| Not losing weight on a low carb diet is frustrating | | | | current weight and activity level. |
| for certain. You are restricting the number of | | | | 3. CHEAT! When you have made sure that tips |
| carbohydrate grams daily and passing on all of | | | | 1 and 2 above are working for you the best thing |
| your favorite foods and yet the scale is not | | | | you can do to jump start your losing is to |
| showing any progress. Here are the three things | | | | schedule a weekly "Cheat Day". This is not |
| you must do to make your low carb diet work | | | | some "sounds good but doesn't work" scheme, |
| including how cheating can help. | | | | cheating is actually shown in research and real life |
| 1. Count your actual carbohydrate grams. | | | | examples to work. |
| There are many hidden carbs in the foods you | | | | Here is why cheating will help... |
| eat and you might be thinking you are eating | | | | When you are dieting your body's metabolism |
| fewer carbs than you actually are. Every body | | | | slows, this is the last thing you want when your |
| is different but if you are consuming more than | | | | goal is to lose weight. But you can keep your |
| 50 grams per day your body may have found a | | | | metabolism humming right along while you diet by |
| settling point and adapted to your low carb | | | | scheduling 6 diet days followed by one cheat |
| routine. Drop this number to 30 grams a day for | | | | day. This one cheat day will have carbohydrates |
| a few days and see if the scale starts moving for | | | | allowed, in fact any of your favorite foods will be |
| you. Note 30 grams is not many carbs, count | | | | allowed: pizza, ice cream, bread... |
| every one. | | | | Now you will notice your cheat day will cause |
| 2. Are you eating too much or too little? When | | | | your body to retain water but this water weight |
| low carb diets first became popular they came | | | | is quickly lost and you benefit from a metabolism |
| with the promise that you could eat as much as | | | | that is efficiently burning fat for you all week |
| you want and still lose weight. But this promise | | | | long. Joel Marion is one of the leading hands-on |
| has quietly faded away. You cannot eat anything | | | | people showing how this cheat method works and |
| you want but you can fill yourself up. If you are | | | | he teaches a program called Cheat Your Way |
| not losing weight on your low carb diet then you | | | | Thin which shows exactly how to make this |
| will want to start by cutting your portion sizes by | | | | work. |
| one-fourth until your weight starts dropping. On | | | | So if you are not losing weight on low carb dieting |
| the flip side, you might be eating too few calories | | | | try these tips: count your actual carbohydrate |
| and shutting down your fat burning potential. | | | | grams, find your daily caloric needs and stick to |
| To know how many calories you should be eating, | | | | them and add a "Cheat Day" to your low carb |
| Google the words "Calorie Calculator". This will | | | | week. These tips should get your scale moving |
| give you a cool little tool that calculates your daily | | | | down. |
| caloric need according to your age, height and | | | | |