What is best counting calories or carbs
How to Lose Weight: Carbs vs. Calories
hi this is dr. Kathleen Hallinan and
we're continuing our weight loss vlog so
we're gonna go over today the difficulty
that people have when faced with the
carb versus calorie issue I have a lot
of patients who go see the dietician and
dietitians do a great job lots of times
though it gets a little confusing
because they will teach particularly
people who have diabetes how to count
carbs and this oftentimes does not
result in losing weight so I'm going to
teach you what's most important for
weight loss if you have diabetes or
you've gone to see a dietitian and they
focus on carbohydrates certainly learn
and listen from listen from the
experience but what I will tell you is
the punch line is calories you must pay
attention to how many calories every day
and lots of times people will try to
kind of a you know ballpark it don't
ballpark it you must count so that's why
the MyFitnessPal app is so good because
it counts it for you you just enter in
what you're eating and or you can do
what I did when after I had twins and I
just kept an index card with me and it
was really low-tech but I just counted
out how many calories I had every day so
very important do not get confused with
the counting carbohydrates because you
can keep track of your carbs but that
doesn't mean that you're counting the
protein and fat and so now you've like
lost track or have no idea about
probably two thirds of what is making up
your meals for the day in addition it's
if you're gonna focus on carbohydrates
alone the only way to make that work to
have you lose weight is if you're
following Atkins or South Beach and are
cutting your carbs to less than 20 or 40
grams a day because
that's when you put yourself into a
state of ketosis so again it's very
confusing for people the carbohydrate
thing and the calorie thing I'm gonna
tell you just focus on how many calories
a day count everything every day and
keep it again uses something that makes
it easy like an index card or like the
MyFitnessPal which is a great app for
your phone and because everybody has
their phone with them all the time and
they're glued to their phones so that
makes it very straightforward so here's
my board again carbs versus calories
total calories count how many calories
forget about the carbs unless you're
doing Atkins or South Beach if you
decide you want to do Atkins or South
Beach then by all means read the book
and count your carbohydrates and if you
keep them to under I think 20 I believe
is induction phase which is kind of
pretty rough to do but and then it kind
of allows you to go up to a 44 40 grams
of carbs that is a that is how you do
Atkins or South Beach and there's
another video I did on high-protein
low-carb stuff if you kind of go back in
the other videos and then count
everything protein is very important
because you will get to eat more and be
more full for the amount of calories in
the protein that you eat you know so if
you have a portion size of chicken
that's much more filling for the amount
of calories that you'll get out of it as
opposed to the same volume of you know
spaghetti so protein is filling protein
will not spike your insulin output after
you eat and the then the downside
benefit of that is that less insulin
output means you're less hungry later so
so most of your day should be made up of
protein so which is so vegetables and
meats
okay so in fish and you know just set
yourself up to succeed like you know
whatever when early in the week or the
weekend when you're planning on your
week um make cook up some chicken in
some you know speedy sauce or whatever
and then slice it up and just put it in
the fridge for the week and if you want
to nibble on something pull that out
nibble on it you can wrap it in a you
know romaine lettuce or um things like
that you can roll up lunch meat dip it
in mustard so these are ways you can get
protein without in its low calorie and
and low carb but again you must count so
very tricky because I have a lot of
people who will go see the dietician for
their diabetes be told how to count
carbs and then wonder why they're not
losing weight and it's because you're
not counting calories so I hope this is
helpful
and again go back into some of the other
videos that I've done and look at the
high protein and consol - you guys are
doing great great questions and thank
you very much
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