Low Carb Dieting

Atkins, Sugar Busters, etc.

Although very famous and seemingly effective, the Atkins diet relies on eating just too much fatty food for our tastes. Some people do very well on this diet but we do not take a dogmatic view of these things and we will tweak this or any other diet to suit our purposes.

Low carb type dieting is the most effective way to lose gobs of fat while also protecting the muscle tone you’re building up in the gym or at home doing P90X type workouts. Muscle is extremely important to your overall health. When you go on an extreme diet, you risk losing some or a lot of it as the body looks for calories to fuel your activities. When you restrict you carbs to below 75-100 or lower, in our experience, the body will burn fat at an unprecedented rate and like it.  But you want to watch the TYPE of fats you eat in your high protein meals. Switching to olive oil and Smart Balance butter spread is absolutely mandatory.

The basic idea, if you are very overweight, is to severely restrict calories AND carbs for 3 to 5 days at a time. Then eat normally for ONE day. Then go right back to your chosen diet regime. Walking is a must starting TODAY. What a lot of people do not realize is when an overweight person exercises, it’s like they are carrying all the extra weight on their backs. It’s much like a person of normal weight, carrying around 50-100 pounds of iron plates all day, everywhere he goes. For this reason, when you are obese, walking is much more taxing than it is for a person of normal weight.

Later, when you’ve shed some of the extra weight, it will be easier for you to step up your exercise activities. Walk faster, start actually jogging! A little at the time for you who are very overweight. You will be blown away at where you are 90 days from the day you started. The more fat you shed, the more likely you are to want to get outside and do more.

You MUST use strength training of some kind as soon as possible.