Healthy Diet at Home

(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

(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 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

♪♪♪ when it comes to nutrition,i rely heavily on the research that's been publishedin journals and done by scientists allover the world. but just because something'sbeen discovered in the lab does not mean that it'snecessarily gonna carry over into the real world. so i test it on myselfand thousands of people who follow my advice. so with all that data, i'm ableto sort of bring it all together into the best nutritionadvice that's out there. with the nutrition programfor "shortcut to shred," it's all based onmacronutrients. getting the protein tocomplement the recovery from the training helps you to buildmore strength and muscle. that's gonna keep youalso burning more body fat. in the "shortcut to shred"program, the macronutrients are ranked protein first,fat is actually second, and then carbs comein third place. protein is the most criticalmacronutrient on the "shortcut to shred" programfor the simple fact that muscle is m

How Does Alcohol Affect My Metabolism? Alcohol plays a large role in many of our lives. We have a drink when we come home from a hard day. We have a drink when we go out to dinner or want to celebrate a special occasion. We even have a drink when we just want to relax and kick back with a few of our friends. Alcohol is probably just as interwoven within traditional American society as food is, but if you’re attempting to follow a low carb diet, what does that mean? How does alcohol affect fat metabolism?   Dr. Atkins’ Views on Alcohol When Dr. Atkins’ wrote his first low carb diet book back in the early 70s, he believed that alcohol was the number one problem with weight control. Although it isn’t actually a carbohydrate, he handled it as if it were: “But this is one diet where alcohol acts just like a carbohydrate. It makes your body discharge insulin and stops you from putting out FMH.” FMH stands for fat-mobilizing hormone. Due to the initial metabolic advantage experienced befo

♪♪♪ when it comes to nutrition,i rely heavily on the research that's been publishedin journals and done by scientists allover the world. but just because something'sbeen discovered in the lab does not mean that it'snecessarily gonna carry over into the real world. so i test it on myselfand thousands of people who follow my advice. so with all that data, i'm ableto sort of bring it all together into the best nutritionadvice that's out there. with the nutrition programfor "shortcut to shred," it's all based onmacronutrients. getting the protein tocomplement the recovery from the training helps you to buildmore strength and muscle. that's gonna keep youalso burning more body fat. in the "shortcut to shred"program, the macronutrients are ranked protein first,fat is actually second, and then carbs comein third place. protein is the most criticalmacronutrient on the "shortcut to shred" programfor the simple fact that muscle is m

♪♪♪ when it comes to nutrition,i rely heavily on the research that's been publishedin journals and done by scientists allover the world. but just because something'sbeen discovered in the lab does not mean that it'snecessarily gonna carry over into the real world. so i test it on myselfand thousands of people who follow my advice. so with all that data, i'm ableto sort of bring it all together into the best nutritionadvice that's out there. with the nutrition programfor "shortcut to shred," it's all based onmacronutrients. getting the protein tocomplement the recovery from the training helps you to buildmore strength and muscle. that's gonna keep youalso burning more body fat. in the "shortcut to shred"program, the macronutrients are ranked protein first,fat is actually second, and then carbs comein third place. protein is the most criticalmacronutrient on the "shortcut to shred" programfor the simple fact that muscle is m

♪♪♪ when it comes to nutrition,i rely heavily on the research that's been publishedin journals and done by scientists allover the world. but just because something'sbeen discovered in the lab does not mean that it'snecessarily gonna carry over into the real world. so i test it on myselfand thousands of people who follow my advice. so with all that data, i'm ableto sort of bring it all together into the best nutritionadvice that's out there. with the nutrition programfor "shortcut to shred," it's all based onmacronutrients. getting the protein tocomplement the recovery from the training helps you to buildmore strength and muscle. that's gonna keep youalso burning more body fat. in the "shortcut to shred"program, the macronutrients are ranked protein first,fat is actually second, and then carbs comein third place. protein is the most criticalmacronutrient on the "shortcut to shred" programfor the simple fact that muscle is m