Lucky~Star
Full Member
Ok, I may be getting a little ahead of myself here since i'm not at target yet but according to my home scales (not official til Mon WI) I only have 5lbs to go until BMI 25 and starting the maintenance.
I completely understand the importance of moving up the steps but I was hoping to stick to a largely low-carb diet when the diet has finished. Before starting CD I followed a low carb diet and although I didn't lose I found I could maintain my weight easily with it and I felt really good on it.
The maintenance steps seem very geared towards increasing carbs as well as calories so do you think I should follow the CD steps to the letter and once I have reached goal/maintained start to reduce the carbs so that I can live a low carb lifestyle or should I tweak the steps so that the calories increase but the carbs don't increase as much?
I have no interest in staying in ketosis so the carbs will not be that low but lower than those in the 1500 plan.
So what do you think is the best avenue? I don't want to ruin my hard work by not following the steps correctly but at the same time they seen slightly redundant if i'm going to reduce my carbs again once i've finished refeeding
I completely understand the importance of moving up the steps but I was hoping to stick to a largely low-carb diet when the diet has finished. Before starting CD I followed a low carb diet and although I didn't lose I found I could maintain my weight easily with it and I felt really good on it.
The maintenance steps seem very geared towards increasing carbs as well as calories so do you think I should follow the CD steps to the letter and once I have reached goal/maintained start to reduce the carbs so that I can live a low carb lifestyle or should I tweak the steps so that the calories increase but the carbs don't increase as much?
I have no interest in staying in ketosis so the carbs will not be that low but lower than those in the 1500 plan.
So what do you think is the best avenue? I don't want to ruin my hard work by not following the steps correctly but at the same time they seen slightly redundant if i'm going to reduce my carbs again once i've finished refeeding