pommychic
Full Member
Hi
First of all, thanks to all for your replies to my previous post. I have decided to give the Dukan another go... I am determined to get it right!
However, I am really confused with understanding the "bones" of the diet. For me, generally I understand two different ways of weight/fat loss - calorie counting where you follow a low fat diet and create a calorie deficit... or carb counting where you dont touch low fat products, you eat healthy fats and keep your carbs low.. then you switch the type of fuel you are burning.
I thought this diet worked in that the calories are kept low because of the high protein keeping you full longer and the low fat dairy products being low in calories.
But someone (Vicky I think! - Hi!) replied to me saying I could be going wrong because I was going in and out of ketosis... I didnt think Ketosis came into this diet? I have done Atkins before (didnt work out for me) and I understand the Atkins diet completely and how it works.. I understand why you dont eat low fat anything on the Atkins diet because low fat foods are very high in carbs as they remove the fat but they add sugar...and lots of it.... and therefore you dont burn Ketones.
That week and a half I was on the diet.. I lost weight but I was feeling terrible... tired and lethargic. I had a "durrr" moment because I realised I hadnt been drinking enough water and also I had forgotten about the oatbran...!
But I just wanted to comment about the confusion about my understanding of the ketosis thing...
I suppose I should go and order the book... it would be fully explained in the book wouldnt it?... I didnt want to go out and buy yet another diet book (so expensive here in New Zealand) and so I was just trying to piece together stuff I have figured out on the internet..
First of all, thanks to all for your replies to my previous post. I have decided to give the Dukan another go... I am determined to get it right!
However, I am really confused with understanding the "bones" of the diet. For me, generally I understand two different ways of weight/fat loss - calorie counting where you follow a low fat diet and create a calorie deficit... or carb counting where you dont touch low fat products, you eat healthy fats and keep your carbs low.. then you switch the type of fuel you are burning.
I thought this diet worked in that the calories are kept low because of the high protein keeping you full longer and the low fat dairy products being low in calories.
But someone (Vicky I think! - Hi!) replied to me saying I could be going wrong because I was going in and out of ketosis... I didnt think Ketosis came into this diet? I have done Atkins before (didnt work out for me) and I understand the Atkins diet completely and how it works.. I understand why you dont eat low fat anything on the Atkins diet because low fat foods are very high in carbs as they remove the fat but they add sugar...and lots of it.... and therefore you dont burn Ketones.
That week and a half I was on the diet.. I lost weight but I was feeling terrible... tired and lethargic. I had a "durrr" moment because I realised I hadnt been drinking enough water and also I had forgotten about the oatbran...!
But I just wanted to comment about the confusion about my understanding of the ketosis thing...
I suppose I should go and order the book... it would be fully explained in the book wouldnt it?... I didnt want to go out and buy yet another diet book (so expensive here in New Zealand) and so I was just trying to piece together stuff I have figured out on the internet..