On the surface, the low carb diet (low carbohydrate diet) seems to make sense. If you eliminate carbohydrates from your diet – there's nothing left to burn except fat. Following a low carb diet, strictly, will cause a reduction in body weight but the majority of weight loss is water and muscle. And of course, to get the best results you'll need to start buying low carb “potions”, low carb diet drinks, low carb cook books, and a healthy dose of expensive supplements – if you want the “best results”. Low carb diet chips cost $28 per pound! Is it about you? Or is it about the money?
Most people who attempt the low carb diet buy a book but don't read it carefully. They skip right to the section that tells them all of the foods they CAN eat like steaks, butter, mayonnaise, seafood, poultry, cheese – they are pleasantly surprised – so they start eating. Most seem to miss the paragraph that says the goal is to restrict calories to less than 1600 a day. Yes you can eat those foods but if you don't lower your calories you won't loose weight. If you eat more food than your body needs you'll end up gaining weight.
The urine testing strips that are familiar to anyone who's tried the low carb diet usually end up being more deceptive than helpful. Forcing your body into ketosis is the goal and if you do your testing strips will turn purple – and the darker the better. What most people don't realize is that even though the strips turn purple they can still be eating in excess of 4000 calories a day – and gaining weight. The testing strips only tell you if you're in ketosis – and being in ketosis is not the same as losing weight. Think about it – diabetics suffer from ketosis and how many slim diabetics do you know?
Your brain alone needs 130 grams of carbs per day to function properly. When you eliminate carbs from your diet, your body's built-in survival system will respond with cravings so intense that hardly anyone can stand up to them. One bite of something sweet contains enough carbs to knock your body out of ketosis within 10 minutes, then it takes two or three days to get back into ketosis. Two bites a week and you'll never get anywhere. Even worse is that fat loss achieved by low carb diet is accompanied by a metabolic slowdown that can be permanent in many cases. Once you integrate carbs back into your diet you'll gain back every pound you lost – and usually a few more. Your metabolism will be slower and losing weight will be even more difficult for the rest of your life.
Think about it:
- Every single non-profit health organization in the world tells you to eat more fruits and vegetables – the low carb diet tells you NOT to.
- Low carb diet create horrible constipation after only one day.
- Low carb diet put enormous stress on the kidneys and increase the risk of liver disorders, gout, coronary heart disease, stroke, and several types of cancer
