Here's an article on carbohydrates from Spark People
http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/nutrition_articles.asp?id=590
Having followed a very low carbohydrate, and very low calorie diet (Exante) for some time I have to agree with some of this. Not sure I agree with all - I found my weight loss was fat not protein - and its easy to address the dehydration aspect. Thats just a bit of a change in lifestyle.
Whilst I'm off Exante now, I've kept up the water consumption. I have put on weight again (about half what I lost) but am now trying to adjust my lifestyle to be healthy enough to lose weight again. Focus is on vegetable juicing, reduced meat in diet, generally not snacking and breaking some of the emotional connection with food (as a reward, as a de-stresser etc)
Typical daily diet at the moment is:
Breakfast:
Breakfast bar
Lunch:
2 rounds of tuna and cucumber sandwiches on wholemeal bread
Grapes
Snack:
Small box of carrot sticks and sugar snap peas
Dinner:
Vegetable juice
White rice and tomato/chili sauce
At the weekend I'm trying to vary it a bit mainly so I get chance to cook. I'll give it a few weeks on this and see how it goes!
This diet is working a treat - am slowly losing weight again so will continue on this route and post the recipes. Its a very healthy diet from what I can see and working out pretty well.
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