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Here is a list of frequently asked questions about the slow carb diet. Before you even think about posting a question related to SCD please read the book available here. Is Food X ok to eat on SCD? Website with invaluable information Self magazine nutritional data contains very detailed nutritional data on a very wide ar...

Hey everyone! I just started on the slow-carb diet this week and so far so good! I have been sticking to the plan and feeling really great. I also exercise quite a bit-- going back and forth between hot yoga and cardio/weights. This diet seems very similar to the Adkins diet just from what I have read about it because I ...

Are women finding success with 4 Hour Body? Over at 4-HBTalk we are discussing this and the women are not seeing very good results. Any feedback you can offer? I read about Laura Cox on this site - way to go. She changed things up - no beans at main meals no snacks. Look forward to your replies.

Does this diet lifestyle change work if you're super overweight? For instance 303 lbs and 5'5" tall female? I see a lot of people who are 200-250 and the higher end tend to be tall men not short women posting in various forums & stuff but not many who are really really big and wanting to change their lives. Can any...

I've had very mixed results recovering from Cheat Day based on what I eat. What are some of the foods that other people have found led to unexpectedly high weight gain water weight retention etc.? Pizza seems particularly bad.

This is more of a Before/During than Before/After cuz I'm nowhere near finished! Starting Weight 12/15/10 - 429 Todays Weight 07/10/11 - 328.8 I have 4HB to thank for it. Lots of kettlebells walking and intermittent fasting. I feel fantastic and can't wait to see where I end up by the end of the year. Update 8/19/2...

A LOT of people following the slow carb diet to burn fat are getting lazy and using protein powders to meet the '30g of protein within 30 minutes of waking' requirement. Unfortunately this may derail your fat-loss efforts not solely because of the sucralose which is still bad for weight loss but also because whey prot...

Hello In the first Chapter under "Rapid Fat Loss" Tim doesn't tell you to read the "Damage Control" chapter. So I thought that there was no need to follow them on my weekly cheat day. Is it really necessary?

Hey Been on SCD for a few weeks now i have other questions where i posted my "stats" weight loss and blood tests. I do have a question though this is the slow carb diet but still we eat a lots of carbs from vegetables and legumes they do have a lot of carbs in them. What is the math behind it? If we stay and count ca...

Tomorrow I'm going to have my first 'cheat day' or 'carb loading' day which apparently are 2 different things. My leptin levels are probably so low that my metabolism has slowed. Plus I've gone god-knows-how-long without bread alcohol and caffeine and I think I've earned it. Everything I read does confirm the 'cheat day' ...

This is a post for those of us doing SCD with lots of weight to lose 100 lbs in my case who have a long and distinguished history of overeating. In short if you are someone who is used to overeating this eating plan will work better if you monitor portions and identify a daily caloric goal below your maintenance calor...

Any ideas for breakfast that are quick? I can cook 3 eggs but hard to eat in the car when Im driving It hard enough to get up shower dry hair make up etc and feed myself I usually always drank my breakfast or ate a bar of some sort

I was just wondering if eating too much beans can halt your weight loss because it makes me feel sooo heavy after eating them. I eat them because they do help make me feel full but how much is too much and how many times a day should i eat them??

I go to them when I need a "filler" food... ya know something to plump up a meal and make it more hearty while still being "paleo/slow carb". But I have a sneaking suspicion that if I was to cut beans out i.e my beloved kidney and black beans etc I would be losing fat faster. Could they be the tipping point to me losing...

I've been carrying around the book and I've been reading it here and there. However I haven't started anything. I don't need to loose weight but I need to get the belly fat down. How did you start? What Motivated you all to begin? It seem very overwhelming. I have told other's about the book and its a good read.

It seems to me that much of what Tim suggests goes against the accepted thinking on exercise and nutrition for example - less exercise - no fruit - less carbs I guess I have had these topics drummed into me by medical folk personal trainers media and so on for years and have come to believe that the non-Tim ways must ...

