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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lupf" data-source="post: 2610599" data-attributes="member: 518059">A calorie is a unit of energy, but this is not the whole story.Our body is not a combustion engine. Thus calories from carbs will have different effects than calories from fat.Fatty foods are more satiating and reduce hunger. Sugary food give a quick fix and then make you hungry again in two hours.This is how many people here have lost weight by simply changing diet to low carb without counting calories.Furthermore just reducing calories will reduce your metabolic base rate, thus you will burn fewer calories and after a while you stop losing weight. More importantly you will always feel hungry, become miserable and give up at some point. In my view eating a "low calorie diet" is not sustainable in the long term. This leads to the well known yoyo dieting.   On the other hand there are many people here who can sustain a lower BG/HbA1c and lower weight by having switched to a low carb high fat diet.To lose weight one should evaluate the diet and consider changing it just as much as looking at the overall calories. Most of us can lose weight with a crash diet, i.e. not eating a lot for a limited period of time. However losing weight is the "easy" part, keeping the the weight from increasing again afterwards is the challenge. Your body needs to get the correct amount of calories and for this you need a sustainable solution. As carby and sugary food are addictive, they increase hunger, thus by replacing carbs with fat it is  typically much easier to not gain the weight back. Personally, I have banned anything low fat from my diet.Finally I am a fan of intermittent fasting. I've successfully lost 10 kg and reduced my HbA1c to the 40s with this method. On fast days I restrict to 800 calories with no carby foods, but you can eat lots of vegetables and soup, so I don't feel hungry. In my view Intermittent fasting is based on evolution, i.e. when our ancestors had no luck hunting they switched to fat burning.</blockquote>

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