Low Carbs
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It can be very confusing.
You will be told that low carbs diets are excellent for you to lose fat.
You will be told that a low carbohydrate diet cannot work. What do you believe when both arguments seem quite sound?
Low calorie diets mean that we have to cut back plenty of the things that have grown used to eating and we do tend to eat a lot of carbohydrates to pacify our food cravings.
Not just simple carbs that are nutritionally poor like white bread and cakes but also complex carbs that provide us with slow burn energy like rice, potatoes and pasta that we are used to eating as part of our night time meal.
Cutting down on carbs, especially night time complex carbs can be difficult.
For many people, a dinner plate is incomplete without a helping of potatoes, be they fried, mashed or steamed.
So the main reason why you will be advised not to set yourself up for failure with a low carbs diet is that it simply goes against the eating patterns we have established since childhood.
You need determination and discipline to break this long ingrained habit and not surprisingly many people just don’t manage to.
The truth of the matter is that this type of diet does strip the fat off you very quickly in comparison to other methods of weight loss.
Carbohydrates turn fairly readily to fat deposits when we do not burn them up; more readily than excess protein. That is why high protein, low carb diets can work, so long as your protein is lean.
Forget the fad bacon and egg diets, it’s just wishful thinking. High protein diets mean lean fillets of chicken, beef, pork or fish, not fatty cuts of meat.
The bulk of the carbohydrates you will eat are best consumed for breakfast in the form of muesli, fruit, wholegrain bread and milk.
Most of the rest of your carbs should be taken in at lunchtime so that you can avoid the afternoon hunger cravings that have doomed many a diet.
Dinner time should be mainly protein plus some vegetables or salads (but not potatoes) followed by fruit or berries and low fat yoghurt for desert.
Yes, vegetables and fruits do contain a measure of carbohydrates, but their high fibre factor means that they are digested more slowly and therefore not likely to affect your efforts to lose fat.
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