Re: Be careful what you do, the weight comes back fast!
From: tera (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:48:23 -0500 (CDT)
Hi!
This is absolutely true. Does 30 mg of carbs sound really low to all of
you? IT IS but many women like Kyra with PCOS have to drop that low in
order to lose since we are so metabolically resistant. And once you
lose it you have to maintain your low carb lifestyle in order not to
gain it back.
Kyra did drop her fat really low, though. Not all low carb diets are
that low in fat. Even Atkins with its strict induction swears that you
will lose more if you INCLUDE fats in your diet than if you do not. But
hey, lower fat worked for Kyra. We are all different and we need to
find the low carb plan that works for each one of us.
My cousin with PCOS is in exactly the same boat and Kyra's story is not
unique. Good post, Kyra. God bless, Tera
At Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Melissa wrote:
>
>What a wonderful letter Kyra...thanks for sharing your experience...I am
>starting the Atkins diet (today is my first day) and hopefully that will
>give me some success. Dr. Atkins talks about how a low carb diet shoud
>be a lifetime commitment an you are proof that he was right. Thanks for
>sharing and making my commitment more real.
>
>At Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Kyra wrote:
>>
>>I was on a low-carb but free calorie diet (eat all the meat and cheese
>>you want) for about a year, and I was down about 35 lbs, but had totally
>>plateued. I hadn't lost even a pound in three plus months, and was
>>getting desperate. I was still obese at 213lbs and wanted to be
>>"normal". Sooooo then, last year I went from 213 lbs in early February
>>to 178 lbs in mid April, losing 35 lbs in only two 1/2 months! At 5'7",
>>I wasn't skinny, but I wasn't fat either, and boy, was I having fun!!!
>>How did I do it? LOW FAT, LOW CAL and LOW CARB- I got serious, plain and
>>simple. I'd have a protein shake OR scrambled egg whites for breakfast,
>>grilled chicken breast, 2 pieces of sliced tomato and steamed veggies
>>for lunch, then more grilled chicken or fish, steamed veggies and salad
>>(with balsamic vinegar as dressing) for dinner. Snacks? Boiled egg
>>whites. You would think I would have been starving but I wasn't, I was
>>too motivated by the rapid loss, losing a clothing size every payday and
>>shopping all the time :) But then, I made a HUGE mistake. I thought
>>"you can't live without carbs forever, it's not good for you". So I
>>went off the restricted carb diet and guess what...now I've gained 60 of
>>the 70 total pounds back. I gained 40 of it in less than three months.
>>When you have PCOS and Insulin Resistance, these changes have to be
>>forever. I may have been able to increase fat and calories, but not
>>sugar. I have proven that eating 3000 calories a day and less than 30g
>>of carbs kept me at a stable weight, where 1500 calories with 90-120
>>grams of carb packed on all this weight. And, it's a vicious cycle. The
>>carbs make you hungrier, crave more, etc. and the gained weight makes
>>you depressed, so you eat more. I am getting back on track now and
>>going to see a Rep Endo on the 29th of this month. Hoping glucophage
>>will give me better long term alternatives. Anyway, this drug on
>>forever, but I just wanted to save someone else since I've been through
>>the pain of gaining all this weight back myself. Trust me, nothing
>>tastes as good as skinny feels!!!!
>>
>>--
>>Good luck and take care,
>>
>>Kyra
>>
>--
>~Curvy~
>To dream of who you would like to be is to waste the person you are
>
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Tera
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