Lila

I'm hoping theres an advantage... I have settled in so far in the 1500-2000 calorie range as far as my hunger goes and I'd love to be able to lose on that....I know on just low calorie alone I would lose basically nothing if I ate that amount of calories... on Induction I lost 10 pounds eating 2400-3000 calories a day....my appetite has really went down now though....I keep my fat percentages up over 70% no matter what amount of calories I eat... what percentages do ones here reccomend for losing good for fat, protein and carbs?..today mine was 21% protein, 6% carbs (not net) and 73% fat.

I have to keep my calories at a limit if I want to be losing weight or I else I am just maintaining. It sucks because I do get hungry a lot and want to eat over 2000 calories a day but when i do this I am not losing even though I work out a lot. Soooo, I would suggest low carb and cals at 10-12X your weight.

Of course there is! Why would so many people who failed on starvation diets have such a great success on Atkins?

Personally I've stopped counting calories in May last year and I'm still losing weight while eating like a hard working man....

The trick it - you have to move your body. No excuses there......

Alina

I've been using a new program I downloaded into my computer so I don't have to log on line to use Fitday anymore, but it keeps track of my calories and everything like Fitday does, it's called Fitness Assistant. Anyway, I started using it 2 days ago, today being day 3 I'm on it. This is how many calories I've had the past 2 days and it's not any different from what I've been eating all this time:

April 27, Calories Eaten: 2467...86% Fat
April 28, Calories Eaten: 2421...75% Fat

and I inputed what I'll be having today and this the count

April 29, Calories Eaten: 3412...79% Fat


So I think it depends on your physical activities cause I eat this much all the time and have had great weight loss results....Usually my Fat count is in the 80's but I'm out of oil till the weekend.

I was having huge motivational issues until I read DANDR. The thing that did it for me was the rat study. Once I read about the rats, I was like YES! and I haven't looked back since.

If the rats can do it, I can do it

Absolutely! I know that most of my posts seem long and boring so people just skim, but I think there's a lot of info I have from a fresh reading of DANDR and a little scientific knowledge. So, without further ado, see

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?p=2063694#post2063694

And a little more straight to the point,

http://atkins.com/Archive/2001/12/15-34460.html

Your absolute best souce for information on this is in Chapter 7 of DANDR, which is entirely dedicated to explaining the metabolic advantage. If you don't have the book handy, the bulk of that chapter is available on the following two pages, the latter of which has lots of newer research for you to look at as well.

http://atkins.com/Archive/2001/12/15-34460.html
http://atkins.com/Archive/2001/12/15-316384.html

The newest data (Mar 04)

http://atkins.com/Archive/2004/3/29-114117.html

A summary of Atkins WOE techniques related to the metabolic advantage.

http://atkins.com/Archive/2001/12/22-945076.html

Is that convincing?