After a month on the NSD and having certainly noticed a lessening of my pain, I've had friends/work colleagues etc commenting on the weight that ive lost and asking if I'm ill. Im normally around 13 stone at 5'9 and into weight training etc, so you can imagine my alarm when I weighed myself today to find I'm down to 11 stone!!!

My question is therefore, is weight loss an unavoidable side effect of not eating starch? I'd certainly like to get back to my healthy 13 to 13.5 stone and not look like this. My daily diet is 3 eggs and some fruit for breakfast, tuna and salad for lunch and meat with veg for dinner. Snacks are usually almonds and raisins.

Is my body in some kind of adaptive phase on this diet - from which I'll recover and start gaining weight back again?

Sorry for the rant, but it's disheartening to have lowered my pain whilst at the same time losing too much weight and looking like I've aged 20 years in the space of a month (I'm 33).

Any advice is much appreciated - thanks for reading.

Hey william

I'm in the same boat with the weight thing. I can't hide the disease and I can't hide the way I deal with it (diet and weightloss). I found eating 3 meals a day was helping gain back weight slowly BUT all the sudden I'm sensitive to dairy and fruit so out that goes and off the weight comes again. I have no advice for you but I'm sure someone will pop in with some tips. You could also look at old posts here in diet as I know this is a repeat subject.

I lost a lot of weight, but then I discovered baking with coconut/almond flour (pancakes, muffins, bread) and almond butter. With those, my weight leveled off.

Your body mass index is 22.7 which is healthy.

But if you need to look like the incredible hulk eat lots of animal fat.

I also dropped 20 lbs (5'11" at 110). Here's what I do:

avocado - 2 x day
coconuts - fresh coconut milk straight from coconut (no canned - guar gum starch)
two big slabs of meat each meal (expensive, but helps weight)
Eat 4 x day
Cans of sardines or tuna for snack
Egg yolk omlets

Thanks again for the replies.

I guess I should be looking at increasing animal fat then. I didn't realise, until reading yesterday, just how low in calories fruit and veg are and just how much you have to consume to replace the calories lost from cutting out starch.

Hopefully I can start slowly gaining back weight by increasing my portion sizes.

indeed.

I did read a while ago about BMI and how it is not accurate. I did find this but not sure it was the same article (it's more an ad hominem attack really):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439

The article I read said that the number 30 was picked out at random as it seemed a good number but I can't find it.

As an average measure, BMI is not too bad. But, it does not account for possible excess of muscle mass (as seen in a some athletes and body builders but not in the average person). And since so many people are above 25 BMI (and therefore obese), there's a tendency to say that it's off, just as there's a tendency to say that clothing is made smaller nowadays. But the truth is that 35% or more of all people are obese, and that number is expected to go to 50% within the next ten years. A lot of overweight people like to think that they have extra muscle, but the truth is that they just have extra fat.

I have lost 40 pounds, tried to eat more and even muscle builder powder, a couple weeks went by and I thought I had gained ten pounds....until i went to the bathroom. but yeah i understand the loss of weight, scrawny ronnie is my nickname.