Oh God! I Pray to Lose Weight
Food manufacturers are in a heated race to see who can get the most low-carb fare into the grocery stores, and every advertiser worth their salt is emphasizing the low-carb message. So, does the low-carb diet work? Anecdotal evidence and recent studies both conclude that following a strict low-carb diet will in fact help you lose weight. Serious questions remain, however, and must be addressed before fully embracing the low-carb lifestyle. In this series of articles we will attempt to address these issues.
Real fitness experts emphasize that you should make changes to your diet that you can stick with for the long term. They don’t enjoy it, mainly because their “diet” is telling them they can’t eat the foods they love. For any “diet” to work, it has to be created in such a way that you can live with it. Life is simply too short to be absolutely miserable, and trying to willpower yourself into a “diet” that you can’t stick with is a sure path to misery. So, should you start a low-carb diet? Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Slim-Fast, the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet, and hundreds of other plans have all helped people, but not one of them has helped everyone.
