Success Story: Low Carb Dieting for Effective Weight Loss
Five years ago last April, I marched my then 15 year old daughter into my gynecologist’s office. My incredibly active daughter, who was a three sport athlete (soccer, softball and basketball) was incredibly physically active yet was still 75 lbs over weight. However, her weight was not what brought us to the gynecologist but rather the fact that she still hadn’t started menstruating despite the fact that her 16th birthday was only four months away.
My OB/GYN was wonderful and placed my daughter on a low carb diet to see if perhaps that wasn’t the key to solving not only her lack of periods but also the excess pounds which plagued her. By her 16th birthday, my beautiful daughter had lost 50 pounds and had started her cycle. From my perspective, it was nothing short of a miracle cure.
I had struggled right along with her for many years over her weight. We tried EVERYTHING and nothing worked. What was most frustrating was the fact that my daughter was VERY physically active. Being 75 pounds overweight, meant she wasn’t the FASTEST on any team, but what she lacked in speed she made up for in heart. Still, it was HEARTBREAKING to watch her struggle. The unfairness of it all was almost more than I could bear.
Then, we started Atkins and if anything, my daughter began eating MORE than she had before yet she began dropping weight rapidly. By the end of the softball season, she was not only thinner, she was also the fastest one on the team! When she showed up for soccer practice that fall, her coach truly didn’t recognize her. By Christmas of that year, my daugther had lost all of the 75 lbs that had plagued her since the 6th grade.
So when stumbled across the blog Carb Wire, and read:
But believe it or not there are actually people who are scorning me and others for choosing the Kimkins low-carb approach to lose our weight.
I could TOTALLY relate. After all, I’ve caught NOTHING but grief from medical professionals and dieticians when I share the secret to my daugther’s outstanding success. It’s to the point where it’s almost kept as our family’s "dirty little secret".
Low carb dieting has worked INCREDIBLY well for my daughter but it’s not news we share readily. The flame suit is on. Let the flaming begin!
October 16th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
A low carb diet does work to promote lasting weight loss.
However, when low carbs are used correctly the word ‘diet’ does not mean ‘temporary reducing diet.’ Temporary reducing diets do not promote permanent weight loss.
A change of eating habits does promote permanent weight loss!
Some people force themselves to go on starvation diets and do achieve temporary weight reductions. However, when they go off their diet they typically regain the weight and often more fat than they lost.
Your diet is simply your total consumption of nutrients. To lose body fat in a healthful way and to remain trim, it’s important to improve your diet permanently.
A low carb diet can be that diet. Instead of “burning” carbs, you will “burn” fat.
You will shift from a carb-burning to a fat-burning metabolism. The basic idea is to consume a wide variety of fresh, natural, low carbohydrate foods and to avoid consuming processed (refined) carbohydrates.
However, the first task is to find good low carbohydrate foods that work best for you as a unique individual. Lists of good and bad carbs are only initial guidelines.
If you want to learn how to work out the best low carb foods for you, this free website http://www.lasting-weight-loss.com is a good place to start.
July 20th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
This just go to show that, we can gain a lot of knowledge by just paying attention to the foods we eat, and the way we eat the foods, by choosing the right diet “low carb” can be essential to our body makeup, do it right and you will always look good.