Stop using maintenance for weight loss

Paleo works for some patients for maintenance. Atkins works for some patients for maintenance. Even Bill Clinton’s whole food, vegan diet works for some patients for maintenance, though absolutely not recommended. But if you want to lose weight, you’ve got to cut your calories. To be successful, most patients need to limit their calories to […]

You won’t lose weight on paleo

You probably won’t lose any weight on paleo. You’ll just deprive yourself of the carbohydrates you really want (flour products, yeasted flour products, grain products, dairy) and eat too much fruit and too many nuts. Just like freely feeding on Atkins, you won’t lose weight – because you’ll be eating too much. Paleo is way […]

Holiday diet damage control

The secret to minimizing diet damage over the holidays, is that you must go back on your diet. You must go back on your diet. You must go back on your diet. It’s always easier to eat nothing at all, than to eat a little. You must go back on your diet. You must go […]

Do not go on a low calorie, full carbohydrate diet

If you try to lose weight on a low calorie, full carbohydrate diet – the bet is you will be ravenously hungry, and you will binge on sweets and starches. Everyone has the same problem. It’s all sweet and starch cravings. Low calorie, full carbohydrate diets create such out of control carbohydrate cravings, they often […]

Meat Diet alternatives

If you don’t want to do a Meat Only Diet, there are non-meat alternatives that work almost as well. Eat up to a pound of cottage cheese a day. Eat up to a pound of Greek yogurt a day. Eat up to a pound of non-fat yogurt a day. Eat up to a pound of […]

The Meat Only Diet

I see the best weight loss on Meat Only Diets. Meat Only was pioneered by George Blackburn, M.D. in the 1950’s, popularized by Max Stillman, M.D. as his Quick Weight Loss Diet in the 1960’s, and hurt by Bob Atkins, M.D. with his “you can eat as much as you want” nonsense in the 1970’s. […]

The truth about weight loss

If you eat as much protein as you want, you’ll probably eat well over 1000 calories a day – so you probably won’t lose weight fast enough, to stay motivated enough, to stay on a low carb diet. If you eat less than 1000 calories a day of a full carbohydrate diet, you probably won’t […]

Real food for safer weight loss

500-600 calories a day is almost no food, but it is the fastest weight loss. It doesn’t matter much what protein your 500-600 calories a day comes from, so eat what you like – tuna, eggw, chicken, lean beef, etc. When it’s been studied, patients who develop medical problems on protein sparing modified fasts – […]

Weight loss isn’t just calories – but it’s mostly calories

Weight loss isn’t just from cutting calories, but it’s probably mostly from cutting calories. One of my favorite studies shows twice as much weight on on 1500 calories of protein and fat a day, compared to 1500 calories of carbohydrate a diet. But if you don’t limit your calories, you are not going to lose […]

Muscle cramps on a low carb diet

When you experience muscle cramps on a low carb diet, it is more likely than not a sodium deficiency, not a potassium deficiency. You can get cramps in your jaw, thumbs, calves, rib cage, neck, feet, thighs, etc. Places you did not think could cramp – can and will cramp on a low carb diet […]