The best low carb diet
Tell me, does this describe you? Every morning when you wake up and check yourself in the mirror, the first thought that runs through your mind is a wish - a wish to have a thin and a lean body - much slimmer than what you currently have.
If this is you, I have some useful information to share with you. You must have already checked a lot of weight loss programs, maybe even tried a few, but obviously everything so far has gone in vain. I expected so.
One of the most luring weight loss programs today is to go on a low carb diet program. But let me tell you that even the best low carb diet cannot help make your dream come true.
For the sake of making things clearer, let me first tell you what a low carb diet is.
Like any other fad diet, it allows certain food items (the ones rich in proteins and fats) and restricts a few (the ones which are rich sources of carbohydrates). The best low carb diet would be comprised of food items like fish, red and white meat, butter, mayonnaise, cream, margarine etc. It will certainly not have any place for pasta, bread, rice and alcohol.
Now the basic hypothesis on which it is based is the fact that carbohydrates upon being acted by insulin get easily converted into fats which obviously we don't want. So, no consumption of carb means less insulin production and hence less fats!
In such a condition, body gets into a state where it begins to burn the fat deposits already present, and thus you lose weight. So far so good.
But do you know, what are the real problems with this "so called" best low carb diet?
Oh! There are many:
1. Due to shortage of carbs, the energy levels in the body goes down. As a result you get easily tired and stressed out.
2. When the carb level is going down, the body starts using glycogen for the production of energy. Since every 1 gm of glycogen has 4 gms of water attached to it, the weight loss which you observe is actually due to the loss of these h2o molecules. So, in reality actual fats accumulated in the body are not getting burnt at all.
3. Because it is actually water weight loss, when you are back on your normal diet, you quickly regain the lost weight!
So now you know it all. You have seen why even the best low carb diet will not help in improving your weight condition.
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