Sun, Sep-10-17, 20:27
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Senior Member
Posts: 4,290
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Plan: Keto / Atkins VLC
Stats: 173/148.8/135
BF:23.9
Progress: 64%
Location: N. Calif. Sierra Nevadas
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Originally Posted by mef623
Thanks all! Getting used to this idea of not worrying as much about the calories isn't as easy as it sounds. It goes against a lifetime of (failed) dieting. You'd think that I could just accept the fact that what I had been doing before was wrong, but it's tough!
Mike
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One thing about calories.....when you eat very low carb, and jettison most of the carbs you could eat (except the fairly benign green ones such as the allotted lettuce, spinach, things like that), your appetite will be dramatically reduced downwards. LC food is satisfying more quickly, and lasts longer, so the end result is that you eat many fewer calories than you would eat if you were eating lots of different carbs. I'm sometimes shocked at how low my calories can end up, even though I'm totally full and couldn't eat more. This way of eating is more like nature intended...you suddenly start sensing your body's signals, including that of satiety. So you are less likely to overeat....it's HARD to overeat these LC foods because of the satiety factor.
I never count calories, but I do track everything because I want to keep track of carbs and fat, mostly. In the process I see the calories, and it's nowhere near what I used to eat when I was eating carbs. Carbs are calorie devils!
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