A "Metabolism Hack" for Dieting

There’s an active member of my High Carb Fat Loss Facebook Group, named Naman Iqbal, who posted an interesting study.

It was a study on how different diets impact metabolism during weight loss.

The researchers looked at obese women following different calorie-restricted diets.

Here's what they found:

• Very low-calorie, zero-carb diets caused the biggest drop in metabolism. Not ideal when you're trying to lose fat.
• But adding some sucrose (sugar) back into the low-cal diet helped increase metabolic rate closer to normal levels.
• The changes in metabolism were linked to changes in thyroid hormone levels. Carbs seem to give thyroid function a little boost.
• Including moderate amounts of carbs during dieting may prevent that dreaded metabolic slowdown we all hate.

Basically, cutting out all carbs could make losing weight harder by putting the brakes on your metabolism.

Keeping some carb sources in your diet is the smart play.

This study helps explain why my High Carb Fat Loss approach works so well for sustainable fat loss.

You get the best of both worlds

• A calorie deficit for fat burning.
• Plenty of carbs to keep your metabolism revving.

Heck, the old-school Rice Diet was basically just low-cal eating with white rice and sugar added.

Kept people's metabolisms humming along nicely as they leaned out.

Here are before & after photos of patients who followed a diet of white rice, fruit juices and up to a pound of sugar per day.

Walter Kempner’s Rice Diet helped 106 patients each lose over 100 pounds.

But surely their health was destroyed by evil sugar.

Nope, they wound up healthier too.

I wrote an article on that here:

​The Best Carbs That Are Good for Weight Loss?​

I do like short bursts of super low calories when you want to lose weight rapidly.

I have a mini course that covers this.

​Fat Loss Boost​

This outlines my approach to doing a Protein Sparing Modified Fast (PSMF).

The original plan is to do 14 days with this aggressive diet.

But even 3-7 days works tremendously well.

Take a break for a couple of days, by adding in some carbs.

Then get back to it.

The main point is that if you are dieting in a deficit to lose weight, make sure you include some carbs to keep T3 thyroid hormones high.

Go too low in carbs in a deficit, and your metabolism will slow down.

Cheers,

-Rusty
​Visual Impact Fitness​