Those of you who are low carbing AND test for ketosis:\ndoes red wine always knock you out of ketosis?  If not, how much do you have?\nI'm low carbing starting tomorrow, and I know I lose on Atkins/ketosis..but I have some GOOD red wine out there...
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Hi.  Sour Beach dieter here.\n\nRed wine contains only 2.41 grams of carbs per 5 oz. serving and has no sugar.  It shouldn't knock you out of ketosis (unless you drink 6 gallons at a clip - lol)
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ok.  i took nutrition class twice about 3 years ago.  \nprotein  carbs fats and alcohol.  best to worst.  alcohol has like an extreme amount of fat for one.  alcohol is all sugar once broken down in the body.  if you're worried about alcohol for diabetes steer clear.  if it's for a diet, steer clear.  if it's for general info, just do it in moderation with a balanced diet.  alcohol isn't "empty calories" or whatever she  said earlier.  it's fattening and sugary.
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If you are a low carb dieter, you most likely were advised to take potassium supplements. This could happen for one or both of these reasons: \n\n1)you are, or want to be in, ketosis (an acidic condition associated with excessiveamounts of ketones in the blood) and ketosis is shown to cause potassiumdeficit; and/or\n\n2) you are dehydrated and dehydration is know to be accompanied with potassium loss.\n\nThere are other factors that can influence your potassium need. You may be experiencing one of these:\n\nadaptation to ketosis, which can lead to potassium conservation by the body. Studies have shown that after five weeks on a very low-carb diet (20g carbs a day) with adequate water intake, potassium concentration in the blood was normal. \ndecrease in food intake (due to decreased appetite),which can return potassium concentration in the blood back to normal. Clinical observation is that potassium concentration increases proportional with theincrease of the energy deficit when calories burnt exceed calories eaten. \nThere is no RDA for Potassium. \n\nOver-the-counter potassium supplements usually contain 99 milligrams per tablet. The average American diet provides two to six grams of potassium per day, so you see how little you can get actually get with these supplements. If you doctor advised you on prescription-strength potassium formula, then by all means, follow his or her recommendation.\n\nIf you have plenty of these foods and plenty of water, you're potassium intake is probably fine:\n\nFish, especially salmon, cod, flounder and sardines \nMeats \nVegetables, particularly broccoli, tomatoes, potato skins, spinach, lettuce and parsley \nFruits (you can have lemons, half of a tart green apple, or a quarter of a grapefruit on a low-carb diet) \nWatch for These Signs of Potassium Deficit!\n\nThe most common symptom of potassium deficit is fatigue; initial symptoms of potassium deficiency include slow reaction, muscle weakness and dry skin.\n\nBe especially attentive to the signs of potassium deficit if you are diabetic, pregnant or suffer from alcoholism.
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In the emergency room we treat alcoholics (not implying that you are one) with a "Banana Bag" (the color of the intravenous solution is yellow . . . thus the name). The main ingredient in the bag is thiamin. When you drink alcohol chronically it deprives your body of this very important nutrient & causes malnurishment. It is important to eat a balanced diet rich in protein and take a multi-vitamin each day, with added thiamin. Drink a lot of water to keep your body filtered. Of course, your best bet would be to not drink as much, but if you find this impossible to do it's important that you maintain adequate nutrition. Alcohol is high in useless calories; that is your body will store these calories as fat. Try to eat a low-carb, high protein diet with lots of water, as the body becomes dehydrated because of alcohol (it's a diuretic). \nAs far as decreasing liver/kidney damage, well, I don't think there is a particular preventative measure except to cease from drinking. I've seen folks with a diseased liver, it is not a pretty site :-( Take care and good luck!
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GREAT GREAT way to get your vegetables, but one of the big things is WATCH the salt intake on the bottle. There is a lot of sodium in that V8. Just drink water too, during the day and THAT, my friend, will keep your salt in check.\n\nThanks! \nSee ya!\n\n--Joker
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Cool! How'd you manage not to spill your bowl of water? What do you mean? Witch soda are you talking about? Witch diet or witch regular? Meerrrheeeeehhheeeee!!!
