Starting Your 2-Week Low Carb Diet

Are you planning to go on a low carbohydrate diet? If you want to lose weight or maintain a relatively slim figure, then it would do you good to start on the program. Actually, any type of diet would do as long as it is effective on you in losing some excess body weight. Just try choosing a regimen that you think you will have more chances of maintaining for a long period. Results of any diet do not come overnight. It may take some time before visible weight loss can be seen. That is why it is very important to stick to a diet regimen for several weeks.

It would even be much better if you would make it part of your lifestyle. The advantage of a low carbohydrate diet is that it is fairly easy to start as a diet program. It would take you some time to prepare the program that you would follow. But once you have started on it, it wouldn’t be such a difficult task to follow. But still, some people still would have to get used to the changes.

The first two weeks of a low carbohydrate diet is what Dr. Atkins calls the induction phase because it is the time that the dieter should get used to a new diet lifestyle. At the beginning of the 2-week low carbohydrate diet program just like any other diets, you should take your actual weight, body measurements as well as your body fat.

Most low carb diets would start a 2 week program with just having to consume less than 20 grams of carbohydrates a day. It is not so hard to maintain a carb consumption of less than 20 grams per day. You can have your fill of non carb food like meat products and vegetables just as long as you avoid the carbs and the sugar. Maintaining this will even enable a person to lose up to a pound a day.

It is important to keep track of the carbs in the foods that you eat. Always be aware that some processed foods may contain some hidden carbs. This is what you should watch out for. In the ensuing two weeks of your low carb diet, try to eat plenty of non-carb foods and drink plenty of water. Try to eat mostly vegetables and include also meat and cheese. Try to avoid fruit and berries which have a high sugar content as well as bread, pasta and rice.

The first 2 days of the 2 week diet program would be the most difficult period of your 2 week low carb diet regimen. This is because your body would be craving for sugar that your body has been accustomed of consuming day in and day out. Prepare yourself for headaches and tiredness that is somehow withdrawal symptoms for lack of sugar in the body. But this will happen for the first 2 days at most because that is the time your body is figuring out what to do for energy. After 2 days, the body will learn to turn its focus on your body fat for its energy needs.
 
It is on the third day that the body will start losing weight as it starts burning fat for energy. And as you continue on with it for 2 weeks, you will experience an increased loss of weight. One can lose As much as 5 to 14 pounds in these 2 weeks alone. After the first week, you will feel a whole lot better since the body has gotten accustomed to its new routine. And as you continue on with the diet, you will continue to lose that excess weight that you have longed to get rid of.