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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Claire87" data-source="post: 407569" data-attributes="member: 68396">I've not heard of the Scarsdale diet, but the two weeks on no carbs will put your body into Ketosis (where it looks for carbs for energy, can't find them and starts using fats for energy instead.) This is a good thing, because you want your body using fats for energy. Fats provide proteins and all kinds of good things, so they make a useful energy source. Carbs have nothing nutritional in them that the human body needs.Ketosis will give you a day or two where you feel tired during the first two weeks. This is when your body is freaking out and looking for an energy source because it can't find a carb. Once your body changes over to using fats for energy instead, which it does pretty quickly, you'll feel great. But just be aware of that 1-2 day tired that will probably hit you in the beginning (in my case, it was 1 day of tired during the whole diet).Ideally, you want to stay in ketosis for the duration of the diet. Eg: Keep using fats for energy. So, I'd worry that the two weeks on carbs again will knock you out of ketosis, and you'd just bounce back and forth from knackered to not.Basically if your body uses carbs for energy, your fats sit on your body (usually around your waist). If your body uses fats for energy, it will burn off all the fats you eat and the ones around your middle, therefore you lose weight easily. You can't really eat too many fats they are so filling. And trust me, I tried on my diet lol. The Scarsdale diet sounds as if it will mess with your energy source, which I can only imagine would send your body into permanently freaked out mode. The carbs and then not thing would confuse it. I don't know, but it sounds as if it would. Really, you only want to go through ketosis once on the diet and stay in it until the weight's gone. Reduced carbs on the second week could keep you using fats for energy. It might be worth getting the little machine to check if you are still in ketosis (I think they're 20 quid on Amazon) with that diet. If your carb intake is low enough over a fortnight, then you 'should' stay in ketosis and can eat all the fats you want on all weeks. The body doesn't measure by days, so as long as you don't go insane on carbs in week2 it probably would work, but I'd get one of those machines to check Ketosis levels during the second week, so you can make sure you don't start using carbs for energy again.The Bergstein diet (the one I'm on) is more go into ketosis once, then keep low carbs after it until the weight is gone. But cutting carbs isn't too hard. Replace sugar with Splenda, make some low carb pizza bases and breads, use no carb pasta etc. It depends on what you like to eat, but there usually is a low carb version of everything that tastes the same. It's not a hard diet to do 20g of carbs a day and eat as much fat as you want. I just got remission from doing the Bergstein diet (and dropped 2 stone so far).I think on the diet you're trying it's a case of finding the right carb intake for that second week and sticking to it. I hope this helps <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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