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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 533459" data-attributes="member: 41816">Hi all,I thought I knew masses about low carb diets, veteran that I am, but I had never properly factored in the role of glycogen and how slow the weight loss game be after glycogen reserves in the liver and big muscles have gone - nor did I realise how BIG those reserves could be. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite70" alt=":woot:" title="Woot    :woot:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":woot:" />Jenny Ruhl explains it far better than I can in her book low carb diets 101 so I won't even try, but it really shocked me that once the rapid glycogen loss phase of a low carb diet has ended, then weight loss happens at roughly the same rate as any other diet, and depends on your body, not really the diet.I had always thought of low carb as 'special' somehow, and weight loss would be faster, but her findings contradict that.Not that it changes my commitment to low carb.  It's the only diet my body likes, so it's a no brainer for me, really.</blockquote>

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