http://www.carbfreecafe.com/carb/ If you're watching your carbs, a carb counter can be a great tool to help you be successful. Then later, if your low carb regimen becomes less effective, use exercise to bring yourself out of it. en-us Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:24:13 EDT Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:24:13 EDT Weblog Editor 2.0 What's helpful when you're counting carbs? A carbcounter! Different Varieties of Carb Counters It might not be convenient for you to carry a book with carb counts for every food with you everywhere you go, but if you find a good one, and you want your low carb diet to work, it can be a valuable tool. Sure, you could use online carb counters, but it takes a lot of time to find a good one, and then they're so picky about the way you enter information that it becomes a very time consuming task. You could also use the information on food labels to get an accurate carb count, but what if you want an apple or some other food that doesn't have a nutrition information label? You'll need some other way to count your carbs. If you visit www.carbs.com you can find a variety of carb counters--in book form and in calculator form. And that's the easiest way to keep track of your carbs. After a few months of counting carbs, you're going to be pretty proficient at it. You'll know offhand how many carbs are in a tortilla or any number of fruits, vegetables and cheeses. You'll definitely know the carb counts of your favorite foods, and you'll amass quite a collection of low carb recipes. You'll have your routine down pat, but then you might hit a plateau. What do you do then? Exercise and Carbs You have a couple of options when you hit a plateau with your weight loss on a low carb diet. You can go back to what you did the first two weeks of your diet (before you reintroduced some healthy carbs into your diet) or you can somehow summon up enough energy to start exercising. For all the benefits you might be getting from your low carb diet, an abundance of energy isn't one of them. However, consider this: The first 20 minutes of any cardiovascular exercise burns carbs. After that, you start burning fat. But people on a low carb diet don't have a lot of carbs to burn, so their bodies' fat-burning component kicks in a lot sooner in the workout. That should be all the motivation you need! Finally, don't fret. Once you have mastered the basics of the carb options and resources available, it is easy to make better carb choices in your daily routines. Ultimately, it will become like second nature and require less and less preparedness on your part. Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:24:13 EDT http://www.carbfreecafe.com/carb/carb-counts.html Carb counts are something you should keep, but they are only part of the health equation. en-us Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:04:12 EDT Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:04:12 EDT Weblog Editor 2.0 http://www.carbfreecafe.com/carb/carb-counting.html Carb counting is the practice of many healthy Americans! Join them. en-us Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:16:11 EDT Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:16:11 EDT Weblog Editor 2.0 http://www.carbfreecafe.com/carb/carbohydrate-diet.html Carbohydrate diet advice from the professionals to keep you in line. en-us Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:38:35 EST Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:38:35 EST Weblog Editor 2.0 http://www.carbfreecafe.com/carb/carb-counter.html Carb counter opportunities are abundant. en-us Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:24:13 EDT Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:24:13 EDT Weblog Editor 2.0 http://www.carbfreecafe.com/carb/low-carb.html Low carb diets are all the rage. They work well for a lot of people, but is a low carb diet going to cut it for you? en-us Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:05:11 EDT Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:05:11 EDT Weblog Editor 2.0