Low Carbohydrate Diet

Your body needs carbohydrates to create energy and cutting them out of your diet completely could be quite dangerous to your health.

Low carbohydrate and no carbohydrate diets are popular and there are many books and dvds available on the subject. You can also find recipes for low carb diets on the internet.

higher consumption of fats is encouraged on a low carb diet, but make sure that you focus on the good fats such as monounsaturated fats.

Olive oil is a good source of healthy fats and can be used as a dressing on salads when combined with lemon juice and crushed garlic. Use it in place of butter on bread and also for cooking.

Peanut butter is very healthy and nutritious and is packed with essential vitamins and minerals. Be careful though not to over eat these foods as they are very high in calories.

If you consume more calories than you burn you won't lose any weight and your low carbohydrate diet will fail.

Following a low carb diet will initially lead to rapid weight loss, this is due to the body using stores of glycogen which also contains stores of water.

However after carbs are gradually introduced back into the diet weight gain occurs. One disadvantage of the low calorie diet is that there are many healthy carbohydrates found in fruits and vegetables and that restricting these foods drastically decreases your daily intake of vital minerals and vitamins.

You must be very careful on a low carbohydrate diet not to become deficient in these nutrients. Any diet that encourages you to cut back on certain food groups has to be approached with caution.

If you do decide to try the low carb diet take a good vitamin and mineral supplement.You would need to just cut out the not so healthy carbohydrates such as white bread, white flour and pasta and make sure you eat enough healthy carbohydrates.

There is an alternative to the low carbohydrate diet that doesn't restrict the foods you eat and if followed properly you could lose 14 1b in 2 weeks. It's very safe and instead of a diet it should be considered as a lifestyle.