The Truth About Low Carb Diets For Weight Loss
Are you looking for a low carb diet, what carbs are good and which ones are bad? Carbs are devised of of small sugar molecules, and when the bloodstream absorbs the carbohydrates it raises blood sugar levels, giving the body fuel for more energy. The blood sugar enters the body’s cells with the help of insulin so that the body can use the blood sugar (glucose) for energy and will be “burned off” so that for most women, blood sugar levels return to normal levels rather quickly after eating a meal. For women who have Type II diabetes, due to being over weight, the body must work twice as hard to produce more insulin to cover the blood sugar that is produced following a meal. This is many diets stress the importance of reducing the amount of carbs in your diet, and promote the use of the glycemic index to help choose good and bad carbohydrates. But do you really need to eat less carbs to lose weight?
For most women I would say no. A proper diet for weight loss is based upon eating a variety of healthy foods, and in fact most cultures have diets based upon carbohydrate sources. Examples of this are rice in India and Asia, tortillas and beans in Central America, bread and potatoes in the U.S. and Europe, and root vegetables in Africa. China, with one of the lowest incidences of obesity, has a diet based upon rice, a carbohydrate.
The recommended diet for women with Type II diabetes includes about 50% carbohydrates. Your recommending eating plan, for weight loss, weight maintenance, and weight gain is at least 50% carbohydrate.
Do not be concerned that you might be eating too much carbohydrate on your diet plan. The reality of a weight loss diet is that, for the most part, it is lower in everything, compared to a diet that maintains your body weight! Although you may be following a diet that is 50% carbohydrate (sounds like a lot), 50% of the calories on a 1400 Calorie diet (or your particular calorie level) is probably a smaller amount of carbohydrate than the total amount of carbohydrate you were eating when you were gaining or maintaining your body weight at a higher calorie level.
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