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Pittsburg, Kansas | One problem with calorie restriction diets is the rebound effect when a person goes off them.
My wife for years tried various calorie restricted diets. Weight Watchers and the like. The problem was her hunger always eventually got the best of her and any weight she lost on the program came roaring back as soon as she abandoned it short term. Yo-yo dieting. Hunger would just wear at her, and finally win.
Our success, both hers and mine, I think has been a lot dependent on the fact that we never go hungry. We always eat all we want, as much as we want, till we are satisfied full.
The big difference is in the foods we eat and more specifically the foods we do not eat. We quit eating the foods that spike insulin. Insulin spikes cause a blood sugar drop (after initially rising from the carb intake) that initiates the hunger signal to eat again. We now eat foods that are high in satiety and that do not spike insulin. Eat a pound of meat (low insulin response) and most people will not be hungry again for quite a while. Eat a pound of potatos or bread or pizza (high insulin response) and be hungry again in two or three hours.
Long term, it is hard to overcome being hungry all the time. Eating foods that don't spike those hunger pangs were the solution for us. Calorie restriction works, if you can keep it up.
I think it will be 4 years coming up this March that we have been on a low carb diet. Her weight has been mostly stable all that time after the initial weight loss. This is the first "diet" (more like a lifestyle) she has been able to stick to. Her energy and health has seen great improvements because of it.
Edited by John Burns 1/4/2023 05:31
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Weight loss/diet help
