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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...

so i have to tell this story about my tenday water fast okay? cause it's pretty crazy. really intense. really insane. if you've nevercried out of sheer hunger than you don't know what i've gone through, okay? the reason whyi was on a hunger s.... i almost called it a hunger strike. so i came to the idea ofa water fast in a really round about way. i had.. we're into 2013 right now but 2012was really rough for me. i was so sick. basically water diet, i had an undiagnosed skin condition. the doctorswere telling me it eczema, psoriasis, i had dermatitis. they all had different names forit. i was also on a vegan diet. so a lot of them told me "oh it's from eating dairy andpreservatives" and i said well actually no, i eat a raw vegan diet and they were likeoh! so another doctor told me that my vegan diet was the problem so i ate bacon for amonth straight. long story. i was taking all types of supplements to try and help. i triedevery holistic medicine you co...

(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...

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...

(This is Part 2 of a two-part series. If you didn't read Part 1, you can find it here . This post was originally published at my Sharing the Magic of Low-Carb Living blog. I'm moving it here because the information is important and I have other plans for that blog now.) Once I realized that the zero-carb folks didn't understand biology, I stopped posting to that particular forum. I didn't know if I was hurting myself by being there. However, I was enjoying the thread on Frankenfoods, and I couldn't read and participate in that thread unless I was a member of the forum. So I just kept silently reading. In addition to the forum, I read everything about biochemistry that I could find on education websites. I read everything on the Bloodsugar 101 website. And I read everything on the "Over 50s" thread at the zero-carb forum as well. That thread began to reveal a lot of things that I was going through. From the gain of belly fat, to the rise in blood sugars, I ...

How important is Ketosis to a Low Carb Diet? There is an awakening that’s beginning within the low-carb community. It’s an awakening to the realities of Ketosis, it’s importance in weight-loss success, and the rude awakening that we might have somehow deceived ourselves as to what Ketosis actually is and does. While the state of Ketosis is not necessary to achieve a healthy weight, it’s interplay with insulin resistance and fat metabolism is not always understood. When Dr. Atkins was young, he was one of those kids who could eat anything he wanted and not gain weight. In the early 1960s, however, he found himself with three chins looking 15 years older than he was. That was a critical turning point in his life. He had to face what he’d become: a fat man. Although he knew he needed to do something about his condition, like most of us, he was afraid of being hungry. He didn’t want to reduce his portion sizes and go on a low-calorie diet. He wanted magic. As a doctor, he knew that hunger ...