I think I'm going to dye my hair and run away.
I’d go based on how you FEEL when it comes to eating (within reason - I mean...you can’t “feel” like eating ice cream all the time!)....I found that carbs just make me hungry, protein and fat keep me from eating too much...
I’m a believer of, we are what we eat and that our body is great at healing itself. We become ill because theres an inbalance of the kind of nutrient that the body need
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Enjoy your frosted sugar flakes chumps.
I misread that at first ....saw it as "Following a ketogenic diet is burial."....in my case maybe it's a hint!
I am 5’5” and had gone up to 165 lbs caring for my husband with Alzheimers until he died. Then I tried to loose weight and after almost a year was down to 155 lbs. Then I ran across the Atkins low carb diet. I followed the instruction that I found at Google. Can’t think of the term for the first phase (maybe Induction Phase), but it restricts one to 20 grams of carb, 8 glasses of water a day, and a mix of protein, low carb vegies, and fatty food. I did not go overboard with the fats—2 pieces of bacon with 2 eggs for breakfast. Salad with oil and vinager, tuna or chicken for lunch and similar for supper with cooked low carb vegetables, with one or two snacks of 20 peanuts or almonds and low carb (3 gms) yogurt in between. In about 3 months I was down to 128 lbs. Then I was hit with a mess of legal troubles and nibbled my way back to 155 lbs this past holiday season. Now I am trying, not too hard, to loose weight again and am down to 145lbs. So far I have not gone on a strict Atkins diet, but might do so again if nothing moves lower in a month.
One set of studies showed that the most weight was lost on a low carb diet when compared with low fat or mixed.
Go Paleolitic diet, most of these problems go away.
You won't like it. Nobody does. The answer is you are burning less calories than you are taking in. Period. Doesn't matter what the calories are. That's the problem.
So, how do we solve the problem? That probably varies from person to person, but I'm a guy who can convince myself to follow a plan based on a guaranteed outcome.
How do we guarantee the outcome you ask? Follow these simple steps:
1) Go here and put in your weight, height, etc. (Don't lie here, because you'll be sorry later if you do. Get on the scale and do it right.)
2) Get a smartphone or a tablet or some mobile device. You can do it on the home computer, but it's better if it is mobile, so you can find out how many calories are in whatever you might come across.
3) Search for 'calorie counter' in whatever app store/market you have on your device and download it. I like the one from FatSecret, but others do well with MyFitnessPal. Either app will not only allow you to count calories, but it has a large database of foods and ingredients, including the entire menu of most major chain restaurants and fast food places. (Yes, I said fast food. I never ate fast food before I did this, but I do now all the time. It's in moderation, of course, because that's the whole point. It's all about portion control.)
4) Go back to the first step and put in your goal weight instead of your current weight. The number that it pops out is the number that you have to come in under after you are done in order to not lose weight. You'll need to count calories for the rest of your life, but you'll know where you stand.
You are now in possession of all the information necessary to lose all the weight you want. And if you stick to your plan there is NO WAY TO FAIL. That's right. No failure. No plateaus. No waking up one day having gained a bunch of weight back. No old habits creeping back. All that crap is out the window.
I've got everyone I know doing this since they saw the drastic change in me. I'll never go back to being the way I was, because there isn't any reason to. I can have whatever I want to eat, but I just have to control how much I take in.
For confirmation, here is another guy who did the same exact thing.
http://consumerist.com/2009/07/how-i-lost-1004-pounds-in-6-months.html
It is possible (and safe...don't listen to the idiots who enjoy 'managing' fat people. Not a one of them would know a fact if it crawled up their *** and died there.) to lose 100lbs in 6 months.
Buy the book "Eating Alive."
You're welcome : )
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http://truthinlabeling.org/Obesity_Data.html
MSG and OBESITY
The human body is a wonderful thing. There are systems working together that create checks and balances to keep us well – or to fight disease should we encounter it. Obesity happens when one or more of those systems is not working. It can happen when stress or depression throw the endocrine system off balance, and there is loss of appetite control. It can happen when there is an injury (a blow to the head for example), that disrupts the endocrine system. And it can happen when MSG is fed to the unborn and the very young – fed to them before their blood brain barriers are well enough developed to protect the brain cells destined to control endocrine function later in life. There are actually two separate and possibly distinct paths through which MSG-induced obesity can thrive. In the first, MSG moves through the incomplete (immature) blood-brain-barrier in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus of the unborn and very young, and kills brain cells (neurons), causing permanent damage to the endocrine system that controls appetite. In other words, when delivered to the fetus in utero and/or fed to the very young, MSG produces brain damage that damages the endocrine system and causes obesity as children approach maturity. Diet and exercise will do little of a permanent nature for a person whose endocrine system has been damaged in this way.
If that isn't bad enough, in both children and adults continuous ingestion of MSG will raise some hormone levels, including levels of the hormone insulin. When the insulin level is raised, the glucose level is lowered, which is the body’s signal to eat more food in order to raise (balance) the glucose level. With the brain signaling the body to consume more food, diet and exercise have little chance of controlling weight gain without a permanent highly restrictive diet.......