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maginnovision:
That's most likely just due to calorie intake. It's really easy to get a ton of calories eating lots of carbs. You just equate it to carbs because you think it's carbs. If you watch how much you eat and know your RMR it's really easy to lose or maintain weight(obviously it's usually pretty easy to gain weight).

nctnico:

--- Quote from: maginnovision on June 17, 2020, 08:28:45 pm ---That's most likely just due to calorie intake. It's really easy to get a ton of calories eating lots of carbs. You just equate it to carbs because you think it's carbs. If you watch how much you eat and know your RMR it's really easy to lose or maintain weight(obviously it's usually pretty easy to gain weight).

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Not likely. IT IS the lower calorie intake. But it has nothing to do with carbohydrates specifically. You can also reduce intake of other high calorie food like sugar and fat. Losing weight is very simple: eat & drink less calories than you burn. Where the calories (don't) come from doesn't matter. The whole anti-carbohydrates movement is complete BS. Same as anti-5G and anti-vaccination loonies.

maginnovision:
I know, I was trying to be nice.

BrianHG:

--- Quote from: nctnico on June 17, 2020, 08:54:47 pm ---The whole anti-carbohydrates movement is complete BS. Same as anti-5G and anti-vaccination loonies.

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You are correct about total surplus calories gained after digestion of the food you eat is key.
You are also correct that for most of us the anti-carbohydrates movement and especially how they market it as a blanket solution for all is complete BS.

However, for some of us who have an unusual appetite based on volume of food eaten, where carbs do create a massive influx of quick sugar/calories in our bodies, relying on much slower, longer to digest foods does help prevent taking in way too much calories because of the higher volume of food required to attain the same number of surplus calories after digestion.

Also, usually, with proper selection, low carb (getting rid of all surplus sugars (in all processed forms) and food with refined white flour) can be very healthy in the long run.  (And I am not talking about a BS all protein/fat diet.)


If you haven't been there, with an impossible to control appetite of a literal horse, back and forth in weight, tested the different strategies measured over decades, and finally succeeded, you do not know...  Actually, all the marketers of the anti-carbohydrates movement are also completely in the dark without a clue as well.  It is only luck that a minuscule fraction of a fraction of a percent of those who jump on the no-carb bandwagon get positive results and spread the word while the truth is usually that by luck, following the no-carb rules they eliminated 1 or 2 super calorie dense items in their day-to-day diet which was all they needed to do from the start instead of eliminating everything except meat & fat.

Zero999:

--- Quote from: greasemonkey on June 17, 2020, 07:47:00 pm ---Maybe carbohydrates are the problem.

I am 42 and 1,83m tall. I don't exercise but my work is relatively active (I am a real life grease monkey). I try to sleep for 8 hours every night and eat almost no carbohydrates.

This is my weight during the previous year. Can you guess when I stopped eating carbohydrates?

I was skeptical at first but it really works.

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Yes, as mentioned above, it's because you reduced your calorie intake. I've done it before and read similar bullshit to that linked in your post. It does work and in many respects it's easier to cut carbs, than fat, because it reduces appetite levels to some degree. I've even preached low carb to others in the past!

Unfortunately it's not healthy in the long term. I can speak from personal experience. The constipation and bad breath are not nice. It's also easy to lose weight too quickly on that diet.

Going by that graph, you didn't need to lose weight in the first place and have done so too quickly. You're 1.83m tall, so were much more healthy at the 80kg, when you started, than at 70kg now and if your fat loss is accurate at 4kg, then you've more muscle (6kg, although some will be water) and could have increased your body fat percentage. All you've done is made yourself malnourished, not more healthy. If you can't stop this, then seek medical advice.

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