Low Carb Diet

Low carb diet is useless, believe me. The rules are always too strict to be followed, and in long run you won’t be able to keep up the same pace because you’ll lose your energy (carbohydrate). Low carb diet believes that if we cut our carbohydrate consumption, we’ll lose weight faster than if we follow any traditional low fat diets. Atkins diet is the most popular example from low carb diet programs.

Maybe you haven’t noticed that with low carb diet we lose weight because we lose our glycogen and muscle, not our excess fat. It happens because when we cut our carbohydrate consumption, our body won’t have enough glycogen to bind our muscle. In long term, you’ll lose some of your muscles and your glycogen. This is not good for our health, of course. But if you ask Dr. Atkins (founder of Atkins Diet), obviously he will deny this argument because he really make a good amount of money from his low carb diet program.

Actually what we need is to cut the “quality” of our carbohydrate consumption, not the “quantity”. Some foods contain high carbohydrate but low in glycemic such as fruits and carrots. Foods which contain high carbohydrate and also full of glycemic are rice, pasta, white sugar, etc. Now if you eat your meal carefully, you can reduce your carb consumption without losing any muscles and glycogen. Of course it will be better if you follow traditional low fat diet plan although (maybe) you’ll lose weight slower than this program.

For low fat programs, you might need help from diet pills. I have read some stories about people who successfully lost their weight by using diet pills. Read the first story here and the second one here.