Is fat killing you, or is sugar?
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Is fat killing you, or is sugar?
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Re: Is fat killing you, or is sugar?
#2What if it's not simply too much sugar, but rather too much sugar combined with too little exercise?
Re: Is fat killing you, or is sugar?
#3What if it's not simply too much sugar, but rather too much sugar combined with too little exercise?
I don't disagree with your point. Yet I would like to add that I am thinking it is too much processed sugars that are really doing the damage.
Re: Is fat killing you, or is sugar?
#4What if it's not simply too much sugar, but rather too much sugar combined with too little exercise?
Sugar is a major problem as right now it gets pumped in almost every food. It is addictive and people are more likely to re-buy those products.
If you think you are avoiding sugar in your diet by avoiding the usual culprit (processed juices, soda, desserts), think again. Now sugar is being injected into everything, processed meat, soups, etc...
I just bought some Jerkey at Trader's Joe. Each serving contains 10-11 grams of protein and, 5 or 6 grams of sugar. That's one teaspoon and a half of sugar! A packet, ( a normal snack), has 3-4 servings, and you end up with 5+ teaspoons of sugar that if you didn't look at the nutritional labels you wouldn't know. Normally jerkey shouldn't have any, (or maybe one gram and best).
This is just one example, but the pumping of sugar is becoming so pervasive that it is almost impossible to avoid.
Re: Is fat killing you, or is sugar?
#5I moved to a ketogenic diet on January 9th of this year. I weighed 318 pounds. As of this morning I weigh 282 pounds. That's 36 pounds lost - 11.3% of my body mass - in 77 days, and I have not yet changed my nearly non-existent exercise habits.
My goal is to get 80% of my calories from fat, no more than 20% from protein, and to consume a maximum of 20g of carbs per day. I intend for this to be my diet going forward; this is not something I am doing temporarily to lose weight.
I've done a good deal of research on this topic, and my conclusion is that the human body is not equipped to deal with the massive amounts of simple carbohydrates that it gets in today's world.
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#6I moved to a ketogenic diet on January 9th of this year. I weighed 318 pounds. As of this morning I weigh 282 pounds. That's 36 pounds lost - 11.3% of my body mass - in 77 days, and I have not yet changed my nearly non-existent exercise habits. My goal is to get 80% of my calories from fat, no more than 20% from protein, and to consume a maximum of 20g of carbs per day. I intend for this to be my diet going forward;…
Do you find that you have to put more effort into cooking / eating with the new diet?
Re: Is fat killing you, or is sugar?
#7I moved to a ketogenic diet on January 9th of this year. I weighed 318 pounds. As of this morning I weigh 282 pounds. That's 36 pounds lost - 11.3% of my body mass - in 77 days, and I have not yet changed my nearly non-existent exercise habits. My goal is to get 80% of my calories from fat, no more than 20% from protein, and to consume a maximum of 20g of carbs per day. I intend for this to be my diet going forward;…
Do you find that you have to put more effort into cooking / eating with the new diet?
At least initially, absolutely. It completely changed the way my wife and I shopped and we all but stopped eating out.
After a month or so it seems to have leveled out. We collected a dozen or so recipes we liked and were easy to make, and we knew what we could and could not get at restaurants.
At this point, the net effect is that we spend more money on food, eat at home more often, and often order modified meals at restaurants (e.g. chicken fajitas, but instead of tortillas, rice, and beans we'll just have guacamole).
Re: Is fat killing you, or is sugar?
#8What if it's not simply too much sugar, but rather too much sugar combined with too little exercise?
You can still have skinny diabetics.
Likely it's just not sugar, but any easily digested foods that cause insulin spikes and crashes.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you find that you have to put more effort into cooking / eating with the new diet?
At least initially, absolutely. It completely changed the way my wife and I shopped and we all but stopped eating out. After a month or so it seems to have leveled out. We collected a dozen or so recipes we liked and were easy to make, and we knew what we could and could not get at restaurants. At this point, the net effect is that we spend more money on food, eat at home more often, and often order modified meals at…
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Re: Is fat killing you, or is sugar?
#10I moved to a ketogenic diet on January 9th of this year. I weighed 318 pounds. As of this morning I weigh 282 pounds. That's 36 pounds lost - 11.3% of my body mass - in 77 days, and I have not yet changed my nearly non-existent exercise habits. My goal is to get 80% of my calories from fat, no more than 20% from protein, and to consume a maximum of 20g of carbs per day. I intend for this to be my diet going forward;…
I was 255 in Jan now at 235lb by not eating cereal, bread, sweets, drinking sugary drinks etc.
Seem to have stayed at 235 for a few weeks now so i'm guessing it's easier to lose the first lot of fat.
Been going to a gym most days but then i'm a student so have the time in the middle of the day. It would have been difficult to go that much with a FT job. Went a bit far with the cardio and now have hurt knees so watch out for that. Good luck.