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There is a lot of confusion these days about metabolism. It seems to be a scapegoat that people like to blame when weight loss doesn’t happen easily. If they’re following a low carb diet and struggling to succeed, then they believe that all of those years of eating carbohydrates must have destroyed their metabolism and made them fat. On the other side of the argument are those who oppose low carb dieting. These people claim that carbohydrate restriction will permanently alter your metabolism, but what’s the truth? Will eating carbohydrates or following a low carb diet ruin your metabolism – or not? What is Metabolism? Low carb dieters generally do not like to hear about the energy equation. Dr. Atkins told us that we no longer need to worry about calories, so most people believe the energy equation isn’t applicable to them. Calories don’t matter, they say. Dr. Eades has tried to set the record straight, but far too many people still do not want to go outside and drag the equation bac...

(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...

(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...

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a super creepy "real-life" barbie woman monsterthinks she's going to be able to survive on only sunlight and air howdy folks, trace here for dnews -- valerialukyanova has had a lot of alterations to become a real-life barbie. it's weird andcreepy and gross, but that's beside the point. she has now come out as a wanna-be breatharian.breatharian isn't a word she made up, ohhhh water diet weight loss, no. it's from eastern teachings and centersaround a belief that food and water aren't necessary to survive... she seems to wantto survive on sunshine and rainbows! but she can't. humans don't have chlorophyll to helpus absorb energy from light, we get energy from food. firstly, while there are studies to show intermittentfasting might have a benefit in mice, to completely stop eating is just cray cray. gandhi fastedfor 21 days, and doctors believe humans can go, maybe, eight weeks without food -- aslong as we have water. biologically, starvation invo...

a super creepy "real-life" barbie woman monsterthinks she's going to be able to survive on only sunlight and air howdy folks, trace here for dnews -- valerialukyanova has had a lot of alterations to become a real-life barbie. it's weird andcreepy and gross, but that's beside the point. she has now come out as a wanna-be breatharian.breatharian isn't a word she made up, ohhhh water diet weight loss, no. it's from eastern teachings and centersaround a belief that food and water aren't necessary to survive... she seems to wantto survive on sunshine and rainbows! but she can't. humans don't have chlorophyll to helpus absorb energy from light, we get energy from food. firstly, while there are studies to show intermittentfasting might have a benefit in mice, to completely stop eating is just cray cray. gandhi fastedfor 21 days, and doctors believe humans can go, maybe, eight weeks without food -- aslong as we have water. biologically, starvation invo...