6 Strange Dietary Bedfellows

What do these six things have in common?

* McDon­alds
* Renee Zell­weger
* Epilep­tic chil­dren
* Yours truly
* Most body­build­ing and fit­ness com­peti­tors
* Kiefer Sutherland

Give up?

All the above employ the strate­gies of the low-carb diet plan.

Recently researchers have found that low-carb nutri­tion plan reduced the num­ber of seizures in epilep­tic chil­dren. Most of the world’s lean­est physiques get that way on a reg­i­men, lim­ited or not, of low-carbs and higher protein.

Even McDon­alds is get­ting into the act. Even Renee Zell­weger. Even Kiefer Suther­land. Even me. Kinda ..

Read on and I’ll explain what I mean.

Why Low-Carb Works

When McDon­alds starts count­ing carb grams in their food, you know some­one is either jump­ing on a trend or finally see­ing the light.

In this case, both, but it is a good thing. Low-carb diet plans. They work. For the masses, they work because they are the eas­i­est nutri­tion plan to fol­low when you’re busy.

McDon­alds and stars like Kiefer Suther­land fig­ured this out. The busy on-the-go guy or gal doesn’t want to make the time to pre­pare six meals per day and carry them around in Tupperware.

When choos­ing my own lifestyle nutri­tion plan, time and con­ve­nience played a major role. I looked at role mod­els who were very busy, for­merly obese, and very lean.

You know, most of them rely in some form or fash­ion on a low-carb strategy.

Low-carb also works, much to the hem and haw of tra­di­tional doc­tors and nutri­tion­ists, due to the way the body processes fuel.

For those of us for­tu­nate enough to grow up on whole grains and very low-sugar meal plans, a mod­er­ate to higher-carb nutri­tion plan may work just fine.

But most of us grew up eat­ing junk.

Processed foods, fast foods, and down­right junk was the cor­ner­stone of our diet plans. That puts your body on the “carb defense.”

After years of abuse the body, it becomes resis­tant to car­bo­hy­drates. The insulin they pro­duce can cause all sorts of health issues, fat-burning prob­lems, and more.

When carbs are removed, even healthy carbs like whole grains, the body has time to re-adjust.

In some cases, you can go back to a moderate-carb plan with whole grains and fruits after a period of time.

In oth­ers, you are a “low-carber” for life.

Guess which one I am?

Finally, low-carb works because you tend to eat less. Fat is very sati­at­ing, and most low-carb plans are fairly high in dietary fat.

So, in recap:

* Easy and con­ve­nient;
* Meta­bol­i­cally impor­tant for carb recov­ery;
* Lower in total food vol­ume (eat less)

Do not make light of that first point, any plan that is not sim­ple is one very few peo­ple will stick to, so mak­ing your plan sim­ple and tasty is the key, even if that plan is not “per­fect” by nutri­tional standards.

Now, by far, the best low-carb die tplan in the world (yes, I’m bias for good rea­son!) is This One.

EODD works so well because your carbs are low for “most” of the time. Not “all” of the time. And the times when your carbs are not low you can enjoy your favorite foods.

Per­son­ally I enjoy pizza and burg­ers on my non-low-carb days. You can enjoy what­ever you want if you just keep it reasonable.

You see, there’s no need to diet-perfect. Progress always trumps perfection.

Why Low-Carb Fails

There are two pri­mary rea­sons for the fail­ure of the low-carb nutri­tion plans: bore­dom and media bash­ing.

One causes irri­tabil­ity. The other, doubt. Unless you’re cer­tain that your plan will work, you will even­tu­ally go off of it.

This is true of any plan, no mat­ter how ideal it is. Cer­tainty rules.

That’s why I believe in hav­ing a flex­i­ble, tasty plan like EODD.

Then bore­dom is eas­ily solved.

Using my cycle strat­egy you will rarely if ever become bored. And your body will burn more body­fat too. It’s just a cheap meta­bolic trick, but boy, it works.

The sec­ond rea­son is media and med­ical bias. One study after another has proven that low-carb plans, even the Atkins plan, works and is safe to use for most people.

Check with your doc­tor first, of course.

I’ve seen researchers get down-right angry when the results come back. In one study, car­ried out for a full year, the low-carb plan out-performed the so-called “healthy” Dean Ornish plan.

Lower blood fats, more fat­loss, and more energy were the results.

My pref­er­ence always comes back to low-carb nutri­tion. I just cycle it in a way that allows me to get plenty of veg­gies, some grains, and ample fiber.

You know one of these days the main­stream med­ical com­mu­nity will wake up to the fact that 90% of the pop­u­la­tion will never eat 15 serv­ings of veg­gies per day.

While this may be “opti­mal”, it’s not at all prac­ti­cal. I’d rather give you down-to-earth prac­ti­cal nutri­tion advice that you CAN and WILL fol­low and enjoy.

Makes sense, doesn’t it?

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