Hello Cindy: I certainly admire and applaud your determination to stick to an eating plan. But I wonder which one you are trying to follow? None of the LC plans says you should eat NO carbs. In fact, some of them state that going below 10 - 20 carbs does NOT accelerate the weight loss. Even Atkins, in his first edition in 1972, recommended a salad each day.

I also have to admire your recognition that you had an eating disorder when younger. A number of people on this board have been where you were and will understand better than I. But please beware of going toward that road again. You now know that being healthy is more important than being skinny. You can be fit and well-toned which is preferable to being bony. You might weigh more but be smaller if you work out with weights and do cardio. And you will feel GREAT.

Please try to decide which of the LC plans you will follow and then use your strong determination to do what that plan recommends. If it says to increase the carbs, then do it until you see if you still lose. If it says 20 or 35 or 55 grams of carbs daily, take the advice of the doctor who wrote the plan. They have seen many people succeed and based their books on those successes. After you have followed one plan for 3-5 months, that is the time to begin to change a few things and adjust as you learn how your body reacts.

Fast weight loss is not always the best kind. It does encourage us to keep going, but slow loss gives us time to really learn how to live low carb.

All the best.