Low Carb diets ?

[Comrad]

Ok i was talking to some dude in the gym today and he some what informed me on this whole low carb thing. Mind you i for sure heard about it a year ago, but at the time i just saw it as a fad that would just go away. Anyways what he was talking about went in one ear and out of the other, until he said i could eat burgers, with beacon.
Mind you i'm currently am not on a "strict" diet. So i went to Carl's J.R like right after the gym. Then bought my self a low carb burger ( its just a burger with no bread on it, the breads replaced with lettuce) with beacon. And as i was eating, i thought "hey maybe this isn't so bad". But i need to know more, was what i eat actually healthy, i mean cmon now, beacon and cheese i highly doubt it. And god knows what that meat was made out of, i know CJ ( Carl's J.R) are no Mac Donald's, but you cant be too sure now a days.
So what can you guys help me out here with. Is this whole low carb thing BS, or what ? Are beacon cheese burgers warped in lettuce fair game, or ?

 

[luminum]

The whole 'low carb' thing happened because people realized that protein has less energy per gram than carbohydrates. Carbohydrates carry more energy because they're meant to provide the most energy to the body immediately and also later int eh form of storage (fat).

It works for some people, but regardless, for many it's also unhealthy. I doubt the fact that you're losing weight is a reflection of your internal health, such as clogged arteries, cholesterol levels, and blood pressure.

I still maintain that the best diet is to eat things in a balanced way and in moderation. You need carbs to provide rich energy to fuel your body, to provide reserves for your body, protein to provide structure, etc. etc. You need all things. Cutting out important food groups for the sake of superficial appearance and not health is, well, unhealthy.

Eat balanced and healthily and exercise regularly.

 

[jockboy01]

^^^ What luminum said.

A healthy, well balanced diet is still the best. The low carb thing works for some but remember that health is a lifestyle, not a quick fix and move on. Maintaining a low carb diet long term does not seem like it would be that healthy (for the above reasons).

Nice balanced diet with exercise is my recommendation.

 

[sibersan]

My friend lost weight by working out, tryin not to eat out, not eatting abunch of fry food, and stop eatting french fries.

My other friend did the low/no carb diet, it work for her (when she was just living with her parents). Now she tries to do it, but she finds it difficult cuz she's married and stuff, and he wont go for teh low carb stuff. Meaning either she makes or go eat at places they both agree on, or do extra work and make him a meal, and make a different meal for her.

 

[8tomtoms8]

I agree with the guys above. My brother in law did the low carb diet for a while and lost a lot of weight. He has no self control and loved stuffing himself with cheese, eggs, meat, etc. Most low carb diets don't recommend you stay on them too long since they are so unbalanced. So he stopped the diet, gained all the weight back and then some, and now he is fatter than ever. He gets no excercise and eats like a pig. I guess he is a case to prove you must make permanent lifestyle and diet changes to really be healthy and stay in shape. For me, limiting sugar and fat has been a major key.l

 

[confused01]

I'm studying for pharmacist, and we have lessons about these things in our subject metabolism.
The reason why you lose weight is because you force your body to go into ketosis. This is a state of the body induced when the body doesn't get a form of sugars. This means your whole regulation of the hormone balance of insulin/glucagon gets disturbed really badly. A normal person releases insulin after eating his meal. The body does this because it gets the signal by for example measuring the sugar in the blood. If you don't eat any sugars, your body won't release insulin. Insulin normally takes care of filling the energy reserves of the body by for example taking the sugars out of the blood and storing them. When you're in ketosis, you're in a state in which you haven't released insulin for a while, and your body starts to break down other forms of energy in stead of sugars (e.g. fats).
You start losing weight quite fast when you're in ketosis.
Still I wouldn't recommend it because of several reasons:
-You are messing up your metabolism by disturbing several hormone balances, and this results in different ways of gaining energy. This way when you stop the diet, your metabolism is still messed up, and this could result in a massive gain of weight
-A human body isn't designed to lose weight fast: your body (brain) has systems to maintain the state that your in. For example you've got thermoregulation areas in your brain. When you lose weight fast, this system will kick in: your body is not happy by coming into an other state fast, this is why this system will even try to let you gain more weight, because it wants you to become 'normal' again, and this means the weight you had before! This also results in a rapid gain of weight after the diet
-it's unbalanced: some things you should eat to be healthy, you won't eat them during the diet

