80% of your calories are eaten the first and the last 5 minutes of your meal. The bread basket, appetizers and desserts are caloric nightmares. The average bread basket contains over 1200 calories, not counting the 50 calorie per pat butter you put on the bread. Appetizers are almost as bad. A bowl of clam […]
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Traditional low calorie dieting is really quite futile, because if you’re cutting your calories enough to lose the traditional pound a week – the bet is you are going to be pretty darn hungry, and when feeding frenzy strikes, you are going to eat back all the weight you have lost in a week in […]
The two worst things you can possibly cheat on are alcohol or fruit. You are better off cheating on a chocolate chip cookie than an apple. The reason is because fruit and alcohol cause twice as much fat storage as other carbohydrates. Stored fat is triglyceride. Your body gets the glyceride to make stored fat […]
If you’re not losing weight on a low carb diet, and you’re not cheating, and you’re in ketosis – you’re eating too many calories. Stop cheese and nuts and butter and oil and salad dressing – and you should start losing 2-4 pounds a week again. If you’re still not losing, you’re going to have […]
Most patients are overweight because of 3 foods. Figure out what your problems foods are, stop eating them for a month, it’s usually good for a quick 10 pound weight loss. Everyone is different, but the dirty dozen, the most common culprits are ice cream, bread, crackers, cake, cookies, pie, candy, potatoes, alcohol, nuts, potato […]
Calories are pretty darn relentless, which is the reason you can’t be on Atkins and eat 3000 calories a day and expect to lose weight. Except if you limit your carbohydrate intake to about no more than 8 grams per feeding, you can probably freely feed for about 2 months and lose weight. After 2 […]
What keeps low carb diets from working is too many calories, and the usual culprits are cheese and nuts. You just cannot eat 3000 plus calories a day and lose weight. Peanut butter doesn’t work either. Nuts are actually a double whammy, as they contain both way too many calories and way too much carbohydrate. […]
Trying to lose weight or maintain your weight just by cutting back or limiting what you eat, doesn’t work. The biggest lie I know is that if you don’t eat 500 calories a day, you’ll lose a pound a week. It just isn’t true. Weight loss and weight maintenance is more about limiting fat storage, […]
The real secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is the same secret to making money in the stock market – don’t do anything stupid. For lasting weight loss, you’ve got to avoid the horrible mistakes. It’s the caloric nightmares that do you in, the 1 hour splurge that puts back on all the […]
Living on much less carbohydrate than the average bear isn’t difficult. The American obesity epidemic isn’t too many calories, it’s too much carbohydrate per feeding, which causes too much fat storage. Toss away the top slice of bread in every sandwich, and you’ve not only cut the carbs in half, but the sandwich tastes better […]