J2BLUE
Low Carber
Thank you all for your kind words. It's good to be back 
Well it isn't. I'd much rather be on a beach somewhere at goal surrounded by women in bikinis *day dreams for about 10 minutes* Erm, yea, you know what I mean though!
Today's menu:
B: Bacon
L: Eggs, Burgen Toast x1, Reduced sugar ketchup (small amount)
D: Asda 'Extra Special' Wyke Farm cheddar burgers, salad
S: Almonds, Blueberries
This obviously isn't induction food but I never bother following the food lists. I think they are purely for simplicity. The above is about 35g carbs. I don't mind going to about 50g. I don't believe the carb level makes much difference any more. This is down to Anthony Colpo and Lyle McdDonald who have both written extensively on this and backed it up with studies. Colpo especially has destroyed the low carb metabolic advantage claims as far as i'm concerned and McDonald has a great book out called the ketogenic diet where he talks in depth about physiology. Here is a quote from his website 'In any case, an intake of 15-50 grams per day of carbohydrate will still allow ketosis to develop and those ketogenic dieters attempting to ‘eat as few carbs as possible’ might want to consider that in the context of not only providing much needed food variety (at 50 g/day, even a small amount of fruit can often be fit in) but also in the context of the protein sparing issues I discussed above'. The protein sparing thing is 'Basically, in the context of dieting, dieters can either jack up dietary protein to cover the increased carbohydrate requirements of dieting or simply eat slightly more carbohydrates to provide them directly. Both have the same end-result. 15-50 grams per day limits the body’s need to break down protein and will allow protein requirements to be set lower than a diet providing essentially zero carbohydrates per day.' This is all backed up with studies so my eyes were opened (just my personal opinion, i'm not saying anyone else who believes differently is wrong). I am however quite disappointed with Atkins. It seems most of the studies he quoted were deeply flawed. My opinion of Eades and Taubes has also declined massively, especially Eades who I now believe knows the whole thing is flawed and is just sticking to the story to sell his books.
If anyone wants me to sod off to low carb boards I don't mind. I appreciate people may not be thrilled about seeing stuff like Burgen bread on an Atkins diary, especially if i'm going to attack the diet. To be honest though, I never had any success until I discovered Atkins so i'll always be grateful to him for that and perhaps at the time, they didn't know about water losses, glycogen and potassium to the extent we do now.
Thanks again
Well it isn't. I'd much rather be on a beach somewhere at goal surrounded by women in bikinis *day dreams for about 10 minutes* Erm, yea, you know what I mean though!Today's menu:
B: Bacon
L: Eggs, Burgen Toast x1, Reduced sugar ketchup (small amount)
D: Asda 'Extra Special' Wyke Farm cheddar burgers, salad
S: Almonds, Blueberries
This obviously isn't induction food but I never bother following the food lists. I think they are purely for simplicity. The above is about 35g carbs. I don't mind going to about 50g. I don't believe the carb level makes much difference any more. This is down to Anthony Colpo and Lyle McdDonald who have both written extensively on this and backed it up with studies. Colpo especially has destroyed the low carb metabolic advantage claims as far as i'm concerned and McDonald has a great book out called the ketogenic diet where he talks in depth about physiology. Here is a quote from his website 'In any case, an intake of 15-50 grams per day of carbohydrate will still allow ketosis to develop and those ketogenic dieters attempting to ‘eat as few carbs as possible’ might want to consider that in the context of not only providing much needed food variety (at 50 g/day, even a small amount of fruit can often be fit in) but also in the context of the protein sparing issues I discussed above'. The protein sparing thing is 'Basically, in the context of dieting, dieters can either jack up dietary protein to cover the increased carbohydrate requirements of dieting or simply eat slightly more carbohydrates to provide them directly. Both have the same end-result. 15-50 grams per day limits the body’s need to break down protein and will allow protein requirements to be set lower than a diet providing essentially zero carbohydrates per day.' This is all backed up with studies so my eyes were opened (just my personal opinion, i'm not saying anyone else who believes differently is wrong). I am however quite disappointed with Atkins. It seems most of the studies he quoted were deeply flawed. My opinion of Eades and Taubes has also declined massively, especially Eades who I now believe knows the whole thing is flawed and is just sticking to the story to sell his books.
If anyone wants me to sod off to low carb boards I don't mind. I appreciate people may not be thrilled about seeing stuff like Burgen bread on an Atkins diary, especially if i'm going to attack the diet. To be honest though, I never had any success until I discovered Atkins so i'll always be grateful to him for that and perhaps at the time, they didn't know about water losses, glycogen and potassium to the extent we do now.
Thanks again
