How To Make A Low Carb Diet Food List Quickly
August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment
There are many delicious and nutritious foods for low carb diets that you can include on a low carb diet food list. This is a great way to make dieting fun and easy. By cutting carbohydrates out of your diet and following a strict exercise regime, you will be able to lose fat and gain muscle in as little as a few weeks, keeping in mind that full results will probably not be seen until at least six weeks.
Beans
Beans are one of the most important foods to include on a low carb diet food list. Beans offer a lot of protein, and are important to include in any diet to ensure that you are getting the nutrition your body needs.
Eggs and Dairy
Another food group that needs to be included on any low carb diet food list is eggs and dairy. These also offer a lot of protein and not only that but they also allow you a lot more variety and versatility with your diet, because there are so many different products included in this food group including eggs, milk, cottage cheese, yogurt and all cheeses.
Meat
Meat is of course necessary for a low carb diet food list, but you do have to be careful with which meats you include. Beef such as hamburger patties and steak have high amounts of protein and are also quite low in carbohydrates, and chicken is particularly low in carbohydrates and calories. So it is one of the favored meats for a low carb diet.
When you are making a low carb diet food list, make sure that you also include plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Whether you use these as side dishes to your meals or as snacks to keep you satisfied throughout the day, you should always be stocked up on fruits and vegetables. The best idea is to have them in single serving packages, Ziploc bags for instance, so whenever you have a craving you can just open the fridge and grab one of these bags to nosh on. The reason that so many people stray from their diets is due to snacking. They get a craving and want something right away, which is usually cookies, cakes and other quick and easy but unhealthy foods.
Making a low carb diet food list will be one of the best things that you ever do, just make sure to bring it back after you take it to the supermarket with you so you can use it again in the future.
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What The New “Low-Carb” Study REALLY Says
July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
www.BurnTheFat.com
A news media feeding frenzy erupted recently when a new diet study broke in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Almost all the reporters got it wrong, wrong WRONG! So did most of the gloating low carb forumites and bloggers. Come to think of it, almost everyone interpreted this study wrong. Some valuable insights came out of this study, but almost everyone missed them because they were too busy believing what the news said or defending their own cherished belief systems …
The new study, titled, “Weight Loss With a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or Low-Fat Diet” was published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in issue 359, number 3.
I quickly read the full text of the research paper the day it was published. Then, I shook my head in dismay as I scanned the news headlines. I found it amusing that the media turned this into a three ring circus, putting a misleading “low carb versus high carb,” “Atkins vindicated” or “Diet wars” spin on the story. But that’s mainstream journalism for you, right? Gotta sell those papers!
Just look at some of these headlines:
“Study Tips Scales in Atkins Diets Favor: Low Carb Regimen Better Than Low Fat Diet For Weight And Cholesterol, Major Study Shows. “
“Low-Carb and Low-Fat Diets Face Off “ “The Never-Ending Diet Wars” “Low Carb Beats Low Fat in Diet Duel.” “Atkins Diet is Safe and Far More Effective Than a Low-Fat One, Study Says” “Unrestricted Low-Carb Diet Wins Hands Down” Some of these headlines are hilarious! I wonder if any of these reporters actually read the whole study. Geez. Is it too much trouble to read 13 pages before you write a story that will be read by millions of already confused people suffering the pain and frustration of obesity?
Here’s a quick look at the study design.
The low fat restricted calorie diet was based on American Heart Association guidelines. Calorie intake was set at 1500 for women, 1800 a day for men with 30% of calories from fat, and only 10% from saturated fat. Participants were instructed to eat low fat grains, vegetables, fruits and legumes and to limit their consumption of additional fats, sweets and high fat snacks.
The Mediterranean diet group was placed on a moderate fat, restricted calorie program rich in vegetables and low in red meat, with poultry and fish replacing beef and lamb. Energy intake was restricted to 1500 calories per day for women and 1800 calories per day for men with a goal of no more than 35% of calorie from fat. Added fat came mostly from nuts and olive oil.
