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You are supposed to take your body weight divide that in half and drink that much in OZ every day. Are you doing the dr. siem. protocal? My doctor has me drinking protien shakes (provided by them) that are 80 cal 4 times a day. And my lunch and dinner are 3.5oz meat, handful of veggies (up to 3 combo) and either apple, orange, strawberries, or 1/2 grapefruit.
I cheated once and all that did is make me hungrier the next day.
Keep it up i've lost 13lbs in 15 days.
I thought I was in ketosis but my diabetic moniter said otherwise lol. Not to say you have to be in ketosis to feel better with a low carb diet though. There is more information on the article from Diet Doctor - Lose Weight by Achieving Optimal Ketosis. Here is an excerpt...
"Blood ketones are best measured on a fasted stomach in the morning (before breakfast, that is). Here are a few pointers on how to interpret the result:
Below 0.5 mmol/L is not considered “ketosis”.
A low carb diet causes the body to go into Ketosis whereby the body uses its fat as a source of energy. Also when you are in ketosis your body feels less hungry. This all sounds good except that this can also lead to kidney issues (even failure), osteoporosis, and kidney stones.
Stay balanced and control your calories and you'll lose weight and avoid the side effects.
Good luck.
Tried Metabolic Research Ctr (ketosis diet) and lost 40 lbs in 4 mos. It was like a miracle for me- melted off all fat and I was down to 128 and VERY happy- but every time I tried to go into maintenace I would gain 10 lbs right away! This left me very cranky, although happy with my weight, but never feeling like I could relax at all. Suddenly I was pg w/ #4 and after delivery I tried to lose but GAINED more weight while breastfeeding for 13 mos.
(Fat burning state). If you are not in ketosis at all that can explain why you are struggling so much with the diet. (If you are not metabolizing your fat, you are not being "fed" so would therefore be hungry. It is your metabolized fat that is supposed to be nourishing you while on the hcg diet. The 500 calorie diet is for your fresh nutrients/protein so you don't get deficient in anything.
Dietary Ketosis has nothing to do with BG until your liver runs out of stored glucagon it can continue to raise BG (ie 8 - 10 hour high when fasting) how low are you going on the carbs? you can be in Ketosis with high BG. Ketosis means your body is using ketones for fuel instead of glucose. Diabetesforum(dot)com has many people doing diatery Ketosis.
And eating too many carbs even for a single day can kick you out of ketosis and thus you will not lose weight like you would think. It takes several days or more to get back into ketosis after even one day of too many carbs. So eating too many carbs once a week could keep you almost totally out of ketosis.
Gimel is right. It is worth getting tested for low thyroid.
feeling that occurs when people are in large ketosis. You body is converting to using ketones as energy, instead of sugars. In the adult, most people think that the brain will still use sugar as the source of energy metabolism, but some studies do suggest (ours included) that given enough time, the brain may switch to using ketones for energy. Although using this type of diet that produces large ketones is great for losing weight, one does have to put up with this mentation change.
You could try MCT Oil and acetyl l-carnitine. MCT oil is a medium chain triglyceride oil that has been used to promote ketosis in epileptics. Ketosis is fat burning. (Don't ask me why epileptics need ketosis, I have no idea). Both of these would be safe for children.
hCG was discovered by simeons when he was treating "fat boys" in India. He was using it on them because of their sexual organs and found that their weight came off and what ever the gonad problem was was fixed too.
If you need less insulin to maintain excellent blood sugars then you will slowly get to your optimum weight. If you are serious about this I can strongly recommend the book "diabetes solution" by Dr. Richard Bernstein, you can google this. His book explains how to safely use insulin and diet to manage blood sugars and weight. His approach is similar to Atkins, but is more finely tuned to suit people with diabetes (both types 1 and 2, insulin and non-insulin dependent).
I'm curious if anyone is losing weight in 3rd trimester and how much?
As first it is not dangerous and its not unhealthy. There are situation you can benefit to be in ketosis state and there are situation you dont. You cant just say "its unhealthy" - who says that and how did he get this information ? As i told, there is not muc hresearch on ketosis, most of the research dates decades ago and they're rly extreme while treating epylepsy and other mental diseases. For example they ate just fat, maybe 10% protein, no vegetables, no multivitamin...
You can lose fat, without losing weight by eating a healthy diet and exercising. You need the strength training to build the muscles that will burn the fat.
But maybe, since you're under weight you don't really have fat to burn, you just need to tone your muscles? If that's the case, exercise will be the key. You might try yoga for that - works great.
Plus, remember that you are adding a 1/2 c. or more of milk to that cereal and you need to add in the carb count for the milk. If you add fruit, once again you need to figure out the carbs and remember that a portion would be 1/2 of a banana or 1/4 c. of berries. The way most people eat their cereal, they are easily consuming over 100 gms. of carbs in one bowl!!!! The most you should have per meal is 45-60 gms. The low end is for women and the high end number is for men.
There have been some other recent posts regarding the Atkins type diet, you might find them interesting reading. It's my understanding that this type of diet does not count calories or anything other than carbs. The general basis for losing weight is "calories in/calories out" - meaning that if you take in more calories than you expend, you will not lose weight.
I didn't see this response, so this is quite late. The possible kidney damage and cardiovascular problems have been reported in research on high protein diets, not just from red meat. If it isn't long-term, when you return to your former diet you will return to your former metabolism, nothing will have changed permanently, so if you do that, you will go back to gaining weight. Only permanent dietary changes bring lasting change.
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