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Low carb and high fat. I was going down to between 30-50g per day. Eliminated all grains, sugar, and starchy veggies and fruits. I still ate berries on occasion, and a few veggies every day. Used heavy cream, coconut oil, olive oil and higher fat meats to get my fat intake up. It was one of the easiest diets I've ever done, but I did have slip ups here and there. I'm not following it right now because I'm mostly happy with where I'm at right now and I've been slacking off the last week or so. But I've been working on transitioning to a high protein, low carb and fat diet because it's a bit easier and I've been stalling out doing the LCHF diet.

My gf at least tried the diet to see if it would work for her. But she's lactose intolerant and has IBS, so the high fat part of the diet doesn't work well for her.

Never understood diets.

If you want to lose weight, just stop eating before you're full. Do this every meal and your stomach will contract, meaning you'll feel full from eating less food than before. Repeat the process until you've achieved your ideal weight then begin eating until you're full. Note that 'full' is when you feel like you could stop eating without dying of starvation, not when you're about to burst open like a meaty piñata.

This is the thing that always got me as well. In lieu of some sort of medical condition of course, it's not like it's a crazy complicated thing to do. Kids help too, hard to eat a full meal with them around.

It's really not that simple. What you eat is a lot more important than just stopping once you're full. Calorie dense foods fill you up much faster than junk food. And there's also a myriad of other issues that people can have too, like impulsive eating, binge eating, etc. My weight has yo-yo'd a lot since I graduated from high school, and I'm just thankful that I finally found something that works for me. I thought giving up bread and pasta would be super hard, but it's really not that bad. I still have some on occasion for special treats but not very often. Although bread I have to eat gluten free of now, regular bread if I eat more than a few bites will give me really bad bloating and stomach cramps now.

It is, but the self-discipline part can be difficult for sure.



Definitely, but if you already follow a somewhat healthy diet (i.e. your weight issue is due to overeating rather than unhealthy eating), there's no real reason to turn it upside down to drop some weight. Unless you're living off of junk food, you can simply throttle back on the intake and lose weight in a healthy way. You don't need to switch to a vegetables-and-chicken-only paleo to be healthy.



Sounds like you have gluten allergy.

sup

And classes started today, meaning I'm having to stop that whole "sleeping" thing.

What's good, BDT? What's new for y'all?

Edit: Also, professors who ban laptops in their lectures lose major points with me. This one guy was doing so well until he dropped that little tidbit.

Edit2: Sitting on the floor because the lecture room is so crowded and my leg just fell asleep.

Edited, Jan 20th 2015 11:08am by IDrownFish

Now's the perfect time to go, too. The weather is warm but not brutal just yet. Enjoy!

Hate that; had a couple of professors who did the same. They came to regret having my full, undivided attention, though, so it stopped.

That never happened in any class I was in, but then I was in computer engineering.

Pretty funny when a professor teaching computer science forbids computers in his class. My mental image of him is some dusty 90-year-old who swings his cane and complains about this generation's whippersnappers.

Then again, I sometimes forbid the use of calculators in my math classes, so I guess I sort of can't point fingers. Although, I suppose my reason for doing so makes more sense than his, because I'm assuming you're in some college/university where "teaching" consists of boring lectures, and you're just using the laptop for notes.

I can't stand lectures... so boring.