Monday, December 12, 2011

Another Look At The Low Carb Diet Today

By William Parker


Obesity is fast becoming a people killer. It brings along with it a horrendous number of physical complications and conditions, totally bad for a person. To feel better and, by the way, look better, maybe it's time to pull out the big guns and step up to the low carb diet plan.

Making a food plan for three meals a day and two or three snacks will be the beginning. For a snack, consider one cookie with a glass of milk, or apple slices with peanut butter. Try grilled chicken with a half cup of steamed rice, or baked fish with steamed vegetables for the dinner meal.

The key to this particular way of eating to lose pounds is to eat this combination of foods every two hours. This will maintain your metabolism at a steady level so it will function adequately, melting off pounds.

Eating on this plan is not much different than others, except that one consumes their portions of food in a two hour period. Meals can be from 7 to 15 grams of protein to 15 to 30 grams of carbohydrates, and the lesser of the two for snacks. These will be broken up into two hour periods with not more than the max in any of those two hours.

The bottom line is when you eat a carb, eat a protein, in the proper ratio. If you consume protein, you may choose to eat that alone or combine with a carbohydrate. Carbs may not be eaten alone nor more than 30 grams in any two-hour period.

With any good diet, and even when not dieting, at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water are necessary for full and adequate body function. The body contains an average of over 60% water, so whether using the low carb diet or not, sipping all that water is still necessary. This is especially true when you need to flush kidneys of wastes produced by dieting.




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