The low carb diet was a non-restricted calorie plan aimed at providing 20 grams of carbs per day for the 2 month induction phase with a gradual increase to 120 grams per day to maintain the weight loss. Intakes of total calories, protein and fat were not limited. However, the participants were counseled to choose vegetarian sources of protein (more on that bizarre-twist shortly).
The study subjects were mostly male (86%), overweight (BMI 31) and middle age (mean age 52)
Here were the study results:
There were some health improvements in cholesterol, blood pressure and other parameters in the Mediterranean and low carb group that bested the high carb group. That was the focus of many articles and discussions that appeared on the net this week. However, I’d like to focus on the weight loss aspect as I’m not a medical doctor and fat loss is the primary subject matter of this website. All three groups lost weight. The low carb group lost 5.5 kilos, the Mediterranean group lost 4.6 kilos and the low fat group lost 3.3 kilograms…. IN TWO YEARS! Whoopee!
My conclusion would be that the results were similar and that none of the diets worked very well over the long term!
Amanda Gardner of the US News and World Report Health Day was one of the few reporters who got it right:
“Diet plans produce similar results: Study finds Mediterranean and low-carb diets work just as well as low fat ones.”
Tara Parker-Pope of the New York Times also came close with her headline:
“Long term diet study suggests success is hard to come by: In a tightly controlled experiment, obese people lost an average of just 6 to 10 pounds over two years.”
Even this headline wasn’t 100% accurate. The study was HARDLY tightly controlled. Tightly controlled means metabolic ward studies where the researchers actually count and control the calorie intake.
The problem is, you can’t lock people in a hospital or research center ward for two years. So in this study, they used a food frequency questionnaire. Sure, like we believe what people report about their eating habits at restaurants and at home behind closed doors! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
“No! I swear Dr. Schwarzfuchs! I swear I didn’t eat those donuts over the weekend! I stayed on my Mediterranean diet. Honest!”
One of the most firmly established facts in dietetics research is that almost everyone underreports their food intake BADLY, sometimes by as much as 50%. I’m not saying everyone “lies,” they just forget or don’t know. In fact, this underreporting of calorie intake is such a huge problem that it makes obesity research very difficult to do and conclusions difficult to draw from free-living studies. Another blunder in the news reports is that this study didn’t really follow Atkins diet parameters OR even the traditional low fat diet for that matter, so it’s not an “Atkin’s versus Ornish” showdown at all. If you actually take the time to read the full text of the research paper it doesn’t say ANYTHING like, “Atkins is the best after all.” That’s the spin that some of the news media cooked up (and what the Atkins foundation was hoping for). It says, “The diet was based on the Atkins diet.” However, the sentence right before that says, “The participants were counseled to choose vegetarian sources of fat and protein.” Vegetarian Atkins? The chart on page 236 says the low carb diet provided 40% of calories from carbs at 6, 12 and 24 months. If I’m reading that data properly, then the only low carb period was a brief induction phase in the very beginning. Does that sound like Atkins? 40% carb sounds more like the Zone diet or my own Burn The Fat program to me.
The Atkins Foundation, which partially supported this study, told reporters, “We feel vindicated.” HA! They should have paid the reporters and told the researchers they felt ripped off and they wanted a refund for misuse of their research grant!
After carefully reading the full text of this study, there are many interesting findings we could talk about, from the differences in results between men and women to the improvements in health markers. Here’s what the study really says that stood out to me. It’s what I would have talked about if the newspapers or TV stations had called me:
1. “Mediterranean and low carb diets may be effective alternatives to low-fat diets.”
I can agree completely with that statement. All three diets created a calorie deficit. All three groups lost weight. Low carb lost a little more, which is the usual finding because low carb diets often control appetite and calorie intake automatically (you eat less even if you don’t count calories). Also, if body composition is not indicated, there’s an initial water weight loss that makes low carb diets look more effective in the very early stages.
2. “Personal preferences and metabolic considerations might inform individualized tailoring of dietary interventions.”
