Q. If you eat 2500 calories but very few carbs, will the Atkins diet still work? (I only need about 1700 calories.)
Wow! So, even though 2500 calories normally causes me to gain weight, on Atkins 2500 calories would result in weight loss.
Wow! So, even though 2500 calories normally causes me to gain weight, on Atkins 2500 calories would result in weight loss.
A. It's been impossible to study high calorie low carb, since protein is fairly self regulating and low carb creates a natural appetite suppression. The highest study I've found is 2600 calories. In one discussion group, the calorie theory was under discussion & one lean fellow experimented on himself & added an extra 2000 calories a day in dietary fat to his normal high fat, low carb maintenance level of 2500 calories for a total of 4500 calories a day - an extra 14,000 calories in a week - which according to the calorie theory should add 4# but he lost 1#. The greater the dietary fat ratio, the easier the loss of excess fat stores.
As long as you have <9grams carbs per hour, you will maintain insulin control & shouldn't gain weight, no matter the calories because insulin, the fat storage hormone is not activated.
There is NO evidence to substantiate the calorie theory. It may sound logical, but the body is built for survival & does not follow logical mathematical equations. *If* you research how they determine what a calorie is you may wonder, like I do, what that has to do with the human body - using foods as fuel to heat water has no correlation to the human body.
Gary Taubes spent 7 years going over all the studies on nutrition, which is the basis of his recent book "Good calories, Bad calories"
He makes a case based on substantiated scientific studies that -
> Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating & not sedentary behaviour.
> Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter, any more than it causes a child to grow taller.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIGV9VOOtew&feature=related
Studies have shown that some people can gain fat stores even on a semi starvation diet of 1000 calories a day - if it's composition is high carb, low fat. So obviously, calories aren't the key to fat loss (or gain).
Low carb works for fat loss by the body releasing excess fat & not forcing excess fat off. The body is built for survival - lower calories & it will slow the metabolism to function on fewer calories & catabolize it's own lean tissues as an energy drain. The body adjusts occasionally, making sure there is plenty of nutrition. The worst thing you can do is cut calories & carbs. I recommend increasing calories & carbs to reassure the body that there is not a famine.
Fat won't make you fat (but a low fat, high carb diet can). Fat is essential to good health. (not including transfats) & supports a strong immune system & helps hormones to function properly. Fat tempers the devastating health effects of carbohydrates. Fat is needed to make the vitamins & minerals in your foods (like calcium & vit.D in milk or alpha and beta carotene and lycopene in vegs) bioavailable so they can be incorporated into the body structure. Most people do better with a higher level of fat than with less, even if the body is being fueled by carbs & not fat.
The body can not release body fat stores until the bloodstream is clear of insulin. Carbs greater than 9grams per hour trigger insulin. Insulin is the only fat storage hormone.
I am adamantly opposed to low calorie dieting because most people lose a good portion of lean tissue (including vital organs like the heart) along with fat stores. Low calories convert dietary protein to a very inefficient fuel, forcing the body to catabolize it's own lean tissues for nutrition. There is no nutrition in fat stores, only energy.
Low calories slow the metabolism to function on fewer calories. Most people get impatient and lower their calories and increase their exercise to a point where they lose so much lean tissue that when they return to what was maintenance level eating they are now accumulating more fat stores because their caloric needs have dropped due to the loss of this tissue and it becomes a vicious cycle of dieting and more loss (including vital organs like the heart) This stress cannot be healthy.
As long as you have <9grams carbs per hour, you will maintain insulin control & shouldn't gain weight, no matter the calories because insulin, the fat storage hormone is not activated.
There is NO evidence to substantiate the calorie theory. It may sound logical, but the body is built for survival & does not follow logical mathematical equations. *If* you research how they determine what a calorie is you may wonder, like I do, what that has to do with the human body - using foods as fuel to heat water has no correlation to the human body.
Gary Taubes spent 7 years going over all the studies on nutrition, which is the basis of his recent book "Good calories, Bad calories"
He makes a case based on substantiated scientific studies that -
> Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating & not sedentary behaviour.
> Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter, any more than it causes a child to grow taller.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIGV9VOOtew&feature=related
Studies have shown that some people can gain fat stores even on a semi starvation diet of 1000 calories a day - if it's composition is high carb, low fat. So obviously, calories aren't the key to fat loss (or gain).
Low carb works for fat loss by the body releasing excess fat & not forcing excess fat off. The body is built for survival - lower calories & it will slow the metabolism to function on fewer calories & catabolize it's own lean tissues as an energy drain. The body adjusts occasionally, making sure there is plenty of nutrition. The worst thing you can do is cut calories & carbs. I recommend increasing calories & carbs to reassure the body that there is not a famine.
Fat won't make you fat (but a low fat, high carb diet can). Fat is essential to good health. (not including transfats) & supports a strong immune system & helps hormones to function properly. Fat tempers the devastating health effects of carbohydrates. Fat is needed to make the vitamins & minerals in your foods (like calcium & vit.D in milk or alpha and beta carotene and lycopene in vegs) bioavailable so they can be incorporated into the body structure. Most people do better with a higher level of fat than with less, even if the body is being fueled by carbs & not fat.
The body can not release body fat stores until the bloodstream is clear of insulin. Carbs greater than 9grams per hour trigger insulin. Insulin is the only fat storage hormone.
I am adamantly opposed to low calorie dieting because most people lose a good portion of lean tissue (including vital organs like the heart) along with fat stores. Low calories convert dietary protein to a very inefficient fuel, forcing the body to catabolize it's own lean tissues for nutrition. There is no nutrition in fat stores, only energy.
Low calories slow the metabolism to function on fewer calories. Most people get impatient and lower their calories and increase their exercise to a point where they lose so much lean tissue that when they return to what was maintenance level eating they are now accumulating more fat stores because their caloric needs have dropped due to the loss of this tissue and it becomes a vicious cycle of dieting and more loss (including vital organs like the heart) This stress cannot be healthy.
Will the Atkins diet work for a person who is a normal weight?
Q. I have a 20 BMI but I'd like to lose just a few pounds, and it's really hard. I want to restrict calories to 1400 a day and exercise. I was just wondering if the Atkins diet is likely to work for someone who isn't overweight.
NO OPINIONS ON THE DIET OR ANYTHING PLEASE. JUST THE FACTS :) Thanks! 10 pts!
NO OPINIONS ON THE DIET OR ANYTHING PLEASE. JUST THE FACTS :) Thanks! 10 pts!
A. Yes it actually will because I am actually underweight and I went on that diet because at the time my Chiropractor suggested it for my Fibromylagia and Chronic Fatigue. I felt better on it, but couldn't eat enough calories to help me keep on my weight. I had lost over 10 pounds in a short amount of time.
How long does the withdrawal from carbohydrates take on the atkins diet?
Q. In other words, how long does it take to stop feeling like S&^T.
A. are you eating enough calories?.
i had absolutely no trouble eating almost no carbs.
i felt great immediately.
i had absolutely no trouble eating almost no carbs.
i felt great immediately.
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