Best diet - Atkins diet and carbohydrates
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When your body is not given fuel in the form of carbohydrates, it uses fuel in other ways. So, let’s say you’ve just started following the Atkins plan and are consuming a modest 20 grams of carbohydrates or less. Here is what’s happening inside your body:
The liver stores glucose by converting it to glycogen. It holds perhaps a 12-hour supply of glucose in its glycogen. Once you finish digesting all of the carbohydrates that you last ate, the liver starts converting its stored glycogen back into glucose and releases it to maintain glucose in the blood. Lipolysis also starts breaking down fat in the fat cells and releasing fatty acids into the bloodstream. Tissues that do not need to use glucose for energy (for example, muscle cells) start burning the fatty acids. This reduces the glucose demand so that nerve cells get the glucose.your body is not given fuel in the form of carbohydrates, it uses fuel in other ways. So, let’s say you’ve just started following the Atkins plan and are consuming a modest 20 grams of carbohydrates or less. Here is what’s happening inside your body:
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It gets pretty ugly when you don’t consume carbs. I went on a modified low carb diet, and loss a ton of muscle mass in the process. I was dieting for a competition and by the end, I loss almost 70 lbs.. Placed in the competition, but it took a while to get the muscle back..
ps.. the header looks awesome!
Jason…hear this from a a person who has been into this diet accidentaly.(I’ve only read about Atkins diet today)
Few years back (1999) i got sick and my stomach couldn’t handle much food.
Since then until this year i have eaten almost only fruits and vegetables and maybe 1 slice a bread in a day…other day no bread…nor other flower carbs related.Sometimes chocolate (i don’t consume sugar or cola).
There were days when i forgot to eat.Other days when i was too busy to eat and the only thing in my stomach was coffee.
There was no hunger.
Probably the only carbs i got those years were from vegetables.
I was so skiny and i am still very skiny but i am thinking to go off carbs for a month.
When i stopped smoking in June this year,after a month i got hunger attacks that scared the crap out of me.
So i went back to my old habit and the hunger stopped.
Shame on me but i rather smoke than eat.
This year due to the smoking thing i think i put on almost 2 kg.
I hate it and now i want back to 48 kg.
The header is from the Vista Lime wallpaper.
wow..
thank you for the theme link by the way. I am going to use one of the themes on one of my business websites..
[…] What’s happened is that researchers have finally worked out why it is that the Atkins Diet works. The thing is, unlike what Dr. Atkins himself thought (ably explained here) there isn’t some special digestive, blood, or indeed any other process that goes on in the absence of carbohydrates. So what he discovered, while it does in fact work, doesn’t work for the reason he thought. […]