How many carbs should I be eating at rung 6?

[Jarrod]

I am eating foods from rungs 1-6 now (skipped rung 5). I'm still in moderate ketosis because I have been eating at around 30-35 carbs per day. In other words, I will eat two or three of the OWL foods per day, not all of them.

Just because I'm at rung 6 doesn't mean I should be eating 50 carbs per day, does it? Just making sure I understand how OWL works. I read this section of the book a couple months ago but forgot these details.

I have yet to attempt to determine my CCLL. I don't want to slow down my weight loss too much at this point since I'm only a bit over 1/3 of the way to my goal...

[liv]

Re: How many carbs should I be eating at rung 6?

No I was on rung 9 and did not eat more net carbs that that. Because my CCLL is around there. At some point you want to add a few more carbs and see how you do. You will still lose doing that until you hit your limit. And you want to know your limit.

[Elizellen]

Re: How many carbs should I be eating at rung 6?

If you always managed the maximum 20 net carbs on induction and have added 5 net carbs on each rung then, yes, you could be eating 50 net carbs on rung 6.

If however your 3 cups of veg were always lettuce then you might only have eaten about 5 net carbs (assuming you stuck to the 'most of your carbs from your veg rule' and didnt eat very much cheese/eggs/sweetener) on induction. Then rung 6 would mean being at about 35 net carbs max.