Don't Waste Time With Low Carb Diets

Every week there appears a new low carbohydrate diet claiming to be the diet that will transform your dieting woes.

The diets claim that you can lose weight quickly with no effort. They are supposedly the diet that can work miracles. What's not to love? Are we gonna rush out and buy that book?

They DO NOT work long term. There are numerous studies that back this up - that's why! Yes, just like with any diet, you will lose weight in the short term, but with a lowcarb high protein diet you will risk damaging your health and then the pounds will pile right back on as soon as you go back to eating normally.

Here are some of the unpleasant side effects many suffer from on these diet programs

1.High protein diets force people to enter a state of ketosis (burning ketones) which means they are excreting acetone in their urine and breath. This causes very bad breath.

2.Dizziness because your energy source is nonexistent.

3. Ketosis can cause nausea.

4. Many dieters report severe headaches caused by ketosis.

5. High risk of kidney stones because of an increased "acid load" in the kidneys caused by ketosis.

6. Constant cravings for sweets.

7. Exhaustion, because you are not consuming enough carbohydrates, which your body uses for energy. Which means that you won't have enough stamina to exercise, which means you are not building muscle or aerobic capacity.

8. Dieters also report gaining all of their weight back! At a presentation of the Endocrine Society's national meeting, a study revealed that after two years, only five percent of dieters kept all of their weight off. But don't despair! You don't need to be on one of these diets, there are alternatives, and they are healthier and more efficient for long term weight loss.

These are a few of the more imperative reasons to stay away from a low carb diet if your goal is to lose weight. Contrary to popular belief usually people need to eat more often and the right foods to lose weight. You might want to re-evaluate your weight loss method if you find yourself eating less and less but gaining more and more weight.