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I suppose I'll wind this up, because this thread isn't the place for a debate about low-carb diets. However, I can account for your weight loss quite easily in the context of the carbohydrate>insulin>fat storage hypothesis. Calorie-restricted diets are also carbohydrate-restricted diets. If you're eating 1,200 calories of…
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Is it a digression? Possibly. But, I bring it up because it may be part of OP's problem if 90% of her calories are coming from carbohydrate. It's difficult to get energy out of fat cells when your blood is full of insulin and LPL. This is why we do ketogenic diets. (It's nice to know I'm not the only one here.) They…
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I really hate to press my point because you seem so sure you know the right answer, but there's good evidence that your assertion is incorrect. Fat loss, metabolically speaking, is anything but simple, and more and more, it seems not to conform to the somewhat reductionist calorie-in-calorie-out model. This study, for…
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I'm sorry, but you're mistaken. In a great many studies, low-carbohydrate diets have been shown to be more effective (sometimes MUCH more effective) for losing weight than other diets. There is a mechanism for this, as well. Dietary carbohydrate drives serum glucose. Serum glucose triggers insulin production. Insulin is…
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It's also important what KIND of calories you're eating. The body is not a simple calorie in/calorie out arithmetic equation. Hormones, particularly insluin and the lipoprotein lipase that it signals, play a major part in whether fatty acids can actually flow out of your fat cells or not. It's crucial to know how the food…
