[Jeff Chandler]

I cut out carbs on January 3, 2012 and have lost 33 pounds

That's very encouraging. The real test will be what your diet, weight, and health is like two or three years from now. That's my beef with semi-starvation diets. Everybody gains the weight back.

[trailhkr1]

The real test will be what your diet, weight, and health is like two or three years from now. That's my beef with semi-starvation diets. Everybody gains the weight back.

Excellent point. That is why I hate fad diets including Atkins. Atkins is ok for a short time but should never bee along term diet. Your body needs good carbs. People who want to lose weight(and keep it off) need to make a lifestyle choice and eat right and exercise nearly every day.

Not any different than AA-one day at a time and keep going.I see so many people at the gym they lose a significant amount of weight through a low cal diet and 8-10 months later they are back to their old weight because they can't keep the diet they are on.

[trailhkr1]

The real test will be what your diet, weight, and health is like two or three years from now. That's my beef with semi-starvation diets. Everybody gains the weight back.

Excellent point. That is why I hate fad diets including Atkins. Atkins is ok for a short time but should never bee along term diet. Your body needs good carbs. People who want to lose weight(and keep it off) need to make a lifestyle choice and eat right and exercise nearly every day.

Not any different than AA-one day at a time and keep going.I see so many people at the gym they lose a significant amount of weight through a low cal diet and 8-10 months later they are back to their old weight because they can't keep the diet they are on.

.The RIGHT way to lose weight is 1.0-2 lbs per week max with a 400-500 day calories deficit from your maintence calories-that is the calories you consume every day where you neither gain nor lose weight.

[lawdave]

That's my beef with semi-starvation diets. Everybody gains the weight back.

I agree. This diet does not require starvation. In fact it says to eat as much non- carb food as you need to not be hungry. Taubes actually discusses the after diet weight gain, citing to the fact that most diets restrict all calories proportionally but after the diet ends we go back to ingesting a lot of carbs.

So, once I hit my goal weight(somewhere between 190 and 200), I intend to slowly incorporate carbs back into my diet to see how much I can tolerate without gaining.

BTW, the Taubes diet is in the previous post at the link titled "No Sugar, No Starch."