Use a flexible low-carb diet to lose weight and stop craving for sugar! Doctors reveal: 4 key factors for success

Obesity is a common source of many chronic diseases. The top ten causes of death in Taiwan include cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, all of which are highly correlated with obesity, becoming a hidden concern for society and families. According to a weight loss diet study on 10,000 people aged 18-65 in Taiwan, most of those who followed the "Flexi-Low-Carb Diet" lost about 5.42-8% of their weight within 8 weeks.

What is the FLC Flexible Low Carb Diet?

What is the "FLC Flexible Low-Carb Diet"? Weight loss physician Song Yanren said that the FLC diet is based on a 211 plate (vegetables account for 1/2 of the plate, protein accounts for 1/4, and whole grains account for 1/4, in a ratio of 2:1:1). There is no need to calculate calories and one can flexibly adjust personal dietary proportions. Compared to traditional weight loss methods that reduce calorie intake, although the FLC diet requires more food and has slightly higher calories, it focuses on the correctness of dietary proportions, and the weight loss effect is better than traditional calorie control methods.

"FLC Flexible Low-Carb Diet" Weight Loss, 4 Key Factors for Success

Dean Hsieh Rong-hong of the School of Nutrition at Taipei Medical University pointed out that this study highlights the importance of health education guidance from nutrition experts and correct changes in eating behavior, and further explains the four key factors that can successfully lose weight in 8 weeks without the use of drugs, only with the intervention of nutritionists:

1. The importance of changing eating behavior: It plays a decisive role in weight control and can significantly reduce weight without medication.

2. Professional guidance to avoid weight regain: Establish correct eating habits through professional nutrition guidance to achieve sustained weight loss results and avoid repeated setbacks during the weight loss process.

3. Avoid blindly trying popular diets: With professional guidance, finding an eating habit that suits you is far more effective than following a popular diet. The study also showed that the weight loss effect was better when experts combined diet guidance with online apps.

4. Have knowledge of healthy eating: This requires lifelong learning and practice, just like other life skills.

A 35-year-old female salesperson eats out for almost all of her three meals, and particularly prefers microwaved food and hand-shaken drinks from convenience stores as afternoon tea, which causes her to be overweight. To this end, the nutritionist specially tailored a convenience store diet guide for her, suggesting that she start with a healthy lunch box with tea eggs and sugar-free soy milk, reduce carbohydrate intake and increase the proportion of protein. Hand-shaken drinks were gradually adjusted from half sugar to slightly sugary, and finally to sugar-free tea drinks.

Through gradual diet control, the salesperson successfully lost 10 kilograms in just two months. Her waistline was even reduced, so she had to buy a new batch of tight skirts that she used to wear to work.

The flexible low-carb diet starts with quitting the craving for sugar, allowing participants to reduce insulin resistance and improve physical fitness under a reasonable nutritional ratio.

Flexible low-carb diet to stop sugar cravings

The Flexible Low-Carb Diet (FLC) does not rely on strict control of food intake. The idea that "you have to starve yourself to lose weight" is outdated. On the contrary, this method takes "quitting the craving for sugar" as its starting point, allowing participants to reduce insulin resistance and improve physical fitness under a reasonable nutritional ratio. Through the App and the intervention of nutritionists, it is not only to monitor weight, but also to make each user more clear about "what is the right food", increase the chance of choosing "the right food", and increase vigilance about food.