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Feeling thirsty on low carb diet

Carbs hold water. Fewer carbs means less water held in our bodies hence the extra thirst.
 

Hi Skinny43,
I am a Type 2 Diabetic TOFI (Thin Outside, Fat Inside) - meaning that I was only ever just slightly overweight on the BMI scale. Though in my 60's I was no longer as skinny as I was in my 20's.
I use just a LCHF 'Way Of Eating' to reduce my Blood Glucose (no diabetes medication and no additional exercise). It is now into the pre-diabetic range and my target is into the normal range by April 2020.

However even by eating as much Fat and Protein to feel full and never counting Calories (just counting Carbs), I still lost weight over the first 3 months at a rate of between 1 to 1 1/2 lbs per week.
So I am slimmer than I was before diagnosis and I feel better for that. However my overweight and obese friends keep suggesting I have lost too much weight and look skinny, even though I am only in the middle of the 'normal' BMI range!

I think they get so used to their size, that they think their weight is only slightly above normal - as indeed it is now if you take normal to mean average rather than healthy!
 
Thank you for sharing your success! It’s great to know you can lose weight without starving yourself. It’s also reassuring to know that low carb diet and losing weight can help even skinny people like yourself. It’s also a healthy way of losing weight since you feel good and can keep it. Lots of people lose weight by low calories diet but they can’t keep up with it and eventual go back to where they started - or worse.

I’m really trying not to lose more weight while eating less carbs. I have always been underweight through my youth. Now in my 40’s just about to reach low end of normal bmi. I don’t really want to go back to underweight as I still secretly wish to have another baby
. However my weight gain in recent years has mostly focused on my waist area so I guess that’s why my glucose level has crept up to the prediabetes range (has always been the top end of normal though). Hence I’m trying to only reduce waist if at all instead of weight. I’m also fairly actively so will try some weight lifting to build up more muscle. Like you my main aim is to reduce blood glucose level. If weight ( waist in my case) loss comes as a byproduct that’s a bonus!
 
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