You have to come up with a structure to limit your calorie and carbohydrate intake (prepackaged food, fast food, frozen sirloin burgers, whatever) – or you won’t lose weight fast enough and consistently enough, to keep you on a low carbohydrate diet. You will crave sweets and strarches on a low carb diet, and in […]
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Half of weight loss is a decision, and that decision is a strategy and a structure that allows you to stay on 500-1000 calories of protein a day. Portion control works, freely feeding doesn’t. 3000 calories are alot more fun than 500, and 500 calories a day isn”t easy. You are going to have to […]
More than half the time when you are hungry, you may just be thirsty. When patients ask, what’s the most important thing I can do if I want to lose weight – one of the first things out of my mouth is always, make sure you are drinking your water. You don’t have to drink […]
Halloween candy is coming into your house tonight – you will purchase it and have left overs, or children will bring it home, or friends / family will donate it. Like the alcoholic who buys a bottle of booze for comapny, the big bet is – if it’s in the building, at some point you […]
If you’re not losing weight fast enough, you’re eating too many calories, and/or you’re eating too many carbohydrates, and/or you’re exercising too much. For the fastest weight loss, try to keep your calories under 1000 a day (under 800 a day is better). Limit your carbohydrates to 10-20 grams per feeding, or less. Limit your […]
Most patients can lose 10-30 pounds by (almost) freely feeding on a low carbohydrate diet. The first 20 pounds or so is fairly easy, when you restrict your carbohydrate intake to 10-20 grams per feeding. To lose much more than 30 pounds, most patients need a way to limit calories as well as carbohydrates. It […]
I really want to get you off real food, to drastically limit your calories, to get you to lose weight. It is way too easy to over-eat on protein and fat. Low carbohydrate diets work better than any other diet, if you severely limit your calories. If you don’t severely limit your calories, you’re just […]
I know it sounds radical, but if you successfully lose weight on Bars or Formula or whatever – it’s not a bad idea to maintain your weight by staying on Bars or Formula or whatever – and just add back 1000 calories or so of whatever foods you’ve been missing. Bar and Formula diets are […]
If you want to lose weight, you may do better on your diet – chewing, or you may do better on your diet – drinking. Some patients do best off food completely, on pure liquid or formula diets – smoothies, fruit drinks, soups, milk shakes, hot chocolates, etc. There’s nothing to chew, so there’s no […]
If you’re following a low calorie, high carbohydrate diet – you’ll be ravenous, and you’ll lose weight more slowly than if you’re following a low calorie, low carbohydrate diet. When it’s been studied, you lose weight twice as fast on 1500 calories of protein and fat, compared to weight loss on 1500 calories of carbohydrate. […]