Here's Tips How to Lose Weight With a Low Carb Diet in Two Weeks

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Here's Tips How to Lose Weight With a Low Carb Diet in Two Weeks - Look at the Government’s Eatwell Guide and you’ll see that they recommend a third of our diet is made up of starchy foods (pasta, rice, bread) and a third fruit and vegetables.

That’s two thirds of your daily intake of food in the form of carbohydrates. Why, then, is there such a backlash against this essential macronutrient when it comes to weight loss?

The answer comes down to the way the body deals with carbohydrates.
In an ideal world, an individual will consume enough carbohydrate needed for their energy output, some storage and a healthy amount of fat, without being overweight. However, eat more carbohydrate than the body can use (as glucose in the blood stream) or store (as glycogen in the liver and muscle) and it gets converted into fat for long-term storage. In contrast, eat less carbs and your body turns to your pre-existing fat storage for energy.

Hence why diets like The Atkins, Dukan, Keto and South Beach diet all rely on the principle of carb restriction to achieve weight loss results.

Five tips on how to lose weight fast with a low carb diet:

1. Adopt ‘carbohydrate loading’ into your exercise routine


2. Completely exhausting your glycogen stores is damaging. Ben suggests introducing ‘carb loading’ days - where you’ll eat three times as many carbohydrates as a normal day - either the day before, or the day of exercise.


3. Take your body fat percentage into account
   While people with higher fat percentage can benefit from their body reaching fat burning stage (when your body breaks down fat for energy in the absence of carbohydrates), people with lower body fat percentage are more likely to need their fat for insulation so will need to consume more carbohydrate.


4. Choose nutrient-rich, low starch foods
   It’s important to watch your nutrient intake so try to avoid  ‘empty calories’ that often come in the form of packaged foods. Fill up on fibrous, non-starchy vegetables such as dark leafy greens and ensure starchy vegetables are consumed around exercise.


5. Keep a food diary
   It’ll help break those heavily ingrained habits where carbohydrates are concerned.


6. Be mindful of the timing of your carbohydrate intake
   Look to consume carbohydrates before, during or after exercise. Ben advises that this keeps your blood sugar stabilised. 

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