How It Works?

Why do you get such fast results with Go Lower while still eating lots of whole, real food?

When you stop eating starch and sugar, the body will start to burn excess body fat, particularly around the tummy, for energy. This is a natural process and there is no faster way to burn away unwanted body fat.

When the body is burning fat for energy it releases ketones which are why the diet is called a ketogenic diet.

Why does cutting out sugar and starch make you burn fat?

The human body is basically quite lazy and it will look for the easiest form of energy it can find.  The fastest and easiest energy that the body can get is from eating starch and sugar.  When you eat any sugar and starch it turns to blood sugar (i.e. energy) comparatively quickly and the body will always use this first.  If you feed the body a diet low in sugar and starch the body will quite quickly look for energy from other sources –i.e.  body fat and muscle.

You can only switch the body to burning fat when it is either starving or it is on a low carb diet.

Doesn’t eating fat stop you burning fat?

No, and that is because the fat that we eat is difficult to turn into energy even though it is calorie rich. The body will digest fats slowly and so it will not stop it burning body fat for easy access energy.

Do normal low calorie / low fat diets make you burn body fat?

No, they don’t. The low fat low calorie option will make the body burn some body fat for energy but it also makes the body burn muscle. The low fat/low calorie diets force the body’s metabolic rate to drop and so the weight loss slows down.