RubinaKochar Member

Your before looks so much like my current. Hoping to be where you're at, someday!

Thank you all for helping me stay the path at a vulnerable point. I'll keep exercising and I will be even more careful with eating. :)

Thanks for the insight. I'll hang in there.

I'll hang in there and see how this goes.

The thing is if I eliminate exercise from the equation, I lose like I should. But with exercise, the scale gets stuck.

I'll try to stick to the process and be diligent with my food weighing, measuring and logging. Therefore I'll atleast be sure I'm not making a diet related mistake!

I log everything I eat in here, I have a kitchen scale to weigh my food. I don't know how much I burn but I do not compensate my exercise in eating in any form. I eat 1300 calories a day. My tdee is 1650. I have 30ish pounds to lose. I was cutting calories for some time now and losing weight but I added workout a week ago…

Btw how tall are you?

Great progress. :)

Wow. Your love handles are pretty much gone. Keep it up. :)

That's just in 2 months? Wow!!

Wow. Such a great feeling. Might I say, losing 30 lbs in 2.5 months is IMPRESSIVE! How'd you do it?

Thank you so much. But being as greedy as I am, do you have something in <50, rather 20-50 pounds lost section?

@Donna_wanna You've joined a challenge or doing this personally? What are your goals? Mind if I PM you/ add you?

Nor do I.

Oh thanks a lot. All of you. :)

@Poisonedpawn78 Kindly throw some light here

I do not contradict that fat can be lost at a high carb diet. I'm just very cranky when I'm eating less with nearly half of my diet being carbs. Higher fat allows me to feel full. If you don't feel like me on a normal carb diet, more power to you! I envy your will power. :)

I know I will gain back water and glycogen mass when and if I start eating a normal carb diet. But why would I gain back the fat I have lost if I'm eating at maintenance? It's a genuine question, not a rhetoric argument. :P

I'm confused. I might be losing water/ glycogen mass initially. But am I not losing fat if I'm eating at a deficit consistently?? If after losing I go back to eating carbs but eating at maintenance, I would gain back water + glycogen but I won't gain fat (since I'm not eating at a caloric surplus). Isn't it??

This is very helpful. Thanks a ton. :)

Thanks. :)

Oh wow. Congratulations. I think it boils down to CICO then? I hope to lose these 20ish lbs some day.

Thank you. This does take out a lot of anxiety.

I agree to all you said. I think the main problem is that I'm feeling better creating a deficit on low carb high fat. When I was trying everything in moderation, I was eating my fingertips off. Maybe I'll learn a better, less "diet-oriented" path along the way, but for now this seems doable.

No. No particular reason. It's easier to create deficit on low carb, high fat is all.

It's easier for me to feel full on higher fat diet and helps me create a deficit. Since I have to cut somewhere to accommodate higher fats and I can't compromise proteins, therefore lower carb.

@estherdragonbat. Thanks a lot for your response. :)

I was just wondering similar thing. I earlier lost ~38 lbs by creating a 700 Cal deficit. I gained back most of it during marriage and pregnancy years. Now I'm back here but I can create a deficit of 300-400 calories and no more. Sometimes I worry about the snail's pace that I am. But atleast I'm losing. Sorry to steal…

1st Jan 74.4kgs / 164 lbs 11th Jan 72.9kgs / 160.7 lbs 21st Jan 72.5 kgs / 159.8 lbs Total loss for Jan 1.9 kgs/4.2 lbs Hoping to lose atleast a pound more. Fingers crossed.