The Low carb diet

[pef1996]

When I need a boost to help get the weight started, I usually try the low carb diet method. Basically, you watch your carb intake. I try to keep it between 10-15 carbs a day, but you can have a lot of cheese and chicken and anything else with no carbs. It's tough to manage since pasta, bread, milk and such have lots of carbs, so it takes management and thinking ahead on what you'll be eating.

[Lorianna]

Yes, I would think it requires some planning ahead, plus some discipline, of course. I can go without pasta, but I do like bread, so that's a bit challenging.

[Vlada]

[pef1996]

Yes, it's hard to stick to the low carb especially when there's so many good things during the holidays! But I know it can be done and it helps as long as you can get the rest of the family to understand. When my husband was deployed a few years ago and I only had two small children, the low carb was easy. But when he's home and now with four older children, not so easy!

Good luck with it if you decide to use it to try to get going!

[joel]

The idea with a low carb diet is that by lumping carbs into the category of bad, you avoid the problems inherit to processed carbohydrates. The problem with this approach is it simply does NOT work over the long haul.

Over the long haul, you are going to eat carbs. That's just reality. We we do here with the LookCut Method is to help you understand that processed carbs work like a drug, meaning processed carbs promote binging and addictive behavior.

You need to understand what happens when you have them and how to deal with them. That way you know when you can eat them and when eating them will promote weight gain and hunger.

Conversely, one of the best ways to lean up is by the use of whole food carbs. One of the tricks is to look at the ratio of fiber to energy in a carb. Lots of fiber, low energy always promotes weight loss and fat loss.