No, that's incorrect. Because so many of our food choices come from carbohydrates, restricting them results in a lower calorie diet. The Atkins diet is just a lower calorie diet in disguise.
Now, about ketosis, you can get super lean on a diet loaded with carbs (Michael Phelps eats 12,000 calories a day when he's in training, most of which come from carbs) and you can get fat as a pig on a ketogenic diet. This is a recurring theme. It's all about how much energy you consume vs. what you expend. Ketosis places a great deal of strain on the kidneys and the body ends up excreting a great deal of water. This is why people lose weight quickly from the Atkins diet, but are not able to keep it off.
No controlled calorie study supports the notion that carbohydrates, fats or proteins offer any metabolic advantage over the minor differences in their TEF - thermic effects of food/feeding, which is the amount of energy required to digest.
Now, about ketosis, you can get super lean on a diet loaded with carbs (Michael Phelps eats 12,000 calories a day when he's in training, most of which come from carbs) and you can get fat as a pig on a ketogenic diet. This is a recurring theme. It's all about how much energy you consume vs. what you expend. Ketosis places a great deal of strain on the kidneys and the body ends up excreting a great deal of water. This is why people lose weight quickly from the Atkins diet, but are not able to keep it off.
No controlled calorie study supports the notion that carbohydrates, fats or proteins offer any metabolic advantage over the minor differences in their TEF - thermic effects of food/feeding, which is the amount of energy required to digest.
These days there are fewer and fewer of you standing on that island and the sea of evidence is overtaking you. What you say about low-carb diets simply being lower calorie diets in disguise isn't true. If you are happy believing what you do, that is fine. I'll leave it at that. I'm off to have a nice salad, a chicken breast, and some iced tea. Take care....