Low Cal And Low Carb Diet - An Overview Of How Effective These Are
Low Carb - - Posted on November, 6 at 8:32 pm
Two great ways to lose weight is to start a low cal or a low carb diet. Let’s have an overview of low cal and low carb diet. All of us know that eating too much, having too many calories, eating unhealthy food increases our weight as well as creates many health problems. Thus, it’s advisable to keep a check on the weight and eat healthy balanced diet which helps in reducing weight
What Are Low Cal Diets?
As the name suggest, taking low calorie food makes the low cal diet. For this you should avoid all fats, control carbohydrates and avoid processed food. High calorie food includes cookies, chips, carbonated drinks, all fried food, sugary items, butter, oil etc. In the low cal diet, all these things are avoided and substitute are used. Like in place of sugar, you can use splenda. In place of butter, margarine can be used, in baked food like cookies, muffins etc, low cal bake mix can be used.
What Are Low Carb Diets?
When you restrict carbohydrate intake, you are said to be on low carb diet. Low carb diet has become very popular in the last 10 years. The Atkins diet and the South beach diet are very popular low carb diet plans. In this, you don’t take carbohydrates more than 5% or 10% of your meal; you take more of proteins and fats. Meals consist of meat, vegetables with some low carb sauces and no fruits or cereals.
The reasoning behind the low carb diets is that when you eat very less carbs, blood contains less glucose. Thus body requires energy from some other source, which it now gets from fat cells. This results in reduction of fat.
How Good Are These Diet Plans?
Before jumping on any conclusion and choosing a diet plan, research the validity and effectiveness of these plans. Low cal diet is good if you are getting at least minimum calories to go about your daily routine. However, if you are eating too less, you will feel tired, irritated and feel hungry all the time, this will invite other diseases.
While, in low carb diet, you take too much of saturated fat to get energy, but this is harmful for your blood vessels and heart. Your cholesterol might take a leap and obese people should be careful about these things.
It’s always good to choose fresh, pure, unadulterated food in its most natural form. Avoiding something totally and binging on particular things is not good. Try to have a balanced diet, avoid excess of anything, maintain a good lifestyle and incorporate exercise in your daily routine. Only then the low cal and low carb diets are going to work for you.
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November 7th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
I’ve tried a low carb diet mysef and I can asure you one thing: they will work when your full mind is attentioned to it. Go for it and you will see some good result!
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November 16th, 2007 at 12:47 am
Good post. I agree that a low-card diet combined with exercise is the best way to lose weight. medication can help, but the basics have gotto be there!
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:51 pm
I lost a ton of fat mixing low carb eating and exercise. Actually I lost 143 pounds from it. The problem is I never got used to the low carbs. It made me feel anxious all the time and agitated. I did find fiber helped this quite a bit though.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Another very good article. I enjoyed reading it. Keep them comming.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
A low cal diet should always be more effective than a low carb diet. Although dieting alone will never be the answer. Exercise, especially weight training, is essential for weight loss and there is no way around that. So many women want to a shortcut to looking good and there isn’t one.
February 11th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
low-carb diets and exercises are the best combination.
Thanks for the post!
March 28th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Sounds alright. But also, the calorie content in them needs to be evaluated too. Foods with high calorie content can do rapid damage if consumed too much, in too short a period of time.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:25 am
The low carb diet has worked for me in the past, it is effective and you see instant results.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Diets like these almost always fail. Because people usually cannot sustain these changes to their diet in the long run. And weight loss is not about just losing the weight, but also about keeping it off!