I was 210lbs (5'10") and I have lost 35 or so lbs on a low-cal diet, but I have now hit a plateau and cannot get below 175lbs. I'd like to get to about 155lbs, so when I resume somewhat normal eating (but probably still low-cal forever) and rebound a bit, I'll level off around 165-170lbs. What do you think about switching to a low-carb plan to loose the rest? Will this work or will I just totally confuse my body? Thanks in advance for any input.
Switching between low-cal and low-carb?
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Right now, to me low-cal is about 1000 calories per day.
If I were to switch to low-carb, then that would be close to 0 carbs per day for 1-2 weeks, then less than 20 carbs per day thereafter.
The difference, I hope (and thus the motivation for my original question) is that my body will react differently when I switch diets and start losing weight again because the type of food intake will change drastically. Kind of shift my body in to a different gear so to speak.
Or maybe it would be better to go up to about 1600-1800 cals a day for a week so my body comes out of "starvation mode" (which is why, I'm assuming, I've stopped losing weight) and then lower it back down after that?
If I were to switch to low-carb, then that would be close to 0 carbs per day for 1-2 weeks, then less than 20 carbs per day thereafter.
The difference, I hope (and thus the motivation for my original question) is that my body will react differently when I switch diets and start losing weight again because the type of food intake will change drastically. Kind of shift my body in to a different gear so to speak.
Or maybe it would be better to go up to about 1600-1800 cals a day for a week so my body comes out of "starvation mode" (which is why, I'm assuming, I've stopped losing weight) and then lower it back down after that?
Well, I'm having depression and image issues lately (yes, I'm seeing a psych and I'm on meds, otherwise I wouldn't even care what I looked like, which is how I was last summer) and I want to lose weight so I'm at least not ashamed to go to the pool with my kids this summer. I'm OK now at 177lbs, but that's with 1000 cals a day, If I go back to around 1800-2000 cals a day I'll rebound and level off around 185-190 and that's too heavy.
So from my original post:
"I was 210lbs (5'10") and I have lost 35 or so lbs on a low-cal diet, but I have now hit a plateau and cannot get below 175lbs. I'd like to get to about 155lbs, so when I resume somewhat normal eating (but probably still low-cal forever) and rebound a bit, I'll level off around 165-170lbs."
So from my original post:
"I was 210lbs (5'10") and I have lost 35 or so lbs on a low-cal diet, but I have now hit a plateau and cannot get below 175lbs. I'd like to get to about 155lbs, so when I resume somewhat normal eating (but probably still low-cal forever) and rebound a bit, I'll level off around 165-170lbs."
I'm impressed. Most people flip the heck out when they hear they have to take 2 steps backwards in order to take a lot of steps forward.
I would systematically and incrementally step your calories up over a number of weeks until you reach maintenance. Remain there for a week or two and then diet using *sane* deficits.
I would systematically and incrementally step your calories up over a number of weeks until you reach maintenance. Remain there for a week or two and then diet using *sane* deficits.
LandonsBaby
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how would one go about eating 0 carbs anyway?
Eat nothing but meat and fat. Assuming you were willing to tolerate the potential for rounding error, you could probably add an unsweetened / carb-free-sweetened (so liquid Splenda or stevia, likely) protein powder for variety. did 30 days with carb levels between 1 and 6g per day (most of his carbs came from heavy cream, which he was drinking in an attempt to get his calories freakishly high to prove a point), so you can see what kind of things he ate.
IMHO, that diet would really, really suck, even for a couple of weeks. Even induction-level Atkins doesn't aim for zero carbs (or zero net carbs, either).
IMHO, that diet would really, really suck, even for a couple of weeks. Even induction-level Atkins doesn't aim for zero carbs (or zero net carbs, either).
We're not calling the OP nuts. We're calling the guy in the link I posted, who spent a month eating a 4000+ calorie per day diet consisting almost entirely of meat, eggs, and heavy cream, in order to prove that he wouldn't gain weight on a nearly-zero-carb diet, nuts. (I actually suspect we're calling him nuts for entirely different reasons, but that's a whole 'nother complaint. 
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