Sat, Oct-05-02, 10:12
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Plan: TSP/PPLP/low-cal/My own
Stats: 250/209/150
BF:
Progress: 41%
Location: Sacramento, CA
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The Discussion Begins...
I just got to this point in the book, page 95:
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...initially, your brain can only use sugar--not fats--for the energy it needs to function and stay alive...
How Your Body Uses Energy
Your cells require energy biochemicals to stay alive. Brain cells, red blood cells and specialized cells of your kidneys initially use sugar as their energy biochemical. the rest of your cells can use sugars and fats interchangeably.
The only time that your brain, red blood and kidney cells use fats for energy is when you have not eaten in over seventy-two hours. At that point these cells can switch to using ketones (a breakdown product of fats) for energy.
However, do not think that this is a good thing--it is not. By the time you start to utilize your ketones for energy, you have used up your glycogen stores and have destroyed functional and structural biochemicals while your body has eaten itself up to survive. When you stop this "famine" or fast, your insulin levels will rebound higher than before to help you rebuild. So you will rebuild your functional and structural biochemicals and rebuild more fat stores. Putting your body into ketosis is never a good thing.
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Well! I guess she told us.  That explains why so many people on Atkins have complained of losing the initial weight then stalling. I am probably suffering from tunnelvision, but I don't recall that's being a big complaint here on the TSP forum. I know it wasn't an issue with me. I lost the initial water weight then continued to drop fat until I hit my first stall (set point). I have since broken through the stall, I hope.
So what do you think? How far have you gotten through the book. So far, I am finding it different and more forceful that the first book. In the first she seemed to take it easier on us. But now it's all or nothing. But I like it, I think. 
One thing I know for certain, I'm going to have to reread it with a highlighter.
;-Deb
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