[jessica2231]

I need help with my plan.
I have been calorie counting for about six months and my weightloss is slowing way down to less than a pound a week. Im still at such a high weight i think its just my body getting used to my plan.

I was thinking of starting to count my carb intake. How do I know how many calories i should be eating a day? How do I know whats good for my size age and height? Is that how it works? Im not sure how I know so im a bit stumped. Ive done some google searches and not much is coming up. Please help if you can.

Thank you!!

[ERHR]

I think you haven't been able to find much info because it's not a very widely studied area. It's the sort of thing I think you need to feel out for yourself and it varies widely person-to-person. You could go the Atkins-style route - start low and slowly add in carbs until you stop losing. Personally I just kept lowering. The diet I'm on is low-sugar/moderate-carb (The Belly Fat Cure) so it caps daily gross carbs at 120 g/day (approximately). I started out around 100-120 gross carbs/day and am now down around 70 gross/day (40 g net/day).

One thing I've learned is that the amount of carbs you at at one meal/sitting matters, not just your total for the day. The point of lowering carb intake (and pairing carbs with fat, protein, and fiber) is to reduce glucose and insulin spikes to limit fat storage. So eating 120 g of carbs in one meal is very different than eating 6 small meals of 20 g each. Just something else to think about.

[Raven132]

Have you tried upping the fat %? What are you eating?