What is the low carb diet and does it really work?

Answer 1

Low carb diets work on the premise that by limiting your intake of carbohydrates, your body will be forced to burn fat as it's fuel source. Carbohydrates are what your body typically favors as it's energy source as the carbohydrate molecules are most easily broken down and converted to energy. Too many carbohydrates creates an over-influx of available energy and the body is likely to store this unused energy as fat.

Low carb diets do not allow for this to happen as your carbohydrate intake is insufficient for daily energy requirements. Your body will them go to it's stored energy (fat) supply to get you through the day. This is the basis of popular low carb diets such as the Atkins diet.

Many people believe that limiting your carbohydrate intake can be dangerous, however. Basic bodily and brain functions require easily converted energy to operate at their best and depleting your body of carbs can cause nausea, headaches and slower brain functionality.

A better diet to follow may be a low glycemic index diet, that allows slow burning carbs to fuel you throughout the day with minimal risk of body fat storage.

There are many diets that work that utilize the low glycemic index without the unpleasant side effects of depleting your body of carbs.

Answer 2

Being on a low carb diet does work. If you gradually go into the low carb diet, it will be very effective because you will be able to keep it going. If you immediately jump into a low carb diet from a high carb diet, you will probably be unsuccessful. One tip that a lot of people don't recognize is the value of a cheat meal. If you are on your low carb diet for a couple of months, give yourself a cheat meal, once a week or once every two weeks. This cheat MEAL, not a cheat day, will boost your metabolism and actually help you lose more weight once you go back to the diet. Also, a low carb diet will only continue to be effective if you exercise regularly.

Answer 3

Sure.

All diets work by restricting your calorie intake, but the amounts of calories that you get is always the result of what you eat and how much you eat.

If you eat too big servings you won't lose any weight, even if it's all low carb.

Answer 4

Some common benefits of a low carbohydrate diet include weight loss, decreased blood pressure, and increased "good" cholesterol. You can find more benefits of a low carbohydrate diet on the Low Carb Diets website.

Answer 5

a benefit of a low carbohydrate diet is a reduced caloric intake. a reduced intake of calories is the key to weight loss. the possible side effects include a reduction in energy, and a risk associated with this is low blood sugar.

Answer 6

Possibly, but it's NOT smart to avoid them.

Answer 7

I believe that low carb diet is something where the amount of carbs you eat is monitor to a certain degree. You only eat a certain amount of them which is what makes it a low carb.

Answer 8

A keto diet forces the body into a state called ketosis, meaning that the body's cells depend largely on ketones for energy

Answer 9

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Answer 10

When using fat as an energy source, the body first converts the fat into ketones, which function very much like glucose - they’re a source of energy that circulates in the blood and can be taken up by cells as needed.

(Yes, ketones can be dangerous when present at very high levels, but unless you’re an insulin-dependent diabetic this will never become a problem. In healthy people, insulin keeps the blood ketones at a level far below this point. We are intended to be able to live off nothing but our body fat reserves, maybe for weeks, so our bodies can handle a normal amount of ketones just fine.)

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There’s good evidence that high-fat diets turn fat people into normal-sized people, and that high-sugar diets do the reverse, but exactly why this works is controversial. The explanation that makes sense to me is this one. Humans are built to handle natural carb sources, but not the refined and concentrated carb sources available today. When refined carbs are eaten, your body goes overboard on the insulin response. The insulin shovels as much of it as possible into the fat tissue, and keeps shoveling, such that your blood sugar goes from too high to below normal. You can’t start burning fat for energy either, because insulin blocks that process. So now you are literally starving at the cellular level, even though you’ve eaten plenty of calories. You feel awful, and have the overwhelming urge to eat something sugary. And the cycle repeats, and you get fatter and fatter. If you like to get more information about the keto diet then just drop me a mail on fitnesstips1323@gmailDOTcom ( use. instead of DOT)

By contrast, eating a diet that creates as little insulin release as possible allows the body to release and burn as much fat as possible. On such a diet, you have a consistent level of energy, and won’t be hungry for more calories than you need.

In my experience - having been on a high-fat diet for years - once you’re at a healthy weight, you don’t have to stay in ketosis full-time, but can experiment with natural carbs. A healthy person can use both metabolic systems. (If I was an elite athlete, I’d pick one or the other, but I’m not - just a normal person who enjoys some beans or some squash once in a while.) If you’re just starting out, though, it’s really in your interest to commit to deep ketosis, 75%+ fat, zero cheats, for at least a month. If you’re a lifelong carb-muncher who’s rarely missed a meal, your body does not know how to burn fat, and it would rather not learn. You need that time to force it to learn.