Low Carb?

Try things. Set out a 6 week target. Reduce your grains (not your natural fruit/veg). If you can pick it eat it, it's great.
If it needs to be crushed by a 500kg roller before you can attempt to eat it, maybe we've not adapted as a species to eat it.

So stop bread, pasta, rice, beer, couscous etc....
Anything with a grain in for 6 weeks.
Keep your diary and blog stuff to.
Perhaps you'll have a hard time coming off it, perhaps not.

I'm eating more "natural" fats at the moment & I've been cutting out grains. It's making me stronger, I can't believe it.
But I'm feeling awesome!!!!

It's for you, see what works for you, make it your way. Only you know what you can and want to do

I did Atkins-style low-carb for years and it worked for me. However, many people struggle with the lack of bread, pasta, etc. It really is a meat-lovers' diet. Now I just watch net calories, and I eat plenty of carbs, but I generally avoid the high-glycemic ones: sugar, white flour, white rice, baked potatoes, etc. I eat a lot of vegetables and fruit, and some whole-grain bread and white-rice, and I've had not problem keeping my weight down.

If you're going the Atkins route, I suggest you get two things: Mission brand "Carb Balance" tortillas, and Dreamfields low-carb pasta. Both excellent proudcts that will help you deal with carb cravings. If you live in an area where they have Kroger supermarkets, the Kroger Carb Master yogurt is terrific, too.

Ate 2,390 yesterday and 329 of those were in carbs. Woke up lighter. Win.

interesting to see how long a carby meal chocks up your fat burning and replaces it with storage.

Why do you think that your graphic has anything to do with fat storage? And what makes you think that an isocaloric meal with a different macronutrient composition would be any different concerning lipolysis/lipogenesis?

*bump*

Additionally, isolated snapshots of what happens post-meal intake are not nearly as relevant to what happens over the course of longer periods of time.

I haven't found a longer one yet, but the 6-8 hours covered in that isn't exactly an immediate post meal situation.

I've never really counted carbs, but for me i eat all my carbs in the morning that way you have the rest of the day to burn off the calories

http://www.ajcn.org/content/66/5/1264.full.pdf+html

the 5 low carb foods there have the lowest glucose AUC and are in the low end of the insulin AUC results too. Peanuts win the day.

Where's the cream and other fatty stuff though ?

Why do you think that your graphic has anything to do with fat storage?

The glucose flux into storage goes into fat if glycogen stores are full. The insulin response to the elevated blood sugar inhibits lipolysis.

And what makes you think that an isocaloric meal with a different macronutrient composition would be any different concerning lipolysis/lipogenesis?

The insulin response to fat is virtually zero, the response to protein much less than to carbs. So less hormone regulating storage and less / no glucose flux from digestion to cope with.

You can store fat without insulin.

Protein only and cream responses. Neither have elevated glucose.

Holy crap there's tables on graphs in this post! Eating should not be this complicated! IMO - everything in moderation is the most sustainable way to go. Any diet too extreme is not gonna work for the long haul for most people. Plus my world would crumble if I had to restrict my beloved carbs!!!!!

There are a lot of wonderful tasty delicious foods out there....learn moderation, master willpower... and you can enjoy them all!!!!

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^^THIS!!! I find that if I keep my carbs under 100g/day and consume carbs mostly from vegetables and such, I feel much better (i.e no bloating, no spike in my blood sugar, not feeling hungry soon after a meal, etc.)

I did feel crappy the first 3days until my body adjusted to all that junk removal, but now I feel great! I find that if I eat more carbs I will feel sluggish.

The glucose flux into storage goes into fat if glycogen stores are full.

DNL never occurs in a caloric deficit. I like how you keep ignoring that.

The insulin response to the elevated blood sugar inhibits lipolysis.

Lipolysis is always inhibited in the post-prandial state. 24hour energy balance is all that is relevant.

Different proteins generate different response, but the insulin has been and gone within as little as 60 minutes up to 3 or 4 hrs. Meals with 11g carbs, 5g fat, 50g protein.

Under 300 calories.

Now lets look at the raw data from your original chart:

five healthy nondiabetic volunteers (threefemales,two males,aged36±5yr,range20-46yr, weight 69±8 kg)..


After a 2-h equilibration period,a mixed meal containing 10kcal/kg was ingested(0time) and entirely consumed within 15 min. The meal calories were partitioned sothat 45% of total calories were given as a dextrose solution..

Over twice the number of calories consumed results in a longer period of time before glucose levels return to baseline.

Shocking.

Over twice the number of calories consumed results in a longer period of time before glucose levels return to baseline.

Not glucose, insulin. Check the axis.

Granted the studies that I found at random aren't the same dose, but there's no glucose in beef or eggs so the problem of a big glucose dump into the bloodstream doesn't arise.

I'm just going to keep quoting this until you get it through your skull:

DNL never occurs in a caloric deficit. I like how you keep ignoring that.