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Old September 11th, 2014, 01:00 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb
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Default Low-Carb Beats Low-Fat for Weight Loss, Study Says

On Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:08:57 AM UTC-4, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Lewis :



Marko Rauhamaa was all, like:


Still, the equation holds. If you expend more energy than you take in,


you will lose weight.




It is simply not that simple. If you deprive your body of sufficient


nutrition, your body slows down its metabolism and goes into


'starvation' mode.




And? What's wrong with the 'starvation mode'? What bodily functions are

left undone?



What's wrong with starvation mode is that it's virtually impossible for
people to keep up with for even weeks, let alone a lifetime. Hunger is
a powerful, built-in survival mechanism designed to make you eat and
people don't live in cages. When you're counting calories and hungry,
it's almost impossible not to wind up going off the diet. It's like
trying not to drink when your body is screaming for water.






If you continue doing this, you will lose weight, but unless you


continue to starve yourself the weight will return (and very quickly)


and will probably exceed your starting weight.




The solution is to diet (in order to maintain your weight) till the day

you die.



Easy to do on LC. Almost impossible to do on low cal, for most people.





Your body *wants* to get fat again, badly. The moment you stop dieting

and start trusting the instincts, you start getting fat because

overeating will only make you feel good.



Marko


You should try LC and you'll see the remarkable difference. There is no
feeling hungry, no starvation. That is the beauty of it. And that's the
main reason why the people in that study that did LC lost 3 times as much
weight as those on low fat. And they were not even on what I would call
a real LC diet. By the end of a year, they were consuming 130g of carbs
a day. I'd call it reduced carb, but it still worked far better than
low cal.