Make Low Carb Diets Work For You

Posted by Wendy on October 19th, 2008 at 02:09pm

The great thing about a low carbohydrate diet is that you do not have to add calories or accept tiny portions. It’s also a far easier way of shedding weight than standard diets : you eat as much as you like of some foods, prohibit carbs, and you lose fat without truly trying!

But it’ll involve a change in the way you consider food. For instance, many of us are conditioned to think about carbs as our main ‘fast’ food, from cereals and toast with jam for breakfast, to pastries or biscuits at mid-morning, sandwiches or fried food at lunchtime, and pasta, rice or potatoes as a standard addition to the evening meal.

These carbs are self-serving : the more you eat, the more they excite insulin which fast lowers your blood sugar levels ; this in turn makes you crave yet more sugar, which is then deposited as fat. So you want to stop thinking about carbs as the ‘main event’ of your meals, and base your diet instead on beef, fish, poultry and veg.

Bread, rice, pasta and potatoes are only the ’support act’ ; they supply bulk to your diet - and more energy than you require, which is stored as blubber. You do not want them, and should thus exclude them from your diet - at least whilst you are in the method of losing fat.

Have a significant breakfast.

How often have you heard that breakfast is the most significant meal of the day? This is true, but it is also true that you should eat the right sort of breakfast, particularly if you are attempting to lose fat. There’s no point filling up on carbs at breakfast - bread, jam, marmalade, cereal, milk and sugar - as they only excite an insulin reply, your blood sugar drops inside 1-2 hours, you become hungry and a touch irritable, and eat more carbs ( like biscuits, pastries or cakes ) to compensate. And so the vicious circle continues.

So when you’re actively shedding pounds, you need to stick to a comprehensive maximum of one piece of bread ( or equivalent ) a day, and duck all cereal, grains and sweet food ( except fruit, and even that needs to be severely proscribed in the weight-loss phase ) for breakfast. Additionally, try and cut out nearly all milk, as it is comparatively high in sugar. A little milk in tea or coffee is about the maximum, but try and replace it with cream, or better a soy based cream if feasible.

For a long time the govt.’s position on weight reduction has been to follow a low fat diet, and not fret about what is used to replace that fat in your diet. Yet for the last two decades the obesity rate has grown dramatically, and as a country we receive fatter than ever. Folk who have decided to take their health into their own hands and follow a locarb simple weight reduction program have begun to see the rewards for their efforts. Should you do the same?

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