Hi guys,
I have a tough time losing weight when I eat carbs. I've been following a 40c/40p/20f diet for the last 2 months but I haven't lost 1 pound! I had a blood test recently and my doctor said I was not insulin resistant. When I did keto (carnivore) I lost 54 pounds in 16 weeks.
Has anyone else been in this same boat? ie You're not insulin resistant but can't lose weight when you eat say 150-200g of carbs a day?
Thanks
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02-24-2021, 05:06 PM #1
I can't lose weight when I eat carbs
Keto + caloric deficit + intermittent fasting= best diet for rapid weight loss
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02-24-2021, 05:08 PM #2
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02-24-2021, 07:40 PM #7
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Nope.
"Carbs" are irrelevant, a calorie deficit is what matters.
In the very short term, a significant increase in carb consumption (while maintaining the same overall caloric deficit) over what you had been eating could cause you to gain water weight but that would only change the scale for a few days at most.
If you haven't lost weight for two months then you have been eating at your maintenance calorie levels and have tracking your food incorrectly. You are probably undervaluing one or more items that you eat regularly from what the real calorie levels for those foods are.~ Like Tae-Kwon-Leap, my goals are not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon.
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02-24-2021, 08:21 PM #8
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02-25-2021, 06:22 AM #12
You’re in Canada which is great news. Look for a biosignature practitioner, there should be more there than in other countries. It’ll cost you a bit of money for a consultation but if you have all your labs and a log of your diet from say the last 12 weeks they can target exactly why you’re body composition isn’t improving.
Seriously google it, look at the feedback FIRST then go from there.
Hope this helps!
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02-25-2021, 08:02 AM #13
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02-25-2021, 09:47 AM #15
200lb at 5'11. Based on my online calculator your maintenance is around 2200 and a 20% cut is ~1750 calories daily.
One common option is to do 0.9g of protein and .4g of fat per pound. Works out to 180g(protein) 80g(fat) and fill in the rest with carbs which is about 75g. That's closer to a 40p/40f/20c for a ratio.
Works out to almost a pound a week depending on your workouts.
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02-25-2021, 02:10 PM #21
If your coming off a keto diet the answer is glycogen and water. This is assuming you gained weight when you converted to your 40/40/20 split, and now you've came back down to your low weight after 2 months. 8 pounds is well in the range of gain coming from keto.
I'd recommend continuing your current diet for 2 more weeks to see if weight loss occurs. If it does not then you'll have to add in cardio sessions or change your macros slightly. I would not drop calories further at this point.
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02-25-2021, 06:24 PM #26
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I have a hard time understanding nonsense...
“How many of you?” does not make sense in this context at all.
If you’re asking who here is a nutritionist, then you should ask “How many of you are nutritionists?”
Answer: potentially all of us.
Being a ‘nutritionist’ for example requires no formal training at all.
Anyone can make up whatever they want, that doesn’t prove they know what they’re doing."When I die, I hope it's early in the morning so I don't have to go to work that day for no reason"
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02-25-2021, 06:30 PM #27
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02-25-2021, 06:34 PM #29
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LOL I just looked up that nonsense you’re referring to...
It’s a system from the Poliquin group which is based on dietary crap from the LATE Charles Poliquin.
Guess what, he died of a heart attack at age 57 and never had any formal training in nutrition whatsoever... he studied exercise, NOT diet.
All they do is charge you money and make you take an online course in order to become ‘qualified’ in their silly model.
So yeah, let’s flock like sheep to the advice of ‘experts’ who just pay a one time fee to regurgitate the recommendations of a dude who died at 57 from a heart attack and never even had nutritional training himself."When I die, I hope it's early in the morning so I don't have to go to work that day for no reason"
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02-25-2021, 06:41 PM #30
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