LOW/NO CARB vs LOW FAT DIETS....?
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You cannot cut ALL carbs (or any other food group) out.  Carbs are a legitimate food group and necessary for normal body functioning.\n\nThat being said, low carb diets are good for getting weight off quickly, but if you reintroduce carbs back into your diet, you can bet on weight gain.\n\nBest way to lose weight is to look at your change as a lifestyle change.  Do not view food as a reward, a way to cope with emotions, as your best friend, or as your worst enemy.  You need food to survive, but you cannot depend on it for everything.  Best way to change your life is to eat all the foods you enjoy in moderation, while introducing more healthy foods.  Start off small if the intensity of a lifestyle change is too daunting.
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well i know this diet that is very low in carbs but i dont recommend it for more then 10-15 days i didnt once you can lose 15-17 pounds in 15 days ..  heres how it go's:\n1-you count only 15gramsof carbs for the whole day whitch is very low because a normal person should eat about 300 g carbs a day.\nyou get 5-6 very small portion meals.\neat only green veggies nothing else colored veggies like carrots and corn contain sugars.\nno dairy ,no milk, or yougret (i know it's weired but it works)\nno candy, no pretzels (in general no carbs)\nyou can eat egg white. chihken breast \nfish ans tuna (witch have no carbs and barly any fat so fill up on that)\nyou can also eat peanuts ( but becarful a serving of peanuts has 8 carbs so if you eat that there wont be much carbs  left for the day\n drink only water no diet coke or caffine (that maens no coffe either )\nso that is it it's basicly a high protien diet with very low cars \noh ya and you cant have fruits either ( i know it's crazy)\nbut be carfull and stay hydrated . when i did this diet for a week li lost about 10 pound i was dehydrated so be carefull another friend of mine done it and lost 17ibs in 15 days with an hour of tredmill a day \ni dont really recommend this diet exept if you reallty need to lose weight fast for an occation\nprepare your self to starve .. i hope you lose the weight,,  me my self am yoyo dieting my goal is 130 but my weight is going from 145-155\ni cant get back on track but i wish you luch
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On the low-carb forum that I'm a member of, there are lots of people who were in your situation, including their doctors/trainers/dieticians not believing them when they said that they were following the plan faithfully.  Some people simply can't lose on a low-fat/high-carb diet.\n\nLow fat worked for me when I was younger, but as I aged I found that I was gaining weight despite eating healthy and being active.  Then I discovered low-carb and I've lost 40 lbs so far and my health has improved overall.\n\nWhat could it hurt to try it?  Research is now proving that low-carb is a safe and healthy lifestyle.\n\nCheck out the forum, there's lots of people there who are very supportive and helpful.  We're following a variety of low-carb plans, so we don't always agree, but you'll get a variety of opinions there and lots of guidance and support.  Do your research, pick the plan that you think would work for you.  There are also sections for research and media articles on low-carb, a "war zone" where we have our arguments, a buddies and challenges section, a recipe section and areas for the different plans and for specific health concerns.  There's even a section especially for newbies.\n\nhttp://forum.lowcarber.org/\n\nGood luck!
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Preventive Environmental Medicine \nEffective Non-Drug Non-Surgical Solutions for Chronic Illnesses \nDr. Joseph Mercola, 1443 W.Schaumburg, Schaumburg, IL 60194-4065 \nTelephone 847-985-1777 \n\nFor much more current information, go to www.mercola.com and use the search engine to find the most current information I have on this topic. You can also sign up for one of the best free weekly health newsletters on the internet. \n\nLOWER YOUR CARBS AND LOWER YOUR INSULIN LEVELS!\n\n\n\n\nOver the past fifteen years, our dietary establishment has made a virtual industry of extolling the virtues of carbohydrates. We're constantly told that carbohydrates are the good guys of nutrition, and that, if we eat large amounts of them, the world should be a better place. In such a world, the experts tell us, there will be no heart disease and no obesity. Under such guidance, Americans are gobbling breads, cereals, and pastas as if there were no tomorrow, trying desperately to reach that 80 to 85 percent of total calories advocated by the high-carb extremists. \n\nThis creates a terrible paradox: people are eating less fat and getting fatter! No medical authority will tell you that excess body fat makes you healthier. There is but one alarming conclusion to reach: a high- carbohydrate, low-fat diet may be dangerous to your health. Overeating carbohydrate foods can prevent a higher percentage of fats from being used for energy, and lead to a decrease in endurance and an increase in fat storage. \n\nEating fat does not make you fat. It's your body's response to excess carbohydrates in your diet that makes you fat. Your body has a limited capacity to store excess carbohydrates, but it can easily convert those excess carbohydrates into excess body fat. \n\nIt's hard to lose weight by simply restricting calories. Eating less and losing excess body fat do not automatically go hand in hand. Low-calorie, high-carbohydrate diets generate a series of biochemical signals in your body that will take you out