And then continue through 8pm on Saturday? So like you cheat on Friday night by going out etc. and then cheat on Saturday DAY and then after dinner on Saturday night around 7pm or so you go back to clean? Could be a bad idea throwing sleep in the middle of it all but what do you think?

I was on the 4 hour body quest but I suppose I wasnt too consistent or committed. I saw the weight loss but but I plateau after cheat day. This time around I'm heading for a weekend trip with a couple of my boyfriend's friends. I want to feel good about myself around them cos I don't want them to think that my boyfriend is a...

Water retention can be a major problem for some when on SCD. With our cheat days we can retain a LOT of water weight as our glycogen levels are replenished- each gram of carbohydrate holds onto 4 grams of water and each gram of salt can hold onto a pound of water. So it's no wonder that we end up looking and feeling bloat...

On 4 different occasions I have lost 1 lb after having eggs as my last meal usually before bed so it's like a 4th meal sometimes with lettuce sometimes with avocado sometimes just plain. Just wondering if this is something anyone else has experienced? Next week I am going to experiment with having eggs as my last mea...

I stumbled across this article on Cold Therapy and thought I would share. Perhaps full body ice baths could be replaced with just putting our feet into ice water. http//www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/genetics/4340089

So I started today and then went online researched even more and a lot of woman mostly on youtube concluded that 4 hour body losing weight didnt work. well alot of them were over 30 which i guess i dont have to worry but just wondering does it work for woman too? any sucess stories?

I've been on SCD for a few of weeks now. I was feeling rather tired and drained at the beginning - so tried a couple of days on 4 meals per day instead of 3 - this just pushed my weight up so I went back to 3 - but I did manage to go from 88kg to 85kg in the first 11 days! However I have stayed at that weight for over a wee...

There is a lot being written now about the role of Leptin and Leptin Resistance in obesity and many other metabolic related conditions that is well worth knowing something about if you are into re-forming your body. It also has answered for me a lot of the questions about how come the 4HB approach works the way it does. W...

So this is kind of a stupid question but id figure I would ask since everyone on this site is probably a lot smarter than me when it comes to the science of the body. Any ways to make a long story short My girlfriend of quite some time and I have recently broken up because she is moving to california and she sees no point i...

Today I officially made the 30 day mark on the plan. As I am finishing up my fifth week I wanted to reply and add some encouragement because the last two weeks I have been discouraged but now am excited again. I understand that Tim says the program kicks in for women between week 4 and 5. I am a 52 year old women 5'1"....

when i started the SCD 5 days ago I weighed 129 pounds know I weigh 126.4 pounds which is 2.6 pounds of weight loss per 5 days. I'm female 5"3 inches. is this normal or should i be pulling bigger numbers?

Two days from now will be my four-month anniversary since I started the SCD. I have lost 45 pounds. None of my old clothes fit and at a recent work function one of my bosses who I do not see regularly made a joke about me living at the gym. I have not gone to the gym a single time since I started the diet. My weight lo...

What would you recommend as drinks for social occasions on a regular day during the Slow Carb diet? I know I can have a glass of Red Wine but just water from that point onwards isn't very appealing and knowing the sanitary conditions of some of the absolute dives in this area probably not too healthy. Will I be ok with...

I stumbled across a great little clinical study on almonds that suggests that eating almonds together with your meals reduces the severity of your post-meal insulin/blood sugar spikes and thus help prevent fat gain. Since the whole point of the slow carb diet is to prevent insulin spikes according to these findings eating...

I am a 31 y/o female 5'8 139 lbs and I need some reassurance here....I will be on week 5 on Monday and have only lost 4 lbs. I admit that I havent been doing ALL slow cardb b/c I was getting really really bad headaches has anyone else experienced this?? Anyways I have had a total of 4 small josephs pita pockets over these...

What has everyone found to be the most effective way of holding yourself accountable to you goals?