Absolutely! Nutrition should be individualized based on goals, health status, body type, activity level and numerous other factors. Different people have different phenotypes. Some people are more predisposed to thrive on a low carb approach. Others feel like crap on low carbs and do better with more carbs or a middle of the road approach. Those who dogmatically follow and defend one type of diet or the other are only handcuffing themselves by limiting their options. Iris Shai, a researcher in the study said, “We can’t rely on one diet fits all.” Hmm, far cry from “Atkins wins hands down,” wouldn’t you say?
3. “The rate of adherence to a study diet was 95.4% at 1 year and 84.6% at 2 years.”
THIS was the part of most interest to me. When I read this, immediately I could have cared less about the silly low carb versus high carb wars that the news reporters were jumping on. I wanted to know WHY the subjects were able to stick with it so well. Of course, that’s boring stuff to journalists… adherence? What does that word mean anyway? Yawn - not interesting enough for prime time, I guess. But it was interesting to me, and I hope YOU pay attention to what I found. The authors of the study wrote:
“This trial suggests a model that might be applied more broadly in the workplace. Using the employer as a health coach could be an effective way to improve health. The model of group intervention with the use of dietary group sessions, spousal support, food labels, and monthly weighing in the workplace within the framework of a health promotion campaign might yield weight reduction and long term health benefits.”
Hmmmmm, lets see: * Dietician coaching
* Group meetings
* Motivational phone calls
* Spousal support
* Workplace monitoring (corporate health program)
* Food labels - calorie monitoring
* Weigh-ins (required and monitored)
Wow, everything helpful to long term fat loss that sticks. Can you say, ACCOUNTABILITY? These factors help explain the better adherence.
By the way, the adherence rate for the low carb group was the lowest.
90.4% in low fat group
85.3% in the Mediterranean group
78% in the low carb group
Here’s the bottom line, the way I see it:
First, please, please, please learn how to find and read primary research and take the news media stories with a grain of salt. If you want to know who died, what burned down or what hurricane is coming, tune in to the news – they do a GREAT job at that. If you want to know how to lose weight or improve your health, look up the original research papers instead of taking second hand information at face value.
Second, those who prefer a low carb approach; more power to them. Most studies, this one included, show at the very least that low carb is an option and it’s not necessarily an unhealthy one if done intelligently. I also have no qualms with someone claiming that low carb diets are slightly more effective for weight loss, especially in the short term, free living situations. Is low carb superior for fat loss in the long haul? That’s STILL highly debatable. It’s probably superior for some people, but not for others.
Third, low carb people, listen up! Even if low carb is superior, that doesn’t mean calories don’t count. Deny this at your own peril. In fact, this study shows the reverse. The low carb group was in a larger negative energy balance than the high carb and Mediterranean group (according to the data published in this paper), which easily explains the greater weight loss. Posting the calories contained in foods in the cafeteria may have improved the results and helped with compliance in all groups.
When energy intake is matched calorie for calorie, the advantage of a low carb diet shrinks or disappears. For most people, low carb is a hunger management or calorie control weight loss advantage, not metabolic magic (sorry, no magic folks!)
Fourth, choose the nutrition program that’s most appropriate for your personal preferences, your current health condition, your genetics (or phenotype) and most important of all… the one you can stick with. Then tend your own garden instead of wasting time criticizing how the other guy is eating. Your results will speak for themselves in the end. Take your shirt off and show us.
If I were forced to choose only one approach (and thank god I’m not), I would recommend avoiding the extremes of very low carb or very low fat or very high fat or very high carbs. Balance makes the most sense to me, and the research suggests that this helps produce the highest compliance rate. That’s not rocket science either, it’s common sense. If you have a serious fat loss goal, as when I compete in bodybuilding, then a further reduction in carbs and increase in protein makes perfect sense to me as a peaking diet. If an extremely low or extremely high carb diet worked for you, great. But generalizing your experience to the entire rest of the world makes no sense. Arguing from extremes is the weakest form of argument. The reason I have THREE nutrition plans (three phases) in my own fat loss program is because programs with flexibility and room for individualization beat the others hands down in the long term. In fact, I wrote an entire chapter in my e-book about unique body types, how to determine yours and how to individualize your nutrition – it’s THAT important. If you have more choices, you have more power. The people who are shackled by dogma and narrow thinking are stuck. They also risk missing what’s really important. Things like: Personalization
Adherence
Long-term Maintenance
Accountability
Social Support
and…
CALORIES!