of the balance, making it more difficult to access stored body fat for energy. Result: you'll reach a weight-loss plateau, beyond which you simply can't lose any more weight. \n\nDiets based on choice restriction and calorie limits usually fail. People on restrictive diets get tired of feeling hungry and deprived. They go off their diets, put the weight back on (primarily as increased body fat), and then feel bad about themselves for not having enough will power, discipline, or motivation. \n\nWeight loss has little to do with willpower. You need information, not will power. If you change what you eat, you don't have to be overly concerned about how much you eat. Adhering to a diet of low carbohydrate meals, you can eat enough to feel satisfied and still wind up losing fat-without obsessively counting calories or fat grams. \n\nFood can be good or bad. The ratio of macronutrients protein, carbohydrate, and fat-in the meals you eat is the key to permanent weight loss and optimal health. Unless you understand the rules that control the powerful biochemical responses generated by food, you will never achieve optimal wellness. \n\nUnfortunately, many people don't really know what a carbohydrate is. Most people will say carbohydrates are sweets and pasta. Ask them what a vegetable or fruit is, and they'll probably reply that it's a vegetable or fruit-as if that were a food type all its own, a food type that they can eat in unlimited amounts without gaining weight. Well, this may come as a surprise, but all of the above - sweets and pasta, vegetables and fruits - are carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are merely different forms of simple sugars linked together in polymers - something like edible plastic. \n\nOf course, we all need a certain amount of carbohydrates in our diet. The body requires a continual intake of carbohydrates to feed the brain, which uses glucose (a form of sugar) as its primary energy source. In fact, t
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Are you following a certain type of diet? If you are trying to lose weight and not on a low carb diet, you should primarily watch your caloric intake. Your calories from fat shouldn't be more than 20% of the calories you consume (for a normal diet). Less is better, but you do need to consume some fat. If you are trying to lose weight and are watching your carbohydrate in take, stay away from sugars and processed starches. Try not to eat carbs later in the day, this way your body can process most of the carbs you consume and not store it.
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I am on the diet right now and have lost 8 pounds in two weeks.  It is a fun diet and you still have plenty of energy and you really are never hungry. I have given you the link to their site which has all sorts of recipes and counters for the various foods so you can keep track of what you eat.  You mainly stick to protein and limit your carbohydrate intake to only 20 carbs per day for the first two weeks and then you can add more carbs in slowly. There are plenty of good recipes to choose from.
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fish is great for a low carb diet...meats don't have many carbs.  it's the breads, rice, potatoes and such that are over loaded with Carbs.\nPasta's too.  \nNow veggies are great, they don't have a high carb content.
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if you need to lose weight quickly and without exercising then doing the atkins diet will drop the pounds of very quickly...very few carbs and lots of protein..long term weightloss is healthier and by having a few carbs and more protein is better than no carbs at all..you will loose weight more steadily..also eat your largest meal in the day rather than the evening as you are more likely to burn off the calories
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Cut the carbs and sugars way down and you have the Adkins diet. Call it whatever you would like, the body stores exess carbs and sugars as fat. As long as the body is getting excess carbs and sugars it never uses any of the stored fat. \n    On this diet you can eat all the eggs bacon and lean meat etc that you can handle and you will drop weight like crazy as long as you restrict carb and sugar intake from things such as bread, pasta and obviously soda pop etc. It is always recommended to consult with a doctor before commencing any diet plan so I recommend that you do so.
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If you are referring to the low carb as in Atkins..., I would go with that but not because of the low carbs. They did this study trying to figure out why people drop weight with the Atkins's diet. They compare it to four other diets including Jenny Craig, Slim Fast and Weight Watchers. Only the people on the Atkins could eat what ever they wanted as long as it followed the rules. Everyone else ate within their programs. The people used the Atkins lost the most weight but..., here is the real kicker..., they lost more weight because they actually consumed less calories. So they further the study and wonder if it was people eating the low carbs that did it..., it wasn't..., it wasn't the fat either..., it was the protein....\n\nWhat they found out is the brain releases a chemical once it has enough protein so you stop eating. That is why people on Atkins drop the weight...\n\nWith knowing this.., what I would recommend is to eat a healthy portion of protein with every meal..., low fat is always better..., you'll find over time doing this..., you will lose weight even without trying...., plus..., you won't feel drained..., you feel better than ever...
