I am 5’5” and had gone up to 165 lbs caring for my husband with Alzheimers until he died. Then I tried to loose weight and after almost a year was down to 155 lbs. Then I ran across the Atkins low carb diet. I followed the instruction that I found at Google. Can’t think of the term for the first phase (maybe Induction Phase), but it restricts one to 20 grams of carb, 8 glasses of water a day, and a mix of protein, low carb vegies, and fatty food. I did not go overboard with the fats—2 pieces of bacon with 2 eggs for breakfast. Salad with oil and vinager, tuna or chicken for lunch and similar for supper with cooked low carb vegetables, with one or two snacks of 20 peanuts or almonds and low carb (3 gms) yogurt in between. In about 3 months I was down to 128 lbs. Then I was hit with a mess of legal troubles and nibbled my way back to 155 lbs this past holiday season. Now I am trying, not too hard, to loose weight again and am down to 145lbs. So far I have not gone on a strict Atkins diet, but might do so again if nothing moves lower in a month.
One set of studies showed that the most weight was lost on a low carb diet when compared with low fat or mixed.
Thanks. I appreciate the info. It is hard, though, when they keep coming up with rat studies that seem to indicate that high fat diets contribute to diabetes. Of course, they don’t always mentio the amount of carbs in the study. One group tells diabetics to eat whole grains and lots of fruit and veggies, and the other says no to grains and most fruit. The worst thing of all is that after about a year, almost all dieters have given up on their diets and start regaining the weight they lost.
I’m not interested in bypass surgery, either. I know of too many people who almost died from it and experience many complications afterwards. Some folks regain all the weight they lost after surgery eventually.