Healthy Diet at Home

(This is part 9 and the final installment of a multi-part series on How to Tweak a Low Carb Diet . It explains the path I have traveled in my weight loss journey. If you arrived here without reading part 1, you can do so by clicking on the how-to link. Part 1 also contains links to the other posts in this series.) When you begin to restrict carbohydrates to less than about 100 carbs per day, the body is forced to draw upon its liver glycogen to keep your blood glucose levels steady. That’s according to Dr. Michael Eades. I can also tell you from experience, that during those first few days, the brain doesn’t get the proper amount of fuel to function correctly. Or at least, I don’t. I know that because I start having severe vertigo attacks. Other people have talked about being tired or having brain fog. Now, the way it’s supposed to work is that the liver converts the protein you don’t need for immediate repair purposes to glucose to feed the brain. The brain can partially run on ketone...

Make Low-Carb Lifestyle Changes One at a Time Low carb isn’t a diet – it’s a lifestyle. We hear that all the time. In fact, even the latest Weight Watchers commercials are saying exactly the same thing: this isn’t a diet; it’s a lifestyle. We love the idea of not dieting. We love the idea of being able to eat to satisfaction. Plus, going into carb restriction with the perception that it’s for life helps to eliminate the dieting mindset that so many low-carb dieters fall into. We truly believe we can eat this way for the rest of our lives with no problems. Who couldn’t? You get to eat fatty meats such as pork ribs and bacon, real butter and sour cream, put heavy whipping cream in your coffee or tea, and munch on mixed nuts, assorted cheeses, olives and deviled eggs – all without having to count the calories. There’s cheesecake for dessert, low-carb pancakes and muffins, jalapeno hot poppers and dozens of ways to enjoy chicken wings. But then your birthday or anniversary rolls around or...

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...

thank you, it's a pleasure to be here. i'm an archaeological scientist and i study the healthand dietary histories of ancient peoples using bone biochemistry and ancient dna. i'm here because i wantto talk to you about the paleo diet. it's one of america's fastest growingdiet fads. the main idea behind it is that the keyto longevity and optimal health is to abandonour modern agricultural diets, which make us ill, and move far back in timeto our palaeolithic ancestors, more than 10,000 years ago,and eat like them. now, i'm really interested in this idea because it purports to putarchaeology in action, to take information we know about the past and use it in the presentto help us today. now, this idea was really startedin the 1970s with this book, "the stone age diet." it's diversified since theninto several variants, including the paleo diet,the primal blueprint, the new evolution diet, and neanderthin, and most of the language of these dietsmakes r...

thank you, it's a pleasure to be here. i'm an archaeological scientist and i study the healthand dietary histories of ancient peoples using bone biochemistry and ancient dna. i'm here because i wantto talk to you about the paleo diet. it's one of america's fastest growingdiet fads. the main idea behind it is that the keyto longevity and optimal health is to abandonour modern agricultural diets, which make us ill, and move far back in timeto our palaeolithic ancestors, more than 10,000 years ago,and eat like them. now, i'm really interested in this idea because it purports to putarchaeology in action, to take information we know about the past and use it in the presentto help us today. now, this idea was really startedin the 1970s with this book, "the stone age diet." it's diversified since theninto several variants, including the paleo diet,the primal blueprint, the new evolution diet, and neanderthin, and most of the language of these dietsmakes r...

[music] hey, m'iqus. we have salad stuff, right? okay. i'm gonna have salad withmy next meal, i think. the hardest part about metraining for a competition and trying to be like the jay cutlerpeople know as a bodybuilder, not as, like, just a fitnessguy, as a competitive bodybuilder, is the amountof calories i need to eat. the consumption of food,'cause it's consistent. and i still can't get enough. like, i'm in a deficitnow on a daily basis, trying to eat enough food. i went to bed at 280 lastnight and i woke up at 271. but that's how much i lose. i mean, on the stairsi'll lose 7 pounds. seven pounds everymorning on the stairs, seven pounds of water. the way i balance everything iswhat i wake up to and what i go to bed at and what--when i getto a point where i wake up at the same weight i go to bed at,that's when i know my body's in a good holding pattern. right now, it's out of control. he has a pretty bigbreakfast, actually. but today and f...

[music] hey, m'iqus. we have salad stuff, right? okay. i'm gonna have salad withmy next meal, i think. the hardest part about metraining for a competition and trying to be like the jay cutlerpeople know as a bodybuilder, not as, like, just a fitnessguy, as a competitive bodybuilder, is the amountof calories i need to eat. the consumption of food,'cause it's consistent. and i still can't get enough. like, i'm in a deficitnow on a daily basis, trying to eat enough food. i went to bed at 280 lastnight and i woke up at 271. but that's how much i lose. i mean, on the stairsi'll lose 7 pounds. seven pounds everymorning on the stairs, seven pounds of water. the way i balance everything iswhat i wake up to and what i go to bed at and what--when i getto a point where i wake up at the same weight i go to bed at,that's when i know my body's in a good holding pattern. right now, it's out of control. he has a pretty bigbreakfast, actually. but today and f...