Quote: (03-05-2013 01:27 AM)AlphaEnchantment Wrote:
Quote: (03-03-2013 10:29 PM)Cyclone Wrote:
Also, for those of you who have started the Slow-Carb diet, is it true that we must drop our total daily intake to 20g in order for the fat-releasing process to initiate? I would have trouble even dragging it down to 100g.. and wondering if it works gradually as well.
The ketogenic diet is when you drop your carbs as low as you can or to about the 30-50 range. Your body then produces ketones and is supposed to burn more fat as the primary fuel source. The problem with the eating such low amounts of carbs is your brain needs carbs to function and after awhile without enough carbs you feel weaker and your thinking is more cloudy.
This is inaccurate. Most people experience a short period of fogginess mentally/physically ("Keto flu") while they adapt to using ketones as a primary energy source, but your brain adapts to running almost exclusively on ketone bodies. The extremely small amount of glucose that is actually "required" can be created from proteins. Many people report feeling even sharper after going through the induction period, and there is a lot of evidence that burning ketones is metabolically much cleaner than using glucose.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evol...in-ketones