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Maintain weight on lchf
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It can take a while, and I continued losing for longer than I wanted to ideally. What have you got your BMI to? If you don't know, you can calculate it here: http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Healthyweightcalculator.aspx
Whatever you choose to increase (fat or protein), increase it slowly and monitor for a short while, or there's a danger of yo-yoing.
Whilst doing this, I would strongly recommend you keep a complete food diary and bloods too. Some people find their numbers can change a bit if they increase protein, as a protein rich diet can result in some protein converting to carb.
Hi AndBtreathe
Thanks for the reply. I never go off my bmi result as I don't believe it is an accurate way of checking someone's weight/height ratio. I'm 5ft 10, 13st 8 and of a muscular build and my bmi comes out at overweight! My ideal bmi weight would be around 11st which is not realistic at all as I'd be a skeleton!
Once I get to around 13st 5 I'd be happy to stay around that weight. So increasing protein or fat would keep weight on?
Many thanks
Thanks for the reply. I never go off my bmi result as I don't believe it is an accurate way of checking someone's weight/height ratio. I'm 5ft 10, 13st 8 and of a muscular build and my bmi comes out at overweight! My ideal bmi weight would be around 11st which is not realistic at all as I'd be a skeleton!
Once I get to around 13st 5 I'd be happy to stay around that weight. So increasing protein or fat would keep weight on?
Many thanks
tvlicencenumber
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The Basics
Eat: Meat, fish, eggs, vegetables growing above ground and natural fats (like butter).
Avoid: Sugar and starchy foods (like bread, pasta, rice, beans and potatoes).
Eat when you’re hungry until you are satisfied. It’s that simple.
You do not need to count calories or weigh your food. And just forget about industrially produced low fat products.
There are solid scientific reasons why LCHF works. When you avoid sugar and starches your blood sugar stabilizes and the levels of insulin, the fat-storing hormone, drop. This increases fat burning and makes you feel more satiated.
Eat: Meat, fish, eggs, vegetables growing above ground and natural fats (like butter).
Avoid: Sugar and starchy foods (like bread, pasta, rice, beans and potatoes).
Eat when you’re hungry until you are satisfied. It’s that simple.
You do not need to count calories or weigh your food. And just forget about industrially produced low fat products.
There are solid scientific reasons why LCHF works. When you avoid sugar and starches your blood sugar stabilizes and the levels of insulin, the fat-storing hormone, drop. This increases fat burning and makes you feel more satiated.
SunnyExpat
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Yes, if I eat more fat, I soon put the weight back on.
(If I didn't count calories, or simply ate until I'm satisfied, I'd have no chance, but some people seem to be lucky that way, be aware not all of us are though)
(If I didn't count calories, or simply ate until I'm satisfied, I'd have no chance, but some people seem to be lucky that way, be aware not all of us are though)
Indy51
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I've never been able to lose quite as much weight as the BMI range tells me I should be able to achieve. I reach a certain point and then plateau. Once I introduced 8/16 compressed eating window/intermittent fasting, I was able to lose some weight I'd regained and a couple of extra kilos, but then I plateaued again while maintaining the level of calories I'd previously been losing on. I'm still about a kg heavier than my teenage years, but still not as low as the BMI chart tells me should be possible.
I'm happy with the current weight and have now increased my calories while keeping to the 8/16 IF regime - so far I have managed to avoid regaining while increasing my calories from around 1400-1600 up to 2200-2400. This time I'm trying very hard not to regain the weight, so still keeping a food diary, tracking calories/macronutrients and weighing myself daily. If I go above 60kg, I lower the calories for a day or two per week and it seems to be working so far (around 6 weeks of increased calories). The tracking gets a bit tedious, but it's much easier to stop regain at 1 or 2 kgs than the 7 I got to by taking my eye of the ball
I'm happy with the current weight and have now increased my calories while keeping to the 8/16 IF regime - so far I have managed to avoid regaining while increasing my calories from around 1400-1600 up to 2200-2400. This time I'm trying very hard not to regain the weight, so still keeping a food diary, tracking calories/macronutrients and weighing myself daily. If I go above 60kg, I lower the calories for a day or two per week and it seems to be working so far (around 6 weeks of increased calories). The tracking gets a bit tedious, but it's much easier to stop regain at 1 or 2 kgs than the 7 I got to by taking my eye of the ball
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The frustrating thing is I can't tell you what will work for you. You have to experiment, but record and review.
These days, my plates are probably piled higher than ever, and trust me, I eat a lot, but my weight doesn't increase beyond a couple of kilos, which is quite normal. The few kilos just disappears as quickly as it might appear, with no action, so I'm calling that my range. I was recently described by a medic as "extremely slight". In reality, I'd probably be happier at just "slight", but as I alluded in my earlier post, I didn't stop losing immediately I started tweaking my food.
