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Google salsa lessons in your town. You'll get links to dance schools or to clubs that offer a beginner lesson before a night of social dancing starts. Start with a beginner group salsa lesson. You DON'T need a partner to go to classes. At most schools and clubs that I have experience with, the partners "rotate", so…
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For a couple of reasons, low-carb supresses your appetite. So, your diminished appetite causes you to eat less than you would without the diet. To lose weight, you still have to consume fewer calories than you burn. The Atkins Diet just makes it easier.
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I'd echo what kiramaniac said above. I think you're still adapting to being in ketosis. Your comment that you feel drained seems downright metaphorical to me. Each molecule of glycogen in your liver and muscles is associated with several molecules of water. By doing low-carb and using up some of that glycogen, that…
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Hi, Sammy. It's super-easy to be confused by the information you get from keto-sticks. In general, if you get some pink or any shade of purple, you're in ketosis. In general, the darker the shade of purple, the more concentrated your urine is, usually because you're not well hydrated. My goal is to have the stick at pink…
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Meridian, I agree with LCNY that it's unlikely that the Crystal Light threw you out of ketosis. You were using ketone bodies as your energy source during your workout. So you just burned 'em all up. Your body should have made more (by digesting/metabolizing some of your body fat.) So, if you tested the next day, you'd…
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Another way to get these predictions is with an Excel spreadsheet. You can autofill the first column with each day of the year. When you do a weigh-in (I do mine every Friday morning), you put that weight in the second column on the correct date. In Chart Wizard, it'll chart those points and then you can choose to have…
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Kym, fruit and vegetable juices are going to be too high in carbs for the needs of most low-carbers. So, you may not get a lot of responses. My guess is, the pulp that your juicer separates from the juice is likely to be high in fiber and low in calories. So, one way you could log it is to log the raw fruit or vegetable…
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Shar, thanks for the link to the article in Journal of Biological Chemistry. I'd read abstracts of it, but not the original science. Hope forum members reading it puts some low-carber minds' at rest.
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Careful there, DV. Rabbit or squirrel starvation is due to an ABSENCE of essential fatty acids, not an excess of protein. If excessive protein is so bad for you, explain the Inuits who lived exclusively on fish, meat, and blubber. Or the Masai, who lived exclusively on milk, beef blood, and beef. Paleo folks can point you…
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Biggest side effect of too much protein is continued weight loss. Justin, please give us some documentation of Brock Lesnar's diverticulitis being caused by excessive protein intake. Diverticulitis is a degenerative disease of the colon. As a physician, I can't understand how that conclusion could be reached. I can…
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Ditto on Breyer's Carb Smart. The chocolate covered bars are 5 gms of net carbs, I believe. An ice cream substitute I like is flavored cream cheese right out of the tub!
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My current favorite for lunch or dinner is one-half cup of lower-carb salsa and several ounces of shredded meat. Because there are so many different flavors of salsa in my grocery, I get lots of varieties of flavor. For example, for a meal right off the shelf, I get a small can of Herdez' salsa verde (even got a pull top…
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Drink plenty of water. Most of the weight you lose from lowering your glycogen stores is "water weight". It's easy to overshoot and get a little dehyrated. Ketosis is also dehydrating. So keep your fluids up. Your urine color should be very light yellow or yellow-green.
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Nope, darker is not better. Negative is bad, but any positive is good.
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Oh, yeah. Peeing purple is a definite NSV!! Way to go! Friendly advice is pump the water and stay well hydrated. Doesn't need to be deep purple to mean you're burning fat. Getting rid of those ketones can dry you out pretty fast.
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Generally, your blood triglyceride level will track your dietary carbohydrate intake. If you eat less carbs, your triglyceride level will fall.
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I believe the OP was talking about a zero carb alcoholic beverage, rather than a zero calorie alcoholic beverage. Modest consumption of zero- or low-carb alcoholic beverages will not take you out of ketosis. But, as RHMommy mentions, alcohol has calories. The more you consume, the less fat you burn to maintain your…
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You know you're a low-carber when: - you sometimes treat yourself to a little bread with your butter - you make yourself a manhattan and wonder how many carbs there are in the vermouth and the maraschino cherry...
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I really don't know why the medical community won't embrace low-carb. If I think out loud about it, my guess is that it relates to two issues. The first is that we're trained to resist fads and hold to what's conventional. We're slow to embrace a new blood pressure medicine or diabetes medicine and tend to stick to what…
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Hi, Cardio, and thanks for the post. I'm a 57-year old physician from Ohio. I've been on Atkins for six years. I eat a high-fat diet. My good cholesterol (HDL) went from 55 to 75 on Atkins and has stayed there. My bad cholesterol/LDL went from 110 to 100 and has stayed there. My triglycerides went from 300 to 95 and have…
