Low Carb Success Stories

Rebecca Latham's inspiring low carb success story. Rebecca has been successful at losing weight and pursuing a healthy lifestyle with a Ketogenic / Paleo approach to eating–and she also co-wrote a low carb cookbook!

Annie Thomas’ success toward a healthier, happier, and more productive life is an inspiration to all those following or considering a low carb lifestyle.

Dr. Joe Leonardi understands that there are studies that support the legitimacy of carbohydrate and sugar addiction, as well as studies that do not. Dr. Joe doesn’t care which is correct, what he can tell you is one very simple fact: He is a carb-addict.

While Misty was a little overweight as a child, maybe 15 or 20 pounds, her biggest challenge as a youngster was her battle with Attention Deficit Disorder, slight tics, and compulsive behavior tendencies. Looking back, she now realizes her life could have been much different had her doctors and parents had understood the importance of nutrition in relation to these issues.

Christie Henderson conquered her food addiction and became a healthy role model for her daughters. Check out Christie’s incredible journey to health.

Becky Gandy is the cruise coordinator for the annual Low Carb Cruise. Like many, she has tried just about every diet imaginable until she found long-term success with the low carb lifestyle.

I dropped the carbs from my diet the day after Labor Day 1995. I would have started a few days earlier, but I invited a bunch of people over for a Labor Day cookout, and already started making the food. So I consider the Tuesday after Labor Day my LowCarbiversary. It's been 18 years I've been eating this way, and since I'm 54 – 55 in October – that means I've been low carb for exactly one third of my life - that's 33%.

Low Carb Success Story Amber Rice-Manella

Low Carb Success Story Leigh Ann Bishop by Amy Dungan in the June 2013 issue of CarbSmart Magazine. Leigh Ann lost an amazing 51 pounds and reached her goal weight in just about 16 weeks! Another inspiring story to speed you on your low carb journey.

I'm happy to introduce Sandi Russell, our latest success story. A 37 year old stay-at-home mom of two boys, Sandi was a tall, healthy youth, standing 5' 9” and wearing a size 7. She was one of those people that could eat just about anything she wanted without visible consequences. As the story goes, one day things changed.

My first few days of low carb eating were incredibly easy. I found that I wasn’t as hungry as I used to be and I had more energy. I was propelled by adrenaline – excited to finally be trying something I was sure was going to work. In Tara Grant's Journey to Low Carb Part 2, like many of us, she learned she had to commit and recommit to Low Carb Eating.

In her first column for CarbSmart, Tara Grant, Primal Girl, explores her history with sugar addiction and how after finding the right doctor to diagnose and treat her Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), she started her journey to better health. This journey includes the steps she took to the low carb lifestyle and eventually to refining it the Paleo/Primal way.