Ok...once and for all....please get this through your head.....you, yes you, can NOT live without carbs. That's right, the human body requires them in order to survive. Heck, they are what your brain runs on! You will not be able to sustain any diet plan that excludes carbs with out you eventually binging on them. And forget trying to sustain any level of high energy output, because you will not have any. You will be tired, sick, and smelly...yep, smelly because your kidneys will be breaking down to help keep your brain alive since you have decided to starve it. Even if you lose weight and think you look great, it doesn't matter because no one will want to be close enough to talk to you due to your bad breath...hello halitosis! Oh, and on top of that, you will probably be really grumpy since you are now chronically constipated. Picture perfect huh?
The reason why people tend to lose weight by restricting carbs is because in doing that, they reduce their portion sizes thus reducing their daily caloric intake. Not to mention, there are very few sweets made of protein and fat. This is the lesson to learn here...if you want to lose weight, you must reduce your daily caloric intake...however, you should never restrict a food group entirely...this will just set you up for failure. Carbs provide you with heart healthy, cancer fighting nutrients that you can't get from other sources. You don't gain weight from eating carbs, you gain weight from OVEReating carbs. Instead of eliminating them, reduce them. For example, 1 slice of bread is a serving of carbohydrates, try having 1 slice of toast in the morning instead of 2. Another helpful diet tool, is choosing to eat starchy carbohydrates earlier on in the day(like oatmeal at breakfast and 1 slice of bread at lunch) and non-starchy carbs later on in the day (like spinach and broccoli at dinner). Choosing fruits instead of cakes and cookies and nibbling on raw veggies instead of chips and pretzels, will also help you to keep both your weight and health in check.
If you want to lose weight: eat less, move more! You need carbs...the right ones in the right amounts...stop trying to take shortcuts, they just lead to dead ends! Live Well!
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Thank God there is at least one person in this world with common sense. Atkins died of a heart attack. HELLO???? Does that tell you anything? I love this post. Want to lose weight? Eat less and do more. It's math - burn more than you eat and you lose weight. Eat more than you burn - get fat. Keep em the same - well, you get the point. What she said.
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