Thu, Jul-12-12, 14:57
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Senior Member
Posts: 635
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Plan: Very Low Carb
Stats: 211/212/210
BF:
Progress: -100%
Location: Shreveport, LA
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It's true LC diets attract a very disproportionate number of adherents who are much more genetically prone to overweight, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia than average.
I mean think about it...almost ALL diet advice from doctors, dietitians, nutritionists, government, and large health bureaucracies tells us to eat a HIGH CARB diet that is LOW in fat. So that is almost inevitably what most people will do when they decide they need to lose some weight. And if you have robust glucose/fructose handling ability, you may very well do ok with that type diet. And so you will look no further. You will never go on an LC diet.
Heck, even I did sort of ok with that dietary paradigm when much younger, and had much better glucose handling ability than I do now that I'm past 40.
But who the heck does LC diets? Who does a diet that is almost EXACT OPPOSITE of what all the "experts" tell us to eat. Who dares to follow a diet that is not approved by Bob Greene or Dr. Oz?
I'll tell ya who.
Lots of really metabolically messed up people. In other words, the people for whom the high-carb/low-fat diet simply did not work well. And such folks are legion.
So yeah, LC attracts a lot of the "hardcore obese" and people with screwed up metabolisms who do NOT do well with "conventional" diet advice.
Whereas vegan diets tend to attract those for whom the "conventional" wisdom seems to work. Not to mention lots of already slim and health conscious folks who are vegan only for "moral" reasons. Folks who would be slim eating Twinkies every day.
As a personal trainer I have tried every diet under the sun with clients over the years. No diet works perfectly for every person in every circumstance, but I can honestly say that LC generates the best results BY FAR with my mostly middle-age clientele. Better than Body for Life, Volumetrics, Eat Clean Diet, etc. Better than all of them. And without HUNGER!
My clients used to always complain of hunger back when I was pushing low-fat "Bodybuilder" type diets on them. But it seems almost all of them are able to lose weight WITHOUT HUNGER on LC.
Last edited by coachjeff : Thu, Jul-12-12 at 16:06.
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