Do you loose weight faster when you don’t consume carbs?

No, you just lose water weight initially but it doesn't change fat loss.

Calorie deficit is the way weight is always lost. Bodies don’t differentiate where calories come from.

Ashlove5 wrote: »

I heard diets which involve strictly meat and vegetables helps you shed pounds faster but on my fitness pal everyone says as long as you are in calorie defecit you will continue loosing. So does eating carbs have any affect on how much weight u loose or how fast if you are in a calorie defecit?

Let's be clear: Weight loss and fat loss are not identical, and humans aren't identical clones.

Some people find that eating fewer carbs (from any sources) seems to help them control their appetite, so makes weight loss calorie goals easier to stick with - sometimes so easy that they don't even need to count the calories, because their reduced appetite takes care of that without counting. Other people find that reducing carbs negatively affects their energy level, so they drag through daily life and struggle with workout intensity, thus they burn fewer calories from movement than if they eat more carbs.

If you're one or the other of those types of people, carb intake might be important for weight loss, pro or con . . . indirectly. Many of us - me, for one - seem to be neither of those kinds of people.

Calories - those we eat vs. those we burn - are the thing that determines body fat levels. Eat fewer calories than we burn (from being alive, daily life stuff, and/or exercise), and we'll lose body fat, because the fat gets burned to make up the calorie shortfall.

Mostly, when we want to "lose weight" we really mean "lose body fat". Body weight includes fat, a whole bunch of water, and some solids (bones, the non-water parts of skin, muscle, and such, etc.).

Carbohydrates, when we metabolize them, cause our body to hold onto a bit of water weight while they're being metabolized. Some amount of carb-related water weight is a normal part of our body weight, because most people eat around the same amount of carbs daily. Normally, we don't notice that, or care.

But if we suddenly dramatically cut our carb consumption, we'll turn lose the related water weight, and see a big scale drop. It's not fat, so it's irrelevant to the core goal of fat loss . . . but it's psychologically really rewarding to see that scale drop. That drop is an enticing part of low-carb dieting.

On the flip side of that, if we suddenly eat significantly more carbs than usual, we'll see a scale jump. Again, it's not fat (unless it was enough calories to put us over maintenance calories by that many pounds), but it freaks people out.

I'd also observe that some people don't use the term "carbs" accurately, for example, may define "carbs" to be things like cookies or Pop-Tarts or french fries, but think of things like carrots or apples as not-carbs in that way. Quite a few of the things people consider to be "carbs" in that way are actually things that have more calories from fat than from carbohydrates. Weird, right? 🤷‍♀️

Loosely, carbs are starches and sugars. Sugars in table sugar, and sugar in the beets that are used to make a lot of table sugar, are both sugars. (The rest of the beet isn't sugar, of course.) Starches are in veggies like corn, white bread and whole-grain bread, white rice and brown rice, etc. Cookies, for example, are a food, not "a carb". Typically, cookies have quite a few calories from fat, some calories carbs from starches (flour) and sugar, and a tiny bit of calories from protein.

Vegetables have carbohydrates, so if you're eating vegetables, you're eating carbohydrates.