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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2400506" data-attributes="member: 11697">If anything a traditional 1st world diet has more fat and protein than say the average 3rd world diet.Largely the 'science' behind low-carb diets is absolute BS. They may work, they may work well for some people, but they won't work for the reasons they might claim. Ultimately it's just having a net calorie deficit in your diet so you lose weight.FWIW I'm a type 1 diabetic, thus prone to more weight gain, and I lost around 55 lbs in about 6 months, and have kept it off completely for around 7 years now. Moderate mix of pasta, low fat meats, and tons of vegetables. What you eat doesn't necessarily matter so long as you don't jack your cholesterol through the roof by only eating meat etc, and so long as you're not suffering from any vitamin deficiency or amino acid deficiency, it's just the calories that you're eating and that's the bottom line for any diet.So, your body starts using hunger as its blood-sugar monitoring system. Whenever your blood sugar goes too low, you get the urge to snack.This is inefficient -- it takes a little while for freshly eaten food to turn into blood sugar, and there's a good chance you will over-snack beyond what your body originally was "asking" for -- and any excess gets turned into fat you will never digest.Atkins, and other low-carb diets, make you ravenously hungry for 2-3 days (up to a week I think) because your body stubbornly clings to the "hunger" method for blood-sugar regulation before giving up and making lipolyzing enzymes. Once lipolysis (digestion of fat) starts, your body has a ready supply on hand -- your own big fat butt! -- and it digs in with gusto. Hunger goes way down, because there's a steady supply of blood-sugar coming in, and you are better able to eat what you actually need.There are probably lots of other ways to thin down, but if your body is no longer even looking at fat as a source of energy, low-carb can help jump-start that process. Doctors have urine tests that can tell you if you are producing lipid-digestion enzymes.I'm sure it's possible to lose weight while staying hungry, but IMHO being hungry sucks, and I would not be a happy camper if I had to feel hungry all the time. -- N</blockquote>[/QUOTE]

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