Losing alot of weight

snickerscharlie wrote: »

fuzzydogpa wrote: »

I don't have too much to lose. I'm just wanting to shred some body fat and gain some lean muscle but I do know a thing or two about eating for fat loss. Most people who eat due to being hungry a lot are insulin resistant. And I know it sounds counter intuitive but you have to eat fat to lose the fat while restricting your carbs. Carbs drive up insulin and it is the fat storage hormone. So if you are binge eating then do it on foods that won't drive up insulin. Chose pickles or olives or meats and cheeses. Avoid sugar and limit fruits to only berries until you reach your goal. Eat lots of non-starchy veggies. No flour, no pasta, no sugar, no rice, no oatmeal, no potatoes, no grains or cereal. You can make a low carb cereal by taking coconut flakes, walnuts, sesame and flax seeds, almonds and sprinkling them with cinnamon and some vanilla and stevia and toasting it in an oven and then storing that for use in place of cereal. You can substitute steamed grated cauliflower in recipes calling for potatoes or rice or use spiral cut zucchini instead of pasta or use spaghetti squash or miracle noodles or miracle rice. You look at how you are eating and where the carbs are coming from and you simply substitute the carbs with low carb replacements. Also do some weight training so that you don't burn up muscle while losing body fat. Retaining your muscle will keep your metabolism from decreasing and give you a leaner look as the fat burns off. Don't pay attention to the scale as a pound of muscle is very condensed on your body whereas a pound of fat takes up a large volume on your body. So losing a 10 lbs of fat will look drastically different than losing 10 lbs of muscle. Just take an article of clothing that is tight and keep trying it on until it fits well and then gets looser and then just keep doing that with some article of clothing. That is a better way to judge your progress and stay motivated. Water retention can cause our weight to fluctuate +5 /- 5 lbs daily which an be discouraging if seeking validation from a scale. I also put pics on my fridge of what I want my body to look like and every time I think about opening the fridge or the pantry and mindlessly snacking I look at the pics. If you have to snack then do it on deviled eggs, or pickles, or meat and cheese or celery. Some good recipe websites are I breath I'm hungry, Peace Love and low carb, and All Day I Dream About Food. Hope this helps some of you.

The bolded is the only part of this post that is universally valid, especially for women.

As to the LCHF (Low Carb, High Fat) diet that is being touted in the above post as the route to success, LCHF is only ONE way of perhaps attaining your goals, but it is certainly not the ONLY (and in a lot of cases, not even the best) way to achieve this.

A restrictive diet such as this, which places foods in categories that are either good or bad, is neither necessary nor sustainable for most people. Losing weight really boils down to a very simple premise: Eat less, move more. However you decide to achieve that is entirely up to you.

Sugar is not evil. Potatoes are not the devil. You absolutely CAN lose weight while still eating the foods you love. It's a question of moderation rather than elimination.