What is metabolic advantage?
Conventional wisdom is that weight loss is only about calories in-calories out. If you take in more calories than you burn up you will gain weight. This concept was tested in a laboratory under controlled conditions and is not the entire story. Research on people following an Atkins plan has demonstrated that they have been able to eat a few hundred more calories and lose more weight than those on conventional weight loss plans. This is the metabolic advantage. It is not yet well understood why this happens. One possible explanation is that it takes more energy to burn fat than carbs so more calories are used up in the process. What is important is that when low carbing hunger is better controlled allowing you to find the right amount of food without actively counting calories. The ceiling on calorie intake is not limitless however. We recommend that you eat enough to be satisfied but not stuffed.