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I believe there is only one carb per beer right?  So I don't think the carbs are the prob.  The added calories are more likely to be adding to the weightloss halt.  Also I believe that alcohol leads to slower metabolism so I just quit drinkin while on this low-carb diet.
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Look for low carb recipes. Here are my favorite sights:\nhttp://www.lowcarbluxury.com/lowcarb-recipes.html\nhttp://allrecipes.com/recipes/healthy-living/low-carb-diet/main.aspx\nhttp://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/recipes/\nhttp://www.lowcarbfriends.com/recipereview/
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I am 2 inches shorter than you and have had previous weight problems and I still have to watch what I eat. I did do the Atkins and lost a ton of weight at one point but soon as I added carbs back into my diet the weight went back up. I would suggest a low fat, low calorie diet w/ exercise it's the onlt healthy way to do it and the weight will stay off if you stick to watching what you do eat.
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Yes the Atkins diet will work and fast...but its not easy to stick with.Like bread?Like pasta? Fruit? Yeah well you cant have any of that. 20 grams of carbs is all your allowed per day for the first 2 weeks. And carbs are found in EVERYTHING!! But its a good one to help lose weight but you gotta love meat, cheese, eggs, salad (no croutons) and only high fat dressings ranch, bleu cheese (eww) so give it a shot!
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Moderate, long-term, low-carb dieting works well.  The cases you here about people only losing muscle mass and water are short-term, zero-carb dieters who don't know what they're doing.\n\nI started a moderate, low-carb diet (20 net carbs/meal maximum and 6 meals or snacks/day) and lost 30 pounds in the first year, 10 in the second.  I never went hungry, and I ate as much as I wanted all the time.  It changed my life.  I still keep it up today.\n\nI'm 6'0" and started at 225 and maintained my weight at 185, dipping to a low of 183.  I rarely exercised during that time, as I do not have the time for it.\n\nLow-carb dieting works!  Those who say it doesn't are very naive or have an agenda.\n\nOh, and it is a serious mistake if you look at low-carb dieting as a short-term, problem-solver like low-fat diets.  It MUST be a permanent, life-changing diet.  You must go into it with the idea, "From this point on, I will rarely eat any meal with more than 25 net carbs."  That will not only lose weight for you, it will allow you to maintain the weight loss.\n\nIf you stop the diet, you will gain weight, just like low-fat diets.\n\nOh, and one more thing, a moderate, low-carb diet does allow the occasional high-carb, high-sugar, high-calorie snack.  The best success stories I've seen were eating 1-2 high-carb foods per week, even things like chocolate cake.  But it must be rare.
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Good question. There are a great number of debates about diets. But in general the best diet in the world is considered to be the japanese diet as it is the lowest in fat. If we look at this in isloation it interesting that rice plays a big role. Now rice is high in calories but low in fat. But they do tend to eat smaller amounts of food overall as opposed to a western based diet.  \n\nIn any case, it's up to you but what you need to consider is do you want to be lean and weight less, or just weigh less and not be too fussed about body fat. It is possible to be skinny and have a high % of fat. This normally leads to heart probs etc...\n\nI tend to follow a couple of rules when chosing my meals for reference: \n1) low in calories\n2) low in fats\n3) low GI\nIf a food has all three it's a goer.\n\nFollow this menu plan as a suggestion: \nBreakfast 7am - 1 cup hot water w lemon\n20 minutes later have a bowel of oats w water (no honey) OR\nfruit salad w low GI soy yogurt\nSnack 10am - pear or apple (both low GI)\nLunch 12.30pm - muligrain sandwich w 50g tuna & salad (no butter)\nSnack 3pm - low GI yogurt OR skim berry smoothie (no honey or banana) plenty of ice, 1/2 cup skim milk & 1/4 cup yogurt\nDinner 5.30pm - 120g grilled lean meat/fish/prawns/tofu patties (not fried) w spinach salad & mixed vegies (no whites, carbs) OR 3 egg white/soy omlette with ham, cheese and tomato\nSnack - 1 scoop of low cal low fat ice cream (if hungry)\n\nNote that white carbs are lower in fats but are not a nutricious option overall. Your bidy still needs fats but make the right fat choices. Low in saturated vs unsaturated as a rule of thumb. \n\nGood luck hope this helped.
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Low carb is the answer to not being hungry.  It offers natural appetite suppression.  This doesn't apply to "new" Atkins with all the high carb junk you can now eat or South Beach after week 2.\n\nThere are many diet website with free plans.  Take your time and do a search. Read up, decide what will work best for you.