We don't really "count carbs" but we did in the beginning till we got a good general idea of which foods were low carb and portion sizes. But if you can stay down around 20 grams of carbs a day, you will almost certainly be in solid ketosis and the fat will melt away. Especially for a guy. Gals have a bit more problem with other hormones and kind of go in fits and spurts. Also the older you are and the longer it took to accumulate, the harder it is to come back off. My daughter has lost 50# in the time my wife has lost 35, and she had less total to go than my wife.

Watch the fruit and the stuff all these years we have been told are "healthy". Very high in sugar and worse, fructose. I used to eat bananas because they supposedly were "healthy" and had potassium. No wonder I was taking a hundred units of insulin a day. Horrible idea for a diabetic. Broccoli and other green vegies have the minerals and vitamins without the sucrose and fructose.

I still have a couple of little rolls of fat on each side of my belly button where I injected insulin for years. Another thing I didn't know, where you inject insulin the fat cells well get grossly large. If you want a titty on your belly, just inject insulin there for 15 years. Other than that, I am within a few pounds of being at ideal body weight.

The trick for me is to make sure I eat enough protein and fat at meals. If I do that, I don't get hungry before the next meal. All we normally eat is lunch and dinner. On Sunday we sometimes will make it brunch and dinner. Normally with no snacks in between but I did have some pork rinds this afternoon. Maybe ate three meals twice in the last month. If you don't replace the carbs with fat and protein, you will get hungry between meals and be tempted to "snack". Snack and you spike insulin. Insulin goes up, you CAN"T burn fat. That is the way it works. The body will NOT burn body fat with high insulin levels. The way to keep insulin low is to not put the carbs that spike it into your mouth. It is not about calories. It is much more about hormone controls and metabolism thereof.

It really is that simple.

John