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Its true, I've read studies that say it can take up to 18 months to normalize. Sugar acts on the brain the same way cocaine and heroin do, you will go into withdrawal, but drinking lots of water and a little extra sodium tend to help with the symptoms at first. Try chicken or beef broth, or pork rinds

I think mfp on default is way under on its recommendation for protein, so extra should be beneficial

whatcha confused about?

If you look into the science about it and get the facts, I think you will find a low carb diet done right is a lot less gimmicky than people think.

Some people live by a really high protein diet. It never really seemed to make a difference for me. I know that for most people eating lots of protein may help, but for some people it can be problematic to consume too much. I stick to about 1-1.6 grams per lb of lean mass, for a woman lean mass is usually around 90-110 and…

I've always wanted to try them, seeing as hype for them is so high. I found this review informative http://www.marksdailyapple.com/vibram-fivefingers/

I highly recommend you read this book to better understand your body before you take on weight loss surgery Why We Get Fat - And What To Do About It (sample at Amazon) By: Gary Taubes

You might want to check out marksdailyapple.com Its got allot of good info on how your body is affected by food I don't agree with everything he says about supplements, but his detailed blogs are a great source of info on everything else

I don't think it is. That's a good bit of information that I had not seen before. However, I think a 1200 calorie diet made mostly of protein would be an unhealthy recommendation to the OP, or to most people, or especially to someone as active as a body builder. Primarily because the stress on your body consuming extra…

Haha, I went on a cruse for 7 days and I felt like I was still rocking 3 days after

Good, I'm glad your done responding to me, you took a simple statement meant to help the op gauge what would be beneficial for her and blew it up into your own typical body builder take on protein. Its as if we where openly mocking your **** or something. get a grip and learn how to interpret all the data.

fine, here is one more http://www.lewrockwell.com/sisson/sisson45.1.html and another for good measure http://www.marksdailyapple.com/dietary-protein/ You cant just eat a diet of mostly protein, you will fail and how can you think that all 3 sciences dont play a part in understanding the human body…

Let me be clear, seeing as you seem to have no ability to interpret what I am saying. This is what I was referring to, your extremest ideal. You wanna eat 1200 calories as a body builder with 300 grams of protein? cause 300 grams of protein is 1200 calories. Yes, you are an idiot if you think that's healthy. The only…

I think what you are proposing is unhealthy. The human body is an organic machine, it will fail attempting to do what you are saying can be done. It may take 25 years to prove it to you, but I have a long history of physics, chemistry and biology behind me that says your wrong. Feel free to do to yourself what you want,…

I'm gonna suggest skipping carbs for breakfast in favor of fat and protein. Eat your fiber in veggies, fruit or nuts later in the day. A zero carb breakfast has been shown to improve your ability to burn calories throughout the day.

Good info here, check out the info in my signature for more on this topic.

While some body's work fine under this pretense, the most recent studies show that even if you look and feel good, you will likely not live as long on this kind of diet. You can look and feel good and still get all the high blood sugar diseases, not to mention heart disease.

so you have 95 lbs of lean mass and 25 lbs of fat. so you want minimum 95 grams of protein - 380 calories maximum 100 grams of carbs - 400 calories about 76 grams of fat - 685 calories per day with this your lean mass will stay healthy and any fat that your body does not need should come off

Dieting can cause depression if your fat consumption is too low. I don't know if this is the case for you, but if you are on a low fat, high carb diet, try inverting it. You may feel better.

I think that cereal should be replaced by fat and protein. Meat, eggs, cheese. They all seem to keep me feeling better than when I have grains.

try working your way up to the really dark chocolates, like 85%

Buy yourself some beef jerky or something, and stave off the sweets

I order my meat from a local farm that grass feeds and finishes their livestock. Lots of options here: http://www.localharvest.org/

This may sound counter intuitive from what we have learned over the last 50-70 years. But I'm gonna put this out there. Consuming more saturated fat, up to 50% of your fat intake, causes the liver to purge its stores of body fat. This extra store of fat around the liver is what the majority of belly fat is from.

I feel your pain, I try to find alternatives to the things I crave. For chocolate I just get 85% dark as an example. I get less cravings if I stuff myself on the correct foods :p

I started at 276, down to 239, welcome ^.^

I dislike shakes and supplements for protein, I recommend meat or cheese. I grab a few sticks of string cheese for breakfast as an example. If you find yourself having trouble with cheese, take a probiotic supplement like Benebiotics

I recommend taking a probiotic supplement like Benebiotics instead of eating yogurt. Otherwise you've got a good plan.

The way to figure out what you need to be healthy is to figure out your lean mass. Weigh yourself then subtract your body fat. From there you can determine if there are any alterations that can be made to make you healthier than you are now. If your not looking to build muscle, consume about 1 gram of protein per pound of…

It seems diet plays a bigger roll than exercise when it comes to loosing fat. Exercise will help build and tone muscles, but it should not play a big part in your fat loss. You may loose some, but eventually your body will compensate how it works so you don't loose weight as much. To maintain fat loss you need to give your…