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!
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 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.
Tried low carb...
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.
