oh, it works.

it stops working when i start eating sugar and loads of bad carbs. but if
you stay ON the plan it works :)

Is this a trick question?

Yes.

about 2 years now

Absolutely. 4 years for me. I gained 1-2 pounds a year my whole adult life,
but lost back to my teenage weight after low carbing for just a few months.
Eating carbs will cause weight gain, but the weight goes back off if I don't
cheat. No need to count carbs or calories for this to happen.

Alan

Count me in. But it hasn't been easy.

It started on 1 October 2001 and it's been 315 weeks since then.

The weight's off: I weighed 125 kgs at the start and 106 kgs now. That's a
net loss of 19 kgs or about 42 pounds. In the last 3 years there's been a
slight (net) rise in weight but vigilance keeps it under control.

Like I said: It hasn't been easy. But the easy options aren't. Options, I
mean. Or easy.

How long?  Like any plan you have to stay on it to keep the
loss.  Someone with 20+ years posted recently.

I lost 20 pounds and have kept it off for 5 years.  Prior to going on
a lowcarb way of eating I had been gaining 5 pounds per year, so it
would be reasonable to say that I am probably around 45 pounds lighter
than I would have been if I had maintained my old way of eating.

This doesn't mean I'm at an ideal weight, but I'm doing a lot better
this way than I was before.

I just realized that last December, I was 232 lbs, which was down 33
from my start point. So, as I come to this December, weighing in at
under 210, I will have a year of maintaining 30+ lbs weight loss, and
be up for the National Weight Control Registry. On an average flow,
I was gaining at about 5 a year, so very far ahead of the curve. But
I wasn't gaining steadily. It was more as Taubes describes, a chunk
here and a chunk there.

I dropped 100 pounds 4 years ago and have used this low-carb way of
eating to maintain the weight loss since then.  Yes, all of it.  My
weight bounces around a bit, both up and down, but my average weight
hasn't varied too much since I took the weight off to begin with.

I still exercise quite a bit, and I do avoid overeating--I'm certainly
not immune to gaining all the weight back again--but I believe that 4
years is a pretty good start to convincing myself that it works long term.

--
JJ

yes, and I usually take Saturday off every two weeks and carb out, sometimes
Friday and Saturday turn into indulgence days then back on the wagon.  Its
the only way I can keep focussed but it still keeps the weight off.

John

108 pounds - 5 years next week. What's your point?

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Wayne Crannell
Sherman, TX
http://www.acappellachoir.net
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As long as you plan to follow it for the long term.  Just like
changing to any different WOE, it will only keep working if you keep
doing it.

If I am driving down a nice straight road, and everything is groovy,
and I veer to the left or the right too much, I will go off the road.
Therefore, I choose to stay driving straight in order to get the same
result I like and want.