I Have A Question For People Who Have Done Low Carb Diets?
How many carbs did you eat daily?
did you work out? and how much?
How long was it for u to see results?
How long was it until you lost a jean size?
Thanks! 
How many carbs did you eat daily?
did you work out? and how much?
How long was it for u to see results?
How long was it until you lost a jean size?
Thanks!
1. I didn’t keep track, but I did make sure to eat only things with no or low carbs.
2. I didn’t actually work out, but I had a fairly active lifestyle.
3. I lost 7 lbs in my first week alone. That’s the “fringe weight”. After that, I slowed down to maybe 1-2 lbs per week and lost 20 lbs in all.
4. I guess it would be about a month.
Warning: Eating low carb is a lifestyle change, not just a diet. If I don’t eat low carb, I gain back everything I’ve lost. It definitely helps if you exercise and then you can eat more carbs. I would reccommend buying and reading The South Beach Diet. There are different phases and certain food choices are better than others. The book explains all that. Good luck!
I’ve gone as low as 0 carbs for days, and near 0 for weeks. 75 or 100 should be okay, depending on your caloric intake. Within 2 days you may lose 5 pounds of water, especially if you are addicted to carbs. I wasn’t working out at the time, I don’t think.
The diet is an interesting technique to break carb- (and thus food-) addiction. Make sure you are eating plenty of fresh whole vegetables, probably green and leafy ones. Your 75 carb grams should be used to take in more berries, nuts, and fresh vegetables. I recommend a fish oil pill, or flax. (for the omega-3)
I am leery of recommending the diet. It can be a shock to the system, and it takes discipline to maintain. In the end, most gain the weight back.
I started as a size 20-22 (Australian size)
Didn’t weigh myself when I started.
Finished size 14! (Australian size)
Weighed myself twice and estimated I’d lost about 20kilos! (I think that is very roughly 40 pounds!
I didn’t count carbs.
The first thing I did:-
Stopped binging on junk food, chocolate, biscuits, cakes, pies, pastries, chips, full-fat icecream etc.
Second:-
Bought everything with lowest possible fat content and carb content I could find on packaging.
Only ate lowest fat, grilled meats.
Cut out all yellow cheese and only ate 80% reduced-fat cream cheese.
Cut out all butter and margarine (used the cream cheese spaeringly instead).
The biggest thing I did to accelerate the weight loss:-
Exercise! Every Day! For at least 45 minutes!
Couldn’t afford gym but bought:-
$50 Stepper – used it for at least 15 minutes a day whilst watching TV.
Took my dog for a vigorous walk of at least 30 minutes every day, which included walking quickly up and down slopes at the local park.
Bought a $5 skipping rope and built up from 30 to 100 to finally 200 skips a day (that was the most fun and the most satisfying achievement).
Every second or third day straight after walking and being warmed up, walked around my yard about 50 times whilst lifting a 3kg weight in each hand (originally cost about $10) in different postiions, ie. once around the yard whilst doing curls, once while lifting them above my head etc.
This sound like a lot! But I was very overweight and unhealthy.
At the end of it I had toned up, lost weight, felt fitter, happier.
Three months later I have gone back to binging and not exercising – but that 4 months of rigid, no-excuses, controlled eating and exercise has helped me put the brakes on much more than I would have previously and because of that
I am still a size 14!
I intend to get back to it – but (not as severely) soon and get to a size 12!
Hope you have same success!
I think you will find a lot about this subject by searching, oh, say…a search engine? LOL You may be young, and if so–you need to have all the nutritional elements required by your body.
I also believe that you may be approaching the idea of dieting with the wrong mind-set. It isn’t to lose a jean size, if that is your goal, but rather to be healthy.
There are a lot of indicators of health, such as BMI (basal metabolic rate), a DEXA scan or underwater weighing to determine the lean tissue to fat ratio, and those rather inaccurate insurance tables.
The cheapest and somewhat effective way to gauge fat content is to use a set of fat calipers on your triceps, abdomen, and calf. You take a good hunk of skin in a “pinch” (shouldn’t hurt) and check the measurement with the calipers.
Another, easier, way is to use one of those new fat analysis scales to weigh yourself. You stand on the scale with bare feet; some metal pads are touching your feet and they weigh and analyze your body. They are pretty good at telling your percentage of fat. Women/girls should not go below around 20% body fat, so work from there.
That said, the low carb lifestyle is a good one, and using only whole grains will almost automatically help. I am including a good resource online for whole-grain recipes and weight loss information. This site is maintained by the author of the Merck Manual section on sports medicine, and he is an MD. His wife contributed a lot of the nutritional information, as she is a registered dietician.
I never did one, but thats because I’m smart. Don’t do it. You will be depriving yourself of necessary energy that your body requires to function normally.
You want to eat carbs, protein, and healthy fats AND exercise. Also you should consume less calories then the amount you need to sustain your weight while exercising (around 500 less should be fine, but that all depends on several other factors)