A low carb diet is a fantastic way to efficiently get rid of that extra weight. Keeping the calorie intake to a reduced amount helps force your body to burn fat. A healthy diet should be around 2500 calories and 2000 calories for a woman a day. Ensuring high quality calories are consumed is very important when starting on a low carb diet. Balancing a high protein diet with a low carb diet helps shift unwanted fat faster than a low carb diet alone. Eating little and often spread throughtout the day is an ideal way to lose weight. Steady exercise is also advised, burning calories in exercise helps to increase the effectiveness of the diet. Finally, and remember that a diet is mostly a battle of wills, you need to win that battle.