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(This is part 5 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.) After leaving the Kimkins’ weight loss diet behind, I began reading through Lyle McDonald’s website and body building forum because of a comment I received to one of my blog posts. This commenter had gotten stuck when she was almost to goal weight and had broken her stall by incorporating Lyle’s technique of using refeeds to reset her Leptin and other hormone levels back to normal. She warned me that the forum participants were not always nice to each other, especially newbies, and that they could be a bit over-the-top, but she believed the information I would find there would help me decide what to do next. That piqued my interest. Not only because I trusted the source of that information, but because I knew there had to be a valid reason

how to lose weight fast exercise daily set realistic goals and keep off the cardio be sure to count your calories watch your portion sizes and to never skip a meal consider a treatment cut and water only diet, visiting a sauna or doing a body wrapped lastly consider a diet such as the mediterranean diet or the paleo diet but make sure that it is right for you method 1 exercising to lose weight 1 make time for exercise exercising might actually make you gain a few pounds of muscle when you first start but it's an essential component of any long-term sustainable weight loss plan regardless of how busy you are it is essential that you make time to exercise each day if you actually want to lose weight and keep it off even little things like walking instead of driving to the store can affect how quickly you lose weight one exercise while doing chores make as many trips up stairs as possible walk the dog three times a day and dust sweep and mop with vigor increase the amount of walking y

I’ve received a few questions lately asking me how I managed to make a low carb diet work so well for me. These questions are coming from individuals who have tried The Atkins Diet, as written, but have not found it to work as promised. With all of the various Atkins' diets to choose from – Atkins ‘72, Atkins ‘92, Atkins ’99, Atkins 2002, and the latest version called A New Atkins for a New You – which one did I use? Which version worked best for me? Other questions have asked how to make a low carb diet work, period. What can people do when Atkins stops working or when it doesn’t work to begin with? How can you tweak a low carb diet to achieve success? So this first post is going to be an introduction to that topic, and then future posts will go more into detail of how I actually lost over 100 pounds following a low carb diet. The Atkins Diet as written is an attempt to reach the greatest majority of individuals. It is a general guideline that works for most people, but it does no

(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

(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 lim

Whether you’re new to low carb or a well-seasoned dieter, starting a low carb diet can be exciting. Watching the pounds drop that very first week or two can put you in a better frame of mind to keep going, but if you expect that weight loss to continue, you’ll soon be in for a surprise. For those who have used carbohydrate restriction before, the slow-down isn’t discouraging. For a newbie to the low carb way of eating, however, it can be confusing. Questions begin to build up: Am I following the diet wrong? Has my low carb diet stopped working? If I’m exercising and eating correctly, why am I not losing weight? How can I be in ketosis and not lose weight? What can I do to break my stall? When your weight loss slows to a crawl or you hit a wall, it’s common to want to know what’s happening. Although there’s no way to know for sure, there are several possibilities. Dehydration One of the main reasons you might not be losing weight is due to dehydration or electrolyte imbalances. When

What Am I Not Losing Weight On Atkins? When it comes to weight loss, patience is vital. We all lose body fat at different rates, and each body undergoes different protective processes that we sometimes have to simply wait out. While some people lose weight slow and steady, others lose weight in stages. But if you’ve crossed over that 4-week line where you haven’t lost pounds or inches, what then? What can you do to encourage your body to let go of some of that excess body fat? 1. You Might Be Eating Too Much Fat There are many reasons why your weight loss might have stalled, and some of them are extremely contradictory. Eating too much fat is one them. While today’s low-carb mantra claims raising the amount of dietary fat you eat can cure everything from weight loss stalls to the Atkins Flu, before Dr. Atkins passed away, that wasn’t what the Atkins Center was telling folks. In fact, checking out the amount of fat you’re eating was the first thing they always asked you to look at back

clever tricks to train your brain to hatejunk food. by lifebuzzfeed.com if unhealthy, processed food, is sabotagingyour weight loss efforts, outsmart junk food cravings with these clever tricks. why do we crave unhealthy food? hypnosis for weight loss, as explained in the recent new york timesmagazine piece, "the extraordinary science of addictive junk food," there's no denyingthat junk food cravings are powerful, physiological reactions—and, apparently, carefully andstrategically developed by food manufacturers. many of our favorite supermarket snacks aremade with the “perfect” amounts of added sugar, salt, fat, and other chemicals designedto make us want more. but you can steer clear of processed foodby eating as many healthy, whole foods as possible, and the less junk food you eat,the less you want. try the following tips and see if they workfor you. 1. practice the five-ingredient rule. if there are more than five ingredients ona food label—a red flag for food

clever tricks to train your brain to hatejunk food. by lifebuzzfeed.com if unhealthy, processed food, is sabotagingyour weight loss efforts, outsmart junk food cravings with these clever tricks. why do we crave unhealthy food? hypnosis for weight loss, as explained in the recent new york timesmagazine piece, "the extraordinary science of addictive junk food," there's no denyingthat junk food cravings are powerful, physiological reactions—and, apparently, carefully andstrategically developed by food manufacturers. many of our favorite supermarket snacks aremade with the “perfect” amounts of added sugar, salt, fat, and other chemicals designedto make us want more. but you can steer clear of processed foodby eating as many healthy, whole foods as possible, and the less junk food you eat,the less you want. try the following tips and see if they workfor you. 1. practice the five-ingredient rule. if there are more than five ingredients ona food label—a red flag for food

clever tricks to train your brain to hatejunk food. by lifebuzzfeed.com if unhealthy, processed food, is sabotagingyour weight loss efforts, outsmart junk food cravings with these clever tricks. why do we crave unhealthy food? weight loss hypnosis, as explained in the recent new york timesmagazine piece, "the extraordinary science of addictive junk food," there's no denyingthat junk food cravings are powerful, physiological reactions—and, apparently, carefully andstrategically developed by food manufacturers. many of our favorite supermarket snacks aremade with the “perfect” amounts of added sugar, salt, fat, and other chemicals designedto make us want more. but you can steer clear of processed foodby eating as many healthy, whole foods as possible, and the less junk food you eat,the less you want. try the following tips and see if they workfor you. 1. practice the five-ingredient rule. if there are more than five ingredients ona food label—a red flag for food pro