I am exploring my dietary options. Does anyone know a way I should balance my food intake, how many calories a day i should consume, or just anything?
I’m wondering about life style changing diets, or quick diets. I just want to look healthy but right now, I am not happy. I really hate not being comfortable in my own skin, so all help is welcomed!
Thank you!

i haven’t tried my self but i’ve heard a lot about people who had! so it takes exactly 100 days and you loose about 10 kg or about 22 pounds! so you don’t have to lessen the amount you eat, you just have to control WHAT you eat:
1. things not to eat:
*junk food of any sort
*NO fast food
*nothing with too much flour or sugar
2. exercise!!!!- skip for thirty minutes every day and go on a jog around you neighborhood. just get between an hour and two hours of exercise every day!
3. don’t eat after six in the evening!!!!! eating before you sleep is very bad.
4. don’t go on a diet with someone you know!- if you go on a diet with someone else, it might seem smart cause you can "suffer" together, but you end up comparing yourself to them!
5. do not weigh yourself until the hundredth day!!!- you end up slacking off if you loose you weight faster than you expected.
6. follow the food guide for your diet!
GOOD LUCK!!!!

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I’ve heard that people on low-carb diets start out feeling without energy, because the body is still accustomed to providing energy through glycolycis, but later in the diet have plenty of energy to spare. If it’s not glycolysis that’s providing the energy(how could it be, where is the glucose) then what is it?

Glucose provides quick energy but dietary fats provide sustained energy. Coconut oil if the only fat that provides quick energy just like a carb but without insulin or blood sugar reactions.

The core of Atkins program is converting the body from glycolysis (burning glucose as fuel) to ketosis (burning fat as fuel). Dietary fat levels need to be at >65% of total calories, if not, the body will still remain in glycolysis by converting 58% of excess protein into glucose (via gluconeogenesis).

Glucose is the bodies preferred fuel (if you want to get technical, it actually burns alcohol most efficiently, but that doesn’t make it any healthier for the body than carbs), the body can convert 100% of carbs, 58% of protein & 10% of dietary fat into glucose. The body can also be fueled by fat (dietary fat & fat cells) but only in the absence of carbs. Your brain actually prefers* to be fueled by ketones (part of the fat burning process), it does require glucose also, but glucose can be easily converted from excess protein if needed or dietary fat.

I think that ketosis is not the back up fuel plan. I think ketosis was meant to be primary fuel plan, that is easily overridden (one bite) by ingestion of carbs (or alcohol). The body is rarely allowed to become fully fat adapted, especially in these days of people using processed food formula to feed infants instead of breast milk. Carbs were never supposed to be available year around, only seasonally during harvest. The body can easily handle carbs even in excess occasionally, just not continuously. The body can also be fueled by protein (via gluconeogenesis) but long term protein synthesis creates the byproducts of ammonia & nitrogen. The body can easily handle clearing out these byproducts but if gluconeogenesis is used as the primary fuel source for long term, the body can be overwhelmed (poisoned) by the excess ammonia & nitrogen. It’s all contingent on balance but the body functions at optimal levels on more dietary fat & suboptimal levels on less dietary fat.

The body always has the ability to use ketone bodies as fuel. Even people in glycolysis (except those that are hyperinsulimic) burn some fat as they sleep, this helps preserve glycogen stores. Using fat as fuel & being fueled by fat are the difference in the body becoming fully fat adaped to being fueled by ketone bodies & glycerol.

This study done on athletes in training during the conversion process says that after one has become fat adapted, endurance exercise performance returns to normal.:

http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/1/1/2

I highly recommend low carb way of eating for optimal health. It takes 3-6 weeks for the body to become fully fat adapted to perform athletically but the body does convert *if* carb cycling is not used. Athletes studied said their performance was effected the first week or so but recovered to full athletic ability within a few weeks.

For bodybuilders, low carb creates lean tissues even without working out, working out should create even more muscle mass. When insulin dominates the blood stream, testosterone & human growth hormone (HGH) aren’t produced, which are both anabolic hormones & contribute to muscle growth. Excess protein is converted to glucose *unless* dietary fat levels are greater than 80% of dietary calories, then I believe that excess protein is forced to create lean tissues (just as excess carbohydrates are forced to create fat tissues).

Marathon athletes aren’t restricted to glycogen stores. Athletes in glycolysis (using glucose for fuel) have to "carb load" to fill glycogen stores but athletes in ketosis (using fat for fuel) don’t have these restrictions. A normal weighted person has enough fat stores to run for more than 200 hours – glycogen stores only last a few hours before being depleted & the athlete "hits the wall"

Carb cycling programs never allow the body to become fully fat adapted, which I believe takes 3-6 weeks. The metabolism just shuts down & awaits a return to glycolysis.

