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Originally Posted by Shy Introvert
About 5 days ago I started going on a low carb diet. I'm not really eating packaged foods most of the time, so I doubt that I'm eating more carbs that I think that I am. I'm mostly eating whole foods that aren't processed and I ended up only loosing a pound, then I gained that pound back today, WTH? UGH!!!!
So, I've been eating the same thing almost every day. The only good thing about this way of eating is that I'm almost never hungry since I eat a lot of mostly lean protein and fats.
Up until today, I was eating some low fat lentil chips, only one or two servings of it a day as I love chips, but I kept my carbs in check and didn't go over 100 grams a day. I cut those chips out today and all chips except for some pork rinds that has nothing else in it except for sea salt and rosemary.
I cut the carbs even more by just limiting myself to one serving of low sugar fruit a day. Everyday I'd eat sugar free greek yogurt sweetened with stevia, some almond milk w/o sugar, chia seeds, stevia, low sugar fruit, and make a smoothie out of it.
I'd also eat one or two cans of tuna in oil which is still low in fat, and 3 TBS of sunflower seeds, some low sugar beef jerky, turkey cold cut with salad and two tablespoons of no sugar dressing, and last night, a pre portioned low fat beef patty with worchestire sauce and one serving of cauliflower and parmesan cheese.
For breakfast today I just had 3 pieces of low fat Applegate bacon and I absorbed the extra fat with a tissue, and one egg cooked in non stick cooking spray. I don't eat any corn, wheat, pasta, bread, oats, rice, beans, lentils (aside from the lentil chips until today), and no potatos of any kind, or most carbs except for one serving of low sugar fruit like kiwi or berries now, and up until today, just one or two servings of low fat lentil chips.
I still ate stevia flavored yogurt and cheese though. I might cut out dairy soon as I heard that leads to weight gain. I'm eating almost the same stuff everyday. And I'm not loosing weight! WTH? My only treat is the occasional diet pepsi which I know isn't good, but having one once in awhile shouldn't hurt, right? I'm sure that I don't go overboard on portions. I know what a portion size is.
I measure everything. I drink lots of water mostly. I don' exercise though. I need to loose 80lbs. This is extremely frustrating!
Has anyone else NOT been able to loose weight w/o exercise on a low carb diet? IF you DID loose weight, how long did it take you to loose weight? Also, did anyone notice your weight loss? If so, how much did you have to loose before that happened? Ten pounds? Twenty? I'm sure that no one will notice much difference until I loose at least 25lbs. maybe as I'm huge right now.
I'm only 5'4, but I'm 183-185lbs. at the Drs. office usually, and a size 12-14, ugh! And i used to be a size 4-6 and around 105-115lbs most of the time! This sucks!
I don't drink now and I get plenty of sleep. Why am I not loosing weight? I feel like I'll be fat forever no matter what! I cut out the chips today so my carb intake for today will be 70-80 grams. Last night I did eat a little late. I ate at 9, so maybe I'm retaining water from last nights salty dinner?
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I lost 40 pounds and kept them off by counting calories - measuring solid foods by weighing out the serving sizes that were specified on food packages or online, and measuring liquids the same way. Going low carb or cutting out a specific type of food doesn't work, and you dont need to pay for Weight Watchers. Just sign up for myfitnesspal, or google "how many calories does ot take to maintain my weight?" (maintaining the weight means staying at the same weight, not losing or gaining) and eat less than that and you will lose weight. Keep in mind that 3500 calories of food equal one pound of fat. Eat 3500 calories less than your maintenance calories and you'll lose a pound, just like eating 3500 more will cause you to gain a pound.
You might wonder how this should be calculated. You know your maintenance calories is the amount of calories it takes to stay at the same weight, but when it comes to eating 3500 less than that, you might not be sure whether you're supposed to be calculating this based on how many calories it takes to maintain your weight on a daily basis, or a weekly basis, or monthly, etc. Well, how you would do it all depends on how many or how few calories you need to consume per day, week or month to maintain your weight, and how fast you want to lose weight. For most people, unless they're absolutely huge or extremely active or something, it doesn't take more than 3500 calories a day to maintain their weight, therefore eating 3500 less than maintenance every day would be impossible and trying would be unhealthy. But if you are 200 pounds, for instance, need 2,000 calories to maintain your weight and wanted to lose a pound a week, you could eat 500 calories less than daily maintenance i.e 1500 calories, meaning you'd be eating 3500 calories less a week and would lose a pound that week.
Keep in mind that the amount of calories you would eat to maintain your weight will probably decrease as you lose weight and get smaller. Bigness of body, as well as being more active, are a few factors that usually increase your maintenance calories.
Keep a balance between healthy foods and treats, dont deprive yourself, and realize that if you've been doing this a few weeks and the scale isn't budging, then you aren't weighing / measuring or keeping track of how much you are eating (you MUST try to be as accurate as possible, solid foods should be weighed and not measured, and you should not ignore things you consume like butter, condiments, oil or small bites of things here and there, because everything you eat counts!), or that you only think you are not losing and theres a water fluctuation going on in your body, which can be caused by many factors.