Anti-Carb diet not leading to weight loss

Truview

Hi I have been trying to avoid carbs as duly as possible over the last 6 months but don't seem to be losing the weight I thought I would. I am 32 years old and 5'11. Looking to get from 15 stone to 12.5 stone. I carry a lot of weight around the gullet area as well.

NomadicGray

How hard did you work out?

Truview

NomadicGray wrote: »

How hard did you work out?

I jog a fair bit. Every second evening I would do at least a couple of miles

Dolbert

What exactly have you been eating?

moc moc a moc

How many calories are you taking in per day total?

How many calories do you estimate you are using up per day total?

If the first number is bigger than the second number, adjust one or both until the opposite is true.

DMcL1971

If the poster is asking for advice on their low-carb diet why don't we stick to that instead of taking it off topic to calories and exercise.

gordongekko

Reduce calories in and increase calories out.

DMcL1971

gordongekko wrote: »

Reduce calories in and increase calories out.

That's what they are trying to do, by implementing a low-carb diet.

Truview

Dolbert wrote: »

What exactly have you been eating?

Usual day as follows:

Breakfast
3salmon fillets + 1 tub of cream cheese

Lunch
Chicken stew made from 3 chicken fillets carrots cauliflower and zucchini

Dinner
2 ribeye steaks with butter sauce onions and 2 fried eggs + table spoon foie gras

Supper
4egg omelette with peanut butter and peppers
100gm cheddar

Snacks
Parma ham, cheese cubes and grapes

gordongekko

DMcL1971 wrote: »

That's what they are trying to do, by implementing a low-carb diet.

No they are just eating more low carb food

Dolbert

DMcL1971 wrote: »

If the poster is asking for advice on their low-carb diet why don't we stick to that instead of taking it off topic to calories and exercise.

Because carbs or not, if he's taking in too many calories he won't lose weight. It doesn't matter where those calories come from.

OP, from looking at your daily diet it's a lot of quite calorie-dense food. Do you really need 2 rib-eye steaks and a 4 egg omelette in one evening? Are you eating when hungry or just out of habit?

Truview

Dolbert wrote: »

Because carbs or not, if he's taking in too many calories he won't lose weight. It doesn't matter where those calories come from.

OP, from looking at your daily diet it's a lot of quite calorie-dense food. Do you really need 2 rib-eye steaks and a 4 egg omelette in one evening? Are you eating when hungry or just out of habit?

I do enjoy food. I suppose dinner is 5.30 and supper is at 9.30. I only have wine with dinner not with supper.

BabysCoffee

Truview wrote: »

Usual day as follows:

Breakfast
3salmon fillets + 1 tub of cream cheese

Lunch
Chicken stew made from 3 chicken fillets carrots cauliflower and zucchini

Dinner
2 ribeye steaks with butter sauce onions and 2 fried eggs + table spoon foie gras

Supper
4egg omelette with peanut butter and peppers
100gm cheddar

Snacks
Parma ham, cheese cubes and grapes

Woah that's a lot of food!!

Knock two of the salmon fillets on the head to start

http://www.ditchthecarbs.com/top-10-reasons-youre-not-loosing-weight/

Alf Veedersane

DMcL1971 wrote: »

If the poster is asking for advice on their low-carb diet why don't we stick to that instead of taking it off topic to calories and exercise.

Because losing weight us dependent on the number of calories consumed.

Low-carb foods also contain calories.

Truview

BabysCoffee wrote: »

Woah that's a lot of food!!

Knock two of the salmon fillets on the head to start

I suppose I might as well start calorie counting. I thought zero bread spuds pasta rice etc was supposed to work though.

Dial Hard

Truview wrote:

Usual day as follows:

This has to be a joke.

No?

BabysCoffee

Truview wrote: »

I suppose I might as well start calorie counting. I thought zero bread spuds pasta rice etc was supposed to work though.

From the look of it you are eating food for 2 people I reckon!

meeeeh

Truview wrote: »

Usual day as follows:

Breakfast
3salmon fillets + 1 tub of cream cheese

Lunch
Chicken stew made from 3 chicken fillets carrots cauliflower and zucchini

Dinner
2 ribeye steaks with butter sauce onions and 2 fried eggs + table spoon foie gras

Supper
4egg omelette with peanut butter and peppers
100gm cheddar

Snacks
Parma ham, cheese cubes and grapes

Sure you do. This is fifty Euro per day diet without wine.

Truview

Dial Hard wrote: »

This has to be a joke.

No?

No why would you say that? I had understood a carb free diet with low intake of processed food would help lose some weight.

Alf Veedersane

Truview wrote: »

I suppose I might as well start calorie counting. I thought zero bread spuds pasta rice etc was supposed to work though.

