First, why would you eat a no carb diet? Did you read any of the low carb
books (Atkins, Protein Power, Sugar Busters, Carbohydrate Addict's Diet, Dr.
Bernstein's Diabetes Solution)? Not a single one of them advises eating no
carb.

Second, calories count even if some people may not have to count calories.
In other words, if you eat more calories than you burn it doesn't matter how
few carbs you eat you will still gain weight.

What you describe is very common among those that are too idiotic to
understand and follow a low carb diet.

You must leave the group immediately.

HTH

Did you read the book?

"Doctor Atkins New Diet Revolution"

Also, weight changes need to be judged over about 4 weeks.  Anything shorter
is probably just random body changes.

    Need more info.

    Were you keeping a journal or using a software program like
    Fitday?  If so, you can provide enough data so that we can
    try to figure out what went wrong.  Include as much data
    as possible including height, weight, age, bodyfat percentage
    activity level, sleep quantity and quality, waking body
    temperature, recent illness--anything that might provide
    a clue.

    It's odd that you lost weight within a few days of stopping.
    Low carb diets cause water loss.  When carbs are reintroduced
    there's usually a period of water weight gain.  There's
    also the "woosh" concept where weight loss stalls and then
    all of a sudden you see a significant loss.  It seems like
    that's what may have happened.

    As for leaving the group, if you really think low carb isn't
    for you anymore, alt.support.diet might be more appropriate.

    Further, it may be time for you to put some time in developing
    a diet that will work.  What I mean by that is experiment with
    caloric levels, macronutrient ratios and exercise variations
    until you figure out what works best *for you*.  That's the
    method proven to work best in the long run.  There are some
    tools in my online briefcase that can help with that.  Here's
    a link: http://briefcase.yahoo.com/kd6tas
    The diet and exercise journal software is like fitday and can
    be downloaded and used offline on your local system.  The
    metabolic typing test gives you an idea which of the three
    basic diet types (low carb, low fat, or moderate) might be
    the best one to start with.  From there you can experiment
    further by fine tuning within a basic diet type or even cycling
    between types to see if you can improve results and increase
    variety.  The micronutrient chart is from Protein Power
    Lifeplan.  It provides an excellent jumping off point into
    micronutrient supplementation for weight loss and other issues.
    The eating log is a basic excel spreadsheet that can be used
    for maintenance and/or when one wants to try an instinctive,
    portion controlled approach.  It focuses mostly on mindfulness
    and emotions during the eating experience rather than on
    consumption statistics.  It's an end-stage tool for those who
    have paid their dues and feel that they can handle that level
    of dietary freedom.

    In summary, in my opinion, one-size-fits-all diets often fail.
    Lasting success calls for knowledge, data and persistence.
    The dieter has to be into it enough to do their own homework.
    Use a journal to gather raw data, experiment with the variables,
    and persist through thick and thin.  Eventually what's best for
    a particular dieter is teased out of the mass of possibilities.

    Good luck with this new phase of your adventure,

    Bill Eitner

"lissa"  so long as you don't include an exhortation to visit your "blog
spot," you can stay.

Now, go read the book.

Low carb support, I do hope, is a group for all low carbs. I read a
lot about food that real people eat.

I didn't do the total low carb, but added a lot of vegetables and cut
some fat, and lost 14 kgs in a year.
I have been maintaining my 49 to 51kg for almost a year now.

Xiaozhen

Are you a troll?  If not, then you don't need to leave the group.  It will
be wise for you to read  & learn about low carb lifestyle, however.

Consider adding some exercise to your life and consider using a logging tool
such as fitday.com or something else.

I'm not sure if this is a troll or a massive case of confusion, but
I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and answer it seriously.

First of all, I've heard many people say that they (or a friend) went
on a "no-carb" diet, when that wasn't true at all.  The only foods on
a no-carb diet would be unprocessed muscle meats (nothing like hot
dogs or liver; they contain carbs), butter, and oil.  That's it.  If
you ate any eggs, cheese, vegetables, sour cream, anything else at
all, it was not no-carb.  Now, it *is* possible to eat a no-carb diet,
at least for a while, but people who know what they're talking about
call that a "meat fast" or "fat fast" (depending on how they do it),
so saying "low carb/no carb" as if there's not a huge freakin'
difference between the two just makes you look clueless.

Second, I think someone else already pointed this out, but it would be
almost impossible for what you have described to happen.  When you eat
few (or no) carbs, your body gradually removes and burns excess
glucose that it has stored away, which it used water to store.  That
means that low-carbers normally see an immediate loss of a few pounds
of water weight in the first week of the diet.  It also means that if
you go from low-carb to high-carb, you'll pick those few pounds right
back up as your body replenishes those stores.  (It's easy to get
dehydrated in the process, as those of us who have fallen off the diet
a few times can tell you.)  Perhaps your scale is broken.

If your diet didn't seem to be working, wouldn't it have made sense to
ask for help with it while you were doing it?  It's not too late,
though, if you really want to understand what you're doing.  Read a
couple of the books people have recommended -- commonly available at
libraries and used book stores -- and post a few typical daily menus
from your low-carb efforts, and people here will be glad to help you
figure out what went wrong.