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Thanks for the pointers. But will lower carb without ketosis even help ?

I have been losing an average of 2 lbs per month over the last 3 months. I am not too over weight for my height and so I am fine with this rate. I have seen that all of that loss is not a gradual week by week difference. The scale remains more or less constant for 2-3 weeks and then bingo! there is considerable difference…

15-17% is a right BFP for a normal person. It gets below if you are a high intensity athelete or else requires a real low car diet. But a low carb diet is going to disrupt your running atleast for the first month or so. Getting to 10-12% by itself requires quite some discipline and keeping it at that is even more tough.…

Some of the diabetic pills do this (Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors). They inhibit the enzymes that process carbs. And the known side effects are gas, bloating & diarrhea. If you want less carbs inside your body then simply eat less. I will never dump into my mouth something which I simply want to come out on the other end…

Type 2 is normally the result of a long sedentary life. The earlier you take control of it the more chances are there to reverse part of the issue. I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes some months back. That kick started my interest in human physiology and so far I have been able to reverse the problem considerably. I…

Added sugar creates lots of issues but I have not heard knee pain once so for. Natural sugars are good. Common reasons for knee pain, - over weight / obese - Flat foot / leg arches - Wrong footwear - Over exertion of knees - If the pain is seasonal (esp. fall/winter), check if your protein intake is enough.

steve. Thanks for the reference. Sounds quite interesting. Will read it.

:-) But I know this clinging to fat. My wife was working out for over 12 weeks without any loss in weight and we were heavily blaming her hypothyrodism for this. Recently we realized (being vegetarians) that we were going too low on protein and simply by adding more protein she lost 8 lbs in 4 weeks and I lost 4 without…

3 lbs is nothing to panic. How long have you been running ? 3 lbs of muscles from running not seems a possibilty. When you start endurance exercises, your muscles start to store more glycogen which sugar+water. So one or two lbs of variation is quite common in the intial week or two. Clinging on to fat often happens due to…

The human body is an amazing machine. It is capable of putting up with decades of absue. All the systems - skeletel, muscular, endocrinal, nervous, circulatory, digestive, respiratory, immune, integumentary etc - co-exist, interconnect, balance & support each other amazingly. Its a highly complex eco-system. An impact on…