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Weight Loss/Maintenance

In reply to the discussion: 5'6" over 300# [View all]

dusty trails

(174 posts)
1. Low carb
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 12:03 PM
Jul 2013
"My biggest problem is ability to concentrate at work as I try to lose weight."


If you keep thinking about food, low carb foods tend to keep you feeling full longer.
After Drew Carey, host of the Price Is Right TV show lost a ton of weight via a low carb diet, I went on one myself. Of course he can afford exercise gurus, etc and I can't.

I've lost 100 pounds by eating low carb and walking a mile or so daily.
By the way, I'm a diabetic and the weight loss has helped me cut from four injections a day of insulin to usually just my night time shot.
Plus my B/P has gone from a usual 220/90 to a pretty consistent 117/72.

I looked up low carb or no carb foods on the internet, made a list of suggested food items, and then did my own planning for meals.

5'6" over 300# [View all] exboyfil Jul 2013 OP
Low carb dusty trails Jul 2013 #1
Thanks for the suggestion exboyfil Jul 2013 #2
roasting dusty trails Jul 2013 #3
The updated Atkins isn't high fat TexasBushwhacker Sep 2013 #7
You can make cauliflower "rice" and "mashed potatoes" TexasBushwhacker May 2015 #11
new studies agree with you that low-carb diets lead to more weight loss and better health JennyD Sep 2014 #9
If the time commitment for cooking.. Mr.Environmental Aug 2013 #4
Welcome to DU wryter2000 Aug 2013 #5
That's a lot of exercise wryter2000 Aug 2013 #6
Its mostly the diet jambo101 Aug 2014 #8
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