>Ok, I am contemplating a lower carb diet to get some serious
>results. I would have just one slice of ezekial bread a day
>and all the veggies I want as carbs. So that would mean lunch
>and dinner would have no grains of any kind. I work out hard
>for 6 days/week, 1-1.5 hours. Do you think this is
>unrealistic for carbs with this kind of working out?
I don't know, I guess it is different for everyone. I can't sustain 6 days of Cathe workouts with a low-carb diet. Been there, done that. I did lose weight initially but I had no energy anymore, and my workouts started suffering until I was at a point that I couldn't do the workouts anymore.
Putting carbs back in after the low carb, made me gain the weight back and then some after just a week or two of "normal" eating. On top of it, it took me a while to work up the energy to do the Cathe workouts again, so it ended up being a double-whammy.
I have come to the conclusion that most of the weight I lost with low carb (Atkins, South Beach, modified low carb) was water weight and in the process I screwed up my metabolism.
However, everyone is different. Me personally, any diet that cuts out or limits a particular food group can't work in the long run - and no, I don't consider cake and candy a food group
Good luck!
Carola