So far the scientific explanation

 

[rotary]

Very subjective. Low carb diets have helped many lose huge amounts of weight, who have otherwise failed at previous attempts that involved exercise and eating less. Some begin with it for the quick fat loss, then gradually switch over to regular diet and more exercise once they plateau and no longer drop pounds from reduced carbs.

I don't see it being a good long term lifestyle choice, but many have benefited.

 

[Críostóir]

I went on a low carb diet to lose weight, and then found that I was a much happier, more pleasant person when I ate low carb than when I didn't.

I had an undiagnosed blood sugar problem, you see. I'm never going back.

Americans eat WAY too many carbs. The "food pyramid" is from the USDA (A for Agriculture); it's designed to sell more grain, not make us healthy. And American obesity rates took a sharp rise after it came out.

Low carb does not mean NO carb; if you eat no carbs at all you really will die. But great honkin' bowls of pasta? Avert your gaze.

For me the hardest thing was french fries. Gods, I miss those! But if I eat them I turn into a weepy, whiny, useless piece of shit two hours later. Better off with my mouth watering and able to be pleasant!

 

[mike_n_herrin]

There is low carb and then ultra low carb. the "ultra" low carb ones such as atkin's diet, limit your initial intake of carbs to something like 20 grams per day for the first "phase." then gradually adding them back in. i use atkins when i gain several pounds to shed them back off. 2 years ago i lost 20 pounds on atkins. I would lose on average about 2 pounds per week. it's odd because many folks i talked to who were on it wouldn't lose a thing for like 4 days then, boom on the 5th day would be down by 2-3 pounds. same is true for me.

i kept that 20 pounds off for a little over 2 years, then i gained 15 back this spring. work has me working more, exercising less, and then i eat more i think because of stress. so i gained it back. i'm currently back on atkin's diet and i've lost about 5 pounds in the last 2 1/2 weeks.

i don't necessarily stay on atkins the rest of the time, but i try to eat responsibly. any diet will fail if you just go back to eating the way you did before you lost the weight. i see atkins as a way to lose weight quickly, but then you need to just be sensible about food after that.

 

[Críostóir]

"Eat how you used to eat...look how you used to look!"

 

[Newbie_69]

I'm studying for pharmacist, and we have lessons about these things in our subject metabolism.
The reason why you lose weight is because you force your body to go into ketosis. This is a state of the body induced when the body doesn't get a form of sugars. This means your whole regulation of the hormone balance of insulin/glucagon gets disturbed really badly. A normal person releases insulin after eating his meal. The body does this because it gets the signal by for example measuring the sugar in the blood. If you don't eat any sugars, your body won't release insulin. Insulin normally takes care of filling the energy reserves of the body by for example taking the sugars out of the blood and storing them. When you're in ketosis, you're in a state in which you haven't released insulin for a while, and your body starts to break down other forms of energy in stead of sugars (e.g. fats).
You start losing weight quite fast when you're in ketosis.
Still I wouldn't recommend it because of several reasons:
-You are messing up your metabolism by disturbing several hormone balances, and this results in different ways of gaining energy. This way when you stop the diet, your metabolism is still messed up, and this could result in a massive gain of weight
-A human body isn't designed to lose weight fast: your body (brain) has systems to maintain the state that your in. For example you've got thermoregulation areas in your brain. When you lose weight fast, this system will kick in: your body is not happy by coming into an other state fast, this is why this system will even try to let you gain more weight, because it wants you to become 'normal' again, and this means the weight you had before! This also results in a rapid gain of weight after the diet
-it's unbalanced: some things you should eat to be healthy, you won't eat them during the diet

So far the scientific explanation

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