http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/ For those Low Carbers who are in Pre-Maintenance or Maintenance levels of their diet. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:50:47 GMT vBulletin 60 http://images.lowcarbfriends.com/lcf/vb3/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/ http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/maintain-lane/647454-q-about-what-plans-long-time-maintainers-used.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:24:34 GMT I'm seeing a lot of what seem to me to be very extreme plans gaining popularity in the LCF community. These plans often result in weight loss, but because the eating patterns involved are so different from what most people are used to I wonder how sustainable the weight loss achieved on these plans might be.

I want to emphasis that when I say "I wonder" I mean it. I'm not jumping to a conclusion, but I would like to see some kind of evidence. Since the people inventing and promoting these extreme diets never provide any references to peer reviewed studies or even stats as to long term outcomes of their patients, one has no way of knowing how successful these plans really are. Descriptions of successful patients which diet books abound in are often made up or "composites" or more usually based on 3-6 month experience with the diet not 3 -5 year experience.

So my questions here for those of you maintaining for at least a year are these:

1. How long have you been maintaining?

2. What diet did you use to get the weight off?

3. How different is your diet now from the diet you ate while losing weight.

4. If different how hard/easy was it to make the switch from diet mode to maintenance mode. ]]> The Maintain Lane Blood Sugar 101 http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/maintain-lane/647454-q-about-what-plans-long-time-maintainers-used.html