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Low Carb Diets Cause More
Than Water Weight Loss Many critics
in have attacked low carb diets for only providing an initial loss in
water weight, rather than actually affecting sustained fat loss. Some
critics have even suggested that dieters lose don’t lose any fat at all. This attack
on low carb diets is based on a critique of the first phase of most low
carb diets-- such as the induction phase of Dr. Atkins’s’ diet--in
which the dieter consumes no carbs over a one to two week period. Critics claim
that this stage is deceptive because it leads low carb dieters to believe
that they are losing fat weight, when in fact, they are shedding the
majority of their weight in the form of water. When dieters
stop consuming sugar, they immediately begin burning carbohydrate reserves
for energy. Reserves are stored in the form of glycogen, which covers the
liver and muscles. Each gram of glycogen binds four grams of water, which
means that each gram of glycogen converted into energy takes with it four
grams of water. The result is
pretty straightforward. If you convert 300 grams of stored carbs into
energy, you will lose an additional 1200 grams of water, too. This means
four-fifths of the weight you lose during the first phase of a low carb
diet is water weight. However,
while this critique does apply to the "no carb" phase of
"low carb" diets, it falls in two places: The first
place is mistakenly thinking that people don’t want to lose massive
amounts of carbohydrate stores in addition to the fat stores they
currently have. The second is
a complete failure to critique or even examine the following stages in low
carb diets. Many dieters
have lost close to one hundred pounds in excess of of the initial
carbohydrate reserves-- all of which was the direct result of following a
low carb diet plan. Low carb
dieters continue to lose weight after the "no carb" phase
because they maintain a net loss of carbohydrates, which forces their
bodies to burn fat for energy.
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