The problem with low carb fake foods, and low carb not-so-fake foods, is that they tend to take your
carbohydrate intake way too high, and your calories up to stupid – so they stop weight loss. If you are eating
much over 10 grams of carbohydrate per feeding, you are probably not going to lose weight. Most of the low
carb breads, cookies, puddings and desserts are well over 10 grams of carb per serving. But the real problem,
even if the carbs are low, is the calories. (Ignore net carbs, they are meaningless. Take the number of net carbs
listed for a food, multiply by 6, and that’s how many carbs are in the food.) In order to lose weight, you have to
keep your calories between 500-1500 a day. You’ll also feel much better while you are losing weight, if most of
these calories come from protein. You’ll be far less hungry and you’ll have much more energy, if most of the
calories you are eating are protein calories, when you are trying to lose weight. Most low carb cakes, cookies,
crackers, puddings, mousse, etc. – whether you buy them premade or make them yourself – have way too many
calories to be part of an effective low carbohydrate diet. The largest low carbohydrate food vendor went into
bankruptcy a few years ago, because low carb fake foods just don’t work for weight loss. Te bet is you won’t
lose weight eating low carbohydrate cheesecake and low carbohydrate chocolate mousse – way too many
calories and probably too much carbohydrate too.