Michelle
12-08-2011, 03:15 PM
There's an interesting post at the 4 Hour Body Couple (http://www.fourhourbodycouple.com/2011/12/05/do-women-actually-lose-weight-on-slow-carb/) talking about whether the slow carb diet actually works for women.
I can "weigh in" on this a little - my husband lost MUCH faster than I did on this diet. And yes, it was disheartening.
I also had much less to lose than many of the testimonials you see for the slow carb diet - I only wanted to lose about 15lbs, not the 40, 70, 100+ that many people come to the diet with.
I started to lose faster once I cut out the beans. I don't know if it's a women-and-carb thing, or if it's just me using beans as a scapegoat, but I HATE the beans and am glad they're gone.
Slow carb was more a catalyst to many other nutritional ideas - namely the elimination of high glycemic index foods - that changed my day-to-day way of eating for almost a year now. I can say that I'm much more active, much happier, much healthier, at least I feel like I am having changed my eating habits and slow carb was the start of those changes.
I can "weigh in" on this a little - my husband lost MUCH faster than I did on this diet. And yes, it was disheartening.
I also had much less to lose than many of the testimonials you see for the slow carb diet - I only wanted to lose about 15lbs, not the 40, 70, 100+ that many people come to the diet with.
I started to lose faster once I cut out the beans. I don't know if it's a women-and-carb thing, or if it's just me using beans as a scapegoat, but I HATE the beans and am glad they're gone.
Slow carb was more a catalyst to many other nutritional ideas - namely the elimination of high glycemic index foods - that changed my day-to-day way of eating for almost a year now. I can say that I'm much more active, much happier, much healthier, at least I feel like I am having changed my eating habits and slow carb was the start of those changes.