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Your Low-Carb Diet Also Has Fewer Calories
I believe the theory that fluctuations in body fat are driven by changes in energy balance. This means that energy intake from food and fluids, alongside energy expenditure from metabolism and activity, are the primary drivers of alterations in body composition. This can be known as the ‘energy balance hypothesis’.
Some believe that fat gain is driven by carbohydrate intake, high insulin, consuming processed foods and or other factors independent of energy balance. If you address the issue ie. reduce or eliminate carbohydrates from the diet, weight loss will be imminent.
Personal experience can have an impact on your own perception of which approach is best. You might track your food intake to help manage energy balance but after six-weeks, you have not lost any weight.
This is frustrating and seems to add evidence that something else must be at play. So you decide to not track your food but to remove all carbohydrate. In the next four weeks, you lose a total of 6 kg.
After such an experience, I am certain that you are going to believe that carbohydrates are the issue! But before we draw our conclusions, we might need to dig a little deeper into each strategy.
