Quick Start No Carb Diet

Many diets, such as the Atkin's diet, promote weight loss by utilizing a low carb diet. When quick starting a diet program, you can try to eliminate all the carbohydrates from your diet. In reality, you can reduce your count to virtually zero, but a few carbs will creep in as most every food has some carbohydrate value. But if you can keep your carbohydrate count under 10 grams, you'll be off to a good start.

Quick Starting Your Diet

• Eliminating carbohydrates from your diet will jump start the diet process, but will also leave you feeling very tired, as you have cut out the energy foods. Even subsisting on fewer than 10 grams of carbs a day will leave you feeling drained. So expect to be tired. Even so, it is important you remain active or all your efforts to diet will be futile. You must still burn calories to lose weight.

  Many low to no carb diets allow for fats. Fat will help you feel full. Fiber, too, will help. But if you really want to quick start the diet, consider low fat to go along with the no carb diet. Ultimately, the fewer calories you consume and the more you burn will equate to weight loss.

  Even a serving of romaine lettuce has 0.3 grams of carbohydrates. But this is essentially none. So eating salads won't significantly add to your carbohydrate count if you use no carb dressing. Note that a lot of no carb dressings tend to be high in fat. Most low carb diets include high protein sources. So you can have meats, but not breaded. Breads all contain carbohydrates. Likewise, fruits and sugars are all carbohydrates and must be eliminated during this quick start period. Nuts, while a good source of protein, have a few carbohydrates. A serving of peanuts, for example, contains 6 grams of carbohydrates. So while they can help curb your hunger in later stages of your dieting plan, they should be eliminated from the initial, no carb phase.

Supplement with Exercise

• Starting a diet well is no guarantee of success without burning more calories than consumed. So with any diet program, you should incorporate daily exercise. High impact exercises will tend to burn more calories. And though a no carb quick start will leave you feeling drained, it's important to muster the strength for the movement.

  Before quick starting a diet without carbohydrates, talk to your family doctor. Make sure you are in reasonably good health before any drastic change in diet. As well, speak to him about increasing your amount of exercise and ask what forms of exercise he would recommend for you, based on your age and condition.