[fleitz]

It's weird how that stuff works.

I'm 32, my last physical revealed that I'm 63 lbs overweight, I smoke (pack a day), drink fairly regularly, my blood pressure is fine, my cholesterol is fine, and have a great insulin response. Lung capacity is definitely not where it should be though.

I also eat almost entirely meat and carbs, save for lettuce/salad. I can drop 5 lbs in a couple weeks just giving up soda, 10 lbs if I give up carbs entirely.

I think the low fat / no meat thing is a load of crap. At least for me all I have to do is drop the carbs, and especially sugar.

[mason55]

Have you kept going past the 5 - 10 pounds? It's doubtful that you'll continue to shed weight at that rate. What happens is that without carbs your body's glycogen stores begin to deplete when you stops eating carbs (carbs are essential to glycogen production). Your muscles will take a week or two to flush out all the fluid they were holding on to before eventually stabilizing at a new level. Most people tend to drop a lot of weight at the beginning of a diet, especially low or no carb, however once the initial glycogen depletion happens they level off with the weight loss.

Some people hit a plateau and get discouraged or think they're done and start eating carbs again and shoot right back up. Others continue on at a healthy 1 - 2 pounds/week until they reach their goal.

[fleitz]

Yup, I was down to 10-15 lbs overweight before I stopped freelancing (perhaps it should be called free-ranging) and started employment again.

Office job plus free pop and chips plus stress = massive weight gain. I think for me at the core it's a stress + easy access to unhealthy food issue.

[kyllo]

"Carb sensitivity" is also a thing, and some people get a much stronger weight gain response from eating carbs (and weight loss response from not eating them) compared to other people. You might have a relatively high sensitivity to carbs.