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All of us living the Low Carb lifestyle use the words carbohydrate, sugar, and starch on a daily basis. But although we use the words freely, not everyone is clear on just what those words mean, how the substances relate to one another, or how they relate to other things we eat.
Eggs are a staple for low carbers at breakfast. They’re quickly prepared, inexpensive, and versatile. While eggs do contain 0.6 grams of carbohydrates per egg, the carbohydrate count is low enough that they are easily incorporated not only into low carbohydrate breakfasts, but lunches, dinners, and snacks as well.
Low carbohydrate protein powders come in several different types: soy-based protein powders, whey-based protein powders, soy/whey blend protein powders, egg-based protein powders, egg/milk blend protein powders, & rice-based protein powders.
So far in our discussion of fats, we have learned that fats are made up of a substance called glycerol in combination with other substances called fatty acids. We have learned that saturated fats are hard at room temperature, while unsaturated fats are generally liquid at room temperature.
Dawn in South Carolina is 32 years old and 5′ 6″ tall. Dawn contacted me, expressing the desire to share her success story with pregnancy and low carbing. Dawn had been doing the Atkins program for three years. Her pre-pregnancy weight was 133 pounds, and just prior to her delivery, she only weighed 157 pounds!
The Fat Fast (also called the Atkins fat fast), as outlined by Dr. Atkins in Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution, is a tool that low carbers who are metabolically resistant can use to get themselves quickly into ketosis. It is also used by many low carbers (myself among them) to break a weight loss plateau or as a means of forcing themselves to get back on track when they have gone off-plan. Includes 17 quick fat fast recipes.
Dr. Beth Gruber talks about the important role of dietary fats. Body fat provides the most important reservoir of stored energy as adipose tissue.
What is fat? Today we are beginning our discussions of dietary fats. In this new series of articles, we will be discussing the answers to the following questions: What are fats? What are oils? How are fats and oils digested by and absorbed into the body? We’ll also be talking about how dietary fats relate to body fat. At the very start, though, let’s consider how it is that so-called ‘nutritional science’ seems to tell us that every condition known to mankind is in some way related to dietary fat. How and why has fat been relegated to the position of being the “evil food?”
Last time, we began our discussion of protein with such subjects as what protein is and why it is so important. We discussed amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins, and the fact that some amino acids can be synthesized, while others (called essential amino acids) cannot be synthesized. Today we’ll be talking about the digestion of protein and the waste products produced by the breakdown of protein.
How the hell does your body hold onto weight and still manage to get smaller while you are on your chosen low carb diet?!? Losing inches but not weight? You know the scenario: You are on Induction for two weeks, and you haven’t cheated even once. You notice that your clothes fit better, that you are stepping a little livelier, and as far as you’re concerned, all’s right with the world.
