Question by youofeyeguy: Are Hydroxycut products effective supplements for someone on a low-carb diet?
I just finished the Induction phase of the Atkins diet, losing eleven pounds. It was four pounds under the estimated fifteen pounds but I’m still happy with the result. I’m considering staying within the Induction group of foods to keep my weight loss around ten to fifteen pounds every two weeks. My question is whether or not a product such as Hydroxycut or Hydroxycut Hardcore will interfere with the Induction phase of the Atkins diet. Any info you folks can provide will be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
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Answer by Alive at last…
This is not a sound plan – in order to understand why you need to look at what the Atkins diet is doing during the induction phase.
During the induction phase, the Atkins diet is attempting to switch your body from using carbs (and therefore glycogen/ glucose) as an energy source to using your fat stores as an energy source. In doing so, you are putting your body into an elevated state of ketosis. Ketosis is when the liver turns fat into fatty acids and ketones and this is what is used as the alternative source of energy.
Where this can become a problem is that you are placing undo stress on your liver for this conversion and the metabolizing of fat is a much slower process. Along with this, you must have amino acids and complete protein sources are the best source for these. If you are not eating enough complete proteins, you body will begin to cannibalize your muscle tissue in order to get both the needed proteins and for a process know as gluconeogenesis. Gluconeogenisis is the process in which certain amino acids are synthesized into glucose.
As you are shocking your body with the induction phase of this program, your body will begin to adapt and the loss you are experiencing will taper and not remain at the levels you are currently experiencing.
As far as the Hydroxycut, all this is going to attemp to do is to raise you metabolism slightly. don’t expect to see a big difference when taking this product.
Suggest that you follow the program with the reintroduction of carbs and work to burn more calories than cutting out certain good calories.
Good luck!!
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