carbs vs calories
What Dr Atkins told us is that as far as weight loss there is a 10% advantage with low carb, high protein. So if you lose 10 pounds with high carb you would have lost 11 with high protein.
The advantage of high protein is that it helps preserve muscle during weight loss.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
--protein and fat help keep you feeling fuller than carbs do
--carbs trigger cravings for more carby type foods
--your body needs protein and fat more than it needs carbs
--high carb diets may raise your risk for Alzheimers, while protein and fat protect against it
--for many people, eating higher fat and higher protein and lower carb will improve their blood sugar, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholestero, and triglyceride levels, while eating high carb will make all those measures worse.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/lo w-carbohydrate-diets/
The number of calories you eat is not equal to the number of calories your body absorbs. Calories contained in highly processed foods are absorbed easily, but calories contained in whole foods are not. So even though two foods may say they have the same number of calories, that does not mean that your body is getting the same number of calories from both foods.
Height: 5'5" HW: 290 Consultation Weight: 276 SW: 257 CW: 132
Why would you set aside cravings and satiety? It's a pretty miserable existence craving crappy food all the time, and never being satisfied.
6'3" tall, male.
Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.
M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.
The higher your serum insulin, the higher the inflammation in the body, too. The more carbohydrate you eat the more insulin circulates in your blood stream, potentially causing insulin resistance, as well as that tricky inflammation. Systemic inflammation can cause quite a few health issues, from heart disease to cognitive problems. This is one good book that discusses it among other things: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Science-Low-Carbohydrate-Living/dp/0983490708
I follow a ketogenic diet post-op. I also have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder. Feel free to ask me about either!
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much...the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
Thanks for Book recommendation! :-)
5'7" HW 256 (1/6/2014) SW 236.2 (VSG: 1/26/2015) CW 165.5 (01/10/2016) Total Weight Lost 90.5
Pre-Op: -19.8; Month 1: -19; Month 2: -12.7; Month 3: -9.9; Month 4: -7.2; Month 5: -6.4; Month 6: -2.8; Month 7: -3.7; Month 8: -4.2; Month 9: -0.6; Month 10: -2.1; Month 11: -0 Month 12: -2.1
GOALS: BMI Normal = 159 (6.5 to go); 100 LBs Lost = 156 (9.5 to go); FINAL GOAL: 139?? (26.5 to go)
There's nothing inherently evil about carbs. They just don't fill you up like protein does, so people tend to eat more of them and consume more calories in the long run. What's been said about absorption is also true. I haven't gone completely carb-free, but I try to pair my carbs with protein now to make sure I don't get an insulin rush that leaves me hungry afterwards.
