Weight Loss
Published on: Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:21:00.
Eating a low-carb diet doesn't necessarily result in weight loss. As long as the body gets enough fat and protein for the liver to use in producing ketones, our fat stores will remain untouched. However, you won't gain weight either because new fat stores can't form without insulin. Your body will just eliminate the extra ketones. Of course, since no one really eats for 24 hours a day, there's always time (at least during sleep) when the body can fall back on the "love handles". This works even better if you exercise or play sports. Without big stores of sugar in the liver, you can lose weight from the first second.
When my wife and I began our low-carb lifestyle, I had a BMI of 33 and my wife had a BMI of 18. We both enjoy playing sports and do endurance training two to three times a week, but we are also big eaters, although my wife is always careful about her weight (as you can probably tell from her BMI). A year later, my BMI is 27 and my wife's hasn't changed. I lost an average of 1-2 kg per month without paying any attention to calories.
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