Healthy Diet at Home

(This is part 6 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 this series.) At one time or another, most dieters get caught up in the desire of wanting to lose weight fast. That actually worked to my advantage because Lyle McDonald originally created his Rapid Fat Loss Plan (a whole foods PSMF Diet) to deal with crash diets safely. While McDonald’s focus is on bodybuilding, muscle retention, and metabolism, maintaining muscle mass during dieting is to everyone’s benefit – quick weight loss or not. The Kimkins fiasco brought the protein content of a low carb diet into the limelight. Dr. Eades’ did have recommendations for low carbers to shoot for. He talked about large, medium, and small servings of protein (five, four or three ounces) at each meal depending upon how much you currently weigh, getting 35 grams of carbohy

hey guys, it's wengie here. today i'm doing part two of my diet journey and today i'll be talking about sort of the experiences i've went through while i was on a diet and basically talk through how i kind of went about going on my diet to give you guys a bit of background of how much weight i lost, i lost 7 kg over the period of 3 months so i'll be talking about how i did that keep in mind i'm not a diet expert, i'm not a dietitian, i'm not here to give you any official medical or health advise i'm just, pretty much, sharing with you guys my diet story so definitely take it as that for those of you guys that didn't get to watch part one, i've linked it down below that was pretty much talking through my diet story pretty much what i weight through my life from when i was kind of like a baby, through primary school, high school so check that out i've you haven't seen it already, i encourage you guys to watch that first so to give you g

hey guys, it's wengie here. today i'm doing part two of my diet journey and today i'll be talking about sort of the experiences i've went through while i was on a diet and basically talk through how i kind of went about going on my diet to give you guys a bit of background of how much weight i lost, i lost 7 kg over the period of 3 months so i'll be talking about how i did that keep in mind i'm not a diet expert, i'm not a dietitian, i'm not here to give you any official medical or health advise i'm just, pretty much, sharing with you guys my diet story so definitely take it as that for those of you guys that didn't get to watch part one, i've linked it down below that was pretty much talking through my diet story pretty much what i weight through my life from when i was kind of like a baby, through primary school, high school so check that out i've you haven't seen it already, i encourage you guys to watch that first so to give you g

(This is part 7 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 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.) My diet break obviously refilled my glycogen stores, since I was eating more carbohydrates, but that wasn’t a surprise. I was okay with the eight-pound weight regain because everything happened exactly as Lyle McDonald said it would. Although each of us have the potential to hold different amounts of glycogen in our liver and muscles, there was no reason to believe those eight pounds were fat. I was used to inputting everything I ate into Fitday, and that didn’t stop during my break, so it was easy to keep tabs on my daily calorie count. That helped to keep me zeroed into maintenance. Overall, my complete diet break went well, except that I took my husband’s suggestion and enjoyed a full month off from dieting that Dec