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Low-carb dieting invokes a little-used energy pathway that necessitates the breakdown and use of body fat.

Of course, registered dieticians (aka morons) who were indoctrinated and funded by the sugar pushers of the world (such as Kellogg's) will laugh hysterically at savvy low-carbers while their own clients spread to the size of great whales. This confuses them.

Emperical and scientific evidence overwhelmingly confirm what the medical community will not tell you:

They were wrong. Dead wrong.

Atkins works. Flawlessly.

Enjoy your low-carb burgers without the buns. Eat amply, and often. And lose fat.

Sorry, tried the Low Carb thing, and for me it didn't do squat.

I've seen the science, but as Atkins and the Beach Body guys both admit, largely the key to the diet dispite all the "ketosis" marketing is that at the end of the day it reduces caloric intake.

What do the low cars require? Well lets see, they ban sugars ( a huge number of empty calories that most american's ead daily when they are not dieting, and it bans most white flour based products... another nutritionally void foodstuff with high calories)

It is despite the hype, in reality nothing more than a caloric restriction diet.. by banning empty calories, and focusing the eater or higher protien you not only cut empty calories out of the diet, but make them eat more filling foods (protiens are far far more filling per calorie consumed than nearly everything else out there) So you reduce cravings by having a more full and longer full sensation, and then ban empty calorie foods.

So, if the diet works for you, that is fine and dandy, but I guarantee you, if you count the calories you intook before you started and what you take on the diet, you will find a significant difference. If the "no carb" hook is what is needed to keep caloric intake restricted, that is fine... but at the end of the day these diets are no different at their core than any other, the restrict the caloric intake of the person on them.

The rest, while it makes the dieter feel good seeing that ketosis stick turn pink... someone following any diet that works will indeed get it to turn pink... after all when you take in less calories than you consume your body must burn fat to survive.. and its that process of burning the fat that creates the ketones.

I am glad if the diet works for you, but realise HOW it works is more to do with simple mathematics (less calories in than calories burns = weight loss, roughly 3500 calories need to be burned more than consumed to lose 1 lbs of weight.) I do agree in the first phases of the low carb thing you can see some dramatic water weight lose end of the day its simple caloric restriction.