Any weight loss or diet plan, including low-carb
plans like the induction phase of the Atkins Diet will result in water
loss during the first week or two. However, one of the real beauties of
following a low carbohydrate eating plan is that most of the weight
loss than extends beyond the initial induction phase of the diet is
really from a drop in fat pounds.
How can this be? Well, when you follow a
controlled carbohydrate eating plan like Atkins or the South Beach
Diet, your body soon switches from burning carbohydrates (which the
diet deprives the body of) to burning fat for energy. In other words,
the majority of the weight loss that occurs beyond the initial
induction phase is really loss of fat that has been stored in your body.
Contrary to what many skeptics and misinformed
persons may report or say, even if your body sheds water during the
first few days of a controlled carbohydrate diet plan like the South
Beach Diet or Atkins, the body’s water balance soon returns to normal
and the weight loss that follows is the depletion of fat pounds. This
loss of fat reveals itself to one and all in the form declines in
inches (your body measurements) and pounds – regardless which low-carb
diet you follow.
Craig Whitley is the Senior Editor of “Diets and
Weight Loss Plans” – a daily blog for dieters. Visit his website daily
to read the latest news and articles on diets, dieting, weight loss and
obesity. The URL address for Diets and Weight Loss Plans is http://weightloss.blogdiets.com/blog
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