This is great - now you can be the Guru!


You may be right about the tweaking, but before I tweak I tend to try a recipe straight the first time. I needed to discover if after a two-year scale weight stall, this would really work for me. And I didn't want to have to wonder if it was the tweaking right off the bat that made it fail, if it failed. And believe me, I will be watching the protein levels carefully. I've worked too hard too long to build these biceps, so if I'm not eating enough protein for my activity level I'll know right away.

But there's another reason I decided to try this to begin with. Recent studies indicate that some folks who are insulin resistant, like me, simply cannot process protein in the face of high fat (and I think it's safe to call most LC diets that, even if they're not as high as K) the way normal people do. More of that protein than is proper gets turned to glucose, calls up an abnormal insulin response, and stores too much of it as body fat. And I believe those people (mostly women it seems), are the very ones who have good initial success with LC and then just . . . stop. No matter what they do.

I am definitely one of those people. I suspect Debbie is (from what she's shared about herself) is too. So even though we can tweak, and can do large frame and can do +10% -- I'm not sure that wouldn't ultimately cause us to either lose less weight than we would on K, or lose a tiny bit and then stall again. I believe really low protein for us is the way to go --- at least initially, so that we can become less insulin resistant over time. Keeping the fat and calories way up, with protein very low (and maybe lower than it strictly has to be) will keep me from being hungry, and may even finally heal my very abused metabolism.


Amen, Sister! How much scale weight and body fat (clothing sizes, I guess) have you lost in these 4 years? How many protein grams per day do you eat in maintenance? I do agree about watching the carbs, but my tendency is to eat low anyway. On nearly 1700 calories today my net carb count is 34.4 - but I can't eat much lower because I go into ketosis at the drop of a hat, or maybe I should say by ingesting that extra spoonful of whipped cream.


That's interesting. My cream, coconut cream, fish and meat protein grams today were only 39, but my veggie protein added another 11, for a total of 50. That feels quite comfortable, but it's nice to know I can eat as much veggie as I want (I do love them, but have been very parsimonious this last month because of the protein count!) and the occasional steak and still be okay. Can you post a link here to the actual site? I can run it through Google Translation and see what it says and how it differs from the English one run by his fan in S.A.


Ah . . . but in Europe all listed 'total' carbs ARE net carbs. That's how their food labeling differs from ours. They've already deducted the fiber. I lived in Europe for many years, and it took me a while to get used to it. So in this case the reason they're higher than Atkins or Eades is - they are actually higher.


Hmm. I did. Like many others I thought 'great, the one thing I can eat lots and lots of' -- maybe because you didn't you didn't develop the same problem accumulation of Branched Protein Amino Acids.

Thanks for sharing so much good info!

Lisa