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2005/06/12, 07:32 PM
i started using the low carb diet again. i am reading a lot of negative things on here about it. honestly, i have never felt better. i don't feel sluggish or any of the other things people are saying. i eat only 'good' carbs. i find i have more 'motivation & endurance' than ever before. i did it a few years ago and lost the weight i wanted to lose...but then i went back to my old eating habits and gained it all back. also, last time i did it i wasn't working out. right now i am doing mostly cardio. i walk (fast paced) and i ride my bike with my daughter. i wans't going to go to the gym and do the 'toning' until i lost the weight...should i be going to the gym now? and should i not be living the 'low carb' lifestyle?
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2005/06/12, 09:38 PM
That is usually one of the "downfalls" of a low carb diet for any length of time. It is easy to develop a carb intolerance, and when you go back to normal eating, you blow up like a balloon. Newsflash....you can never go back to your old eating habits. If you do, the same thing will happen.
Keep your carbs as only veggies and low GI carbs (potatoes, beans). Just like everybody else's low carb diet in the universe, it will work. It is a lifestyle change, not just until you get where you want.
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2005/06/12, 10:05 PM
oh yes i know that. i knew that before too, but you always say to yourself 'that won't happen to me' and here i am 4 years later with all my weight back. although i really only gained it back in the last 16 months. i did good for a while. but i read all the books, i am an active member in the forums on the atkins website. i think this is the thing for me to do. it's easy an my family can do it too. my daughter is very hyperactive so taking some of the sugar out of her life can't hurt and my father lives with us. he is diabetic so cutting his carbs down is good for him too. although i haven't cut thier carbs to the extreme i have cut mine.
i have decided to do all of this again and be serious about it this time because i am making a lifestyle change. i quit smoking last week after 13 years of about 2 packs a day. i feel great so now i want to lose the weight and get in shape. i'll feel even better, look better and keep my mind off of smoking...it definately isn't easy.
do you know of any vitamins or supplements i should take to help the process?
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2005/06/15, 01:54 PM
ok bbfit1...i've read on here that you are one of the most informative people on hear. i've read a lot about calories and calorie reduction. well i just found this article and i was wondering how true it actually is. i've pasted it below....let me know what you think.
thanks
Kristi
Calories: A Basic Fact
Thirty-five hundred calories equal a pound of body weight. Therefore, to lose a pound you can take one of three approaches
eat 3500 fewer calories than you need to maintain your weight;
burn 3500 calories without eating more than you need to maintain your current weight; or
achieve a 3500 calorie deficit with a combined approach of eating less and exercising more.
If you divide 3500 by 7—that's 7 days in a week—you realize that a 500 calorie per day deficit will result in the loss of one pound a week. Though this math is a bit over-simplified and various caveats prevent its applicability to everyone at all times, it helps you understand your challenge when weight loss is your goal.
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2005/06/15, 03:58 PM
I'm not bb1 (but if I were I'd have all the chicks)...but that looks about right to me. I take about 500-600 calories less a day then my maintenance calories. Combined with working out and higher protein then most, equal carbs and protein at about 40% and Fats (good ones) at about 20%. I drop about 1.5 to 2.5 lbs a week.
Even though my title says Professional, don't believe it I'm just as new as most to this lifestyle. However here's my take on low carb diets...if you create a caloric defecit by dropping any one type of food (carbs/protein/fat) you'll lose weight. Just as long as you're not replacing carbs with something else, it will work just as a lowered calorie diet would. Also your body needs carbs, carbs make your brain work...low carb diets can and will (let me emphasize...over the long term) affect your brain as well as your body in negative ways.
Personally I've dropped 16 lbs in just about 2.5 months on nothing other then watching my calories, as well as sugar and fat intakes and exercising. So I've never quite understood the hype of the Atkins. With that said I would recommend you do what works for you to get the weight off, then rather then staying on a low carb diet...build you a diet to maintain with carbs/protein/fats. You'll build a much more solid structure for the long haul.
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2005/06/15, 04:47 PM
ok, so how many calories should i be taking in in a day? i would love to drop 16 pounds in 2 months. how many days a week should i work out and what should i do? i am very new to this. i never had a problem with my weight before. i used to be able to eat what ever i wanted and not gain an ounce now it seems like all i have to do is think about food and i gain...
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Make it happen!!
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2005/06/15, 09:32 PM
k, here's another question...Protein -
Carbohydrates - 183 g
Protein - 366 g
Fats - 30 g
Total Calories - 2438.. calculated maximum, do not exceed for current goal
that is what ft gave me for a nutritional plan...should i eat that many calories or drop 500 from that?
this is so confusing...
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