| I have read about many theories on weight loss, | | | | and 2000 used, but that is beside the point. The |
| exercise and diet, and understand the theories of the | | | | message is that Atkins will not work if you eat more |
| Atkin's Diet, grapefruit diets and calorie controlled diets. I | | | | calories than you use. The theory is that a low |
| have read about them all. But which of them actually | | | | carbohydrate diet increases your metabolic rate. So |
| work? That is the 64,000 dollar question with a very | | | | equal calories taken by Atkins and a high carb diet, |
| simple answer. | | | | means that Atkins loses more weight due to a higher |
| All or none! You can eat chocolate cake if you work it | | | | metabolism. Atkins fails when too much fat is eaten |
| off next day! Whatever diet you use, there is one very | | | | and not enough exercise is taken because the subject |
| simple equation that is ruled by science; by the | | | | relies on the diet and fails to exercise. That is a recipe |
| biochemistry of our bodies. If energy in is greater than | | | | for disaster with any diet, Atkins or not. |
| energy out, you have an excess of energy. If energy | | | | It is unbelievable how many people, some claiming to |
| in is less than energy out, you have a deficit of energy. | | | | be expert dieticians, refuse to accept the concept of |
| In common parlance, you can equate energy in with | | | | calories. Calories are fact, not a concept, and are |
| calories eaten and energy out with calories used up. | | | | popularly used as a measure of energy intake. It |
| An excess of energy is stored either as fat or as | | | | doesn't really matter whether you use calories or any |
| glycogen in the liver, and a deficit of energy equates | | | | other units, anybody that does not accept their |
| with weight loss. | | | | relevance in diet are nuts. |
| This equation is a law of physics, as Scottie of Star | | | | To repeat, and to put it in a nutshell, energy absorbed |
| Trek would say, or a law of biochemistry. It cannot be | | | | must be less than energy expended if you are to lose |
| broken, no matter what diet you are on. Some foods | | | | weight. The best way to lose energy is exercise. The |
| can increase the metabolic rate, which is the energy | | | | more exercise you do, the more weight you lose, as |
| used by the body when at rest, such as for breathing, | | | | long as you eat less energy that you are using. Where |
| blood circulation, thinking and the 1001 other things that | | | | you lose the weight depends on what parts of the |
| the body does, even while you are asleep. If you wake | | | | body are being exercised. If you have fat thighs, you |
| up in the night feeling very hot and sweating, that is | | | | won't lose thigh fat if you exercise your arms. You will |
| your body burning excess calories. A high metabolic | | | | end up with skinny arms and thunder thighs. |
| rate is why some people seem to be able to eat | | | | If you carry out a structured exercise campaign |
| everything without putting on a pound. | | | | designed to trim your whole body that is combined |
| Most fat is stored under the skin, and that is the fat is | | | | with a good diet regime, then weight loss, exercise and |
| normally lost first when you exercise. However, other | | | | diet will work for you as science dictates that it must. |
| fat can be stored round the abdomen and major | | | | Science is fact, not opinion. |
| organs such as the heart and liver. That fat is the | | | | Exercise and diet can work together. Learn how to |
| most dangerous. It is difficult to shift, and can place | | | | combine them in a productive way and you will lose |
| great strain on the major organs. That is why | | | | weight a lot easier than you could have believed. No |
| abdominal fat is considered to medically undesirable, | | | | more diet fads. You can eat anything you want, in any |
| and is considered to have a greater effect on your | | | | amount you want, as long as you exercise to work |
| health than fat elsewhere in your body. | | | | off what you eat. A tub of ice cream is fine if you are |
| The only way to lose weight is not to try a fad diet, | | | | prepared to do an hour on the treadmill next day. So |
| but to take in fewer calories than you use up. It is | | | | don't think that losing weight means the end of the |
| simple math. 1000 calories in, 1001 calories used, then | | | | chocolate cake - it needn't. It is all a matter of balance. |
| you lose weight. Simple. Better to have 1000 calories in | | | | |