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It means changing the food composition of your diet permanently. Not a short term diet, a permanent change. Unlike the yoyo dieting plans that fail the weight loser when they go back to their previous food habits, when you decrease the carbs you decrease hunger permanently. This makes it far easier to keep the weight…

Heavy cream. It is more calories but it is real food and you can skip eating anything else for breakfast. 2 Oz in my coffee keeps me from thinking about any food/lunch til 1-2 in the afternoon.

Your body uses up its blood glucose first for energy & prior to using fats. Maybe try using up all the glucose (from carbohydrates), stop replenishing and let your body get to the using fats up part of the process? Just a suggestion to try.

One ounce of nuts, eaten one at a time!

It is fine to eat fat, just weigh and log to track total calories. My fat intake is usually almost double protein in gram weight.

Eating a high fat/low carb ketogenic diet has been the absolute best choice for me. The hardest part was finding all my new 'go to' foods so I do not have to think about it too much day to day. After a year, it is pretty well dialed in and I love the lack of 'hangry' feelings. Weight came off like clockwork, and I feel so…

This did get moved to 'chit-chat', so I guess that is the recognized value here.

Saying CICO is all I need to know is like saying basic math is all you need to know, right? Human nutrition is way more complex than 1-1=0. Understanding CICO is a very fundamental concept. It does not explain the knowledge of human nutrition necessary to have long term success with weight problems for me.

Not really convinced by an obscenity laced blog rant and very curious why you care enough to help vilify a writer trying to clarify nutritional understanding. Taubes gave me the knowledge I needed to lose weight, hit below my goal weight and maintain my goal weight. That is the real validation.

You CAN lose weight and eventually solve the insulin resistance when you get your weight down.. that is if you are diligent and super disciplined and battle through the hunger. OR you can power your body with fats and proteins primarily, solve the immediate problems that insulin resistance creates and lose weight easier by…

Research like this, swish and spit promotes a Cephalic phase insulin release - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18556090 There is more - insulin can rise prior to BG contrary to statements above. Human nutrition is a big messy topic with very marginal and incomplete understanding. I refuse to pretend that I know…

Nope, can't. No one said that, no studies needed.

Research in human nutrition. I'm fairly certain your supposition and scenario above is not a product of research.

While I'm probably not full blown hypoglycemic, I could never eat only carbs on an empty stomach without becoming non-functional. I'd always feel like crap after eating much in the way of carbs and especially so if no fat or protein at same time. I tried low glycemic index carbs for a long time. Feeling best after eating…

People can have an insulin response from seeing food or even thinking about food, so an insulin response to tasting something fake sweet isn't exactly a wild theory. .

Ketosis is what happens when your body uses fats for energy and is a completely normal process and part of all of our lives on a daily basis. The fat used for energy can be dietary fat or body fat. Humans can use both glucose or fats for fuel. Ketoacidosis is a medical emergency that happens to untreated diabetics and…

The kidneys dump and eliminate excess magnesium, potassium and sodium very effectively if they are functioning normally.

Between family members, we've probably bought 4-6 meals a week at chipotle for years. Still do, no issues so far.

Try building a diet filled with proteins and fats and decrease carbohydrates to very small amounts. Proteins and fats are the micronutrients that provide longer lasting satiety and minimize hunger & cravings for some people.

Meat, veggies and nuts give you better micronutrients per calorie than fruits. You can skip fruit and never miss anything nutritionally if you focus on other nutritionally dense foods.

This part is completely factually invalid, to be polite. Your body can make all the glucose needed, you do not need to eat carbohydrates for brain fuel.

Saturated fat has been 'demonized' for decades, why is that ok for you to repeat this without actual real science? What is already known on this topic Contrary to prevailing dietary advice, authors of a recent systematic review and meta-analyses claim that there is no excess cardiovascular risk associated with intake of…

Those are lower calorie deviled eggs, not lower carb.

The bad kind or the good kind?

Just started reading the book, but have been eating very low carb since June and hit goal in December. I'm very interested in his formula as low carb really fixed my cravings (and several other issues) and I'll be eating this way for life.

Higher salt levels shouldn't be a problem unless you have issues with sodium. If you are not eating high carbs and retaining water, your body should just dump the extra sodium. Recent studies show that sodium intake is not necessarily an area of concern for most people.

I think my point was that each of us have to figure out a formula for our specific situation and some of the figuring out part wiil not make sense to others, but should always be respected. It is easy to make fun of fat intake but kinda a cheap shot - just like my carb comment.

I remember a thread where someone said they ate more than half their diet in a macro that isn't even required nutritionally. oh. I forget. Nevermind that. If you function on a glucose fuel diet, you get your energy from carb calories. If you function on a fat fuel diet you get your energy from fat calories. You seem to be…

Stick of butter USA style = 114g or about 800c. Must have been an athlete. Maybe the fat burners equivalent to eating those sugar gel packs?

& on the other side of that, If you eat low carb you do not retain excess water and sodium so to meet the body's needs you replenish both continously to stay feeling optimal.