Train hard and expect success,
Tom Venuto CSCS, NSCA-CPT
Fat Loss Coach
www.BurnTheFat.com
PS. If you want to learn more about a balanced, flexible and proven approach, which teaches nutritional individuality and which can produce similar weight loss in one month, month after month, that the subjects of this study produced in TWO YEARS, (if you ADHERE to it!), then visit my fat loss website.
Finding Good Vegetarian Low Carb Recipes
July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment
There are many vegetarian low carb recipes out there but selecting a good one for you and your family can be difficult. The thing I have found that works best when on a low carb diet for vegetarians is to have a collection of your favorite foods at home and work out your vegetarian low carb recipes around them.
Basic Ingredients For Vegetarian Low Carb Recipes
The first ingredient that I use in the majority of my vegetarian low carb recipes is tofu. Tofu is literally the wonder food of the vegetarian world. If you have been a meat eater before and are looking for something that is nutritious and can emulate the flavor and texture of meat, tofu is your friend.
You are going to want to start simple with this ingredient and work you way up to proficiency with it. This ingredient is incredibly versatile and can be used in just about any vegetarian low carb recipes that you find. Whether it is Asian or Italian you can work tofu in if you use it right.
The next ingredient I find to be very flexible and usable in lot of vegetarian low carb recipes is egg. Eggs are wonderfully flexible and capable of providing needed protein. It is especially important to make sure that you have the right amount of protein when on a vegetarian diet, as it is very easy to not have enough. Protein is often overlooked in recipes, so it may be up to you to make sure that you and your family are getting the amount that you need.
Another good staple ingredient in vegetarian cooking is nut. Coconuts, peanuts and cashews all have their own unique flavor and add taste and texture to any vegetarian meal. Coconut milk is very healthy and can be a lower fat alternative to cow’s milk. Peanuts can make wonderful sauces and cashews can spruce up even the blandest of meals.
Another useful food for vegetarian low carb recipes is peppers. These can provide a shot of flavor with very few calories. There are also many valuable nutrients and vitamins in peppers, so do not be afraid to try them in just about anything.
Well there you have some basic ideas to get your vegetarian low carb recipes off the ground. The key is being willing to experiment and try new things so don’t be afraid to give new things a shot.
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Low carb cheesecake recipe, Low carb chicken recipe
June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Following a low carb diet can definitely be difficult, especially at the very beginning when you are trying to cut out a significant amount of calories from your diet. With ideas like the low carb cheesecake recipe and low carb chicken recipe however, you will still get delicious food without the carbohydrates, making it much easier to stick to your low carb diet.
Pleasure Without The Guilt
There are quite a few different low carb cheesecake recipe ideas to choose from, but if you are looking for a really delicious, low carb cheesecake recipe, this is one that you are going to want to try out.
If you want the definitive cheesecake, one that is smooth and rich and oh so tasty, here is a great option. The New York style cheesecake with Brazil nut crust is a tasty treat that is very low in carbohydrates.
For this recipe you will need 2 cups raw Brazil nuts, 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, 2 teaspoon brown Sugar Twin, a pinch of cinnamon and a pinch of salt to make the crust. For the filling you will need 2 1/2 lbs. cream cheese at room temperature, a pinch of salt, 5 tablespoons granular Splenda, 5 tablespoons granular Sugar Twin, 1/2 cup sour cream, 2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice, 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, 2 large egg yolks and 6 large whole eggs.
Preheat the oven to 350ºF for this low carb cheesecake recipe, and line the bottom of a 9-inch spring form pan with parchment paper. The parchment paper is very important and you should not skip this step because if you do the cheesecake will end up sticking and you will not be able to get it out of the pan.
