MY THOUGHTS ON THE LCHF LIFESTYLE:
Understand the Physiology Behind Low Carb Diet/Lifestyle
I've noticed that a lot of people in the group showing concern about this I call "lifestyle" not "diet" because I feel diets don't work and don't last. But when it's a lifestyle that means this is apart of your life and it is what it is. This is just my thoughts on this way of eating. Many low carb dieters stall at three weeks into their diets. This is because at the three week point y...our metabolism adapts to the high fat low carb diet you've been eating and becomes far more efficient in burning fat.(Technically what happens is that muscles switch from using ketones to burning free fatty acids.) Your body also has made some changes that allow the brain to use more ketones. This, in turn, reduces the amount of carbohydrate needed to run the brain.
Understand the Physiology Behind Low Carb Diet/Lifestyle
I've noticed that a lot of people in the group showing concern about this I call "lifestyle" not "diet" because I feel diets don't work and don't last. But when it's a lifestyle that means this is apart of your life and it is what it is. This is just my thoughts on this way of eating. Many low carb dieters stall at three weeks into their diets. This is because at the three week point y...our metabolism adapts to the high fat low carb diet you've been eating and becomes far more efficient in burning fat.(Technically what happens is that muscles switch from using ketones to burning free fatty acids.) Your body also has made some changes that allow the brain to use more ketones. This, in turn, reduces the amount of carbohydrate needed to run the brain.
If you have been eating a very high protein input much of that excess protein has been turning into carbohydrate. This is because 58% of ALL the dietary protein you eat that is not needed to repair muscle is converted into carbohydrate. The process takes many hours--often up to 7 hours after you eat, but once it is converted, the carbohydrate made out of protein raises your blood sugar and requires insulin for processing just like any other carbohydrate.
For the first couple weeks your body needs about 110 grams of carbohydrate to fuel the brain, but after the changes that occur around three weeks into your low carb diet, that amount drops dramatically. You can now get by with 50-60 grams of carb for your brain and that means that excess carbohydrate that comes from protein now raises your blood sugar instead of getting burnt. I've lost 105 lbs on this lifestyle in 11 months of being diagnosed, with finally being taken off insulin. It was the best choose l could've made in taking control of my health and this disease.
For the first couple weeks your body needs about 110 grams of carbohydrate to fuel the brain, but after the changes that occur around three weeks into your low carb diet, that amount drops dramatically. You can now get by with 50-60 grams of carb for your brain and that means that excess carbohydrate that comes from protein now raises your blood sugar instead of getting burnt. I've lost 105 lbs on this lifestyle in 11 months of being diagnosed, with finally being taken off insulin. It was the best choose l could've made in taking control of my health and this disease.
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