Low Glycemic Diets Help to Stabilize Your Mood and Boost Your Stamina

By Kathryn Barry

Low Glycemic Diets usually contain a decent amount of animal foods and not so much fruits or grains.

Why Pay Attention to The Amount of Carbs in Your Diet?

Your body uses glucose which is a simple sugar that is found in carbohydrates for energy. This is also an important fuel for your brain and muscles.

Glucose provides energy for your muscles and helps with brain functions such as learning and memory.

Just because glucose is an important fuel, it is not such a good idea to consume too much. A little glucose is good and too much is bad for your brain and body.

Two Low Glycemic Diets I Personally Experienced

If given the choice, your body prefers to metabolize glucose over fat and will burn carbohydrates before it burns fat. This is why the Atkin's Diet limits the amount of carbohydrates in order to jump start your body's fat burning process.

Since your body's first choice for energy is glucose, which comes from carbohydrates in your diet, eating too much will create fat storage instead of burning fat.

I did this diet for about 3 years and I felt like super woman. I was able to work 6 days a week, care for my young child, and cook most of my own meals.

I didn't need to sleep for more than 6 hours and I got a lot of work done during my experience with this diet.

What this diet seems to need are really good supplements and while I was taking high quality and very natural supplements I did well on this diet.

This is My Favorite Between the Two Low Glycemic Diets

Most of the foods found on the Atkin's Diet will also be found on the Primal Diet. There are a few important differences between these two diets.

Watching your carbohydrate intake is much easier on this diet because grains and legumes are not part of this raw food diet. Fruit is also not a big part and only small portions are suggested. Supplements are not required and mineral water is the only suggested water to drink.

Raw milk, raw meats, raw eggs, raw butter, raw coconut cream and raw vegetable juices are the staples of this diet.

Raw milk was my favorite part of this diet. It just had this very soothing and almost magical property. I noticed that my daughter had no dental cavities until I stopped giving her the raw milk.

My endurance was greatly affected by the consumption of raw eggs and raw meat. It is actually very filling and satisfying food.

The soothing effect of eating raw fats helped me to experience a grounding type of calmness that I will never forget. I wasn't 100% raw because of the social aspect of this diet and still was able to achieve a state of health I now crave again. - 30414

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