1 gram of carbohydrates = 4 calories.
1 gram of protein = 4 calories
1 gram of fat = 9 calories

Avoiding carbs will make no difference if you still eat too many calories

meeeeh

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

1 gram of carbohydrates = 4 calories.
1 gram of protein = 4 calories
1 gram of fat = 9 calories

Avoiding carbs will make no difference if you still eat too many calories

Yeah but he losses 350 calories trolling.

Harika

Not wondering that you don't loose weight. Even when I eat normal, I eat less than you.
My low carb diet usually looks like this, examples
breakfast> 300grams of salmon or tub of cottage cheese
lunch> grilled chicken breast with vegetables
dinner> can of tuna in brine with vinegar with veggies
snacks> handful of peanuts

Estimates your diet is 2500 calories a day, no wonder you don't loose any weight.

Penny Tration

Cut what you're eating by 40%.

You're eating a massive amount of food.

Truview

meeeeh wrote: »

Sure you do. This is fifty Euro per day diet without wine.

Em? Sure I spend money on good food and wine. Why not if I can afford to?

LeinsterDub

Truview wrote: »

Dial Hard wrote: »

This has to be a joke.

No?

No why would you say that? I had understood a carb free diet with low intake of processed food would help lose some weight.

Because anyone eating that much food would be 30 stone and not attempting to loose weight

meeeeh

Truview wrote: »

Em? Sure I spend money on good food and wine. Why not if I can afford to?

And a cook to prepare it, I bet.

Stacker Pentecost

BabysCoffee wrote: »

Woah that's a lot of food!!

Knock two of the salmon fillets on the head to start

http://www.ditchthecarbs.com/top-10-reasons-youre-not-loosing-weight/

Don't listen to this.

nkav86

I really think this is a p**s take

LeinsterDub

nkav86 wrote: »

I really think this is a p**s take

I mean who doesn't have daily foie gras. I'm pretty sure Louis the 16th er I mean the op will be losing weight shortly

dev100

Truview wrote:

Usual day as follows:

Truview wrote:

Breakfast 3salmon fillets + 1 tub of cream cheese

Truview wrote:

Lunch Chicken stew made from 3 chicken fillets carrots cauliflower and zucchini

Truview wrote:

Dinner 2 ribeye steaks with butter sauce onions and 2 fried eggs + table spoon foie gras

Truview wrote:

Supper 4egg omelette with peanut butter and peppers 100gm cheddar

Truview wrote:

Snacks Parma ham, cheese cubes and grapes

I done the paleo type diet and done 2 days of cross fit training every week and the weight fell off me every week.


Basically I ate salmon more eggs and meat and more veg and nuts and what not , I ate very plain food . Restricted staples like spuds to Sunday s. I was never hungry but suffered low energy with decreased carbs.

Down load myfitnesspal app for logging food and calorie content etc / great app.
Use it as a rough guide.

There's other guides that will tell you roughly what cals you would needing for your height etc.

As other posters will tell you less in more out and you will lose weight.

Truview

LeinsterDub wrote: »

I mean who doesn't have daily foie gras. I'm pretty sure Louis the 16th er I mean the op will be losing weight shortly

I don't have foie gras daily. A chum brought a pot back from overseas and I was using it appropriately to ensure I got through it before it staled.

El_Dangeroso

If this isn't a p*ss take (still not convinced)..

OP, a low carb diet works by suppressing appetite hugely.

There is no way in the world I could eat the amount of protein you have listed per day.

If this is your diet then for some reason the appetite suppression is clearly not kicking in for you and you need to cut your intake by at least 50% or start counting calories.

Dtp1979

Do people not realise carbs are needed for energy and recovery?

I thought all this no carb dieting was a myth buried deep in 1998

Harika

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Do people not realise carbs are needed for energy and recovery?

I thought all this no carb dieting was a myth buried deep in 1998

Yes carbs are needed, but no one is talking about no-carbs, except the OP, who has carbs in his anti-carb diet. Even Atkins, doesn't speak of no carbs, but low carbs. In reality, no one knows exactly, for every study there is a study opposing it.

gordongekko

The op has been banned.

DubTony

gordongekko wrote: »

The op has been banned.

... from the kitchen ?

