Quick weight loss is possible – by breaking the carbohydrate cycle.

So how can you put an end to the vicious carbohydrate circle that is holding you back from your quick weight loss goals? As you probably know all too well, if you don’t eat enough food, you become weaker and weaker (and more irritable), and eventually even the strongest willed person is unable to fight off their body’s craving for food.

The answer is simple (I always prefer simple solutions) - reduce the insulin.

If you decrease the amount of insulin your body releases, your blood glucose levels won’t plummet so dramatically, so you won’t become weak and irritable, and you won’t feel the need to eat more carbohydrate for energy. Ultimately, therefore, you’ll start to notice your quick weight loss within as little as a few days and you won’t deposit the fat on your waist and hips

Even better, if you lower your insulin levels, the body’s mechanisms are actually directed to burn body fat preferentially. In other words, you have switched on your body’s automatic fat-burning mechanism.

Just one small problem. How exactly do you achieve this minor miracle of lowering the insulin level, and therefore converting to “fat-burning” mode (instead of the usual “fat-deposit” mode)?

Once again, the answer is very simple - reduce your intake of refined carbohydrates - a low carbohydrate diet causes breakdown of body fat.

The production of insulin is essentially controlled by carbohydrate intake, not fats or proteins, so if you cut down drastically on refined carbohydrates, your insulin levels reduce naturally, and you start to bur body fat. It really is that easy.

All of a sudden, you can now clearly see why previous diets have failed. Almost all diets instruct you to increase your daily intake of carbohydrates, usually as cereals, grains, pasta, rice and pulses (peas and beans). Even if you reduce your calorie intake to below the level you need each day, unless you switch off the insulin (and convert to the mode of burning body fat) there is always the tendency to deposit some of the food as more fat.

That is what insulin does, and insulin is stimulated by carbohydrates. So you weren’t a failure after all, it just was not medically possible to lose weight safely on some of the diets you followed. The system for burning fat was switched off.

Reduce carbohydrate - not calories - to lose weight

Of course, we certainly do not want to switch off our insulin completely; we need insulin, but our bodies do not need, and were never designed to cope with, large quantities of refined carbohydrates, such as the immense loads of refined sugars and starches in the pre-packaged foods that form the basis of the modem Western diet. If we cut out the foods that our bodies cannot safely tolerate, insulin production returns to its normal level, we burn any excess fat and return to our normal shape. You don’t see fat animals in nature, because animals don’t eat our diet.

There is one other very important point that is going to become quite obvious in a moment. If you switch on your automatic fat-burning mechanism by cutting out refined carbohydrates and sugars, what else do you have to restrict in the diet? Well, apart from the obvious saturated fats – nothing really! Yes, that’s right, your eyes are not deceiving you: there are absolutely no other restrictions in the diet.

You can eat virtually as much as you like of any other foods, and you will still lose fat. This is hard to believe, but true. For the first time, you are using your body’s own established mechanisms to lose fat. So you are not going to be hungry, or irritable, or spend all of your time counting calories, and as you will be eating a diet high in protein, vitamins and minerals, your body will be receiving healthy nutrition while losing fat.

This has got to be one of the best ways to lose weight - you still need to be careful with foods high in saturated fats, like red meat, fried foods etc, but if you can do this, then you’re well on your way to achieving your quick weight loss goals.