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Too many people think low-carb equals no-carb. If you have a diet that is too high in carbs then yes you need to lower the amount of carbs you take in. This is NOT the same as reducing your carbs to levels lower than what you need for good health. These are not diets that are meant to become permanent lifestyles and they almost always do more harm than good.

There are far too many crash diets out there that promise to make you drop inches in mere days. Sure you can lose a lot of weight. Then you can gain it all back. The restrictions of these diets are just not sustainable over the long term. If you lower your carbs you will lose weight. Your body will use up all that stored fat and you will become thinner. If you continue to stay on this diet your body will start to consume muscle and other tissue. Your body will slow it's production of everything else it needs to be healthy just to maintain the basic functions of living. Eventually you become malnourished and health complication can set in. People have died using "low" carb diets.

There are also the people who use these diets to drop 10-50 pounds quickly. Once the weight is off they resume a "normal" diet and are at a total loss as to why they gain all the weight back. Fact: most dieters gain back slightly more than the amount they initially lost. Why? Because the "crash" diet put their body into a "feast or famine" metabolism. It decided the diet was starvation and is now trying to build itself up as quickly as possible in preparation for the next "famine". Not only did they not learn any new permanent - eating habits that they can maintain but their body is now working against them too. Congratulations, you've just re-set your metabolism to gain weight as quickly as possible.

The average person has a diet that is overly rich in carbs. Identifying where your carbs are coming from will let you bring them down to normal levels. From there you can make the changes to a healthy eating lifestyle that will let you drop down to a reasonable weight and still be healthy while doing it. You need to re-train your eating habits so that you can feel normal while making much better choices. You know, simple changes in easy steps; not some instant fix that only makes you bigger and some diet book author richer. Sure it'll take longer but aren't the best things worth waiting for? You're worth it!

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