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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 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...

(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...

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...

I recently received a comment from a reader that suggested my lack of dieting success was probably due to my inability to stay with one particular low-carb diet plan long enough to reap results. The advice I received was to go on a low-carb, high-fat diet and give it six months or more to work before analyzing.  That was similar to the advice I received from the zero-carb folks a few years ago when despite the fact that I had gained about 20 pounds in the first three weeks and was experiencing abnormally high blood glucose levels, they told me to eat only beef, drink only water, and wait six months before reviewing the results. They didn't seem to care about the resurrected neuropathy. They were just sure that their way was the only way.  The problem with that type of advice is that it doesn't work for everyone.  Take Responsibility for Your Own Health Correcting metabolic issues isn't always as easy as lowering your carbohydrate level. For example, I'm juggling vertigo...

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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...

3 ingredient shots for accelerated weightloss, faster metabolism & better digestion! we all have a fast running life and it oftenhappen that we skip our breakfast or any of the meal in the day. it has a bad effect onyour health. so, if you don’t have time to eat then here are some drink shots whichyou can have in the morning to keep your body healthy. this drinks will be a part of your healthyand balanced diet which you should follow every day. the drinks will help you to keepyour body in right shape and free from ailments. you can use these energy shots to complimentyour breakfast. here are the quick recipes to prepare these energy shots. lean green energy shot: this is a high energy smoothie which willhelp you to keep your body running all day long! things you need: ginger (1 slice).organic spinach (2 cups). frozen organic blueberries (⼠cup).stevia for sweetness (optional) 1 tsp. process: 1. take 2 cups of nicely chopped organic spinachand ⼠cup of frozen organic blueberries...

The newest diabetes diet recommendations came out a few days ago: eat more carbs, and use drugs to keep your blood glucose under control. Scary stuff. Diabetes Health Magazine recently ran an article by Hope Warshaw entitled “Type 2 Diabetes: From Old Dogmas to New Realities – Part 2.” In that article Warshaw first focuses on and ridicules weight loss for diabetics in connection with better glucose control, and then likewise attacks a low carb diet – calling both of them old dogma. For those who have actually studied the principles and science behind carbohydrate restriction and/or have put them to the test, adversity against our own personal truth and experience isn’t new. But when someone looked to as an authoritative voice presents that, a minimum carbohydrate intake of 45% of daily calories is the new reality for diabetics, it’s hard to walk away and let that be. Is Weight Loss for Diabetics Really Dogma? When I was first diagnosed with pre-diabetes, my physician believed that if I...