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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / May 2010Started Up Again
I guess this is for the remaining few that read and post here. I've been LCing for 10 years. I do have an impressive net loss, but inside of that, I still have trouble keeping it off and continuing to the number I want. I wonder if you folks that disect all these studies, and preach the Atkins gospel, are able to maintain your goal weight? My problem is that I become so totally sedentary in the winter months. I lost 30 lbs last summer, and have put back 15. I started up again, and have already lost 5 lbs in the first 5 days. What works for you long term?  SignatureJK Sinrod www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com > I guess this is for the remaining few that read and post here. I've been > LCing for 10 years. I do have an impressive net loss, but inside of that, I [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > have put back 15. I started up again, and have already lost 5 lbs in the > first 5 days. What works for you long term? Dr. Eades has addressed this problem in his books several times. "Climb back on the wagon whenever you fall off." I suppose that the other advice is: "Don't fool yourself about falling off the wagon". You fell off the wagon when you became totally sedentary. For most folks, repeating the same thing often enough is instructive. This has nothing to do with analysis of studies. It has nothing to do with preaching the Atkins gospel. It has a lot to do with following the plan almost all of the time, not taking a Winter break or other seasonal break. If you can't stay on the wagon, the "Way of Eating", then climb back on whenever you fall off. With practice, you become good at it and the weight gains before you again come to your senses are much smaller. > If you can't stay on the wagon, the "Way of Eating", then climb back on > whenever you fall off. With practice, you become good at it and the > weight gains before you again come to your senses are much smaller. I do see a net loss pattern with the ups and downs over the last 10 years. I think you're right in that I can now get back into it sooner than before. Hitting 60 has made getting back into exercise that much harder on my body each time. Glad to see you're all pretty much into the same up and down pattern, perhaps not as severe as mine. The thing I am seeing is that I don't need to be nearly as restrictive on my carb level as I had been 10 years ago to lose weight well. I can eat small amounts of fruit, whole wheat, brown rice, and sugar free candy and ice cream now. My guess is that I've gone from less than 20 carbs a day then, to less than 50 now. Maybe when I hit a wall, I'll need to scale back more? SignatureJK Sinrod www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com >> If you can't stay on the wagon, the "Way of Eating", then climb back on >> whenever you fall off. With practice, you become good at it and the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I've gone from less than 20 carbs a day then, to less than 50 now. Maybe > when I hit a wall, I'll need to scale back more? In a few months, I'll be 70. I get a lot of exercise and go to the YMCA about 4 times a week. It is convenient to do grocery errands along with the exercise trip as there are two large grocery stores within a few blocks from the YMCA and a nice Walgreens too. I do much more exercise at nearly 70 than I did when I was about 60. Lots of things I used to do with difficulty are now done easily. I am stronger and more fit, and my body looks much better as well as my face. I feel great as well. I recently reconnected with some of my High School buddies and we exchanged pictures. I wondered who these old men were when I got the pictures. They remarked on how well I looked. You sound like you were one of those that elected to stay on induction (the 20 gm carbs/day) in the false belief that this will help you lose more weight. Doug's favorite message is that staying on induction forever isn't good for you. I'll let him tell you the story in his own words. If he doesn't automatically do it in response to this message, then ask him directly. Atkins tells you to find a nice weight loss rate by increasing carbs progressively from the 20 or so of induction. According to the 20 gram statement above, you may have skipped that step. On the other hand, maybe you didn't, but your body digestive process has aged in some way that you are more carb tolerant with regard to weight loss. I don't know. At age 60, I had a number of casual acquaintences of about my age and we were all pretty ambulatory. Virtually none of them exercised much, and they are far less ambulatory, especially the smokers. None of them would ever think of going bicycling with me. Not everyone can maintain good ambulatory status as we age, but there are things some of us can do about it. I'd think about taking on that Winter sedentary nature as a project. > In a few months, I'll be 70. I get a lot of exercise and go to the YMCA > about 4 times a week. It is convenient to do grocery errands along with > the exercise trip as there are two large grocery stores within a few > blocks from the YMCA and a nice Walgreens too. Wife and I are looking forward to retirement when we will have time to really exercise regularly, in a warmer climate! It may sound simplistic, but I honestly think that it's the cold dreary weather that keeps me on the couch. When it warns up I have no trouble getting out there. I hate treadmill and the gym, and can't get motivated by anything else. Right now things are going well. Losing weight and back walking and playing basketball. SignatureJK Sinrod www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com >> In a few months, I'll be 70. I get a lot of exercise and go to the YMCA >> about 4 times a week. It is convenient to do grocery errands along with [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > things are going well. Losing weight and back walking and playing > basketball. I know about cold dreary winter weather. But I resolved to learn how to be comfortable exercising outside during cold weather. I wish I had a dollar for every time somebody has said.... "Kind of cold to be riding a bike, ain't it?" or "Kind of cold to be out for a walk, ain't it?" or ........................................ >> I do see a net loss pattern with the ups and downs over the last 10 >> years. I think you're right in that I can now get back into it sooner than [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Doug's favorite message is that staying on induction forever isn't good > for you. Already being at 50 and currently losing the issues with staying at 20 don't apply. But when/if there's a stall dropping carbs is only one strategy among many to try. I'm down 8.5 lbs in 12 days. LC works much better with increased activity and some portion control. SignatureJK Sinrod www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com I am always totally sedentary and that isn't going to change. In June of 2003 my brother gave me the Atkins book and Protein Power. I decided I would try low carbing, not good at following strict directions like Atkins, so I just cut way down on carbs. I immediately started losing weight. By December 2004 I was down 60 pounds. I hovered around that weight for a couple of years then started gaining, up about 15 pounds total. Early this year I started feeling not too good, was diagnosed with gall stones that I still haven't had out, but I lost my appetite and am now down a total of 88 pounds and still losing. I never quit low carbing, I'm pretty sure I have never gone over 100g in any one day in all that time and those days are extremely rare, but it is possible to gain on low carb if you eat enough. I don't eat certain things, they just aren't on my menu or in my house. My SO gets things like potatoes and rice with some of our meals as he loses weigh very easily, has never been overweight, forgets to eat. I have never been very fond of pasta so cutting it out was easy for me. | I guess this is for the remaining few that read and post here. | I've been LCing for 10 years. I do have an impressive net loss, but [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] | started up again, and have already lost 5 lbs in the first 5 days. | What works for you long term? > I am always totally sedentary and that isn't going to change. I go through phases exercising regularly and not exercising. There's no pleasure in it directly not I am less tired when I am exercising so the benefits are clear. This phase we bought a Wii with Wii Sport/Fit/Active. My wife is doing workouts on the balance board and we're playing sports against each other most nights. It's exercise plus quality time as a couple. > ... Early this > year I started feeling not too good, was diagnosed with gall stones that I > still haven't had out, but I lost my appetite Low carbing should prevent gallstones because it's relatively high fat. Dietary fat causes the gall bladder to release bile/gall into the intestines so it gets exercise. Low carb can't address any that existed before starting. Low fat gives lack of exercise for the gall bladder and a chance for the stones to build up. There are other causes by that is one of the less well known disadvantages to low fatting. > | What works for you long term? For my maintenance phase it's as simple as nothing sweeter than a peach or pear, nothing starchier than a rutabaga or carrot. If I eat more than a very small amount or anything sweeter or starchier I have a very hard time getting back on the wagon. I have never done low fat. I think the gall bladder thing is very strange because I never have pain from it, I had a slight soreness all down the right side of my abdomen which is why I went to emergency in the first place. I thought I might have appendicitis. But everyone talks about painful attacks which I never had. They do say age is a factor and I'm 74. I have always hated exercise and now it hurts so it's not going to happen. | I go through phases exercising regularly and not exercising. There's | no pleasure in it directly not I am less tired when I am exercising [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] | doing workouts on the balance board and we're playing sports against | each other most nights. It's exercise plus quality time as a couple. | Low carbing should prevent gallstones because it's relatively high | fat. Dietary fat causes the gall bladder to release bile/gall into the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] | more than a very small amount or anything sweeter or starchier I have | a very hard time getting back on the wagon. > I guess this is for the remaining few that read and post here. I've been > LCing for 10 years. I do have an impressive net loss, but inside of that, I [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > -- > JK Sinrodwww.MyConeyIslandMemories.com I fluctuate up and down by about 20lbs., 180 to 200. There are periods when I wind up going off LC. The solution is to start back on. Without LC I'd be way beyond 200. I weigh less today than I did three decades ago in high school. Even Atkins talked about gaining 10lbs or so and then having to take it off. I think most of us are that way, unless you happen to be lucky enough to have the right genes. |
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