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Everyone has to do what works for them. However, when the suggestion is made for someone to try low carb, people act like someone suggested not breathing air.
I love bread, potatoes, sweets, etc just like most people. However, it's made sense for me to give them up while I'm trying to lose weight. It's not been that big a deal. I'll reintroduce them back into my diet at the appropriate time. For other people, it's like asking the unimaginable.
Why do people find it so hard to temporarily give up carbs?
Why deny yourself carbs just to lose weight? If you eat appropriately and account for them in your daily consumption you can lose weight and eat carbs.
It is pointless to give up something just to put it back into your daily consumption without altering servings or accountability and gain all the weight lost and more.
Gaining weight is not caused by one group of food, losing weight is not caused by one group of food.
Find a good healthy plan, account for every serving of all foods, move more, make a lifelong lifestyle change, lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your lifetime.
Why deny yourself carbs just to lose weight? If you eat appropriately and account for them in your daily consumption you can lose weight and eat carbs.
It is pointless to give up something just to put it back into your daily consumption without altering servings or accountability and gain all the weight lost and more.
Gaining weight is not caused by one group of food, losing weight is not caused by one group of food.
Find a good healthy plan, account for every serving of all foods, move more, make a lifelong lifestyle change, lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your lifetime.
Different strokes. The truth is that some people would benefit from manipulating their chemistry even if temporarily. Adding back carbs (at reduced levels) does not mean someone will automatically gain back weight.
Everyone has to do what works for them. However, when the suggestion is made for someone to try low carb, people act like someone suggested not breathing air.
I love bread, potatoes, sweets, etc just like most people. However, it's made sense for me to give them up while I'm trying to lose weight. It's not been that big a deal. I'll reintroduce them back into my diet at the appropriate time. For other people, it's like asking the unimaginable.
Why do people find it so hard to temporarily give up carbs?
Losing weight is an individual journey and the key is to find the right road to take. Some people do really well limiting carbs, so well they are convinced it is the only road to take. But that is not the truth. The most important thing a person can do is find a way of eating that they can lose weight on and stick to in the long run. if that is limiting carbs then go for it. If its not then find another way to limit calories. There are a few posters here including myself who have done quite well taking an omnivore approach and not limiting carb intake. She people do a keto plan, some a paleo, some just try and focus on calories while eating whole, fresh foods- lots of veggies, lean proteins, grains and good fats.
None of these ways are bad, and none are better than the other. Its an individual choice.
Everyone has to do what works for them. However, when the suggestion is made for someone to try low carb, people act like someone suggested not breathing air.
I love bread, potatoes, sweets, etc just like most people. However, it's made sense for me to give them up while I'm trying to lose weight. It's not been that big a deal. I'll reintroduce them back into my diet at the appropriate time. For other people, it's like asking the unimaginable.
Why do people find it so hard to temporarily give up carbs?
Because it's stupid and pointless.
I limit certain, mostly empty, carbs when trying to lose weight. The point isn't to limit carbs. It's to get adequate nutrition in on a limited number of calories, so less nutritionally dense food like bread or rice is an easy thing to cut. That way I can still have a reasonable portions of sweets or the odd beer here and there which I enjoy more and still lose weight. I don't limit vegetables, let alone eliminate or severely restrict them as the more severe low car diets do. If you want to, go right ahead. It really doesn't matter. All that matters is calories. You can lose weight eating Ho-Hos and Twinkies or you can lose weight by being afraid of eating an extra serving of vegetables lest you go an extra 20 grams over your carb allotment. I'll do neither.
Different strokes. The truth is that some people would benefit from manipulating their chemistry even if temporarily. Adding back carbs (at reduced levels) does not mean someone will automatically gain back weight.
Okay, whatever you believe and honestly my experience losing 500 pounds without surgery or drugs,
only implementing a complete lifestyle change taught me nothing.......
Okay, whatever you believe and honestly my experience losing 500 pounds without surgery or drugs,
only implementing a complete lifestyle change taught me nothing.......
I've lost over 139 pounds with no surgery and I'm studying to be a personal trainer. Lifestyle changes happen in many different ways.
Weight loss is an individual thing. You do what works for you. Simply put, I don't want to give up carbs. It's not sustainable or desirable to me. I like eating a grain based diet and if I've lost a bunch of weight while eating the way that I like to eat, then why would I change? I don't need to remove entire food groups in order to achieve results. I can eat rice, potatoes, pasta, beans...hell even the evil simple carbs... and still reach my goal. I practice eating in moderation, that's it.
As a diabetic, I have to be very conscious of carbs. What I've been told is your body tends to burn what you eat if your blood sugar is in the ~80-~120 range. That's easy to do until carbs are introduced.
My nutritionist, even with the knowledge of my diabetes told me I should have a minimum of 45 carbs per meal. If I subscribed to that, my blood sugar would be well over 150 and my A1C would be over 7.0.
Typically, I'll restrict myself to around 20 carbs per meal. It's worked well for me, to date.
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