Speedwell

All food is metabolized into glucose, or it is not food. Even eating zero carbs doesn't mean the body is starved of carbohydrate. That said, there is a balance; if I don't eat a small serving of simple carbs daily, my gut does not seem to want to produce the correct amount of serotonin. But otherwise my body seems to do fine converting nice pure veg and oils and fresh lean flesh foods into glucose to attempt to feed my poor insulin-resistant cells. I don't lose weight on it either (despite modest calorie counts overall), but at least I am not giving myself crazy blood sugar numbers. My GP and specialist and I have some interesting theories why, having to do with everything from stomach receptor signaling to gut environment to heredity to possible PCOS. When a low-carb diet with fewer than maintenance calories is not working for weight loss, all bets are off and you need to look to individual factors, alone and in combination.

Piehead

How good are these keto/paleo diets?

Harika

Piehead wrote: »

How good are these keto/paleo diets?

As good as any diet you can follow for a long term.
Important to check with your doctor and keep an eye on cholesterol.

Piehead

Truview wrote: »

Usual day as follows:

Breakfast
3salmon fillets + 1 tub of cream cheese

Lunch
Chicken stew made from 3 chicken fillets carrots cauliflower and zucchini

Dinner
2 ribeye steaks with butter sauce onions and 2 fried eggs + table spoon foie gras

Supper
4egg omelette with peanut butter and peppers
100gm cheddar

Snacks
Parma ham, cheese cubes and grapes

Is this a good starting off point for Keeto?

Truview

Truview wrote: »

Usual day as follows:

Breakfast
3salmon fillets + 1 tub of cream cheese

Lunch
Chicken stew made from 3 chicken fillets carrots cauliflower and zucchini

Dinner
2 ribeye steaks with butter sauce onions and 2 fried eggs + table spoon foie gras

Supper
4egg omelette with peanut butter and peppers
100gm cheddar

Snacks
Parma ham, cheese cubes and grapes

That would be a suitable diet of a professional body builder.

DMcL1971

DMcL1971 wrote: »

If the poster is asking for advice on their low-carb diet why don't we stick to that instead of taking it off topic to calories and exercise.

Probably because their diet has been ineffective.

bennyineire

Piehead wrote: »

Is this a good starting off point for Keeto?

This would be a much better start

Breakfast
2 egg omelette with peppers, 30g of chesse

Lunch
Chicken stew made from 1 chicken fillets carrots cauliflower and zucchini

Dinner
1 ribeye steaks with butter sauce onions, green veg

Snacks
Parma ham, cheese cubes, nuts

Alf Veedersane

Piehead wrote: »

How good are these keto/paleo diets?

If you're looking to drop weight, then they are just another way of controlling calorie intake.

BabysCoffee

Piehead wrote: »

How good are these keto/paleo diets?

I think dietdoctor.com is a good resource for starting off with Keto

LaChatteGitane

Piehead wrote: »

Is this a good starting off point for Keeto?

Not for Keto, because it contains too many proteins.

oleras

Old thread I know but, speaking of protein, how is it counted ? Say a salmon fillet that weights 100g, this has 25g of protein.

If you are limiting yourself to 120/150g of protein a day is it the raw weight or the nutritional protein value, 25g in the salmon case ?

Cill94

oleras wrote: »

Old thread I know but, speaking of protein, how is it counted ? Say a salmon fillet that weights 100g, this has 25g of protein.

If you are limiting yourself to 120/150g of protein a day is it the raw weight or the nutritional protein value, 25g in the salmon case ?

Not sure what you mean. You just add the total number of grams of protein together for the day.

Weight of the food is not a factor.

oleras

Cill94 wrote: »

Not sure what you mean. You just add the total number of grams of protein together for the day.

Weight of the food is not a factor.

Sorry, didnt explain it well.

My fitness pal lists 100g of salmon fillet as having 25g of protein.

If i want to eat 100g or protein in a day, would it be one 100g salmon fillet or 4 100g salmon fillets ?

So as you say, weight of food isnt a factor, so it would be 400g of salmon to get 100g of protein ?

Alf Veedersane

oleras wrote: »

Sorry, didnt explain it well.

My fitness pal lists 100g of salmon fillet as having 25g of protein.

If i want to eat 100g or protein in a day, would it be one 100g salmon fillet or 4 100g salmon fillets ?

So as you say, weight of food isnt a factor, so it would be 400g of salmon to get 100g of protein ?

If 100g of salmon has 25g protein then 400g salmon has 100g protein.

ayzeb123

There's a really good carb counter on the Atkins website that is very helpful when starting off on Keto to get the portion amounts correct. It gives Carbs, Fat and Protein content for various foods.

If you visit the Atkins Uk site and click on support and then Carb Counter.

Been on Keto myself since 25/01 this year and down 14kg. Easiest meal plan i've ever done, no hunger, no cravings and loads of alternative recipes for the stuff i like if I feel like baking or having something sweet. You can even have a glass of wine (as long as it's over 13% alcohol = less sugar) or a G&T and stay in Ketosis.