I am so confused about calories and Weightloss…please read detail to understand why I am.?
I have struggled with anorexia and bulimia all my life…well since I was six. I am twenty now. I thought I began to understand everything there was to understand about calories. I had been restricting, not as bad as I used to, but less than my dietition desired. She said 2500 calories I was doing that for a while. Than I went down to 1600 than fluctuated between 400-700 calorie days…and was losing little to know weight! Than, however, when I began drinking recently, I was consuming alot more, (because when I was drinking I forgot about calories…well when I got to a point) and they were fattier products, with way higher calories…somehow I still maintained “underweight” but didn’t gain weight…in fact I lost a couple times…how did that happen? Now I am back to my no more than 700 calorie days and am losing, but why did I not gain weight eating so much more!?
Atkins saved my life. Seriously and I am not joking. For 30 years I was bulimic and tried every diet on the planet and to lose one pound I would have to starve myself to 500 calories a day or puke all my food not as a binge as they say bulimia is but to try and lose weight or not gain it back. I am very short only 4′11 and to eat like a normal person I would gain so fast it wasn’t funny as I had destroyed my metabolism.
3 1/2 years ago I thought about going on the Atkins as I wanted To Lose Weight Fast. I got the book and began to read it. (The single most important thing before beginning any low carb program) Wow this made more sense than anything I have ever read. I realized that this couldn’t be a diet for me but I had to change my way of eating for life.
My husband and I went on this together. I lost 50 pounds and he lost 80. This took rather very little time to lose it too. Yes right at first you do have goofy breath but it’s ketosis where your body is actually burning the fat up. You Lose Fat on this way of eating more than muscle like you do when you starve yourself.
It isn’t all about eating fat as many will try and tell you. It isn’t unheathy either, isn’t bad on your kidneys and Dr. Atkins did not die of a heart attack but from a fall on the ice on his head. He did not have high cholesterol and his company went bankrupt due to promoting high priced junk food he never agreed with but they put his name on. I have never eaten so healthy in my life or felt so wonderful. For 3 1/2 years I have never made myself vomit once or felt the need too. I can eat and eat as much as I want until I am comfortably full. I never have had to count calories, portions, eat only celery or salads, but real food!
To me if there could be a perfect way of eating this is it. But you have to decide before beginning this that those high carbs aren’t worth it. If you approach this as your depriving yourself you will never stick with it. It’s all about substitutions. I want a piece of cake, I make a cheesecake with walnuts for the crust instead of graham crackers and splenda in place of the sugar. Very legal on and I will not gain weight.
I have weighed 110 for over 3 years, a perfect weight in my mind for a 48 year old woman, never weigh myself but recently went to the Doctor because of a sinus infection and I haven’t gain one pound and EAT! Let me tell you I eat! Yippee!
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This is the site that made a difference in my life.
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com
