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From stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline, to ketosis, dehydration, sodium, and citric acid; here are 5 ways diet soda could be stalling your diet or even causing you to gain weight.
You are working hard to drop your weight. You are following your diet, exercising, and yet the scale is not showing any new losses. Family, friends, even your own doctor might blame you and ask if you have been cheating. Or, tell you to just be patient when it is not about patience as much as it is the fear of and doubt that you ever meet your goal. Here are tips to help troubleshoot your low carb diet habits and get back to losing weight.
If you are eating a lot of artificial or prepared low carb foods and snacks, you may be eating more carbohydrates than you think. Here is the skinny on net carbs, what they are, and why you need to count more than just the net carbs if you want to get the best results from your low carb diet.
Following a low carb diet can lead some dieters into calorie restriction, especially over time. This may sound contrary to the popular misconception that you can eat all the fat and protein you want and not gain weight and that people on low carbohydrate diets eat enormous amounts of calories.
Dr. Atkins explains very simply why you may need to increase your fat intake if you are not losing weight on his plan: “it takes fat to burn fat.” Here are heart healthy fats to increase to help you decrease.
Low carb diet stalled? Drink more water. Really.
When your low carb diet is failing you, the first place to look (we assume you know when you are cheating on carbs) is at your water intake. The number one “non-cheating” reason people stall on low carb diets is because they are not drinking enough water. (Number two is not eating enough fat.)
Definition of Whoosh: The word “woosh” is a popular term among low carb lifestylers used to describe any sudden drop in weight. An interesting thing about the woosh phenomenon and low carb dieting is that dieters may still go down in size (lose inches) without seeing a change in the scale numbers at the same time. This is …
