Slow carb diets have the capability to attract those who seek fast and easily sustainable weight loss regimen. The main concern about this diet is body composition. There are many different obstacles regarding this approach and understanding and accepting them one by one will help you through the way. The results will depend on how you face the challenges ahead and overcoming each of it by committing to the diet. You must know that slow carb diet, along with many other diet regimen out in the market, cannot be achieved by just a snap, it's all about maintaining and regulating your body composition.
I must emphasize that the slow carb diet is just about weight loss but also about how to monitor your own body composition. It not all about just weight but what comprises that weight and how to lose the weight that you do not necessarily need. In the Four Hour Body, a book written by Tim Ferriss, it is stated that in order to achieve successful results, you must first have to know and where you are starting from. This means knowing your own body more than ever by accurately measuring not just your weight but your ideal body fat percentage too.
If you specifically identified yourself and made your baseline data, you will be able to monitor your progress efficiently. Like when you step up the weighing scale and realized that you got stuck, you won't get discouraged easily because there are times when you check your other values, you will realize that you actually developed some muscle tissue which weighs more that fat. So, tracking those different aspects of your body composition will really help you and remind you that you are going somewhere.
The Four Hour Body also suggest to eat same meals over and over again, there are thousands of food choices but there are only quite a few who can help with you lose weight. The list is divided into three parts, the proteins, legumes and vegetables. You can eat as much as you like with what's in the list but make sure to keep it simple and pick like three to four meals and stick to it. You can always substitute and change the preparation to suite your preferences. More importantly, you are allowed one free day or a cheat day per week where you can eat and drink whatever you like but still feel like restricted on the remaining days of the week if you did not eat or like what's on the list.
Another thing emphasized by Tim Ferriss is to avoid, as much as possible within the 6-day period, eating fruits. The only exceptions are tomatoes and avocadoes. Because fruits' primary sugar is fructose and it is converted to glycerol phosphate p triglycerides and if unused can be quickly stored through fat.
Today, there are a lot of online resources in which you can find different recipes and experiment on. From preparing, seasoning to different ways of cooking those same ingredients, it will significantly help you to keep track of your food intake.
Another vital element in this diet is patience. You must work hard, focus and patiently wait until few weeks to see the new you.