^ In glycolysis, the brain requires 120g of glucose per day, but the brain gets its energy from ketone bodies when insufficient glucose is available. After blood glucose is lowered for 3 days, the brain gets 30% of its energy from ketone bodies. After 40 days, this goes up to 70% (during the initial stages the brain does not burn ketones, since they are an important substrate for lipid synthesis in the brain). In time the brain reduces its glucose requirements from 120g to 10g per day (with ketones & glycerol providing the difference).

Ketones have been described as "magic" in their ability to increase metabolic efficiency, while decreasing production of free radicals, the damaging byproducts of normal metabolism. The heart and brain operate 25% more efficiently using ketones as a source of energy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone

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Im 16 years old and i need to know what diets i can take to prevent gaining more weight and to help me gain muscle since im gonna join a gym soon. Thanks

Again like I told this girl change your diet into a plant based diet for 1 week or a month watch the movies forks over knives it improves your health. YOU WILL SEE RESULTS!!!!(:

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I am getting married in 3 months and been working out but need a stronger jumpstart, I read about crash diets but which actually work? I have no time to loose

There are times when you may need to lose weight fast. There are many crash diets formulated to help a person lose pounds as quickly and as effortlessly as possible. While this is not the best way to achieve a long-term weight loss goal, it can be useful when you need to fit into your wedding gown for the big day, or a bikini for the beach.

When you are on a crash diet, you should exercise as much as possible. An hour a day of physical exercise will help push your weight loss fast, plus it can make you feel energized. Just be careful not to overdo it, and stop if you feel sick, dizzy or faint.

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Im 21 and im in college, im married also. I am looking to lose about 15 pds that I gained from having my son who is a year old. What are the best diets that will work for my busy scedule? I need to know what to eat and what not and it cant be very costly?

Totall free: http://www.sparkpeople.com/

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Specific diets please. If you can, also include a list of the types of foods that I can and can’t eat on this diet. Please and thank you.

While I cannot tell you what exact diet you should go on, here is a site that might help based on your personality. They have some information that I think you will find helpful.

http://tinyurl.com/cl3tna

All the best.

Regie

http://www.christianadscenter.com

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I am 17 and want to get my body fit.
I have boobs and a butt, but I would like to tone and loose a little weight.
Any good sites with tips, workout plans, and diets?

bodybuilding.com

check it out, it’s very good, they also have forum sections that will fit perfectly for your goals.

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I have Acanthosis Nigricans. I’m not sure if I’m diabetic. I want to get checked soon. I heard that if my insulin levels are over active, it will trigor my skin disorder. Please, don’t tell me to go to the doctor… I AM going to go. LOL I just want more information about diets to lower my insulin levels. What should I expect to deprive myself of?
LOL "DR." How do you know I don’t have an over active pancreas without running a test on me?

The Paleo Diet, or Primal eating – basically you look at the foods available to you at the store and try to choose those that closely represent what a hunter gatherer would eat.

http://www.paleovillage.com/2011/05/30/paleo-diet-and-type-2-diabetes/

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes/

Both diets are focused on the idea that most of the foods that are common to westernized people today haven’t been a part of our diets for most of human existence. So cutting whole grains, sugar, and seed oils like Canola, soybean, vegetable/corn oils. Once you remove those foods you lower your levels of inflammation, which corrects hormonal issues (like insulin resistance, which is a sign your body is producing a lot of insulin but isn’t responding to it).

To the "Doctor:" Type 2 diabetes doesn’t always mean an "under functioning of pancreas" Haha. It’s often an overactive pancreas but the problem is your body doesn’t respond to all the insulin.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001356/

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I was planning on doing 30 apples a day to cleanse my body and remove dead tissues. Do mono fruit diets accomplish that?

Theirs this thing call NOPALINA is natural is a powderand u put 2 spoon fulls or 1 in a glass of orange juice or water and you Drink it, It will clean your pipes if u wanna call it and it helps you lose a little and keep weight off and its good for you

They sale it at Hispanic supermarkets, and Walgreens here in Chicago, I dont know about you, you can order it online, They also have pills but i dont rely like them

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I’d like to lose at least 20 pounds, so what odd diets work for you? Does the grapefruit, juice, or water diet work?

any fad diet will work if you stick to it. but as soon as you get off you are gonna gain the weight back. eat healthy and exercise. you need to make it a lifestyle, not just a diet. that way the weight will stay off.

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