Healthy and Sensible Low Carb Diets

By Wilson Resturbee


When trying to lose weight, many people advocate using a diet that doesn't have any carbohydrates. There are dozens of diets, including South Beach, Atkins, and others, that believe the reason you cannot lose weight is because of eating carbohydrates. This might be true, but, probably not. As long as you keep eating the bad carbohydrates, you won't lose weight, but the good ones are needed by your body. The trick is to keep away from those that are bad and to eat a moderate amount of those that are good. When you need help coming up with the right diet plan, seek out a good nutritionist to do it for you. For the time being, these few tips on dieting will at least get you on the right course.

For recipes calling for wheat flour, try substituting coconut flour. Regular refined white flour is rich in bad carbohydrates and gluten and is very hard for your digestive system to process. You can replace white flour with coconut flour, which is low in carbs and healthier in every respect. Coconuts are a nutritionally dense food that have many uses. You can drink coconut milk rather than ordinary milk. So try switching to coconut flour and start experimenting with all the foods you can prepare with it.

You are getting some carbs when you eat vegetables, but not that many, and they are "good carbs." Green vegetables, carrots and cauliflower are just a few of the nutritious foods you can choose from that are low carb and can also taste great when prepared the right way.

These are automatically lower in carbs and are better for your digestive system too. You can even find spinach and other vegetable based pastas. This will help you stay healthy, keep your carbs low and still allow you to indulge in one of your favorite foods.

Watch out for tortillas! Foods made from tortillas can be quite delicious. Tortillas, however, are a starchy food that's usually made from processed flour, unless you go out of your way to buy a healthier variety. You'd be better off skipping the tortilla and eating whatever you'd normally put in it on its own. This is an easy and rather painless way to cut back on carbs, as most of what you like about these foods is probably the filling. If you do ever cheat on this diet, you may want to do so with quesadillas, as this is a tortilla based dish that really requires the tortilla.

They'll be able to help you figure out what kind of low carb diet is best for you, based on your own state of health, age, lifestyle and so forth.




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