Carb Conundrum - Low Carbohydrate Diet

Low Carbohydrate Diet

Are you considering starting a low carbohydrate diet? First, consider this: A low carbohydrate diet can have some seriously unpleasant side effects like constipation, bad breath, nausea, grumpiness, possible kidney disease and an increased risk of the following:

Heart disease
Osteoporosis
Cancer

Why not try our low carbohydrate diet alternative instead?

An Alternative Low Carbohydrate Diet

No, it's not a pill. And you don't have to drink shakes or buy our food. Actually, we're not selling anything. It's just that we've learned so much about the bad things a low carbohydrate diet can do to people, and we think there's a better way. Sure, it's just our opinion, and it's slower than a typical low carbohydrate diet, but our method doesn't put your health at risk.

The first thing our plan calls for you to do is to measure out what you eat every day for a week and keep track of how many carbs are in everything you eat. You don't need to buy special books for this unless you want to. Carb counts are on labels, and the Internet can give you carb counts for other things like meats, fruits, vegetables, breads--almost anything! What you'll find might surprise you. One of our employees who thinks she eats healthy found out she was eating 225 grams of carbs a day. She didn't know what to make of that until we told her that our bodies only need 130 grams of carbs a day to function properly. She began analyzing what she ate and made cuts to her diet so that she was soon only eating 130-150 grams of carbs a day.

The next important thing to do is realize the kinds of carbs you're eating. If you're eating white bread, foods made with white flour and refined sugar, pasta, white rice and other sugary foods, replace them. Instead of white bread, eat whole wheat or whole grain bread. Replace your regular pasta with whole wheat pasta. Instead of eating white rice, eat brown rice or long grain rice. Instead of chips and crackers, eat baby carrots and celery sticks. Instead of high-sugar snacks, eat fruit. The carbs in these replacement foods are called complex carbohydrates, and they will keep you feeling full longer because they are chock full of fiber and they don't cause your body to produce extra insulin (which will make you gain weight). And if you feel full longer, you'll (ideally) eat less, right?

You may or may not like this type of low carb diet, but don't knock it until you try it.