I'm starting a low carb diet today.

[Tobin S.]

60. Week 2 Weigh-in: 292.6. Down 2 lbs. or 0.9 kgs for the week. Down 12.6 lbs.or about 5.7 kgs total.

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That's a more realistic weight loss for a week and it's probably still on the optimistic side. I've heard from an expert that you can expect a 1 to 2 pound weekly loss going the very low carb route. I heard of one guy who experienced 4 pound losses weekly for the first 6 months and lost over 100 pounds in that time. As much as I'd like that to happen, the guy was much bigger than me starting out and even at that his loss in that short time frame is still unusual. But if I could do that, then in 6 months I'd be done!

Here's a tip I've learned in the past week. All meat is supposed to be zero carbs, but if you buy some processed meats like lunch meat or honey cured hams it can contain carbs. We had a couple of ham steaks in the fridge that we were going to have for dinner that we'd had for a bit. I happened to check the label (probably looking at calories) and saw that one steak had 14 carbs. The ham steaks were cured in honey. When you are on an ultra low crab diet of less than 20 carbs a day, you don't want to get any carbs at all from meat. Another example is bratwurst. We have some bratwurst links and they have 3 carbs each. You want to be able to get all of your carbs from other sources, like vegetables and nuts. It allows you to eat as much of that kind of stuff as you can and it creates variety in the diet.