When trying to lose weight, we’re often told to abstain from alcohol, avoid sugar and cut out carbs. But could it be that we’ve got it all wrong?
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One Australian woman says that eating more carbs is the key to a super-fit figure, and she’s got the results to prove it.
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Madalin Frodsham, 27, told Daily Mail Australia about how she changed her diet from five per cent carbs to 50 per cent carbs.
“I was sick of my diet and felt that I was plateauing, so I wanted to try something new,” she said.
The before-and-after photos speak for themselves. While she was toned and thin before, (neither her workout regime nor her weight has changed, she says) Ms. Frodsham is now noticeably stronger, with defined abs and toned, slim legs.
Before she embraced carbs, the Instagram star was on the ketogenic diet of 70 per cent fat, 25 per cent protein and just five per cent carbohydrates.
“The ketogenic diet had worked for me in the past,” said Frodsham, “But I found the food so difficult to eat, as you’re constantly having to substitute carbohydrates. So instead of pasta, you have zucchini noodles, instead of tacos you have lettuce cups, instead of a pizza base you make it with cauliflower.”
“I gradually started just eating salad and veggies in an effort to be healthy but then that just became so boring,” she said.
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Stuck in a food rut, she she enlisted the help of a personal trainer and nutritional coach, who advised her to add more carbs into her diet.