Low Carb High Fat

shanhen70 wrote: »

I am on the lo carb diet as well. I need help, what do you do when your craving sugar really bad. Ive been on it for a year and have lost 60+pounds. I have plateaued big time and I am stressing and craving sugar badly. What can I eat to help my sugar cravings. I need to lose 25 more lbs then I've reached my goal.

tlflag1620 wrote: »

PaleoPath4Lyfe wrote: »

shanhen70 wrote: »

I am on the lo carb diet as well. I need help, what do you do when your craving sugar really bad. Ive been on it for a year and have lost 60+pounds. I have plateaued big time and I am stressing and craving sugar badly. What can I eat to help my sugar cravings. I need to lose 25 more lbs then I've reached my goal.

Hi. Up your fat intake to help lose sugar cravings. Also, sugar free jello, pudding, etc may help get you over the hump.

I'd actually caution against artificially sweetened products (that's why I asked what she was eating - artificial sweeteners cause cravings for some people). Without knowing how long she's been stalled, or what she is eating, it's next to impossible to give advice.

tlflag1620 wrote: »

JodehFoster wrote: »

tlflag1620 wrote: »

On the one hand, you are absolutely correct - if he wasn't losing on a higher carb diet, he wasn't in a deficit (clearly, or to quote my nine year old, "duh"). And yes, when you cut carbs, you use up your glycogen stores. Since glycogen is bound in water, you also shed the water weight, which is why so many just starting a LCHF see pretty impressive losses in the first couple of weeks. Weight loss will not continue at such a rapid rate (nor should it). That said, many people find it easier to create and maintain the necessary calorie deficit needed for weight loss when they follow a LCHF diet - the foods you do eat are satiety promoting, meaning you can eat less spontaneously because you aren't as hungry. Obviously this is not universally so (some people don't get improved satiety with LCHF), but for those of us who struggled on a more "balanced" diet, LCHF can be amazing. I always had a very hard time sticking to my calorie goal long enough on a lower fat, higher fiber diet, and hunger would always get the better of me, wiping out my deficits. Switching to LCHF made the hunger go away and I dropped 50 lbs in seven months, no counting, no weighing, no measuring, no logging. Just eating to satiety. If you don't want to do it, great, don't. But it is a perfectly valid option. I think it's kind of juvenile to actively try to discourage someone from trying something different simply because you don't use that approach. But, hey, never change, MFP, never change.

I think you are misreading. Nobody is discouraging anyone here...the first week or two is not magical low carb diet results. What Yirara posted is factual truth and in no way are they suggesting an alternative diet or to avoid low carb, but only to recognize where this "magical' loss came from.

I've been low-carb/keto since '09. I lost over 100# in the first two years. I continue on this path, but do allow myself a slice of pizza or a sandwich if I feel like it. I've kept the weight off & it is pretty easy for me to eat this way.

but yeah...it's not for everyone.

If I misunderstood, I apologize. Seemed to me the op was looking for friends, support, and information about how best to implement his new way of eating. That's why I directed him to a group that will give him precisely that (and, yes, they would also explain that the big losses in the first couple weeks are mainly water and that you still need to be in a deficit if you want some actual fat loss). Perhaps I misunderstood those posts and misinterpreted them as discouraging. If that's the case, again, I do apologize.