You want to roast the raw nuts for about fifteen minutes, and while they are toasting melt the butter. Then you want to transfer the nuts to a food processor, pulsing them until they are finely chopped because you do not want any large sized nuts in the recipe. Add the remaining crust ingredients and pulse to combine them all together until they are well mixed, and then pat evenly into the bottom of the spring form pan and place in the fridge.
Next you want to increase the oven temperature to 400ºF, beat the cream cheese until smooth in a separate bowl, add the sweeteners, sour cream, lemon juice and vanilla and beat until combined, then add the egg yolks and then the eggs two at a time, beating until incorporated. Carefully pour this filling over the crust and put on the pan, bake for ten minutes, reduce temperature back to 350ºF and bake for nearly two hours or until set.
This low carb cheesecake recipe will make you think you are cheating because it is so good!
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Easy low carb recipe, low carb bread recipe
June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Although typically bread is kept out of a low carb diet, if you are interested in adding a low carb bread recipe to your easy low carb recipe book, there are some terrific options. From muffins and bagels to sticky buns and pancakes, there are some great bread recipes that you can include in your low carb diet, as long as you choose the right ones.
Bread Recipes For Low Carb Diets
An applesauce muffins easy low carb recipe is definitely one of the favorites for bread lovers who have had to cut most of the bread products out of their life. This recipe does require quite a few ingredients but is still simple and quick to make.
All you need for the dry ingredients portion of this easy low carb recipe is 3/4 cup soy protein isolate, 1/4 cup oat flour, 1/4 cup wheat gluten flour, 1/4 cup ground golden flax seed, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon cloves, 1/4 teaspoons nutmeg, 1/8 teaspoon mace or ginger, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 cup Splenda, and 1/4 cup brown Sugar Twin.
The wet ingredients for this easy low carb recipe are 4 beaten eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 3/4 cup light olive oil, 1 cup unsweetened apple sauce, and 2-3 drops apple oil. The topping is optional but if you would like to make it you will need 1 tablespoon rolled oats, 1 tablespoon oat flour, 1 teaspoon brown Sugar Twin, and a couple shakes of cinnamon.
To prepare this easy low carb recipe all you do is mix the dry ingredients together and the wet ingredients together in separate bowls. Then you want to mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until blended (do not over mix), pour into sprayed muffin tins, sprinkle with the topping if you did decide to make it and bake.
You should bake the muffins at 350ºF for about half an hour, longer if you desire. If you want to change the recipe to pumpkin spice muffins all you do is add 15 oz. canned pumpkin instead of the applesauce and apple oil.
Another easy low carb recipe that you may want to try is cheddar cheese bread. You need 1/3 cup soy flour, 1/3 cup soy protein, 2 large eggs, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 2 tablespoons sour cream, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1/2 cup cheddar cheese grated, and 2 teaspoons oregano.
Have the oven preheated to 375ºF, combine the soy flour, soy protein, eggs, baking powder, sour cream, and oil in a bowl and mix well. Fold in half of the cheddar, pour the batter into the pan and sprinkle the remaining cheese on top and then bake for about half an hour.
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Sticking To High Protein, Low Fat, Low Carb Foods
June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
If you want to begin a diet and you want to be able to stick to it, you will have to find a diet that doesn’t feel like a diet. If you are the type of person who has failed on diets before, you will know that starting a new one is frustrating. Attitude is a good part of diet success. But getting a diet that uses high protein, low fat, low carb foods and that tastes good will also help you to succeed.
Eat Right All The Time
If you want to start a diet, you will want to stick to a diet that uses high protein, low fat, low carb foods. This way, you will still be able to eat tasty meals and also become healthier at the same time. A low carb diet meal can be easily prepared so that you can get healthy and still get the good taste that you want. For dinner, you will want to have a main course of meat, whole grain rice and vegetables. Add a salad as an appetizer if you want to. Salads are important to any kind of diet, but it is a great addition to keep you eating only high protein, low fat, low carb foods.
If you want to stick to this type of a diet, you will want to do some research so you can learn what high protein, low fat, low carb foods are. You would be surprised at some of the things that are still tasty yet fall into this category of foods. Fruit and vegetables are a big part of this kind of a diet. And with fruit, you can easily make some great snacks and desserts that will satisfy your sweet tooth and still keep you on track.
