Here’s one you may have tried, the Low/No Carb diet. I have both fond and fickle memories of this diet which came with a one-two punch of extreme elation when it worked and worked quickly and then that plunged dive into the bottom of the ice cream box when it began to fail.Here is a secret of the weight loss world, some diets work but they don’t work well.

So the deal with the diet made popular many years ago and then brought back into style recently, is that you stay away from the foods that contain complex carbohydrates. The logic states that these kinds of carbs turn to sugar which stores as fat in your body. When you stay away from them, you experience fast weight loss, I can attest to the truth in this statement.

My personal experience with this diet was that it worked short term. I had a particular event, a holiday that I had been looking forward to for some time. At the time, I had a wardrobe full of clothes that didn’t fit and was not feeling too enthusiastic about the idea of getting an entirely new wardrobe a few sizes bigger, so I bit the bullet.

I used the Aktin’s diet book. It had a write up of how and why the diet worked. Frankly, I didn’t find it interesting enough to read through it. After thumbing through a few pages, I wound up going straight to the diet section.

It was very good in that it had great suggestions to get you through a six week period. The first two weeks were difficult, they consisted  of completely eliminating all carbs. That is, two weeks of no carbs at all. My head hurt, my stomach hurt, I lost ten pounds, make of that what you will.

The second phase was a little more reasonable and allowed some carbs. The third phase I would actually have described as healthy. It consisted of, among other things, substituting any white flour for whole wheat and was theoretically a good healthy lifestyle by which a person could reasonably live. Obviously, the weight loss completely slows down by the time you reach this phase.

I have unpleasant memories of this diet. It did work, but I couldn’t keep it up. Even the third phase was like a regular dose of cardboard. The book suggested that you return to phase one whenever you need a boost.

I tried this once, after returning from a vacation, and couldn’t get through the first three days.

In his book, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, Tom Venuto touches on the subject of carbohydrates, in fact he dedicates a whole chapter to it. His informed write-up does a great deal to clear up confusion created by people who had a lot to gain from the low/no carb craze.

He begins by explaining some severe symptoms and problems that can come from cutting carbs out of your diet completely. He then goes on to explain what carbs actually are and what they should be doing for your body. And then come the instructions, clear precise and with good explanations of what carbs you should be eating and why.

It was refreshing to get this kind of honest information from someone who had very little to gain because he wasn’t selling the foods that go along with diet right after explaining why you simply have to try it.

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