Low Carb High Protein Diet?
Would a low carb High protein Diet be good for Losing Body Fat and Gaining muscle at the same time? I know The Atkins Diet works for losing weight and is relaitvely safe if you dont over do Red Meat and cheese all the time. Also of course a high protein diet is great for your muscles, am I correct in assuming the two would go hand in hand? thanks.
The Atkins diet was originally made for morbidly obese people that needed to lose a large amount of weight in short time, or else die.
For most of us, we can benefit from the Atkins Diet’s main idea that we eat too many useless carbohydrates. We don’t, however, need to go to the extremes that the Atkins Diet requires.
A high protein intake is not necessarily a good thing. Any excess protein is converted to fat. Yes, you will probably need to eat more protein if you want to add muscle, but you shouldn’t be eating more than one gram per pound of body weight per day. The recommended amount for a person of average physical activity is less than that.
Most people who comment on the Atkins diet do not know what they are talking about because since they havent actually done the diet, they do not do the research.
You will not lose your energy from not eating carbs. Your body will burn fat for fuel and you will still have energy.
You will not lose muscle when you do low carb, until your fat is gone. Your body will burn the fat first.
Protien will help build muscle.
You are not only losing water weight when you do low carb. If that were true, people would be losing 30-50 lbs of water weight in a few months. Probably not really possible.
You will not regain the weight when you are done if you gradually add carbs back into your diet slowly and dont eat a bunch of junk food.
You are not cutting out carbs completely. You are lowering your carbs. If you are doing atkins, you are counting net carbs which means you can really eat all the fiber you want.
People want to say that you shouldnt do low carb but for some people that is the only thing that works. And you can do it the healthy way, by eating veggies ( which have the fiber you need ) and good fats like nuts and avocados. In reality, what you are doing is not eating crap. They all say “you need carbs” but what most of them are considering carbs are high glycemic carbs like white pasta and white potatoes which turn into sugar in your blood. What these people dont understand is that for some people, counting calories doesnt work, and eating lean meats and good fats and whole grains doesnt work, and weight watchers and south beach dont work. You can do low carb and lose weight and build muscle and work out without losing energy and be healthy as long as you dont do it for a long time, and as long as you dont just start eating an abundance of carbs in one day you will be able to keep the weight off
Atkins diet is worthless and unhealthy. Your body needs carbs to build muscle, as well as protein. It needs fats too. The key to a healthy diet is quality food, not limiting certain forms of energy (carbs, protein, fat). Whole grain carbs are very healthy for you, and you won’t eat as much because they have fiber unlike processed carbs. Stop eating processed carbs if you’re going to make any changes like that.
the reason the Adkins diet loses weight
the protein turns into ammonia in your body and the water leaves
when you go off it – your weight comes back
nope -try Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle
Tom Venuto’s approach
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