Unfortunately, a low-carb / high protein diet is not as forgiving as some others. In a calorie-control diet, you can eat some chocolate cake and make up for the extra calories by eating very little for the rest of the day - but low-calorie diets mess up the body’s chemical balance and don’t work.
In the low-carbohydrate diet, if you consume more than 60 grams of carbohydrate per day, your body will respond by depositing the excess calories as fat. So you can’t have many lapses, or it simply won’t work. A biscuit here and a pastry there and it will all go to fat. Of course, nobody’s perfect (certainly not me!), and no-one can rigidly adhere to all the rules all the time.
The occasional lapse with a sandwich or a piece of fruit will merely cause the diet to fail on that day only, but really this type of quick weight loss diet is so liberal that lapses will be infrequent. So don’t panic if you break your diet occasionally, it’s only human. By satisfying your natural hunger in a natural way, for the first time you have a diet that is working with you, not against you.
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