What is the best low carb diet?

Question

I'm looking for something less strict than Atkins.

Answer 1

don't wash off carbs altogether the best way to loose weight still is the same eat balanced meals ( cut out processed foods )eat your proteins, vegetables, fruits , nuts and add enough fibre to your diet. Excercise for 20-30 mins daily, Try to eat lean meats avoid lard, butter, vegetable oil. Add a good amount of milk and milk products into your diet. Also remember in the end drinking 8-10 glasses of food , cutting down stress and getting enough sleep will help you reduce weight safely and also keep it off with minimum efforts

Answer 2

The low carb diets are all basically the same. Atkins is more strict but only the first 2 weeks. I lost 30 in 3 months on Atkins. You can get great free recipes on the web for whichever one you decide on.

Answer 3

I have found that The Zone diet works really well and is not as strict as the Atkins diet. As everyone knows there is good fat, and bad fat... it is the same with carbs. There are good carbs, and bad carbs. The Zone helps you to find out which ones are healthy and which ones are not. Personally, for me, I lost 30 pounds just by cutting back on my portions of food... eating small healthy meals every couple of hours... instead of 3 huge meals every 4-6 hours. I would say the Zone is the closest diet there is to that.

Answer 4

The Atkins or South Beach Diet are the best in my opinion. I lost 25lbs on the Atkins.

If you follow a healthy foods diet with a combination of foods from different diets or just regular foods and also pump up your exercise routine, then you're going to lose weight.

Best of luck to you!.

Answer 5

From my experince I would suggest the South Beach Diet or the Glycmex Index deit. These two are both low in carbs and very tasty foods, you don't have to buy special food just food from the store. And besides that with a exercise program which all diets require they work.

Answer 6

Definitely The Zone Diet.

Answer 7

Low carb is wrong.

Best commercial diet I've seen is the Glycermic Diet.

But low carb is WRONG.

YOU have to have CARBS to stay awake!

And certainly don't work out or go to the gym or you WILL pass out!

Eat LESS

50% mostly fast carbs (fruits, green veggies)
40% proteins
10% good fats (0llive oil, peanut butter)

Limit grains

Absolutely NO potatoes or pasta!

Try and avoid a lot of carrots

I advocate apples.

Eat ONE every time you are hungry

They are like 90 calories and mostly fibre and fast carbs and they are 14 ounces of filling.

Pears are good too.

What's his faces diet is great

Subway

No breakfast

Early lunch

6" turkey for lunch with water or diet soda

12" veggie for dinner with water of diet soda

No chicken skins

Limit beef

NO sausage

No pizza

No candy or sugars or sodas or ice teas

Breakfast

2 egg omlet with a little cheese and one slice of wheat bread with butter, a little milk

Lunch

skinless chicken salad or Subway turkey sub or Yoshina skinless chicken bowl.

Dinner about the same.

Don't eat after 7 pm.

Have an apple if you are hungry.

You can have a McDonalds Cheese burger or Hamburger with water for lunch or dinner

A subway veggie sandwich with olive oil and some vinegar

You want to stay under 1800 caloires

You want to have enough FAST, Instant NATURAL sugar to keep going

Atkins and South Beach rely on ketose, which is taxing and bad.

You want to EAT LESS

be aware of what you eat

Some skinless broiled chicken with greens

Great

Olive oil and apple cider vinegar for dressing

No candy

No sodas

Breakfast

A banana smoothie

Lunch $1 burger from McD

Dinner Turkey sub

Water or diet soda with all meals

This was under 1400 calories

You won't die

You won't starve

Drink lots of water

A whole gallon a day if you can

Get a Brita pitcher

Low carb it and you'll get fat again after it's over.

CARBS are necessary to keep going

YOu NEED at least 600 calories in carbs a day

FAST carbs not potatoes

No mayo

Limit ketchup

NO fried foods

NO skins on chicken which means the Colonel is good bye

Broild foods

Leached red meat if possible

It takes months to see a change

one you get it, you just up the quanity of intake

Answer 8

I have been happily on the Atkins way of life (it's not a diet to me) for 2 1/2 years and still lovin it! I have lost 50 pounds and kept it off. I stay on Atkins as going back to my old eating habits will put the weight back on me.

Regardless of what low carb plan you choose do yourself a favor and get the books. What I love about the Atkins vs South beach is I can have real foods vs low fat foods. Just my preference. But what is amazing is if you read Atkins, South Beach, Protein Power (haven't read the zone one) you will be shocked at how much removing carbs from your diet makes sense.

Read this:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F04E2D61F3EF934A35754C0A9649C8B63

Answer 9

Low carbs are tough to stick to and if you don't stick to it then what's the point.

You should check out the Glycemic Index--this will work without many of the hassles of other diets.

If you are really trying to lose weight and keep it off then get into a gym and lift weights. It is the number one way to lose weight for the long haul. Muscle burns fat. If you have never lifted then pop for a couple of bucks and get a couple of sessions with a trainer just to help you get started.

Answer 10

Our local hospital gives free nutrition classes. See if yours does. They had me get the book "The Doctors pocket Calorie Fat and Carbohydrate counter.. plus 170 fast food chains and resturants" This book is awesome. in the front of the book it gives you a scale of how many carbs you should be taking in a day. Even brakes it down to how many each meal with snacks during the day. ( I have lost 82 lbs) main thing to remember you can still eat every kind of food you want, just have to watch and only eat one of them a day. Kinda like this, if you want to eat pasta today, dont eat potatoes and watch your bread intake. Or if you want a piece of pie, dont eat bread pasta or potatoes that day. (and make sure its a small piece of pie...lol) I eat one meal a day of what a really want, the other meal is usually a salad of some kind and then I eat a good low carb breakfast. . Its really easy if you would like more tips let me know. I am helping to teach a class now.