For many people the idea of going low carb and eating no bread, pasta, potatoes, rice and no sugary desserts or drinks is anathema. They simply can't imagine that life could be worth living without eating these scrummy foods. Then perhaps their pancreas wears out from pumping out insulin all day long to cope with all those carbohydrates. They are then faced with Type 2 diabetes. That is when they really think about whether life is worth living or not.
Hopefully they decide that it is, and if low carb eating is going to prolong or enhance that life then it suddenly doesn't seem so awful any more. Or let's hope if a person's metabolism was liable to take that course, then they thought about it earlier and avoided a Type 2 diagnosis.
Also, some people who need to lose weight badly have been on so many starvation or semi-starvation diets, where they could eat carbohydrates but they had to restrict the calories so much that they were hungry all the time, having sleepless nights as their stomachs rumbled with emptiness. A person like this might decide that low carb doesn't sound so bad after all. At least you only have to cut out one food group, albeit a major one. And at least you can eat some fat, which is satisfying and makes food tasty.
Both starvation and low carb dieting create a condition known as Ketosis, where the body starts burning fat for fuel instead of carbohydrate. It's a myth that people cannot have any energy without bread or pasta, but there is a period of adjustment. If a person starves, they become thin. Anorexia is a tragic psychological disorder but there is no doubt that the people who suffer from it succeed in their aim of losing weight, although this is never to be recommended. People who are starving go into Ketosis. They deprive their bodies of food so they must use body fat as fuel, so they lose lots of weight.
The low-carb diet is a much easier way to achieve Ketosis (fat burning) without depriving your body of all food, going hungry, and becoming dangerously thin. On a low-carb diet many people wonder what on earth they can eat. Will they have to live on lean chicken breasts and egg white omelettes all the time? On the contrary, most low carb diets advocate a moderate to liberal amount of fat consumption in the form of fatty meat, butter, cream and healthy pure oils. The fat consumed fans the flames of your fat-burning metabolism. Some low carbers can lose weight whilst guzzling quite large amounts of fat, others have to watch the calories a little because if their body is too liberally supplied with dietary fat it might neglect to burn the body fat. Still, many low carbers lose weight safely on 2000 or even 3000 daily calories.
So, there are many great things you can eat on a low carb diet and so it can be said to be an alternative to starvation or semi-starvation, and to many people an improvement on most calorie-restrictive diets. You get to eat genuinely tasty food, and most people can eat as much of it (fat and protein and leafy veg) as keeps them satisfied and satiated.
Hopefully they decide that it is, and if low carb eating is going to prolong or enhance that life then it suddenly doesn't seem so awful any more. Or let's hope if a person's metabolism was liable to take that course, then they thought about it earlier and avoided a Type 2 diagnosis.
Also, some people who need to lose weight badly have been on so many starvation or semi-starvation diets, where they could eat carbohydrates but they had to restrict the calories so much that they were hungry all the time, having sleepless nights as their stomachs rumbled with emptiness. A person like this might decide that low carb doesn't sound so bad after all. At least you only have to cut out one food group, albeit a major one. And at least you can eat some fat, which is satisfying and makes food tasty.
Both starvation and low carb dieting create a condition known as Ketosis, where the body starts burning fat for fuel instead of carbohydrate. It's a myth that people cannot have any energy without bread or pasta, but there is a period of adjustment. If a person starves, they become thin. Anorexia is a tragic psychological disorder but there is no doubt that the people who suffer from it succeed in their aim of losing weight, although this is never to be recommended. People who are starving go into Ketosis. They deprive their bodies of food so they must use body fat as fuel, so they lose lots of weight.
The low-carb diet is a much easier way to achieve Ketosis (fat burning) without depriving your body of all food, going hungry, and becoming dangerously thin. On a low-carb diet many people wonder what on earth they can eat. Will they have to live on lean chicken breasts and egg white omelettes all the time? On the contrary, most low carb diets advocate a moderate to liberal amount of fat consumption in the form of fatty meat, butter, cream and healthy pure oils. The fat consumed fans the flames of your fat-burning metabolism. Some low carbers can lose weight whilst guzzling quite large amounts of fat, others have to watch the calories a little because if their body is too liberally supplied with dietary fat it might neglect to burn the body fat. Still, many low carbers lose weight safely on 2000 or even 3000 daily calories.
So, there are many great things you can eat on a low carb diet and so it can be said to be an alternative to starvation or semi-starvation, and to many people an improvement on most calorie-restrictive diets. You get to eat genuinely tasty food, and most people can eat as much of it (fat and protein and leafy veg) as keeps them satisfied and satiated.