The best way to stick to a diet that uses only high protein, low fat, low carb foods is planning ahead for meals. With everyone’s busy schedules, sometimes it is difficult to find the time to even cook a meal, let alone plan one ahead of time. But if you have any spare time on the weekends, you can plan ahead for the week in order to stick to your diet. You can also prepare some meals ahead of time, or portions of the meals in order to save time. Salads can easily be prepared the night before, as well as desserts that use fruit. Have fun with your food all while still being healthy.
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Low Carb Diet Meals Are All The Rage
June 11, 2008 | Comments Off
Nearly everyone is looking to lose weight nowadays. And it’s no surprise since our serving sizes are getting bigger and bigger, our food is getting more fattening and sodium and sugar laden, and we are just becoming a society of gluttonous, unhealthy eaters. We love our food and our food loves us; it loves to make us fat. Some of us have tried to lose weight by eating low carb diet meals. In fact, low carb diet meals are becoming so popular that nearly every restaurant has low carb diet menus, you’ll see foods marketed as low carb in the grocery store and there countless books, magazines and internet pages devoted to this low carb fad. Does it work? Yes and no.
The Word Diet
When you use the word diet, you really set yourself up for failure. Sure, eating low carb diet meals will help you lose weight. Your body uses carbohydrates for energy but if you don’t exercise or you eat too many carbs and they’re not burned off, all those extra carbs are going to be transported into your fat stores. Is this your body’s way of getting back at you? No, it’s actually a very efficient way for your body to work. Your body stores that fat so that, in case you happen to starve later, it will use that fat as energy. So, eating a low carb diet meal will cause your body to burn fat for energy instead of carbohydrates. However, when you use the low carb diet meal as a diet, or a temporary situation, you will only find temporary results.
You’re Goal
For example, let’s say you’ve been eating low carb diet meals, you’ve been using the low carb diet menus in restaurants, you’ve been buying all the foods marketed as low carb and you’ve seen results. You can finally fit into that pair of jeans you used to wear in high school, or you can finally fit back into your wedding dress, or tux; or whatever other goal you’ve set for yourself. Then, you go back to your old eating habits and you gain the weight right back. Some people even gain more weight than they had to begin with. Why did this happen? Because you used your low carb diet meals as a temporary fix and you didn’t make it a lifestyle change, which is how permanent weight loss is achieved.
Lifestyle Change
That’s not to say that you have to eat low carb for the rest of your life, for every meal. You just need to make good food choices, you need to burn more calories than you take in and you should use your low carb diet meals as a way to achieve permanent results by making it a lifestyle change. Losing weight can be done; you just have to make a conscious effort to change what and how you eat.
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Low Carb High Fiber Foods Are Not As Disgusting As They Sound
June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
When you hear the term low carb high fiber foods, you probably picture carrot sticks, rice cakes and anything else that doesn’t sound the least bit appetizing. That’s just not true, however, as you can find many good, and delicious, food choices when it comes to eating low carb high fiber foods. Think of it more in terms of a high protein low carb diet, with more vegetables, meat, and good carbs, which you’ll eat in lower quantities. There are many places to get menu options when it comes to eating low carb high fiber foods, you just have to know where to look.
Online
You can find many menus to help you know what to eat when you want to follow a diet with low carb high fiber foods. One of the best website that i recommend is Fatloss4idiots Online resources like diet and fitness pages, forums, and more can give you high protein low carb diets that are delicious, filling and which will help you lose weight fast. Just make sure you follow the diet ninety percent of the time or more if you want to see results.
Eating Out
You can even find low carb high fiber foods on many menus nowadays when you’re eating out. That’s because restaurants know that their customers are looking to reduce their waist lines so they are trying to help out by providing food that will fit within high protein low carb diets. If the menus don’t have low carb high fiber foods, they will usually let you tailor menu items to fit within that category so that you don’t have to cheat on your diet while eating out.
