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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 ...

hi everyone! it's esther here. i hope you're having a great day! i am here with my keto fat bomb grocery haul. i have a lot of sugar substitutes. if you've been watching my channel you know that i'm low carb diet results, about to start testing them and adding them back into my diet to see how they affect my blood keto levels as well as just me being in ketosis in general. i took a lot of your suggestions and i have a lot of really good artificial sweeteners here to try out. but if you're just tuning in to my channel i have been running, i have been running a series on getting back into ketosis and checking my blood ketone levels. i've been sharing my test results. if you want to find out more about what i've been doing you can just click on the card above and it will take you right to it. but i do feel like sugar substitutes and fat bombs kind of go hand in hand. i didn't make any fat bombs while i was not eating sugar substitutes just because most of t...

(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’ve been watching the Nutritional Ketosis movement for several weeks now, and I came to a serious “AHA moment” yesterday. I attempted a real Ketogenic diet several years ago – the type they put kids with seizures on – but I didn’t have much luck with it. In fact, I quickly gained about 10 to 15 pounds within the first week or two, so I haven’t been that interested in doing it myself, but I’ve been curious about it in case it worked well for others. A high-fat, low-carb diet isn’t new. Barry Groves has been recommending that type of weight-loss program for years! But what the low-carb community zeroed in on when presented with that type of diet was only the high fat. That’s where most people placed their focus because that’s what they wanted to eat. It didn’t matter that Dr. Atkins boldly claimed his diet was not a high-fat diet. Fat is what’s restricted on a standard low-calorie diet and doesn’t raise blood glucose levels, so that’s what makes low carbing attractive to many folks. For...

if this is your plan for getting in the bestshape of your life for this year then you and i have to talk a little bit. i think thebest time is right now. what's up, guys? jeff cavaliere, athleanx.com. diet and exercise: the ultimate combo. theholy grail when it comes to getting in shape? not quite. actually, it’s the two biggest words i frigginghate that we're not only going to have you get rid of, but redefine, and replace withtwo things that really do matter. we don’t want to talk about diet and exerciseanymore. what we want to talk about is nutrition and training. this is not about a game ofsemantics. it's not. this is about the mindset that goes into usingthese words. if you think about it, people that talk about 'diet and exercise' are notall that serious. they're in it for the short term. they're looking for those short term successes.can i follow a diet? sure i can follow a diet. maybe for three freaking weeks. i could tell you right now, most of ...

the keto diet, another typical fad diet? actually,it's been around for a while now, and people are getting some pretty good results fromit. so what exactly is so different? well, most of these fad diets you find simply tellsyou to eat this certain type of food and avoid those certain type of food and voila, you'reon your way to losing a hundred pounds! of course, a lot of them don't really work andmakes very little sense. what's special about the keto diet, short for ketogenic, is thatit changes how your body feels, and most importantly, how your body uses energy by placing you intoa state known as ketosis. and this is where all the magic happens.in ketosis, your body starts utilizing substances known as ketone bodies, which are producedby the breakdown of your body fat triglycerides. quick science, first understand that yourbody loves glucose. if it has glucose on hand, it's going to use that first for energy. inaketo diet, the amount of carbohydrates you consume g...

Here's the Secret for  Making a Low-Carb Diet  More Successful January always brings a rush of folks to the low-carb fold. Some of them are new and are interested in the quick fat-loss claims that ketogenic diets are known to produce and want to see if they can lose weight as quickly themselves. Others have come back to Atkins Induction for a second or third time because it worked so well for them in the past. Stories that second-timers tell vary in the details, of course, but most of the stories have the same thread running throughout the tale: Something stressful popped up in your life, and you didn't know how to handle the challenge without eating all of your favorite foods. Ketogenic diets work. Maybe not as quickly as you're hoping it will, but it's one of the easiest ways to lose weight due to the way it eliminates the hunger that is so typical on low-calorie diets. Even so, making it work takes a strong mental attitude adjustment. You have to want to change your...