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The weight lost during the first part of the low-carb diet is primarily water weight.  You've lost this and now your body doesn't know what to do.  Since you're restricting what you are giving your body - its fuel - it may be trying to stock up.  Fat is the fuel reserves your body keeps to feed on in lean times.  \n\nHowever, if your body "thinks" that lean times are coming, it's going to "stock up fuel" in the form of fat.  I'd say that these two factors explain what is happening with your body.  \n\nUnfortunately there is no quick fix to losing weight - the most reliable, long-term weight loss solution is eat right and exercise.  Luckily, there are many websites with delicious low fat and low calorie recipes out there...it's not hard to eat right when there's so much yummy food!
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fruits like grapes and berries - they are lower in sugar carbs.  Also carrots have more carbs than cellery, but are good for you.  I like to get some low calorie ranch to dip my veggies in.  I prefer fresh broccoli, carrots, cellery, and mushrooms.  Also if you like black olives, you can have a few of those each day too.
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Are you doing Atkins or some low carb high protein diet? I used to find that sometimes I could take pork rinds and spread them with some WHOLE FAT cream cheese, almost zero carbs, and it kicks in that ketoacidosis (ketosis) that most people strive for on the low carb, high protein diets...Pork rinds are made from pig fat and skin, and they are truly a carbless snack, get the plain salted ones the flavored ones may contain carbs. Read the labels!\n\nGood luck, if you are doing the Atkins diet, you will need to keep your carbs as low as possible, if you are not healthy this diet may not be good for you. Ketosis is when your body feeds off of itself.  It can also make your breath foul, you need to find some sugar free/low carb breath mints...If it's sweet...do not eat!  Low carb/Atkins worked for me for awhile, but I longed for bread, pasta, rice and tators...all BIG "NO" items if on Atkins...\n\nSo I have lost all the weight I wanted by turning Atkins upside down, and lowering my fat gram consumption to about 10 grams of fat per day or less...I can eat all the cooked and raw veggies that I want, and for me it's a healthier diet plan...I still keep the breads and things like that to a minimum unless they are low fat items, then only in moderation...and I avoid sweets as much as possible, if you ever get over craving sugar, you are fortunate.  When I was on Atkins I used to dream of things like anything chocolate, or even just a piece of good whole grain bread.  I could smell bread cooking and I would salavate like a hungry dog.  I lost weight on the diet, but at times I felt deprived.\n\nGood luck, I know that most meats are low in carbs, so try some beef jerky (try to get it plain or buy a food dehydrater and a london broil or some beef, cut it into strips and put it in the dehydrator! Soon you will have good homemade beef jerky (keep in the fridge because your homemade jerky will not have the perservatives that the store bought kind has or the carbs)...But if you slice it thin, you can beat the high cost of this almost carb free snack!\n\nOnce again good luck, when you get older the matabolism slows, so it may be best to try to shed excess poundage and keep it off while you are still young and able!  Plenty of water, no matter which diet you are on! It helps to make you feel full.
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You have the right idea of slowly incoporating carbs back into you diet. I've learned that a healthy balance of foods is best. Not and "carbs only" diet or "no carbs" diet or all cabbage...whatever. \n\nI tried Atkins a couple different times in my life. The first time it worked very well, I lost about 10-15 lbs. Then I got sick of it and gained the weight back. The second time around I don't think I lost any weight at all. I love carbs way too much to do that diet ever again. lol Plus you stay away from any real sugar and that doesn't help when they are back into your diet. You feel like gorging on anything you avoided like the plague.\n\nThe best thing that worked for me was counting calories and still eat what I wanted but in moderation. I lost 50 lbs. over the course of a year. Yes, it's not instant but in the long run it will help you and you will be more likely to stick with it rather than Atkins or any other diet. Go to the source below. That helped me keep track of calories and my progress. I hope it's still free. :)
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Not sure if it works yet, but I am trying it. I started today. I bought a 14 day plan and menu on ebay for cheap. It looks fairly easy to stick to compared to other diets I've tried. send me an email\n\nchuckehall2000@yahoo.com
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As few as possible, while still eating a healthy diet (eat your veggies!).  Don't worry about those who say you "need" a certain amount of carbs daily or "you'll die".  Most functions in your body will run just as well on ketones as on carbs, and for those that don't your body will convert protein to the carbs it needs.\n\nJust make sure you are eating a varied, nutrient-dense diet.
