The Metabolism diet-adding carbs

OK. This is part II of the metabolism diet I posted about yesterday. It looks like it will take long enough for the eatind changes to sink in and become a habit. I also like the fact that it introduces a long term plan, it is not dismissive and seems to aim at long term shape up.

8am: Breakfast. A small bowl of high fibre cereal with soya milk (portions chosen to add up to 11-to-20g net carbohydrates).

10am: Mid-morning Snack - Handful of peanuts (you don't need a 11-to-20g carb 'dam' here because breakfast and lunch will be within five hours of each other.

Noon: Lunch. Grilled cheese sandwich made with 2 thin slices of Weightwatchers wholemeal bread (bread fits the 11-to-20g net carb requirement).

4pm: Mid-afternoon snack - dip of cottage cheese with seven sliced strawberries (contains 11-to-20g net carbohydrates, as lunch and dinner are greater than five hours apart).

7.30pm: Dinner - grilled fish with 125g/5oz brown rice (11-to-20g net carbohydrates) and steamed broccoli PLUS one cinnamon ricotta pudding.

10.30pm: Bedtime snack - (11-to-20g net carbohydrates), one serving of low-fat peach yogurt (11-20g net carb).

11pm: Bedtime.

Read more in part II of the Daily Mail article.

Dieting again?

In the past 7 years I have done 4 different diet regimes. None of them worked long term. As soon as the toast/milk/fruit/boiled chicken/yoghurt regime was over, pounds began piling up again. In fact thanks to dieting I have now reached my all time high. Before dieting I would weigh in the whereabouts of 70 kgs. Not thin, not obese either. Well, I now am. And it is time I do something about it.

What I am going to do different this time, is not to focus or results and date lines. They make me anxious and worried and I lose focus. So what I am going to do is stick with a long term plan and go with the flow.

British paper Daily Mail is publishing a series of articles on a new dieting scheme that I like.

Think of step one of the Metabolism Miracle as an eight-week spring clean. It's a low-carb 'rehab' period that's specifically designed to reprogramme your body to handle carbohydrates healthily.
Although you will still be eating many of your favourite foods in this easy, straightforward part of the diet, you will, in essence, be cleaning up the metabolic mess you are currently in.
As a result, your fat cells will shrink and you will lose weight - most noticeably, the roll of fat around your tummy will diminish dramatically.

For the eight weeks of step one, you will need to cut out most carbohydrates from your diet.
As it turns out, temporarily eliminating most carbohydrates from the diet is the only drug-free way to control the blood glucose imbalance that plagues people with this alternative metabolism. This rehabilitative state accomplishes two things:
1. By eliminating carb-dense foods, you stop contributing too much sugar to your bloodstream, which helps to stop your body releasing too much insulin.
2. The temporary elimination of most carbs will enable the liver to deplete most of the glycogen stores it uses for the self-feeding mechanism.
As a result, for the first eight weeks of step one, your blood sugar will run smoothly, with no spikes to stimulate the over-release of insulin that encourage your body to lay down those fat stores.
A very low-carb diet is not nutritionally balanced. But, as a temporary short-term choice to reset a metabolism to be healthy, it works. 

Read more in this article from The Daily Mail.