Subscribe RSS FeedMedifast weight loss planIf you have been worried about your weight gain I am sure you have heard about the low fat vs low carb dieting battle. Some people claim the key to massive weight loss it to cut out all fats, others believe that cutting out carbs is the answer. Both of these ideas can be true but we have to look at what really matters. If you want to lose weight you have to do one thing: you must burn more calories than you consume. It is really that simple even though this is a very hard thing to do.
The people who believe you should eat no carb foods are not wrong because higher carbohydrate foods do tend to be higher in calorie count. Breads and chips and other processed grain products have very little fiber and lots of carbohydrates which can quickly be absorbed into the blood stream. When absorbed they turn into blood sugar or glucose. Your body then has two options, either it burns the fuel or it stores it as fat. If you want to get rid of the extra weight you are carrying around then you don’t want to be increasing the levels of blood sugar.
The no carb gurus can tend to take this idea of limiting carbohydrates too far though. Often times people who are on a no carb diet think calories don’t matter so they eat high fatty foods which happen to be low in their levels of carbohydrates. This fat is very calorie intensive so you really end up with the same result. If you eat more calories in animal or plant fat than you burn you will continue to pack on the pounds. It all comes back to calories in versus calories burnt.
Low carb diets can be low in calories also if you eat lean cuts of meat, fish and low fat egg products, and you stay away from fatty meats and dairy products. I am sorry to tell you that the only silver bullet to weight loss is to burn more calories than you eat.
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