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I pre plan but I back-load all my calories towards the evening. I dont get that hungry during the day at work but when I get home, look out! So I save up my calories all day long and then spend them.

Why answer a question the way you did? You were so busy loading up your answer you didnt even read my question properly. Low carb works for me, but PART TIME low carb is something I have never tried and wanted to see if anyone has strategically used one low carb meal per day to help control their appetite. Once again,…

Thanks everyone, you guys are so supportive. This is just what I needed. It took a lot just to make this thread.

Yes a had bacon, then spicy big bite hot dog from 7 eleven. Then a bacon ultimate cheeseburger wrapped in lettuce. Then a huge 1lb steak, then a pork chop, then a couple slices of cheese. What I am saying is that the first day, you still have that appetite, and I think today and the next day will start me towards eating…

http://authoritynutrition.com/why-do-low-carb-diets-work/

So how come this is not discussed more often? We see obesity reports all the time. We see comparisons between low carb and low fat diets. But no one really wants to get to the bottoms of this...controlling your hunger. The key to losing weight is controlling your hunger. Period. If I hear one more professional say "lose…

yeah forget water weight and food weight etc. i know is temporary. i just wanted to know the science and see if it was equal both ways, which it is.

no diet works if you cant sustain

no more carbs. going on low carb killed my hunger.

Not necessarily true for YOU. For me, when I am on low carb I have to force myself to eat. My hunger is gone. Completely. I strongly feel any diet that reduces hunger cant be a bad thing.

Everyone on the main boards are sugar addicts who want to have their cake (literally) and eat it too. As long as their cake pr pie or ice cream fits into their daily calories they justify it.

All I know is: 1. My main issues with weight loss was that I was always hungry. 2. Low carb has been the only thing to control my hunger cravings. 3. When looking through this site I see post after post about how hungry people are all the time. I do what works for me. If something else works for someone else, great. But I…

But eating carbs triggers cravings so you eat more calories. When I eat a bowl of pasta I am hungry an hour later. When i have a steak and green beans I am not hungry for 4 hours. Yes its about calories too but whatever works, works.

cut the carbs, and your hunger will drop.

All of you who did Atkins, lost the weight, then put it back on didn't do Atkins correctly. You are supposed to gradually add carbs back into the diet and find your sweet spot. Once you end Atkins completely yes, you will put all the weight back on. It's all about insulin.

why weight lifting?

The only way I have found to manage my hunger is to eat a lot of protein and ditch the carbs, sugars etc. I am doing low carb right now and I have to force myself to eat.

BINGO.

Sliders are 140 calories each. You could have had 4 of them for 560 calories. How many calories do you eat in a day man?

Oh really? This person never brought anything to work ever. She has the weight loss surgery, loses all this weight, then suddenly she has decided that she is going to bring all these pastry and cookies and goods from places like Vons (the home baking excuse doesn't cut it here). Why do all of you assume some of these…

But what about where I work? We have this after work Yoga program, we are starting a Weight Watchers thing for employees and yet the one employee who had bypass surgery and lost a lot of weight and brings cookies, doughnuts, pastries constantly, and....does not eat them. Wouldn't that count as sabotage, be passive…

Unless they take supplements right?

Well I am adjusting my daily calories to 1800 then. Do you think that would be good for 320 pounds?

So if I was to start with 2973 and I eat 1800 calories per day my daily deficit is 1173 and every time this 1173 adds up to 3500 I lose a pound?

When I was having good success in late 2013, I was doing IF, skipping breakfast, because breakfast makes me hungry all day long. I have been slipping a bit lately on that :(

thank you guys, very helpful.

I dont get food scales. So instead of counting calories I am counting pounds? If I use cups, 1/2 cups, teaspoons, etc isn't that measuring my food?

i measure and go by packaging and labels.

not gonna use a food scale, ever.

Last December I got down to 310. I just looked at my logs for Oct, Nov and Dec of 2013 and they were more consistent. I never had any bad 3,200 calorie days, and I saw many times where I would be at 1,500 and 1,600 calories.