Get Exercise
To see faster and better results, make sure you get plenty of exercise while you remain on your diet of low carb high fiber foods. Walking for thirty to forty five minutes is a great way to lose weight. It’s low impact, it’s easy and fun, and the time will pass nicely if you bring an Ipod or some other MP3 device with you. It’s a great way to get exercise, it lets you enjoy the outdoors, get some fresh air and you’ll feel better. Of course, there are many other exercise options that you can partake in while remaining on your high protein low carb diet but walking is a great choice that you can do anywhere, anytime and you’re more likely to stick with it if it’s low impact and fun.
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Learn How To Create A Low Carb Diet
June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
If you are interested in losing weight, the best idea is going to be for you to create a nutritious, low carb diet that you can follow. By cutting back on the carbohydrates in your diet, you will be doing your body a great benefit, and combined with proper and regular exercise will be able to lose a great deal of weight.
The First Step
The first step to creating a low carb diet involves you coming up with low carb recipe ideas that you can include in the diet. It is important that you include enough variety that you will not get bored. Because this is one of the most common reasons that dieters stray from their diet, is because they simply do not have enough recipe ideas and then grow bored of eating the same thing time and time again.
Fortunately, if you want to live by a low carb diet, there are some fantastic recipes that you can include. Although there are discrepancies in regards to which foods have carbohydrates that matter and which have carbohydrates that you can cut out, most sources do agree on which foods are lowest in carbohydrates.
Meats, poultry, eggs, fish and shellfish all contain practically no carbohydrates, as do salad vegetables such as lettuce and arugula, cucumber, celery, alfalfa sprouts, bok choy, radishes, mushrooms, cucumber, and peppers which all have minimal to no carbohydrates. Then you get into your breads and cheese, which have rather high contents of carbohydrates and which you will therefore want to avoid if you are on a low carb diet.
Many Benefits
There are many benefits of a low carb diet, namely that fast weight loss is expected due to a chemical reaction in the body when an inadequate level of carbohydrates are available. You will also feel less fatigued, as people who consume a lot of carbohydrates often feel very tired, even when they have just woken up and are well rested.
It is important that you stick to your low carb diet for at least six weeks before you can expect to notice any significant results, so just because you may not lose any weight within the first few days, you should not get frustrated and should keep working and you will notice differences soon to come.
If you need help with creating your diet, you can always speak to a nutritionist who has expertise specifically in this area and can help you come up with a dynamite low carb diet.
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How to Start A High Protein, Low Carb Diet
June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Many people around the country and around the world need to lose weight. For most, exercise and diet are the two main factors for losing weight. Once you have your exercise routine set, you will then need to work on the quality of your diet. If you use a high protein, low carb diet plan, you can significantly lose the weight and fast.
What A High Protein, Low Carb Diet Can Do For You
A high protein, low carb diet can work for your body in a few important ways. First of all, it is important to learn exactly how this type of diet works. There are different degrees of a high protein, low carb diet but the truth of the matter is that increasing your protein and reducing your carb intake will help you to lose weight and get healthier. Some of the high protein, low carb diets are especially designed for those looking to go on a diet, while at the other end of the spectrum there is the high protein, low carb diet for medical conditions such as diabetes.
The biggest advantage to a high protein, low carb diet is that is restricts your intake of refined carbohydrates. These carbohydrates that are found in such products as white rice, pasta, crackers, sweets, and jellies are the substances that give your body a sugar high. If you reduce refined carbohydrates, you can better control your insulin and blood sugar levels. This is an important concept for everyone, not just diabetics.
Another benefit of a high protein, low carb diet is the fact that weight loss is easier on this type of diet. If you are restricting some of the worst substances that are put mindlessly into your body, you can get healthier while getting thinner. What you want to watch out for on a high protein, low carb diet is that you should try not to restrict all of your carbohydrates. There are some healthy carbohydrates that your body need that are contained in foods such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
If you are looking for a high protein, low carb diet to aid you in your weight loss goal, you will need to understand that this is only one part of a complete diet plan. You must also figure out a regular exercise routine that will give your body the healthy activity that it needs. The diet will help the weight loss process by restricting unhealthy foods from getting into your body and making weight loss tougher.
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