[Georgiana]

Originally Posted by skinny before 21

So, how does exercise help when your low carbing?

exercise ≠ burning carbs

or does it?

You have to make the difference between dietary carbohydrates and the glycogen used to fuel your exercise. Your body doesn't care if the ATP molecules come from fat, protein or carbohydrates. Plus, glycerol synthesis happens even in the absence of dietary carbohydrates, in a process known as gluconeogenesis. So exercise doesn't really burn carbs as such (as in dietary carbohydrates), but can use energy derived from all macronutrients you consume.

Does it really make the weight loss go faster, or do you do it just because its a healthy thing to do?

Both, but by weight loss I mean size, not number on the scale. You will weigh more as a nicely-toned size 4 gal than as a "fluffy" size 4, but you'll be wearing the same size, you'll look better naked and be healthier. Remember that weight loss is only one of the principles behind Atkins, the others being good health, weight maintenance and disease prevention. This is why Dr. Atkins made exercise a mandatory part of the Atkins Diet.

How, when you arent eating less calories, would it help in weight loss?

Could you potentially loose weight both ways? From low carbing and from burning more calories?

(im not saying to restrict calories and carbs, but if on atkins you happen to eat less could you loose weight because of both?)

It doesn't really matter how many calories you eat as long as the caloric deficit is the same. You see, when low carbing, you are actually burning a few hundred calories more than you would "normally" burn (Google Anssi Manninen's paper about this from 2004 if you want to read the science). So you can eat a few hundred calories more than you could on, let's say, the SAD (Standard American Diet) and end up with the same caloric deficit. Add this to the mandatory exercise and to the fact that you are eating less because of the nice appetite suppression effect of ketosis, and what you've got is weight loss.