How to Lose Weight Faster on Your Low-Carb Diet

In general, a low-carb diet doesn't cause you to lose weight any faster than a low-calorie diet does, unless you have a lot of body fat to get rid of.

People who fall into the obese category can lose a bucket-load of body fat during the first few months, on any diet, but there is a biological reason for that. For most folks, the body limits the amount of body fat it is willing to take out of storage because it doesn't know how long your dietary restriction is going to last.

If you have a 100 pounds, or more, to lose, the body will be more willing to give up lots of its body fat than if you only needed to shed 20 or 30 pounds. People lose weight at various rates, even on low carb.

Sound disappointing?

It doesn't have to be. Not if you're willing to do what it takes to help coax your body into speeding things up a bit.

While some people won't be willing to incorporate the following tips and tricks for faster weight loss into their plan, if you have only been losing a half a pound of body fat per week, you might be feeling frustrated and totally lost by now.

I know, I was.

After the first 4 weeks on the Atkins Diet in January of 2007, I lost only 2 pounds. That's it! And, the same thing happened again the following month. In fact, by the end of the first 6 months, I was only down a mere 30 pounds.

I knew that 30 pounds was a lot of body fat to shed, but after looking at how far I still had to go, I also knew that losing only 5 pounds a month, on average, wasn't going to give me enough motivation to stick it out long-term.

That's when I decided to go on a research mission to see why there was so much variability within the low-carb community. What made the difference? Was the speed at which you drop the weight only about individual metabolism, or was there something else going on?

Here's what I found out:

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