Hi all.. Thx for jumping in here. I was on a lo carb lo glycemic program. It is a commercial program (had to buy protein "meals" from them. I used mostly shakes as the other items they sell all have gluten in them) I participated in this at a wellness center at a chiro office. It's called The Ideal Protein diet. It's pretty restrictive.. But it works esp if one is insulin resistant. My short stature and age did not give me dramatic results.. Some claim large losses the first few weeks.. I averaged 2-3 lbs a week consitently for about 5 months. Which I never got even close to on anything else! Weight watchers was a disaster and I gained on that regimen. For me it matters where my calories come from. I'm really carb sensitive and phasing off the commercial IP program now. Will need to be careful of carbs/ sugar forever. Am Gluten Free which helps and will be getting most of my carbs from high fiber veggies. Counting calories will NOT be enough for my metabolism and therefore, will be following a modified paleo diet. (I will use some dairy.)
The transformation of my physical self was/is amazing. Wearing really small size now, shoe size changed too! The weight started coming off my midsection first. Wanted to lose another 5-7 lbs before deciding I'm "there".. but the extremely slow weekly losses for the past two months now and bouncing up and down within a 2 lb range since summer's end have convinced me it's time to phase off. It's an expensive diet... But was worth (totally worth) it. At this point, I've gotten the biggest bang out of this protocol I'll likely get, but most importantly really understand my metabolism now. This is not a diet that works very well with cheating. You gotta be 100% in/on, because it does put your body into a ketogenic state. Cheating costs days to reverse...so it's expensive. If you have to have cheat days you may wnant a cheaper diet!! It took me about 8 months to lose that amount of weight, and mentally I was not struggling with the inability to cheat ...it was just so good to have something that actually worked, and as the pounds dropped it was easy to keep motivated and see that progress was real.
If you are addicted to bread, pasta, sugar etc... You need to evaluate what is most important..there is no forgiveness for a slice of toast or pizza, and no wine. Or beer. Since I'm gluten free... (8 yrs now) those things were easier for me to give up .. And I won't be adding them back!
What is the insulin resistance diet? It sounds similar..?!
Last edited by 65X65; 10-31-2013 at 02:50 PM.
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