Chet Hayes wrote:
|| DJ Delorie <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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||| [email hidden] (Jumpin' Jack Flash) writes:
|||| First of all, why are you allowed to eat meat liberally during
|||| induction yet you are limited in the vegetables that you can
|||| eat(the
|||| amounts of them, rather than the kinds)?
|||
||| The purpose of Induction is to clean the stored carbs out of your
||| system. It is NOT to lose weight! Thus, the key factor is how many
||| carbs you eat, and nothing else. Meat has no carbs, so you can eat
||| all you want. Vegetables have carbs, so you have to limit them.
||
|| If the purpose of induction is to get rid of stored carbs, then why
|| does it last for at least 2 weeks? After a the first few days of
|| induction, your body is in ketosis and burning stored fat, not carbs.
||
|| Induction is to get into ketosis, start the weight loss process, and
|| eliminate cravings caused by consumption of excess carbs.
What about elimination of food intolerances? For most people, it is easier
at first to not worry about losing weight while on induction (that is, not
worry about limiting how much you eat), since they have to deal with the
"carb flu" and adjustments in energy levels, etc. Once the appetite
suppression sets in, and the cravings for carbs has left, then the active
weight loss phase begins. Of course, many people will find that they can
lose weight during induction.
When you think about it, induction is not need to get into ketosis, to start
the weight loss process, and or to eliminate carb cravings. All of that can
be done with higher carb levels than 20 g without food restrctions.
However, the restricted food list does serve - uniquely, I think - to
address the food tolerance issues that many people have without realizing
it.
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||| Once you're done with the two week Induction, your body has switched
||| to a fat-burning metabolism and you start OWL, where you start
||| limiting all foods you eat (calories) and can start increasing the
||| vegetables you eat (until your CCLL).
|||
|||| What about artificial sweeteners?
|||
||| It depends on how they interact with you. Splenda and erythritol
||| seem
||| to be the safe ones, but you have to try and see.
|||
|||| Is there a way to tell if you are in Ketosis?
|||
||| You stop being hungry. Ketostix show pink. You've just lost 5-10
||| lbs
||| of water weight.
|||
|||| How is it that to start you have to be under 20g of carbs for a
|||| couple of weeks?
|||
||| Your body burns stored carbs at a given rate (your CCLL), and stores
||| about 100g in your liver. You need to flush that out to enter
||| ketosis. The more carbs you eat, the longer it takes to flush.
||| Since
||| most people feel rotten during the initial transition, getting it
||| over
||| quickly is a Good Thing.
|||
||| So, 20g is enough to get proper nutrition through salad veggies, but
||| small enough to flush your liver quickly.
|||
|||| Will you be booted out if you have 21g?
|||
||| No.
|||
|||| Are some soups OK? I don't see them on the Atkins acceptable foods
|||| page, but some have pretty low carb counts...Should I stick exactly
|||| with what's on that page?
|||
||| You can eat things that are made from things on that page. For the
||| first two weeks, avoid anything artificial if you can, because some
||| artificial things have bad side effects for some people when LCing.
||| You want the first two weeks to go well so you'll be psyched about
||| the
||| rest of the diet.
