You crave stronger muscles and a smaller waist. Everyone does it. Do you think you can not lose weight? Yes, you can. But the fact is that you can not lose weight without dieting - a program.
Low Carb Diet
Low-carb diet is a diet followed by people, where all carbohydrates are cut off from all foods with the goal of losing weight faster. Many wonder if low-carb foods are healthy and beneficial, or even harmful to human health. Weight loss experts and dietitians all agree that most of our excess weight comes from the carbohydrates we eat, especially those that are highly refined or processed such as potatoes, baked goods, bread, pasta and other snacks. To add insult to injury, few of us get enough exercise to avoid becoming overweight.
The basic science behind a low-carb diet is to reduce the consumption of foods high in carbohydrates. Low-carb diets include many popular weight loss programs such as Atkins, South Beach, Zone and Carbohydrate Addict Diet.
Does It Really Work?
One of the food groups the body needs to survive, carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are also called carbs, which are found in two types - sugar and starch. Light sugary carbohydrates usually taste as good as biscuits and sweets and are easily digested. Although, starch is a complex carb found in bread, pasta, noodles and rice and takes a long time to digest.
The body converts all these digestible carbs into sugars, sugars used by our cells as fuel or energy. When glucose cells pass through the intestines into the bloodstream, the pancreas releases insulin, a hormone that binds cells together to absorb them. Tissues, fats, and other cells then absorb excess glucose into the bloodstream and their insulin levels return to normal.
After eating a diet with a high glycemic index (food intake depending on how fast its sugar is released into the blood), blood sugar levels also rise rapidly. Insulin, which is essential for the production of glucose in muscle and fat cells, also impairs glucagon function, a hormone that causes the body to burn more fuel when blood sugar levels drop below normal. Glucose levels drop dramatically, leaving the body hungry for energy. The brain and intestines then send out signals of hunger. New cravings are created that require high carb diets. We, then, overeating leading to excess fat, increased insulin levels in the blood, increased hunger, and weight gain and the cycle continues.
In contrast, sticking to a low-carb diet eliminates this cycle. Reduced carbohydrates can mean decreased insulin levels, increased glucagon levels, weight loss, increased triglycerides (fats carried in the blood needed but when causing severe heart damage), low LDL (bad cholesterol), increased HDL (good cholesterol).
Important Point - Give refined or refined carbohydrates that cause rapid changes in blood sugar, causing hunger, thus promoting overeating that ultimately leads to obesity in small areas of your plate. Still, no one was killed as a result of skipping potatoes, pasta, rice, and white bread.
That means; go get yourself a few carb low cookbooks. Even better, open this site with 1,000+ low-carb recipes - a variety of recipes that seem endless. Try every recipe you can think of and make this food as enjoyable and varied as possible.
Yes, you can eat. Lose weight! Live longer!
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