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

When I found this forum I was morbidly obese at around 450 (I'm guessing, because most scales don't even go that high...but it was at -least- 450). That was 2 years ago this month, and it took me about 6 months of reading on the subject before I went low-carb / Paleo.

I had to go in for an appendectomy this last Easter Sunday and didn't want the anesthesiologist to kill me, so I used the bathroom scale to get an accurate weight. It was 305, and I've dropped a pant size since then.
 
Sorry about the appendectomy WhiteBear, hope you've recovered from that well. Great progress WB, keep taking steps forward, one at a time.
 
truth seeker said:
Daenerys said:
I posted in another thread, but since I posted earlier in this one I will give an update. I started last July at about 320 pounds ( was VERY depressed after career loss) , and I am now at 165 pounds, which is what I weighed in high school. I am tall- 5'9". Most of the weight was off by December. It sounds really unreal, but I did send Laura pictures so she could see. I have not felt this good in a long time.
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Congrats Daenerys!
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Yeah, wow, that's really great to hear, Daenerys. :)


voyageur said:
Sorry about the appendectomy WhiteBear, hope you've recovered from that well. Great progress WB, keep taking steps forward, one at a time.
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That's probably more than 150 lbs. you've lost by now WhiteBear! So I'd agree that it's great progress, keep it up. :)
 
My whole diet, and that of my son has been completely blown here.
Amtrak has the very worst trash food you can imagine,( no choice but to eat that crap, or starve all the way) and our host here in Idaho seems to relesh peanut butter and jelly, and beer, over any real foods!
I have spent all I can on grocery`s while here, but the diet is history.. and I`ll have to begin all over again, at day one after the trip home.
Dark circles appearing again, due to wheat bread..yikes, what can be worst. Yet it`s eat this stuff or eat nothing.
Can`t wait to get home!
 
Since I started this diet, around April this year, I have lost 12 kilos, around two sizes or maybe 3 sizes for my clothing. My pants and jeans are two big now for me. I weight 63 kilos, I am 1,74 of high, is that normal? I really don't know.
 
Meager1 said:
My whole diet, and that of my son has been completely blown here.
Amtrak has the very worst trash food you can imagine,( no choice but to eat that crap, or starve all the way) and our host here in Idaho seems to relesh peanut butter and jelly, and beer, over any real foods!
I have spent all I can on grocery`s while here, but the diet is history.. and I`ll have to begin all over again, at day one after the trip home.
Dark circles appearing again, due to wheat bread..yikes, what can be worst. Yet it`s eat this stuff or eat nothing.
Can`t wait to get home!
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You can always take your own food on journeys to avoid eating junk. Personally I'd rather do a short fast than eat poison, but with a child in tow that may not have been possible.

Sometimes we have to compromise when in difficult situations, but wheat bread, seriously? If there is truly no way to acquire half decent food then I feel for you, but maybe you've not looked hard enough?
 
I can't imagine a host/ess not providing the food that the guest normally eats especially if there are health issues involved.
 
We went paleo around March 2011, my wife has lost 15/17 kg, she's now 50kg for 1.63m tall,she never felt so great in her body and above all in her mind because she always had this "dream" of 50kg from childhood and strong complexes.
I managed to gain 4 kg almost muscular mass having being rather skinny all my life stuck to 70,loosing weight very quickly when sick, today I'm 74 for 1.83m. Kind of miraculous!
 
I started around March this year, lost 3kgs from 50kg to 47kg. I'm not tall, 159cm and I practice 40 mins aerobics and a little resistance workout (2kgs of dumbbells on each hand) 5 days per week. For me weight didn't actually matter much.. still have flabby arms and such, even though I'm the skinny type. I'm aiming for strength and stamina (to deal with future, more extreme climate changes or whatever physical scenario, lol). I feel generally better after undergoing the low carb diet. Been taking supplements like magnesium, vit C, D, E, spirulina, etc.. Cut my gluten intake to zero too. I used to have cereals for breakfast; rice for lunch and dinner - I'd still feel hungry all the time, have low energy and I'll need to nap during lunch... zzzZ! :lol:

Planning to start HIIT every Sunday soon.. the only major setback is my family and friends' ridicules.. I'd feel extremely lonely and a little amazed, but a bit pissed (at how steadfastly they hold their beliefs).
 
I haven't lost any weight... my muscle-fat ratio has shifted around a bit however. I've noticed a lot more muscle tone since dropping my carbs, and my energy level is pretty awesome.

I've been 160lbs since I was 16 and at 29 I still weigh the same. Never really put on any weight regardless of what I ate, but I did have to go gluten/dairy free in my early 20s due to digestive problems.
 
I've gone down 2 sizes since I started the low-carb diet. Prior to that, I had lost weight just cutting out gluten and dairy. Still have a couple of sizes to go before I reach a size 8 - a number that works well for my body structure. Don't weigh myself daily as I find I can become a bit obsessive should there be any water retention, normal monthly fluctuations, etc.. I mostly use a tape measure and gage how my clothes fit.

For the past 6 months I've remained at about the same weight. I'm going to try the cold showers/baths - currently I've only made it to the tepid temperature with a cold rinse - and do some fasting. Perhaps those 2 things will get my body past this plateau.

Years ago, I would have been very annoyed that I wasn't losing weight fast enough. Not so with this way of eating. 2 meals a day, plus sometimes a couple of high-fat snacks depending on my energy expenditure. Even though I currently wear size 12 jeans, I feel fantastic and am able to keep up with my 20ish co-workers lifting equipment and setting-up complicated studio pipelines that entail a lot of crouching while taping yards of cables to a floor.

Not bad for a 54-year-old chick who once suffered from baggy, dark circles under her eyes, back problems and Osteoarthritis. :D
 
My weight was 2 years ago about 95kg, i'm 185cm tall. Changed to low carb and now it's 78 kg.
I do gym few times a week + HIIT and boulder climbing once a week. My old times i used to drink milk or orange juice at least 1 litre per day and ate a lot of bread & other junk throughout the day. Horrible! Now i eat 2-3 times a day paleo style and it feels soooo great! :)
 
When I first went gluten and dairy free a couple of.years ago I probably lost about 30lbs. Since going low carb and grain free I haven't lost any significant amount of weight. I lost about 8 lbs. when I first started the cold baths but gained back most of it when I started lifting weights. I have noticed a bit of change in body comp though.

I'm 5'10" and my weight tends to hover at about the 200 lb range which is about the same as when I ate a restricted SAD and overexercised. Prior to that I weighed well over 300lbs so it's pretty safe to say I did a lot of damage to my body and stem cells over the years.
Hopefully the addition of IF or alternative day fasting will move me out of this years long plateau. I'll be breaking a three day water fast (done just to make sure I'm really in ketosis -- plus just plain curiosity) tonight. Maybe I'll do IF or ADF twice a week from now on.
 
I think it would be really cool if some of you who have lost a lot of weight could post some before and after pictures. Or, if that makes you uncomfortable, send them to someone (maybe a mod) to block faces and essentially 'anonymize' them. There's nothing like a good before and after picture to show the results and benefits!
 
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