[rb2k_]

> They just trick you into eating fewer calories by forbidding most of the food you ate before the diet.

I eat more calories than before judging by the amounts of meat/butter/nuts that I eat. I lost 15 kilos in body weight accompanied by a 5% reduction in body fat (-> gained muscle).

So at least on a personal level, I can really not confirm this.

An interesting article backing the low-carb high-fat diets that has links to the matching double blind studies: http://authoritynutrition.com/11-biggest-lies-of-mainstream-...

[brown9-2]

Are you also exercising more than before the diet? If so, it's an uneven comparison.

[rb2k_]

Not initially. This process was over 15 months or so and for the first 4-5 I didn't change my exercise routine.

[papsosouid]

>I eat more calories than before judging by the amounts of meat/butter/nuts that I eat.

So, judging by guessing. That is not how you judge. Measure your food and see how many calories you actually consume. It is fewer.

>An interesting article backing the low-carb high-fat diets that has links to the matching double blind studies

Which confirm that the people who successfully lose weight on low carb diets do so by caloric reduction. Might want to pay attention when posting sources that contradict you.

[rb2k_]

I can't find any of the points saying that low-carb diets restrict calories. The points mentioning calories are those:

"Every randomized controlled trial on low-carb diets shows that they:

- Reduce body fat more than calorie-restricted low-fat diets, even though the low-carb dieters are allowed to eat as much as they want (41, 42).

[...]

- Low carb diets are also easier to stick to, probably because they don’t require you to restrict calories and be hungry all the time. More people in the low-carb groups make it to the end of the studies "

[papsosouid]

Read the studies, not the random guy summarizing them as misleadingly as possible to suit his agenda.

[c1u]

When you eat low-carb, your body depletes your glycogen stores (if you go as far as keto, you're emptying the glycogen and switching your metabolism to run on ketones). Every gram of glycogen is stored with 3-4g water. When one goes low-carb (especially coming from a high-carb diet) they will loose a LOT of weight quickly, but most of this is water weight, not body fat.

[rb2k_]

This progress was over 15+ months. I think by now the water weight should be gone ;) Also, as mentioned, I lost quite a bit of body fat too.