Healthy Diet at Home

The masses within the low-carb community tend to stick to about 20 to 35 net carbohydrates per day. The current perspective on Ketosis is that it takes 50 grams or less for most people to maintain that metabolic state. You’d think that asking, “How low is low carb?” would be rather silly. Wouldn’t the obvious answer be less than 50 carbohydrates per day? How Low is Low Carb? Well, maybe…but maybe not. How low is low carb exactly? Like almost anything, it all depends on which low-carb expert you ask, and how much weight you place on their theory and belief. It wasn’t very long ago that the same people who are currently trying to talk us into converting to a low protein, low carb, high-fat lifestyle (for our own good, of course) were preaching something very different. Gluten Exposure Has Resulted in Weight Gain  Understanding where the line is between a low-carb diet and something else is particularly important to me because I’ve recently found myself in the unwelcomed position of hav

(This is Part 1 of a two-part series. It was originally posted 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.) Over the course of my low-carb journey, I have tried several different types of low-carb diets. Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution, Atkins 72, the Kimkins Diet, Protein Power, and a round of hHCG are just a few. Each time I made a change or tweak, I would carefully evaluate my progress to see if what I was doing was working, or if I needed to toss it aside. In the Spring of 2009, I started participating in a 100-Day Very Low-Carb Challenge. The reason I entered into that challenge was because a traditional low-carb diet had stopped working for me. Since the whole idea of a low-carb diet is to find your own personal carbohydrate sensitivity, I thought the basis for the challenge made perfect sense. If you aren't losing weight, then you're eating too many carbohydrates. Perio

[tl;dr music] two week ago, we did a video about mukbangs and we talked about how some korean superstars are eating obscene amounts of food on camera and not gaining an ounce of weight off of it. this lead to a lot of discussion and comments that had nothing to do with the actual mukbangs but had to do with eating and eating disorders in korea. korean diets, we also got a question from shivi who asked, "how are eating disorders treated in korea, how are they perceived in korea and if somebody has an eating disorder, is there any way to get them any help?" this is quite the topic. yes. yes it is. now, one thing i want to say at the beginning is that some of the comments i also saw from people said things like "oh, asian girls are so skinny, i can't tell if they're anorexic or they're just asian" and that really actually makes me feel really upset because my sister is pretty much half of my size she's older than me, but she's like a size 0 to 1 and