About Low Carb Diets: Why We Regain Weight

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Low Carb Diets Low Carb Diets Getting Started Health and Nutrition Recipes From Laura Dolson, your Guide to Low Carb Diets  One of the most frustrating things in the world of diet and weight loss is when we start to regain the weight we worked so hard to lose.  Why oh why does this happen?  Well, of course if we go back to our old way of eating it will happen (see: 10 Ways to Break a Weight-Loss Stall), but there are other reasons we also need to be aware of, and it's not always fully under our control.  Stay healthy this week!!  Laura Why We Regain Weight  I've written a pair of articles on this subject: one about how our appetite hormones change with weight loss and another about how this affects our brains.  It turns out that what we call "emotional eating" may often be triggered by this hormone-brain connection. Compulsive Overeating or Too Much Carb? Although we aren't at all immune from the problem of weight regain, the good news is that a low-carb diet is less likely to trigger off all these emtional responses.  In fact,  it seems that we are less affected by compulsive overeating.  Here's something I wrote about this a few years ago. How to Deal with Cravings  Cravings for food that aren't related to hunger do hit us all from time to time.  Here are some of the causes, and ways to deal with them. Search Related Topics:  low carb living  low carb foods  low carb menus Alton Brown's Four-List Diet Plan  This goes along with last week's article about Food Rules. Food science and TV food person Alton Brown has had success with this "list method" he devised to guide his eating.  It isn't super-low-carb, but it's certainly much less carb than a standard diet.  I wrote about it on my blog when he first came out with it, and  commented on it from a low-carb perspective. Related Searches Low Carb Weight Loss Carbs Low Carb Diet Ways to Loose Weight Fat Weight Loss Diet Weight Loss for You Featured Articles Weight Loss the First Month Weight Loss Success Stories Weight Loss the First Six Months Do Low-Carb Diets Work? 7 Carb-Cutting Steps All Laura's Low-Carb Recipes   More from About.com Sign-up for Shareables! An every-morning rundown of the day in history, headlines and trends produced by your pals at About.com. Please sign up it's free (of course), we think you will like it! Want More From About.com Check out our social page tailored to your interest! This newsletter is written by: Laura Dolson Low Carb Diets Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Low Carb Diets newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com   Must Reads How to Cut Carbs 6 Steps for the Beginner Top 10 Low Carb Mistakes Low-Carb Food Pyramid Summertime...and Low-Carbing is Easy   Follow me on: Advertisement