No Carbs losses it's effects?

[jefft77]

I started the no carb plan about 5 years ago and dropped from 190 lbs (I'm only 5ft3 so I was a butterball) down to 135 lbs. The I started hitting the gym. I put on 10lbs of muscle in the first year which I didn't mind at all but now I've put on a total of 35 lbs (20 lbs of that being fat) and am getting fatter by the day and my eating habits haven't changed. Does anyone know if not eating carbs losses it's effects after a while? Or is my body just slowing down now and not burning as much (I'm 27). Any recommendations on how many meals I should be eating a day? Do any foods promote weight loss?
Thanks,
Jeff

 

[penny31]

Why is it that people try to make this much more difficult than it has to be?

If your body maintains it's current weight with 1,890 kcal/day and you eat 2,600 kcal/day in broccoli, guess what? Chances are you're gonna gain a few ounces of weight. Eat clean and eat less. Good foods will help with the composition of your body but too much of good thing is a bad thing.--Penny

 

[Grizzly]

That was beautiful, Penny!

Dude, not eating carbs has nothing to do with your body composition. The only "effect" that a low carb diet would have to lose is that, eventually, you start taking in more and more calories in fat and protein which is still the same problem. The reason you lost weight was because you were eating 3k/day and then you dropped 1500k/day in carbs and, lo and behold, a caloric deficit. Thus, you lost weight.

IMO, after the initial "weaning period", the low carb diet makes gaining weight equally as, if not even easier than a carb containing diet. I mean, how easy is it to eat 10 blocks of cheese, two sticks of butter, 2lbs of bacon and a couple of steaks by noon. (Ok, maybe you're not as fat as me and that would be a whole day). Point is, the calories in that configuration of foods is astronomical and, like Penny said, THAT is what is important; the calories, not the carbs.

 

[Zeo]

Good foods will help with the composition of your body but too much of good thing is a bad thing.--Penny

Unless your on a cycle then You can never get too much! lol

 

[penny31]

It's all about manipulating your macro's within a given parameter. If you don't take well to carbs on a 2,000 calorie diet then lower them while at the same time raising one or both of the others (i.e. fat & protein). If you take away then you have to put back.

Obviously, people will get into the debate about carbs and personal health and well being. That's all fine and good but in practice, which we do on a daily basis then fat loss is our main concern. With that being said then dieting isocalorically is in my opinion the best way to go. I prefer 70% protein--15%carbs--15% fat. That's just me though.

 

[penny31]

You make some really good points Frosty. It's astounding to me how people seem to think that maybe there is a combination of foods that will miraculously shed fat. I think that is why Fatkin's did so well. People watched the infomercials and thought by eating nothing but protein and saturated fat their bodies would automatically drop fat. Grizzly was right about when these people first start low carb they inevitably put themselves in a calorie deficit.--Penny

 

[jefft77]

Thanks for the input. I may try to govern my calorie intake now as opposed to my carb intake. I'll see how it works.
Thanks,
Jeff