I have been low carbing for around three months and for the three months before that since my pre or type 2 borderline diagnosis cutting down on intake. I have lost 17kgs which I am working out to be 20% of my body weight. I am exercising daily at the gym as I have always done and I am just entering the normal weight ratio on BMI scale, problem is I can't stop loosing weight and comments on loosing too mich weight. What do I do? I can only think if increasing unrefined carbs. Blood sugars not exceeding 6-7 two hours after but that's low carb meals. I am in a bit of a dilemma and would like some suggestions. Do I stop daily hour at the gym?
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If you are just entering the "healthy BMI" range, it is highly unlikely you are clinically underweight, so from that perspective, you probably have quite a window to address the issue before it would become a medical concern. I accept that your preferences and social pressures may differ from that perspective.
Having lost my poundage, to my preferred, personal level, then continued to lose, I appreciate your concern and I do empathise. What have done so far is, firstly to add something different to my diet. For me, it was a portion of peanuts with my lunch. I took that approach because I wanted something lowish carb, which I know I can drop at any time. It's also easy to identify the nutrition I receive from those, and therefore I can easily track whether it's working or not. Cutting to the chase, it wasn't enough.
Step two has involved widening some of my meal choices, to include some carbs I had given up (with appropriate testing, clearly), and see how that went. I had no discernible change in blood scores, but still have lost weight, albeit now at a pretty slow rate.
Step three is just increasing my portion size a tiny bit, so the mix remains, but the calories increase. Again, testing. I haven't been on this tack long enough to assess its efficacy.
I'm shortly about to relocate from my home-from-home to home, and this will introduce a new set of variables in terms of climate, dietary options and I will be cooking for one for a few weeks until my OH joins me.
It's really all just about trial and error and, in my view, taking smaller steps, then waiting for some time to elapse to review the results. I'm desperate not to go into a yo-yo phase, so I am being conservative.
Let us know what you decide to do and how it goes, because this is a fairly regular topic on the forum, although, somewhat less frequent than queries at the beginning of the weight reduction/blood scores phase.
Oh. And I am also a disciple to myfitnesspal.
Happy eating!!
