Until I can convince you to stop eating carbohydrate, you’re probably not going to lose weight. Every day I see
patients who don’t lose any weight for a week, eating 1200 calories a day. I convince them to eat the same
1200 calories without carbohydrate (usually eliminating bread and fruit) the next week, and they come back
having lost 3-5 pounds. Carbohydrates cause fat storage. The magic number is a maximum of 5-10 grams of
carbohydrate per feeding for the most efficient weight loss. You can lose weight eating carbohydrates, if you cut
your calories enough. The problem is that with any signficant amount of carbohydrate in the diet, you’ve got to
cut your calories to 500-800 a day to see weight loss that is quick enough to be sustainable. Weight loss has to
be quick. You won’t put up with the deprivation, without seeing results.