Quote from: KayXo on September 28, 2017, 09:56:52 AM
A great book to read is also "The art and science of low carbohydrate" by Jeff Volek. Also Gary Taubes which dispels the idea that calories in=calories out, it's more complex than that, hormones are key.

Yeah. I look at it as if one eats more than a certain amount of carbs, the body will Store it as fat. I'd probably PE have to cut my caloric intake by 20% if I at a standard diet instead of keto. I've read that Americans have tripled their consumption of sugar in the last 100 years and we've become less active. Sugar and salt are used as addictive agents in processed foods and have similar effects chemically in the brain as some drugs do. We didn't evolve to eat like many of us do and then throw in the stress of society and work, it's no wonder we have the health issues we due.


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The latest research is indicating that the government's salt recommendation is way to low and that we should be getting somewhere between 4000 to 6000 mg a day depending on climate and activity level.  For the vast majority of people salt intake has no relation to blood pressure at all.   

People would be a lot better off if they ignored the government's and most dietitians' recommendations entirely. 

Dietitians say to lose weight one should eat more often.  In what alternate universe does that even make any sense?

Eat less often, eat less sugar, eat more fat, eat adequate protein, exercise daily, problem solved.


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Yeah, the salt recommendations are so far behind the science it is just plain stupid at this point. It is predominantly a hereditary and ethnicity issue with salt and blood pressure.

My personal pet peeve is the way that different types of fat are not more distinctive in labeling. Even among different sources of a type of fat, the difference is massive. Yet they still pretend it is as simplistic as a mathematical formula from like 1875.

Quote from: Gertrude on September 28, 2017, 01:44:59 PM
Yeah. I look at it as if one eats more than a certain amount of carbs, the body will Store it as fat.

As Kay said, it's all about hormones, in this case insulin.  Insulin is the hormone that signals the body to clear sugar from the bloodstream.  It stores as glucose in the liver and muscles until those are full and converts the rest to fat to store in fat cells.  Carbs raise blood sugar and cause this insulin response.  When insulin is present the body is storing fat and glucose and stops releasing fat from fat cells to be burned as energy.  So, if you eat lots of carbs, or even just eat often, insulin remains high in the bloodstream always and fat storage continues unabated.

There are three solutions.  A. Eat a lot less carbs, ketogenic diet.  B. Eat a lot less often, fasting.  C. Exercise like a beast to burn all the glucose out of your liver and muscles every day so they simply refill instead of storing fat.  (That's probably 1.5 to 2 hours of running or an equivalent per day; more than most people can sustain)

Some combination of the three probably is the best solution.



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The best part of losing weight is getting into clothes that didn't fit. I had bought a ponte sheath with short sleeves and put it on today like I was going to work in it. I felt like a million bucks. Every day should be like this.


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