Tried low carb...
 

Started Atkins induction, lasted a week. Lol. Woke up Saturday got extremely sick and weak so now I'm back to calorie counting! Don't know why I ever doubted it, calorie counting is the only thing that has ever worked for me. Well back to trying to lose the last 15-20 lbs. Good luck with your goals everyone!

LC works for me but CC works for EVERYONE! :D
Good luck on your journey ;)

Welcome back

lol i hear ya! cc is a life saver! good luck sweety!

I tried LC before too. I just found that it gave me bad headaches and barely any energy to work out and then when I dropped it I would binge on bad carbs. It would work really quick for some weight loss but after the first week I couldnt stand it anymore and had to stop anyways.
Calorie Counting is definitely my plan too.

Thanks so much everyone :) I think not only calorie counting but just being a part of this site helps me so much. Everyone here is so friendly and helpful! Kellrell- that pretty much describes my experience to a t. I went from like 143 lbs to 137 in 5 days, I've gained it all back in 2 days! That's just craziness to me. I'm glad Low carb works for a lot of people, just don't think it's for me.

Hi Savannah - you can ignore my post back on Low Carb - I missed your switch back to CC. I agree that certain bodies seem to respond better to certain diets. Best of luck with your last 20! You can do it!!

I count calories AND carbs through an exchange plan. My doctor recommended low-carb for my insulin resistance, but warned me not to go "too low" though admitting he had no idea what too low was.

I had tried low-carb in the past, and it always made me very sick (the typical induction flu- and it didn't go away after 2 weeks it only got worse).

Ironically, I never tried what my current doctor suggested (reducing carbs, but not going "too low" and determining "too low" by how I felt).

I also started keeping track of calories and carbs, and discovered that I can eat about 300 calories more on low-carb to lose about the same amount of weight (1500 calories of high-carb yeilds about the same results and 1800 calories of lower-carb).

The results are even more dramtic if I eat super low-carb (Atkins induction level) but it's just not worth the blood sugar crashes (what I learned the "induction flu" was really about). So I've found my "low enough" to control hunger that isn't "too low."

For some reason moderately low-carb diets aren't as popular as the extremes of no-carb or unrestrained carb.

For me, low-carb is about hunger control. I'm hungrier on 3000 calories of high-carb than on 1000 calories of low-carb. I can't eat 20g of carbs or less without getting sick, but I can easily eat 100g or less and have reasonable hunger control. I have less hunger on 20g, but at the expense of blood sugar crashes, so I'd rather deal with a bearable amount of hunger (and the 300 extra calories I get to eat is a bonus).

I used to think my 300 calorie advantage to low-carb was unusual, but recent research found the same 300 calorie advantage to low-carb (I talked about it here on 3FC at least 3 years before the research came out). Turns out my experience is more typical than I imagined.

I do sometimes choose a 1500 calorie high-carb day over an 1800 calorie lowish-carb day, but the hunger differential just isn't worth it to me most days. I'd rather eat the 1800 calories of low-carb and be less hungry than to eat high-carb and feel that the more carbs I ate, the hungrier I was.

Any idea where I can find that research? I'm writing an article about weight-loss tweaks for a national magazine.

F.

You might try a search here on 3FC because several people posted links here in the last couple months, which is how I became aware of it. The links were to articles reporting the research, not directly to the original journal article.

I found one of the links in this thread

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/weig...her-plans.html


And here is the link posted in that thread
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...D=6j2pc0egbejw




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I took a minute to search on google and found a link to this article

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/n...ry_126664.html

and discovered that original journal article was published in the June 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.




http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/n...ry_126664.html

I LC and CC. I was just plain ol' low carbing for a few months but was not seeing the losses others were so I decided to start calorie counting on top of it. I also find that I can eat more then TDEE if I low carb, but not 300 cals more, lol, maybe 150 to 200 more and still lose the same as SAD & CC. glycemic control is really important to my weight loss, too much insulin in my blood and I'm packing on the lbs not losing even if I'm eating less then 2000.