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emm im not nobody im somebody but i hope dis helps... I know its quite long imma im sure ull find it real helpful. GL\n\nEggs have gotten a bad rap from the anti-egg crowd in recent years. I'd be a rich person if I had a nickel every time I heard someone spout anti-egg propaganda that eating eggs raises your serum cholesterol level. This diet shows how you can lose fat and lower your cholesterol at the same time. Actually, cholesterol is a type of fat and with this diet you will lose that kind of fat as well as regular fat.\n\nHOW IT WORKS\n\nThe Egg Diet is a low carbohydrate diet that works by nutritional fasting. Nutritional fasting is where you cease eating certain, but not all, nutrients. In this diet, the only nutrients that we cannot consume are carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are the fuel for fat cells. By eating unlimited quantities of eggs, steak, cheese, and other foods that are low or void of carbohydrates, we can starve ourselves of fat fuel.\n\nNormally, when you eat carbohydrates, they are reduced to a simple sugar called glucose. In addition to your fat cells, all the other cells in your body also burn glucose. Excess glucose that is not used by the other cells is converted to fat and stored in the fat cells. When you don't eat enough carbohydrates to keep all your normal non-fat cells happy, your body has no choice but to start pulling from its fat reserves and converting the fat back into glucose. The important thing to remember is that this happens even if you have been stuffing yourself full of steak, cheese and eggs. Knowing this, we can lose fat while eating all we want of low carbohydrate foods.\n\nNormally, a person's diet is extremely high in carbohydrates (sugars and starches) and other nutrients. We more or less consume a balanced diet every day consisting of the four basic food groups - meat, milk, bread, and fruits and vegetables. While a balanced meal is a very nutritious meal, it is not acceptable for dieting. It is a long standing joke that pizza is a balanced meal. It contains all four food groups - the crust (bread), pepperoni (meat), cheese (milk), and tomato sauce (vegetable). However, if you were to just eat pizza all the time, your waist would swell up like a water balloon in no time at all. The part of the pizza that makes you fat is the crust. There is no other ingredient that does this.
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no carbs part from fruits completely but less of the processed stuff..if u cant resist that then only have a little and in the mornin and make sure its brown (wholemeal)... \nbare it for a week ,trust me, ull lose all that water retention that the carbs usually bloats u out with within a week and thats usually between 3-6 kilos depending on weither uv cheated a little or not:) \ndo 50 crunches (or as many as u can) and then ten full in the morning b4 breakfast\ntry not eat anything at least 4 hours b4 bed and have 2 spoons of honey just b4 bed so that ur liver burns the fat while your asleep.\nwithin a week ull be teeny and sexy again if ur already fine now:)
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Low-Carb diet is the best. It works very well. I have been on it since October and have lost lots. Hubbie on it too. He has heart problems and I am a diabetic... Try it you just shop the way you use to. No sugar, White flour, Starches (including corn) etc.
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Yes sugar is very addicting, as well is caffine, I tried cuttong back on caffine awhile back and boy after 48hrs you have a headache from he**  but after 72hrs or so it will go away.. i have since went back to caffine, cuttong back on sugar dud same for me, just a little at a time, Eat some fruit if you are craving sugar like Grapes, Cherry's things with the natural sugars
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I am not going to acknowledge the how Dr. Atkins died.  However, I will say that if you read and learn about the WHOLE concept behind the Atkins low carb lifestyle, you will see that it works and understand the science behind it.\n\nMost people just want a quick fix and associate the induction phase of Atkins as the entire diet.  There are different phases that you go through as you progress.\n\nAtkins and all diets are about eating the right foods. Foods consist of either carbohydrates, protien or fat. Eating the right mix of these is the key.\n\nAtkins advocates controlling the intake of carbs and eating the right fats. There are different types of carbs depending on the absorption rate into the blood stream. There is a tool called the glycemic index to help you determine the absorption rate. Typically, the lower the rate the better. See the source below.\n\nI used the Atkins approach and lost 60 pounds. I still live the low carb lifestyle and have maintained my weight for over two years.\n\nUltimately, it is about calories taken in and burned. Regardless of which diet you choose, you should get on some sort of a light exercise plan. Changing your diet will help you lose weight. However, exercise and diet will jump start it.\n\nI would recommend doing some research for yourself. You should have a full understanding of any diet plan. For any diet to be effective, it has to be a lifestyle change. I would also consult a doctor before starting for a general checkup and bloodwork. This way you can compare your results later down the road.