Drop Pounds with a Low Fat and Low Carbohydrate Diet

If you want to overcome obesity, following a low fat and low carbohydrate diet may be the solution for you.

There are two reasons that a low fat and low carbohydrate diet can work for you:

• One is the fat angle and
• One is the carbohydrate angle.

A gram of fat contains nine calories, while a gram of protein or a gram of carbohydrate contains only four calories.

Since you gain weight by consuming, or eating, more calories that you burn, it makes sense to choose foods that don’t have so many calories per gram.

At nine calories per gram, you don’t have to eat very many fats before the calories really add up and the pounds come on.

The second reason a low fat and low carbohydrate diet works is the carbohydrate angle.

Even though a gram of carbohydrate only has four calories there is an energy equation at work.

Carbohydrates, found in:

• Fruits
• Breads
• Cereals
• Pastas and
• Sugar, for example, are your body’s energy source.

If your body doesn’t get enough carbohydrates it will begin to use the fat is has stored for energy.

As it uses this fat you will lose weight.

It makes sense that if you are going to choose a diet plan, you choose one like the low fat and low carbohydrate diet since it will help you in several ways.

As with any diet, you will have a much higher level of success and control if you cook your food at home yourself.

Fast food nearly always is high in fat and calories, and it can be difficult to tell the nutritional content of food consumed in restaurants.

By cooking at home you control what goes into your meal.

To get you started on this low fat and low carbohydrate diet, we have included a recipe for a tuna melt that will help melt the pounds away.

Good luck on your battle to overcome obesity, you are on the right track!

Ingredients:

1 can tuna, drained
2 Tbsp. fat-free mayonnaise
2 slices fat free cheese, provolone or cheddar

Mix together the tuna and mayonnaise in a small oven-proof bowl.

Top with cheese and broil on high for five minutes.

Use bread from the Atkins product line if desired.

Use these tips to lose even more weight.

• Incorporate a proven, complete nutritional program into your daily life.
• Enhance your nutritional program with a complete mutivitamin supplement because no nutritional program is perfect.
• Use a behavior modification and motivational program that will help you stay on track with your nutritional plan.
• Exercise at home with your own:
  Treadmill

  Stairstepper

  Exercise bike

  Elliptical trainer

  Hand weights or

  An aerobic video.

• See what kinds of weight loss aids your health insurance covers such as:
  Hypnotism

  Gym membership discounts

  Nutritional counseling.

• Track how much you exercise on a calendar so you can feel motivated by your progress.
• Discover a new fruit.
• Try a new vegetable.
• Use low-fat salad dressings.
• Limit your desserts to special occasions.
• Watch your portion sizes.
• Eat well-balanced meals.

Using a low fat and low carbohydrate diet will help you jump start your weight loss.

Just make sure that whatever plan you choose to lose weight with is a plan that you can stick with over the long term.

That is how success in weight loss is achieved.

So, go ahead. Use the tips above to start losing weight right now.

It’s the right thing to do for you and your health.

Good luck with all of your weight loss efforts.