How much weight did you lose after starting the low carb diet?

[nicklebleu]

Lost around 12 kg from max weight - in 2009 I was 83kg, now I seem to have stabilised in the 70 - 71 kg range.

But the thing I also noticed is not only have I lost weight, but I also have put on considerable muscle mass, so that the weight loss alone probably doesn't reflect the fat loss.
Of course that is partially attributable to the eccentric resistance exercise.

I also think that my overall fitness has improved tremendously. I recently did a 70 km cross-country skitrip towing a sled behind me. We did it in one go, which took 20 hours. I never "hit the wall" so well described by endurance athletes and apart from some stiff muscles the next day recovered very quickly. I would not have been able to do that a year ago - or only with a lot of agony.

 

[buz/p]

I saw my doctor yesterday for a pre-surgical physical. I had lost eleven more pounds. I have lost about 40 pounds since cutting out gluten and sugar. In fact I have cut out all grains and legumes. Four months @ ten pounds per month. I'll take it. My wife has lost even more after being dragged kicking and screaming into Paleo. She is now a believer.
This is only the beginning of course since there is much more to this thing than just gluten and sugar.

As I continue to read it becomes increasingly obvious that I need to pay attention to the number and types of specific nutrients which I ingest. Magnesium is a biggy. While going down the list of symptoms which I have that can point to a deficiency in magnesium I realize that I have been entirely too cavalier about changing my life style. This year it will change.

Sixty pounds to go and I will arrive at my ideal weight. Interesting how just losing the weight has motivated me to take care of my health in general.

 

[mcb]

...Sixty pounds to go and I will arrive at my ideal weight. Interesting how just losing the weight has motivated me to take care of my health in general.

Once you do something, it becomes easier to do more.

It's good to know something about specific nutritional needs, although the basic rule of thumb is to "eat real food." Vast numbers of people are not doing that, and they are paying the price and wondering (maybe, if they've even noticed) what is wrong.

We qualify that simple rule here by trying to understand which "real" food are also natural (and perhaps optimal) "human" foods. When you eat that way, you most likely will benefit from nutrients that haven't even been discovered yet! You're probably going to need supplement with some amount of magnesium no matter what, though.

If you try to follow a "scientific" approach, breaking food apart into "nutrients" and then reassembling the nutrients back into "food" (the way corporate purveyors of processed food do), checking them off to make sure you have them all, you fail because 1) most likely many nutrients are not yet known to science and 2) food just doesn't work that way.

 

[Maya]

just realized I forgot to say that my husband gained 10 kg of muscles on low carb/ ketogenic diet during the time of year and a half..
he was very skinny thanks to carbs loaded diet with no fat - he had only 62 kg / 175 cm and now it's 72 and he looks and feels great !