neumannu47 wrote:

My question is whether the body acclimates itself to low carb eating
such that I am unable to reduce my carb intake any further and lose
weight. As I sit here typing this post, I've removed all of the fun
stuff (carbs) from my diet, but I'm gaining weight.

Yes but it takes a lot of excess strictness. Get the 1993 or 1999
edition of DANDR. Look up "reversal diet" in the index. Start reading
about a page before that. Dr A started encountering folks who had
abused Induction staying on it so long they feel out of ketosis and
could not get back in at 20. Just one of many reasons why lower is not
better and why strict is not a good idea for long periods of time.

Have you stayed anywhere near 20 for well over 6 months? If not that
does not apply to you. I suggest a reboot. Do two weeks of Induction
then return to near your CCLL. Or if you never found your CCLL do two
weeks of Induction (20, 20) and then do carb quotas of 25, 30, 35, etc
until you fall out of ketosis. Your CCLL is 5-10 below the amount htat
kicked you out of ketosis. It's very easy to do carb creep and/or
calorie creep.

I've seen a few people who did put themselves into some sort of long
term carb adjustment mode as described in the page before the "reversal
diet" in the book, including myself. Features in common - Much less
than 100 to lose (aka what Dr A seems to have called "a lot to lose").
Staying far below CCLL at least 6 months past the point they no longer
have 100 to lose. Having a low metabolic resistance to ketosis early on
(the opposite of the requirement for using the fat fast). The "reversal
diet" seems the fastest way to reverse the adjustment. Or you could try
a few months of low fat dieting. Or you could try a year of a plan that
looks like maintenance such as the Carbohydrate Addicts Diet. Then back
to the reboot of two weeks of Induction and recalibrate what your CCLL
is.