Does low carb diet just mean low calorie diet?
Low carb/high fat diet is an unrestricted calorie diet. With Atkins way of eating, there is NO portion control, NO calorie restrictions. This is how 500#+ people can lose weight even on 10,000 calories a day and not just a little weight, massive weight loss quickly. As long as you keep your carbs less than 9grams an hour (144grams per day) you shouldn’t gain weight no matter the calories since you don’t trigger insulin, the fat storage hormone. Even high carb/low fat needs to be calorie controlled and less than 9grams of carbs for optimal health and is fine for people of normal weight. It is true that long term low carbers end up eating a lower calorie diet, not because they’ve eliminated a lot of foods but their bodies eat what it needs of highly nutritious foods and doesn’t require the empty calorie foods. Most long term low carbers eat more (or at least as many – I bet more) green vegetables than vegetarians. If you’re overweight, that usually means that you have a problem processin
