im an older mom with young kids and i need to be around for them Low carb helped me loose 45lbs back in 2007 so i know it works ":)5
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I also am aiming for HF/LC! Would be happy for friends trying this with open diaries for ideas! Thx2
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Hello. I'm also doing LCHF/KETO. Nice to see that I'm not alone. Down from 243 to 156, from a size 24 to a size 6. I've done it for 2 1/2 years, though I've fallen off a time or two. I've tried higher protein. It doesn't work for me. My macros are <20g net carbs (usually a lot less), 60-70g of protein, and fat until I'm satisfied.7
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Suggest you check out the main low carber forum group here in MFP. It's where most of us Ketofiles tend to hang out:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group2 -
Just started Monday! Can't believe how much better I feel already. This diet never made sense to me when I would see/hear people talk about it. But, my Mom gave me a book called "The Carb Addicts Diet". I didn't read it for about a month. But she kept talking to me about it, and after experiencing some of the major issues she had pinpointed of being a carb addict, I finally read it. Now it makes sense to me.
Like other poster's mentioned, though, I am still tracking calories and trying to stay under my allotment.0 -
JessicaMcB wrote: »JessicaMcB wrote: »I thought its suppose to be low carb high protein diet?
Technically I'd say a more appropriate name is Low Carb, Moderate Protein, Moderate Fat. The "High Fat" in weight loss SHOULD refer to the body fat you're burning for energy rather than dietary fat if you're doing it correctly. Higher dietary fat is more the territory of maintenance LCHF imo.
Too much protein will turn into glucose, lower carbs will not satisfy you therefore, raising good fat will satiate and will not raise your inslin levels therfore the fuel your body will reach for is fat you store on your body. This will help you lose weight.
I've lost 49lbs since February 1st so I don't think weight loss is an issue for me but thanks . My macros are set up at 75% fat, 20% fat, 5% carbs as well (to fit my OKL chart specs reasonably well) but I would never eat the entire fat macro (which I think a lot of non-LCHF people think we do, thus why I said this WOE could use a renaming) because that makes no sense in weight loss when you need to be burning the fat off your body.
Furthermore you have to eat a pretty significant amount of protein to have issues with glucogenesis as I understand it (If I recall the last article I read on the subject it was something wild like 300g+!). Eating a moderate amount of protein would be highly unlikely to "turn steak into cake" and I've yet to be in any LCHF group that would disagree with that outside of MFP.
I prefer a ratio of 60% fat, 30%fat, and fill in the rest with fat.
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I just started the LCHF WOE yesterday.
Feel free to add me!
Would love to have supportive friends walking the same path!0 -
dmariet116 wrote: »Been on LCHF for almost 3 weeks now. I have already lost 13 lbs! Yay! The first 5 days I followed the Adkins fat fast to get into ketosis faster. And after the 2nd day, I lost all cravings for carbs but I did feel a little nauseated from eating so much fat. Now I have added moderate protein so I don't have that problem. I still watch my caloric intake as I believe a calorie is a calorie. I have a goal of losing another 50 lbs.
And THIS is why I feel nauseated! Thank you. I've been a hot mess all morning!
This is why I needed to find this thread!
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