Low Fat/ No Fat Diet

[Lisa3]

It is estimated that 55% of American adults and 15-20% of American children are overweight, eating too much fat is one of the causes.

The Low-Fat diet teaches you to eat foods that are reduced or elimintaed in fats instead of eating foods that are high in fat such as fried foods, snack foods, and meats. You can still eat these food, but in either smaller portions or in lower-fat versions.

This is a diet that the whole family can do. It's basically not a diet, it teaches you how to eat lower-fat saturated foods.

Just make sure that if you do purchase low-fat foods, it may say low in fat but it could contain lots of sugars, those foods you want to stay away from.

 

[pmclark]

no fat/low fat works

I lost 30lbs in 6 months using this method it really does work!

 

[Lolligirl63]

Ex-low fatter

I was on low fat a month,but today I switched over to The South Beach
Diet. All those carbs were bloating and swelling my stomach.
Lolli

 

[peterhawkes]

Does anyone know the rate at which fat converts to muscle?
When you are on a low cal diet + exercising, I imagine some of the calories lost by exercising would be converted to muscle somewhere?

 

[peterhawkes]

Well nevermind about question 1. I read about it elsewhere and you CANNOT convert fat to muscle. You can burn fat and you can gain muscle, but there is no conversion rate. Muscle is gained through exercise though, Fat is burned through a calorie deficit diet (e.g. eat 1500 cals, RMR 1800 : 1500 - 1800 = -300 cals).

so then the second question should be this:
at what rate do you gain muscle mass from swimming?
I know its an odd question, because its sort of based on the calories you eat during the day. I'm just trying to understand the dynamic from eating a low cal diet and exercising.