Is it true that Low Carb (to the extent that its actually the Atkins induction) dieting won work if you don cut the calories too?
If you cut the calories too, your body goes into starvation mode and hangs on to weight and excess water…thinking it may need to save what it has for later…you need around 1500-1800 calories a day and even up around 2000 unusual–as high as 3,000 isn’t totally unheard of though no one would recommend a daily diet of 3,000 unless you were running a marathon the next day! Anyways, on a low-carb diet, your appetite should be surpressed naturally where you won’t even want to eat a lot anyways. Also, a calorie is not a calorie. Dr. Diana Swarzbein explains in her book, The Swarzbein Principle, that to determine the calorie content of a food scientists break the food down into its simpliest form and then determine how much energy is needed to consume it (she explains better than I do). But the body does not break down and burn protein and fats in their simpliest form. So they are not consumed as completely as carbohydrates are – if you eat 350 calories of chicken your body doesn’t burn t
