Calories or Carbs - What's the Deal?

Calories or Carbs - What's the Deal? By Laura Dolson Calories, calories, calories - to listen to a lot of weight loss experts, you'd think that's all that matters.  So what's the deal?  Do calories matter? Why don't we pay much attention to calories on low-carb diets?   Calories vs. Carbs?  Personally, I think that focusing on calories for weight loss can be dangerous, in that it tends to encourage a high-carb, low-fat diet.  But that doesn't mean that calories don't matter at all.   READ NOW Carbs Make Us Hungry  What special milkshakes can teach us about how some foods make us feel more satisfied than others. READ NOW Low-Calorie Diets Lower Metabolism More Than Low-Carb Diets  A group of people lost weight.  Then they put them on three different diets to maintain weight loss -- everyone did all three diets to see how they would react.  Guess which one felt the best, and which one left people hungrier. READ NOW Low-Carb Substitutes for High-Carb Foods  Do you miss some high-carb foods?  Or maybe you could cut your carbs a bit more if you made some of these easy substitutes!   READ NOW Advertisement READ THESE NEXT Quiz: Are You At Risk For Burnout? Are You More of an Extrovert or an Introvert? Test Your Perfectionist Tendencies What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have? How "Type A" Are You? Quiz: Are You an 'Adrenaline Junkie?' How Much of a Nutrition Whiz Are You? Were You Affected by an Alcoholic Parent? AN ABOUT.COM BRAND You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Low Carb Diets newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2016 Verywell.com - All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.