[blackbutterfly]

I like dr. mcdougall foods and they are VERY carb friendly

[Jonjaxmom]

I eat about 50-60% carbs. But mostly they are multi grain breads, brown rice, whole grain pastas. I've been pretty good about keeping my calorie intake within 1600 cals per day, and have found my weight loss pretty consistent, about a pound per week.

[marmar09]

I loveee carbs. I try to limit myself though but not much. I eat like one or two granola bars a day (sometimes three!), breakfast is usually cereal and lunch is turkey on wheat. If I have a salad with chicken for lunch, I'll allow myself a wheat wrap for dinner. I try to balance it out.

[Larry H]

I pay almost no attention to carbs in my plan. I don't limit or increase them.
I am simply calorie counting.

I have a friend however that went on the craziest diet I ever heard of.
It was kind of reverse Atkins for lack of a better name. (He dreamed it up himself) Extremely low fat and very high carbs. He ate huge amounts of pasta,
potatoes and bread every day. At the end of a year he had lost 126 pounds by eating that way. I went out for meals with him often and saw what he was actually eating otherwise I would not have believed this to be possible. I have no idea why he lost so much weight doing this. It makes no sense to me but I can't argue with his results.

The world of diets sure can be starnge

Larry

[LisaTcan]

I don't watch carbs at all, just calories...whenever I try to watch my carbs I fail miserably. It hasn't really effected by weight loss though. However I do worry that it is bad for my health and I'll end up with diabetes! For example todays food
B: Bagel thin with pb2
L: PB2 and banana on whole wheat bread
D: 6inch veggie sub on whole wheat + chips
S: Fiber one bar and apple

Sooo many carbs!!

[canadianwoman]

Originally Posted by LisaTcan

I don't watch carbs at all, just calories...whenever I try to watch my carbs I fail miserably. It hasn't really effected by weight loss though. However I do worry that it is bad for my health and I'll end up with diabetes! For example todays food
B: Bagel thin with pb2
L: PB2 and banana on whole wheat bread
D: 6inch veggie sub on whole wheat + chips
S: Fiber one bar and apple

Sooo many carbs!!

Not much protein there. I would be starving and searching the pantry for food if I ate like that.

[LEESE]

I Adore Carbs !

[Candeka]

I don't understand how people can eat so few carbs (20-40g A DAY!). Carbs also make up about 45-60% of my daily intake.

[sontaikle]

Originally Posted by Candeka

I don't understand how people can eat so few carbs (20-40g A DAY!). Carbs also make up about 45-60% of my daily intake.

Oh I don't know how they go that low too! I don't have anywhere near a high carb diet—I don't eat grains much at all anymore so most of my carbs come from fruits and veggies—but if I go that low I get super tired and cranky!

I don't usually track my carbs, but whenever I do they generally make up about 30-35% of my daily intake.

[lin43]

Originally Posted by Larry H

I pay almost no attention to carbs in my plan. I don't limit or increase them.
I am simply calorie counting.

Ditto. I want to keep it as simple as possible so that I will stick to it.

[canadianwoman]

Originally Posted by Candeka

I don't understand how people can eat so few carbs (20-40g A DAY!). Carbs also make up about 45-60% of my daily intake.

I eat about 50 carbs a day and there are a lot of foods that I can eat so I am not feeling deprived.

[kaplods]

Originally Posted by Candeka

I don't understand how people can eat so few carbs (20-40g A DAY!). Carbs also make up about 45-60% of my daily intake.

If you want to succeed at weight loss you have to learn to do what it takes, and for some people that's what it takes.

Part of the reason I never seriously tried reduced-carb diets was because I "knew" they weren't sustainable. Turns out they're the only plans that work well for me, so I can either learn to deal with it and MAKE it sustainable, or I can remain obese.

I'm at a crossroads right now because I really think I have to cut more carbs and I just don't want to. I've learned that I don't have to cut as many calories when those calories are coming from carbs, so I'm torn cut more calories from fat and protein- which would increase my carb percentage (and therefore my hunger) or cut calories from carbs and not have to cut quite so many calories.


I've proven through my food journals that all calories are not equal for me. To lose the same amount of weight I have to cut more calories on high-carb than on low-carb.

So for me it's a question of more food/less hunger or less food/more hunger. To lose weight on high-carb I have to cut calories much more drastically and I'm hungry 24/7. On high-carb, I'm so hungry and food-obsessed that I even dream about food.

I really don't want to cut carbs to under 100g (not counting fiber in the carb count, because humans can't digest fiber or the calories in the fiber), because I still can't convince myself that going that low is "healthy" but I'm not sure I can get much more weight off unless I do (at least not without being miserably hungry all day).

I just can't go back to the "rabid hunger" so I HAVE to learn to reduce the carbs more than I have been. I don't like it, but if I want to lose weight without feeling like an animal in a trap willing to chew it's leg off to escape, carbs are the most logical sacrifice.

I don't know how drastically I'll have to cut carbs to lose all the weight and then maintain a healthy weight (and keep rabid hunger at bay), but I do know that if I want to do it, I have to learn to do whatever it takes - even if it takes learning to live on 20 to 40g of carbs. I'm hoping I don't have to go/stay that low, but if I find that I do, I hope I can learn to.

[Lee NZ]

I just finished a big bowl of brown rice with plenty of cinnamon and a sprinkling of raw sugar and dried prunes for breakfast Nope, I don't limit carbs although I try to steer clear of refined ones. That bowl of rice will keep me full for many hours.

Many years ago I tried a couple of high protein/low carb diets and after day three felt awful. I had no energy and was dragging myself around all day. On one of those diets I kept it up for three weeks but just couldn't continue.

It just doesn't seem logical to me to have to limit vegetables.

Lee

[freelancemomma]

Originally Posted by LisaTcan

However I do worry that it is bad for my health and I'll end up with diabetes!

As a medical writer I've written a lot about diabetes and interviewed a lot of experts on the subject. They all agree that carbs don't raise the risk of diabetes. Obesity does. Whether a person got obese by eating lots of carbs or lots of fat is immaterial. It's the excess fat in the body that changes the metabolic environment and (in predisposed individuals) can lead to insulin resistance and diabetes.

Freelance