Quiettone
> I so totally understand your conflicts. If I let my husband read your posts he would say it is me, not you.
Glad to hear I am not alone... but I sympathize with you too, as we both have a good tool for weight loss, but struggle to use it.
> Sometimes, I think I have read too much and know too much to get piece of mind!
The ol adage... the onlything worse than no knowledge, is having knowledge and not using it! I feel the same way, sometimes I read so much.... of course now that I am motivated to start this again, I felt like I needed to read "The Ketogenic Diet" book. I just downloaded it for $29, its 350 pages.... I hope there is some good pointers in there.... I read the first 100 pages and so far the author can not find any supporting documents that ketosis makes one loose weight faster than eating the same amount of calories on other programs. That sure set me back, but then again, my experience sure tells me differently.
> Regarding the brain fog. Yes, yes, yes!!! I also would lose an extreme amount of weight very quickly on Atkins (and would do so again if I stuck to it), but I got so bad at work that I had to up my carbs. My boss would ask me questions or just try to converse about a client and I would look at him like he was speaking a foreign language. And forget about hiking. I couldn't even do a mile even though I was working out six days a week, I had no stamina or endurance. The thing to remember about low carb is that it was originally meant for survival, despite what others say. Think about it...maybe if primitive man had some carbs, they would have invented fire more quickly.
I know exactly what you mean...sometimes when I read, I read the same sentence over 10x.... its like my brain is short circuited. And I consider myself somewhat of a hazard on the road. One time, I was stopped at a red light..... I looked around and noticed the light had turned green.... I got confused what to do, does this mean stop, or go? I went to the gas pedal, then the brake pedal, then the gas, etc.... Very weird stuff and sometimes scary, hence my concern this time.
> Anyway, I have had to go my own way. Yes, I am impatient to lose weight. I tell myself "I will lose all I want and then do something else." yeah, right!
Well, I have failed miserably at maintenance...but I do beleive I learned a lot from each failure.... I have new plans for maintenance, but I don't even want to deal with it now...because I need to loose weight first, and like you, I need to see results or I just get discourage, success motivates me. I can't help that.
> So, for the first time in years and years and years, I am trying to be content with a slow weight loss. I am still watching the carbs, but using my own body and own experiences as a road map. With the intention being that I will eventually get down to where I need to be and then with what I am doing I will still be able to maintain weight. I guess you could say that I am looking to never being on another diet, but also not depriving myself all day, every day until XX time.
Yep, thats why my new maintenance plan is not daily low carbs....
> The plain and simple truth is: I like all the foods that you are not supposed to have on a low carb diet. And I don't want to go through the rest of my life saying "bad food, bad food."
yes, and I do beleive that saying fresh fruits are bad is not a healthy decision, although I do agree for some people its mandatory.
> Anyway, are you working out yet? I found that weight lifting really helps in a lot more ways than aerobic. The last time, I didn't even start aerobic until I had lost all the weight I wanted to, but I did do weights six days a week, alternating upper and lower body. and I am doing it again. Not as easy this time though.
I agree with you 100%. I am just starting to work out again. I plan to do hardcore weightlifting.... I want to tear as much muscle fiber as possible, so that I am constantly sore, and once a muscle repairs itself, I tear it up again.... It's my beleif this constant tearing of muscle tissue causes two tremendous fat loss benefits....first it forces the release of Growth Horomone, which is a major fat burner, and secondly the tissue that is torn needs to repair and it takes a ton energy to heal these muscles...so after you lift, you can burn a ton of calories for the next 24 - 48 hrs. It makes your metabolism burn hot. The other nice thing about weight lifting is its a very inneficient exercise. (which is a good think when you are trying to loose fat) Most all body fat is lossed through heat. The more efficeint your body is at exercise, the less calories you burn. If you are a person who sweats more than most when lifting weights then your in for an easy ride, because a majority of the energy expended to lift weights, is for heat, not for the task of lifting the weight. A very inefficent body may use 10 BTu's of heat for every 1 BTU's burned to perform the task. On the other hand, an efficient body may only burn 3 BTU's of heat for the same task. That means the inneficient person burns 3x more fuel to perform the same task. I have this in my favor as I sweat like crazy when I work out. For example, a hardcore run on the stairmaster for 45 minutes, I can consume 3 full gallons of water.... while the average person may consume 1/2 gallon. This water is never urinated out, its all just replacing sweat! This is how I can loose weight so fast.... of course this is when I am healthy, not injured, have the time, not traveling, and I am in the right mindset. Sorry for going on a tangent..... I have so many spreadsheets full of energy calculations regarding weight loss, I should publish them. This is a natural for me as I am an energy engineer.
> So, just wanted to let you know you are not alone on the way you have been feeling. And it is simply not enough carbs.
Yep, and I am not sure I can go through this again.... I may need to experiment with other similar approaches, of course never OD on carbs, but maybe 100 a day is practical.....
> And Atkins and others makes it clear that some people do not do so well on the very low carbs and will have to up it. Basically, the very reason you lose weight so quickly and easily (as I do) is the very reason you get foggy and headaches etc.
Yep, I think you hit the nail on the head. As with everything in life, compromises, compromises, compromises....
Lisa
> I'd say potassium and a calcium/magnesium supplement would be my first picks.
Good thing, I take a product from GNC called Calcium Complete, mainly calc and magn. I take 6 - 8 tabs a day...it actually helps my joints since the Calcium is in the form of calcium carbonate.
> Yes, usually that's the main indication. You feel bad after you eat foods that contain arachidonic acid.
Wonderful, another thing to deal with.....well this leads me to beleive that LC is not for me, because it limits my protein intake to chicken. Its the only animal product I can eat and feel good....and its hard to only eat chicken... I hate all seafood, and that makes LC even harder.
> Are you allergic to all fish or just to shellfish? If it's just shellfish, there's a wide variety of fish that you can add into your diet including tuna and salmon which are natural sources of fish oil. There's also pork and chicken which can be fixed many different ways.
I am allergic to shellfish, but I literally hate all seafood...I just can't over come that barrier.
> I personally wouldn't recommend losing more than 15 lbs in a month (that's 1/2 lb a day!...still quite fast by most standards) except for the first part of induction. I think you'll find that if you take it more slowly, your body will thank you for it.
Yep, this time around, I will let the chips fall where ever they land.....
Bill
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