So i started at 200lbs before starting the four hour body. I didn't measure my body fat just because for one I totally believed that this diet would work and also I could tell i was losing body fat just by the way my clothes started to fit. My first mistake i made on this diet was doing steak for lunch and beef for dinner ...

Added 120 Day Update 120 Days Later Here is my pic at day 75. I weighed in at 180 lbs when I took the photo. That is down from 220 lbs. So roughly 40 lbs lost. I seem to have settled into a groove as far as the diet and exercise go. I am now doing 80-100 kb swings three times a week. Still working on my left/right imba...

Ok today I'd like to share a very little story with you. My friend and me love gum. Especially 5 gum. So in 5 gum is no sugar contained and I always felt free to take one or two a day. Recently I really did often read that the "fake-sugar" is far more worse than the real one and that it can cause no further weight loss....

120 Days Update 75 Days Update Hey All Just wanted to post my latest after pictures and most recent thoughts about SCD. I have been doing SCD for 180 days now. Wow where to begin? My most dramatic weight loss on the scale happened int he first ninety days. After I crunched the numbers I realized that was because I...

So I ready to begin the SCD. 175 pounds seems overwhelming but I'm hopeful and excited and scared. Where do I start?

Is anyone managing their fat intake of 4hb? I like to use oilive oil and I know fat is essential but the book didn't really say how much to use or how little to use. Just curious. Thanks for your help!

I don't understand why. Love the SCD the only thing I miss is grapefruit. What are your thoughts fellow slowcarbers??

I began my journey on January 8 2012. On that day I weighed 271.2 pounds and my fasting blood glucose routinely ranged between 140 and 160. I have been faithful the the SCD since that day and I am pleased to report that my weight this morning was 237.8 pounds and my load glucose fasting or not is never above 109 and is ...

Ok I've been rereading portions of the book 4th time now and I'm seeing something that doesn't make any sense. Tim states that fructose flatlines glucose levels nicely and for a long time but advises against using fruits because they increased his iron levels and cholesterol and a few other measurements which is bad ...

As I sit here re-reading 4HB I start to wonder " Did i just do 3 miles on the treadmill for nothing!?" In 4HB Tim talks about how doing to much exercise is actually a bad thing. I'm curious has to how much exercise everyone else does. As of right now I haven't had a chance to pick up a Kettlebell so the gym has been my out...

So like I said I started this diet about 3 weeks ago. I was doing fabulously! I was so stoked and excited about how easy it was. I even recommended this book to some friends and all of them are now starting. Anyway back to my story. After realizing that eating so much food in the morning was rather difficult for me I deci...

Is stevia allowed on the slow-carb diet? I am having a hard time going to black coffee with just cinnamon.

Hi Everyone I'm a female 5'7'' and my starting weight was 194.8 . Today is my 17 th day on the diet and I have lost 5 pounds so far. I'm just wondering how much each one of you have lost so far and which way do you use to measure fat loss percentage?

so yesterday I was up .8lb today up another .2..What is up with this? I"m discouraged after my 2.2lb lost now I have gained back a lb. today is day 5 so I've lost 1 lb??

Did anyone break down today and sugar up? no sugar for me so far today! I'd imagine its going to be a real challenge for those with kiddies and candy in the house! Keep the goal in mind! xo

It's melting off even with a big stall in Feb. Thank you for all the help! Dec 27 162.6 lb 33.8 BF from scale Total Inches 185 March 28 152.2 lb 31.9 BF Total Inches 172 45 yr old female I set a goal of 24 BF so I still have a way to go but so far so good.

Just had to post this this morning i finally tipped the scales 20 pounds and 34.25" less then when i started Aug. 9 2012! whew although the past 2 months have went by pretty fast i couldn't wait to get to the 20 pound mark now for the next 20!! I have to say though with this first 20 I can wear almost everything in ...

Is it really necessary to get grass fed and hormone/testosterone free beef or can I just eat normal beef? Will it seriously affect my weight loss on the slow carb diet? thanks