At the risk of being repetitive (I've posted on this subject in several places recently--but that's why I go by Carbhater, after all) but let me tell you how I lost 40 pounds on a low carb diet last summer (as soon as the administrators let me, I will post a couple before and after pictures).
For the first time in my life (I'm 60), after learning everything I could on the low carb/high fat diet I buckled down and committed myself to keeping my carb intake to under 40 carbs per day. (it's different for everyone...you have to find your own sweet-spot). I stopped eating bread, potatoes, popcorn, rice, and pasta along with any prepackaged snack food that came in a bag. Basically I quit sugar. All carbs turn to sugar quickly after consumption.
Every week for 4 months I went through two or three dozen eggs, a pound of bacon or sausage, a dump truck full of various cheeses, kale and berry smoothies, and lots of real butter. I eliminated the words "low-fat and fat-free" from my vocabulary. For sweet tooth cravings I ate all the blueberry cheesecake I wanted, made with almond flour, flax seed meal, Splenda, vanilla whey protein powder, etc. For crunchy-salty snacks I ate pork rinds.
The weight just fell off of me and I was never hungry. There was even a low-carb pizza by Dr. Berg with a cauliflower/mozzarella crust we had every Friday. When I went in for my yearly physical my Doctor was elated, at first, that I had lost 40 pounds of fat. But when I told her how I did it she got a cross look on her face and said, "Well, let's just see was your lab results are before we celebrate. Your cholesterol is probably through the roof!"
Well, not only was my cholesterol NOT through the roof it was below normal and the good cholesterol was up. And my triglycerides were way below normal. She didn't know what to say and I could tell she having problems digesting (no pun intended) the numbers on the lab report. The last thing she said before leaving the room was, "Watch your protein intake, it's a little high."
I didn't mean for this to be so long, please forgive me. I just get excited when I share this with people who are struggling, like I did my whole life with being overweight. Oh, and something else I learned that I never knew before: you need fat and protein for your body, especially your brain, to function properly...you need it to live. But you could eat a diet consisting of only carbohydrates and actually starve to death. Freaky.
Good health to you!
Tom.
Last edited by Carbhater; 08-11-2016 at 10:27 PM.
Reason: Misspelled words.
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