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Vigilo,

Again, much of the ketosis stuff is just hype, your body goes into ketosis anytime you are burning stored fat, regardless. I've read the stuff, I've seen the diet, I know people who it has worked for, and I know people who other diets have worked for... If a diet works for you I have no problem with it.

If avoiding carbs and sugars because they are the boogie man is the sales pitch you need to stick to a weigth loss program, then by all means do so. Avoiding sugars and particularly processed flour avoids you tons of empty calories that we are all better off staying away from in bulk and everyone knows far too many americans eat way way too much of them to ever call it moderation.

If watching the stick turn pink or brown gives you the personal satisfaction neccessary to stick to a diet, then by all means do it. I am not suggesting you don't.

I am merely suggesting what even the Low Carb guru's have already admitted, by and large these diets are just a calorie reduction process on the sly.

Sure sugars and carbs are absorbed easier by the body than protien, and as such its not suprising that high carbs would tend to create less filling meals and more eating etc etc. However the argument that carbs are by themselves the devil just isn't supported by facts...

I lost over 80 lbs and never once looked at carbs, or for that matter sugars... I didn't pay attention to fat, above and beyond the calories it represented. I ate all sorts of foods, in fact, I never didn't eat something... I just ate whatever it was in moderation and in consideration of my total intake for that day.

The idea that you "can't gain weight" because you aren't eating sugars or carbs... or that you can just eat without any consideration to volume if you avoid sugar and carbs is flat out nonsense. The diet by and large removes the 2 biggest empty calorie intakes of the average american which is white flour and sugar... taking those off the typical american's menu drops their caloric intake by at least 30-40% if not more on average.