Dear Mark: Should I Increase Carb Intake for Weight Loss?

July 30, 2012

pimg class=”alignright” title=”Baked Sweet Potatoes” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/sweetpotatoes2-1.jpg” alt=”sweetpotatoes2 1″ width=”320″ height=”212″ /Sometimes, weight loss slows. Sometimes, what worked amazingly well before, stops working quite the same. Although this can be scary, frustrating, annoying, or all of the above when a title=”Weight Loss Plateau” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/weight-loss-plateau/”progress slows/a, stops, or requires new input to continue like it was is ultimately okay, because we are an adaptive species. We can a title=”17 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/17-reasons-youre-not-losing-weight/”change things up/a, shift stuff around. Physiological processes (among which weight loss and metabolism can certainly be counted) are a title=”384 Day Primal: Work the Process Not the Result” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/384-days-primal-work-the-process-not-the-result/”never linear/a #8211; that#8217;s partly what makes all this stuff so endlessly engaging./p
pToday, I revisit a strategy for overcoming these lulls in weight loss induced by low carb: carb (re)feeds. They seem counterintuitive, sort of, especially if you#8217;ve had success restricting carbs, but hold you opinions until you read on. […]

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