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how many carbs should you eat per day to loseweight? reducing the amount of carbohydrates in yourdiet is one of the best ways to lose weight. it tends to reduce your appetite and cause�automatic� weight loss, without the need for calorie counting or portion control. this means that you can eat until fullness,feel satisfied and still lose weight. high carb low fat vegan diet, 1 why would you want to do low-carb? for the past few decades, the health authoritieshave recommended that we eat a calorie restricted, low-fat diet. the problem is that this diet doesn�t reallywork. even when people manage to stick to it, theydon�t see very good results. an alternative that has been available fora long time is the low-carb diet. this diet restricts your intake of carbohydrateslike sugars and starches (breads, pasta, etc.) and replaces them with protein and fat. studies show that low-carb diets reduce yourappetite and make you eat fewer calories and lose weight pretty much effortlessly, as ...

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...

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...

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...

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, what's up guys? sean nalewanyj here,seannal.com, bodytransformationtruth.com with a bit of a different video for you today.i just got back from the grocery store, about to head over to the gym here. but i was standingthere and had this big pile of groceries and thought why don’t i just grab the cameraand show you guys what i eat throughout a typical day right now. i'm actually just finishingup a 10-week cutting phase. i dropped about diet food, 15 pounds over that time. i wasn't actuallyintending to lose that much initially. my original plan was maybe to go about 8 poundsor so down. but as i got leaner and leaner, i decided it might be a good idea to justtake it a bit further and get some professional pictures done for my website when i am fairlylean. that’s something that i've never done before. that's going to be on tuesday. so,i'm starting a water cut tomorrow for the next three days just to really dry out beforethose photos. but i thought i would sh...

hey, what's up guys? sean nalewanyj here,seannal.com, bodytransformationtruth.com with a bit of a different video for you today.i just got back from the grocery store, about to head over to the gym here. but i was standingthere and had this big pile of groceries and thought why don’t i just grab the cameraand show you guys what i eat throughout a typical day right now. i'm actually just finishingup a 10-week cutting phase. i dropped about 15 pounds over that time. i wasn't actuallyintending to lose that much initially. my original plan was maybe to go about 8 poundsor so down. but as i got leaner and leaner, i decided it might be a good idea to justtake it a bit further and get some professional pictures done for my website when i am fairlylean. that’s something that i've never done before. that's going to be on tuesday. so,i'm starting a water cut tomorrow for the next three days just to really dry out beforethose photos. but i thought i would show you what...

hey, what's up guys? sean nalewanyj here,seannal.com, bodytransformationtruth.com with a bit of a different video for you today.i just got back from the grocery store, about to head over to the gym here. but i was standingthere and had this big pile of groceries and thought why don’t i just grab the cameraand show you guys what i eat throughout a typical day right now. i'm actually just finishingup a 10-week cutting phase. i dropped about 15 pounds over that time. i wasn't actuallyintending to lose that much initially. my original plan was maybe to go about 8 poundsor so down. but as i got leaner and leaner, i decided it might be a good idea to justtake it a bit further and get some professional pictures done for my website when i am fairlylean. that’s something that i've never done before. that's going to be on tuesday. so,i'm starting a water cut tomorrow for the next three days just to really dry out beforethose photos. but i thought i would show you what...