Don't Call It A Low-carb Diet; It's Really About High-protien!

Diet it's really about high-protien! Updated on March 23, 2017 Mrs. Obvious moreContact Author Pictures to prove that this worked for me! Don't feel like reading one more word about losing weight and being disappointed? Okay, how about this? I just lost 72 lbs. 10 months. No, I didn't do Weight Watchers, or Jenny Craig, or South Beach, or some insane juice diet.

I hate diets, they always fail me. I finally paid (a lot of money) to an obesity doctor to learn how to eat. Learn how to eat? Does that sound silly? Not really. If I knew how to eat, I wouldn't have gained all that weight. We live in America. The food pyramid is supposed to tell you what to eat and how much. Right. So, 6-11 servings of whole grain a day may be good for your intestines, but not for your waistline.

Actually they recently changed the pyramid to something that is so confusing and makes very little sense that it would take hours to read through, and develop a "plan" for yourself. So, Mrs. Obvious, how do you eat? What they didn't tell you in high school, or at your regular doctor's office is very simple. 1.Your body needs only a certain amount of certain things, and 2. It needs them many times a day! If you upset that balance, and don't use exercise to fix it, you are slowly going to slide over to the fat side of the scales.

Ideally, we should be eating 1g of protein for every 1g of carbs(or straight sugars). This is nearly impossible, even if you try real hard with a big bowl of whey protein on top. So the easier version is to attempt to eat a ratio of 1g of protein for every 2g of carbs (1:2). Some people will recognize this as a glycemic index diet! It is true. Our diabetic diets of today are what everyone should be eating to stay fit and trim, and not diabetic thanks to obesity.

Now what about fat? The doctor's personal recommendation for me was to eat only 25-30g of fat a day to achieve weight loss. When I first began using a food log to see what I was actually eating, I discovered that I was consuming 50-60g of fat a day, without knowing it!

Holy margarine, no wonder I was getting fatter and fatter. I am sure that everyone's fat intake is going to be different, as is the number of actual calories your body needs in order to lose or maintain your weight. Sometimes just consciously becoming aware of what you are putting in your body, combined with discovering what it is that your body needs is all the motivation it takes to make a change.

Did you hear me say food log? Try it for a couple weeks, you will be amazed at what you are really eating. Not how much you eat necessarily, but what is in the food. Track your calories, but more importantly, track the fat, protein and carbs you eat. 1. How many calories do you want to consume in a day? Yes, stop and write it down right now.

2. How many grams of fat should you limit yourself to? Write it down, and calculate the number of calories that equals. 3. Calculate the remaining calories left to be used up by protein and carbs at a 1:2 ratio. For instance, let's say you want to eat 1,500 calories a day.

1,230 left for protein and carbs. 410. A 1:2 ratio would mean you need to eat 410 calories (102.5 grams) of protein. This leaves 820 calories (205 grams) of carbs a day. So, simply put, on a 1500 calorie diet, you should be eating 30 grams of fat, 102.5 grams of protein, and 205 grams of carbs a day, which gives you the total of 1,500 calories.

Of course, the more protein you eat and the less carbs, the better, but have you ever tried to eat 100 or more grams of protein a day? I guarantee in is quite an effort. Plus it's expensive. You must supplement with protein powders, protein bars, and whatever else you can find that has protein in mass quantities.

My new favorite is 2% cottage cheese. The problem is that in our great American food system, fat and carbs are cheap and easy to con volute into every imaginable wonderful tasting, albeit fattening delicacy. Protein is not cheap, and not quite as scintillating to the palette. The big deal here is learning that your body needs protein.

Every body needs protein, not just bodybuilders, and athletes. We all have muscle, whether you use it or not, and your body needs it to make most of the things in your body. We are so sick as a society because we don't get enough protein. Have you heard the word protein enough yet? Protein, protein, protein. And more protein. This is the true secret of losing weight, my friends.