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The masses within the low-carb community tend to stick to about 20 to 35 net carbohydrates per day. The current perspective on Ketosis is that it takes 50 grams or less for most people to maintain that metabolic state. You’d think that asking, “How low is low carb?” would be rather silly. Wouldn’t the obvious answer be less than 50 carbohydrates per day? How Low is Low Carb? Well, maybe…but maybe not. How low is low carb exactly? Like almost anything, it all depends on which low-carb expert you ask, and how much weight you place on their theory and belief. It wasn’t very long ago that the same people who are currently trying to talk us into converting to a low protein, low carb, high-fat lifestyle (for our own good, of course) were preaching something very different. Gluten Exposure Has Resulted in Weight Gain  Understanding where the line is between a low-carb diet and something else is particularly important to me because I’ve recently found myself in the unwelcomed position of...

(This is part 4 of a multi-part series on How to Tweak a Low Carb Diet . It discusses my weight loss journey so far. If you didn’t read part 1, you can do so by clicking on the how-to link. Part 1 also includes links to the rest of the series.)  I took a quick glance at the archives to see if I could discover exactly when I first started doing the Kimkins Diet back in 2007, but I kept it quiet due to the controversy surrounding that plan. I can remember communicating with Jimmy Moore several times back then, as he was doing the Kimkins Diet himself, but I couldn’t find anything I had actually posted to this blog. People were very emphatic back then that you had to eat a certain amount of dietary fat. You had to eat a ton of protein, and you had to get a certain amount of calories, or you were not doing low carb. Because of these self-made dietary restrictions, these same individuals refused to call Kimkins a low carb diet. They insisted it was a glucose-burning diet, even though it...

This morning I was taking a stroll through some of the threads over at Low Carb Friends, and I ran into something that really disturbed me. A patient of Dr. Westman was there asking for help. She has been on the high-fat low-carb diet known as Nutritional Ketosis for 4 months now. She is eating 20 carbs or less, is losing about 1 to 2 pounds a week, but she feels horrible. For some reason, she is not adapting to the state of Ketosis. Despite a high salt intake, she's having excruciating foot and leg cramps, gets dizzy, and comes near to passing out during her gym activities. She says she has zero energy, so her gym routine has dropped from 5 days a week and 1 trainer session, to just the training. She is taking magnesium and potassium supplements, along with chicken broth every day, but nothing is helping. She's exhausted and feels horrible, and yet, they want her to continue with the regimen she's been on, even though it's not working for her. That doesn't make an...

Is a Low-Carb Diet Sustainable? (Photo by Alpha ) As most of you know, I’m extremely partial to the 1972 and the 1992 versions of The Atkins Diet. The ’72 version was based on Dr. Atkins own experiences following a low-carb diet and a few initial clinical observations. The original ’92 version (the first edition) was based on the feedback that he actually got from his patients. Many of them were cheating by adding a few vegetables to Induction along with the salad, which they eventually admitted to. Since Dr. Atkins patients still lost weight easily eating that way, Dr. Atkins decided it was okay to add 2/3 of a cup of cooked vegetables to his Induction Plan. Because of that addition, he lengthened Induction from one week to two. The second edition printed around 1999 was exactly the same as the first one except for a one-line comment he made about how he couldn’t find anything unreasonable about deducting soluble fiber grams from the total carbohydrate count – the type found in the ps...

hey guys, sean nalewanyj here of seannal.comand bodytransformationtruth.com and in today's video i want to provide for all of the beginnersout there, my 8 step quick start muscle building and fat loss guide. now i receive a lot ofemails and facebook messages and youtube questions every single day from guys and girls all aroundthe world looking to build muscle, lose fat and get into their best shape. some questionsare very specific and can be answered in just a few sentences or less, while others aremuch broader and would require a full article or video for me to properly address. now themost common inquiries that i receive are from those who are just starting out and they simplyneed to be pointed in the right direction. they're either looking to bulk up and gainmuscle, or lean down and lose fat, and they just need some solid, reliable steps to followto get on the right path towards their goal. so there's of course no way for me to coverall of this in a few sentences or less...

hey guys, sean nalewanyj here of seannal.comand bodytransformationtruth.com and in today's video i want to provide for all of the beginnersout there, my 8 step quick start muscle building and fat loss guide. now i receive a lot ofemails and facebook messages and youtube questions every single day from guys and girls all aroundthe world looking to build muscle, lose fat and get into their best shape. some questionsare very specific and can be answered in just a few sentences or less, while others aremuch broader and would require a full article or video for me to properly address. now themost common inquiries that i receive are from those who are just starting out and they simplyneed to be pointed in the right direction. they're either looking to bulk up and gainmuscle, or lean down and lose fat, and they just need some solid, reliable steps to followto get on the right path towards their goal. so there's of course no way for me to coverall of this in a few sentences or less...

Tracy Rose, the Topic Editor at Suite101 for the Weight Loss Section, posted a link on Facebook this morning to her latest diet article. This article deals with the latest trend being marketed to brides: the K-E Diet. Now, we know that low carb diets in general are not new, and we know that when followed correctly, protein-sparing modified fasts are not dangerous. In fact, if you’re relatively free from additional food sensitivities, allergies and health issues, low carb programs are easy to implement and many varieties offer a luxurious living style. The latest fad diet (the K-E method) casts a dark shadow over low carb and PSMF diets. It involves inserting a feeding tube through your nose and into your stomach. This feeding tube delivers a protein solution that totals about 800 calories per day, so in essence, this diet scheme is a low carbohydrate protein sparing modified fast. You don’t eat. You just take in this solution of protein and fat for 10 days and magically shed 20 pounds ...

hey guys, sean nalewanyj here of seannal.comand bodytransformationtruth.com and in this video lesson i want to outline 6 common bodybuildingnutrition myths that you should definitely be aware of. now balancing your fitness programwith your career and your friends, and your family and all of your other hobbies and pursuitsis hard enough work as it is and the last thing you need on top of this is to wastevaluable energy and time on useless, ineffective nutritional techniques that really do nothingbut make your life more complicated. proper bodybuilding nutrition is actually prettystraightforward, and you really don't need to employ anything anything overly fancy orcomplicated in order for your results to be maximized. so avoiding these 6 myths is goingto make your life a heck of a lot easier, it's going to make your diet far easier tofollow and it will still yield the same muscle building and fat burning results that you'reafter. so, bodybuilding nutrition myth #1 is that you...

hey guys, sean nalewanyj here of seannal.comand bodytransformationtruth.com and in this video lesson i want to outline 6 common bodybuildingnutrition myths that you should definitely be aware of. now balancing your fitness programwith your career and your friends, and your family and all of your other hobbies and pursuitsis hard enough work as it is and the last thing you need on top of this is to wastevaluable energy and time on useless, ineffective nutritional techniques that really do nothingbut make your life more complicated. proper bodybuilding nutrition is actually prettystraightforward, and you really don't need to employ anything anything overly fancy orcomplicated in order for your results to be maximized. so avoiding these 6 myths is goingto make your life a heck of a lot easier, it's going to make your diet far easier tofollow and it will still yield the same muscle building and fat burning results that you'reafter. so, bodybuilding nutrition myth #1 is that you...