This is a hot topic because it seems everyone has a low carb diet.  ESP always holds true to the idea that diet is a personal thing based on many different facets, including resting metabolic rate, lifestyle, and body type.  For the most part, diets are more about math and timing than they are about some gimmick or trick. Low carb diets typically work because you are removing simple sugars from your diet which, if not burned through exercise, are most often stored as fat. In addition, the protein is feeding the muscle, and lean muscle increases your resting metabolic rate which means the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn at rest.  That being said, the thing that low carb diets often do is put your body in a caloric deficit that can lead your body into starvation mode.  In my 6 year career as a competitive bodybuilder, the thing that we did to strip the fat and get ripped was as close to a “trick” on the body as you can get. We called it 3 days low, 1 day high.  Three full days of low carbohydrates followed by one day of high (and by high we really mean moderate consumption of carbohydrates), and then we’d go right back to 3 days low. This kept our bodies from going into starvation mode and purposely dropping our metabolic rates to prepare for famine.  If you stay low calorie, low carb for extended periods of time, your body will see that as an attack and will slow all of its processes down to get ready for what it sees as a long hibernation. At this point, I can’t tell you what to eat or how many calories because I don’t know your profile.  If you want specifics, you should sign up for the Gold membership now!  But I can at least give you an idea of the percentages for each day.

3 days low carb – 70% Protein, 20% Fat, 10% Carb – All bread carbs should be consumed in the AM hours, then only veggies in the PM hours.

1 day high – 40% Protein, 40% Carbs,  10% Fat – Try to hold true to only vegetable carbs for dinner.