Low Carb vs. Low Fat - Which Way To Go

Mainstream society, most doctors, nutritionists, health care workers, the food industry, heck even your own government, will tell you.. If you want to lose weight, you have to follow a sensible diet that is low in calories and low in fat, right? Anyone that says otherwise is a hack and a fraud espousing some latest version of a fad diet, in order to make themselves rich, right?

Sigh..........

I guess that's just human nature.. Take a position, and then fight to the death defending it, defeat an opposing position by not only finding any possible flaw you can with that position, but denigrate and decry the credibility of the protagonist of the opposing positon. I'm sure I will take a lot of flak for even daring to espouse my own opinion on the matter. After all, I'm just a lay person, not a qualified doctor or nutritionist... Still, if I can do this, make it work, and be healthy after I have done it, then maybe my experience should count for something.

At the end of the day, you can lose weight wether you follow a low carb diet or a low fat diet, the common feature among both is that you must consume less calories than you expend.

Losing weight is hard, isn't it? You know that already because like me, you've tried many times. But why is losing weight so hard? I guess there are many reasons... But there is one universal physiological reponse to 'dieting' that stands out first and foremost as to why diets fail.... Hunger! Who in the world wants to be hungry, who in the world enjoys being hungry! Most people can stand being hungry for a day or two, or if you have an extra strong will power, maybe a week or two. But very few people have the iron clad will it takes to go hungry for weeks on end while you try to diet and lose weight. Sure, you can swallow doctor prescribed appetite suppressant drugs that will help. I've tried them. blechh! The side effects of those things suck!

There are many reasons why I want to follow a low carb approach to losing weight, but one of the things I love about losing weight the low carb way, is that if done right, your body will itself naturally suppress your appetite, no drugs and their side effects needed. The low carb approach is quite simply, easier to follow than the low fat approach, while being no less sensible or nutritional, if done right.

From all of my reading, and research, and from my own experience, I've seen that it is possible to follow a healthy, sensible, low calorie, low carbohydrate diet. I'm going to present to you over the coming weeks and months, summaries of all that research and reading I've done.

Even better than that, I'm going to describe my own experiences as I try once again to lose the weight I've been burdened with my whole life. I'm going to chart the progress not only of my weight loss, but my other important weight related stats such as my blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

Wish me luck!

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