Low carb diets?

I ahve lived on a no carb diet for a few years...(years ago)

It is easy..but if you are active, DON'T do IT! Also...it can cause fertility issues, bone issues, otherorgan problems ( heart,liver and kidney)

It's really only for sedentary people.

It works, but the minute you start eating carbs again, th weight will come right back.

I suggest finding a "diet" you can stick with forever, something reasonable!

Try sparkpeople.com; it's free!

DON'T DO IT!!! Low carb diets are horrible for the body. How they work is this: if you eat carbs than your body has no source of energy, so it starts breaking down fat instead. Now this sounds great and work very quickly but there are two major problem. The first problem is that you will gain that weight back very easily should you go off the diet. The second and far more worse problem is that when your body starts breaking down fat for energy it produces a poison called ketones. Ketones are horrible, and I know this because I went through ketone acidosis and had to be in the hospital for a week where I was diagnosed with diabetes. What happend to me was that I got a horrible pain in my chest. I had no energy what's so ever and I got dizzy easily. I had it for a couple weeks before the pain became so bad that I had to go to the hospital where they gave me morphine! So please stick to a healthy diet and eat around 60g of carbs a day. Just stop eating the high fat high carb food. Fruit however is good for you, carbs and all.

I'm currently doing low carb and personally it is working very well for me. I lost about 10 pounds in my first 2 weeks and im still losing now (I kinda cheated a week...but im just back into it) but if you stick to it, it will work.

Atkins is great and I would do it again if I need to lose more weight. I lost about 30 pounds in about 2 and 1/2 months. I used the Atkins bars and shakes a lot of the times when I would crave sugar. You can find them at stores like www.imedmart.com

im on a high calorie-high carb-high fat-high workout diet and it works wonders