here is a new set of ???

If you are enjoying (the dietary) aspects of your way of life, I don't
see any reason why you would need to change. At some point, your body
will stabilize out and unless you do something more drastic you will
stop loosing weight. From what I have read, for most people this turns
out to be a healthy, normal weight that wouldn't be considered skinny.
The other thing that I have read is that people tend to back off on the
diet a bit and the lbs start to creep back on and when it hits about 5
lbs then it is time to restrict the carbohydrate intake, back to
induction levels, for a week or two.

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Here is question # 1. The weight lifting
strength still stayed and is coming back super quick. WHY???

You didn't become a weakling...you kept some muscle and you were strong.
Now you are putting those muscles to work again and they are responding.
Good deal.

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2. the
cardio is a different story, need to improve but not a total wipe out.
So the benefits do stay????

To some degree, yes. Given too much time, too much lousy eating and
inactivity, they can and will fade. Keep at the cardio...you'll be good
again if you stay at it. Be happy you got busy when you did.

I mean I am not a pile of flab and its

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really showing like the old me. Does all the protien make this time
better?????

Yes. Less muscle loss, IMO.

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Now second question, this diet the weight flew off, I mean flew and I
did not cheat once, so here is the #2 what do you do when you hit
goal?

Read the book! 🙂

You need to keep doing most of what you've been doing to reach this point.
If you go back to what you did before, you'll be what you were before. Just
like now, you switch back to a healthy lifestyle and your body has improved.
Monitor yourself daily and never let your health take a back seat to
anything else you may be doing. You only get one body and one life...(as
far as I know).

I know add some carbs slow but cant I just add a little more

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protein or things (nuts) to make up calories.

Yes, increase protein and fat, but keep a close watch on carbs. Keep
exercising and lifting. Find some fun exercise activities to do....cycling,
running, swimming, running, etc.

where do I go? Should I

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add bread ,

HELL NO. There is really know reason to eat bread. Better to have a real
dessert every blue moon.

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this was my downfall and I do mean downfall!!!!!. #3
some of you say when you ate dessert, pasta on maintenance you felt
[censored] is this true and what do you mean???

Some people really don't react well to carbs....really IR....wheat
intorance... etc. It pays to learn your own limits and your own body. Not
everyone reacts the same.

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Can I just stay like this
for the rest of my time??

If you continue doing what you've been doing, yes. IMO.

Got it all except norway2 said you stabilize , could you stablize at a
weight that was actually overweight?? And then the next sentence was
do something drastic. what is drastic that you could do??? Thanks
both of you very enjoyable to read and get the good common sense.

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Got it all except norway2 said you stabilize , could you stablize at a
weight that was actually overweight?? And then the next sentence was
do something drastic. what is drastic that you could do??? Thanks
both of you very enjoyable to read and get the good common sense.

I supposed that it would be possible to stabilize at an overweight
condition, but it would still be an indication that something may be
wrong somewhere. Possibilities would include medical conditions,
medication, over consumption of food, consumption of the wrong foods,
etc.

As an example, a friend on mine was one of the first individuals to
have the weight loss surgery, back when they were performing it on
those that needed it most rather than only those that they felt had a
high probability of sucess. While he lost around 250lbs over about a
two year period, he still weighs about 300lbs and looks very
overweight. While he aviods sugar and certain foods that are known to
cause him distress the majority of what he does eat is nothing but
refined junk carbs.

While this example isn't indicative of stabilizing at an overweight
condition for an LC approach, it does show an example of how with a
major change to your system, of which LC is one type, your body will
ultimately achieive a new stabilized or set point.