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I'm happy to help. Now I'll re-address your second set of questions. :)

1. Recovery is as important as working out. Light days are fine, but sometimes not doing anything is better. I fear you may not be getting the calories you need to recover adequately eating vegan, but I'm sure you take calcium-magnesium supplements (which will help a lot) and that you eat lots of nuts. Like, lots. Peanut butter is also great. I'll talk more about that in number 3 and 5.
   
   
2. Want to make Body Step more intense? Try doing it with a weighted vest. 10 lbs. for the first week, then keep stepping it up in 5 lb. increments each week. Then the 6-7 workouts a week will sound a little more insane. It's definitely better to run outside the gym than inside, but really, running is not that good for you. It increases your cortisol levels (the stress hormone in your body that causes inflammation) and takes your heart rate up to 130-150, but then it's just steady there, which doesn't really train your heart to deal with stress very well. A much better option is to do high-intensity intervals, such as sprints. So instead of running 3 miles, you run 10 X 100 meter sprints, with 30 seconds rest inbetween. It doesn't sound like much, but you will feel a lot different at the end of that 1000 meters than you do at the end of your 3-mile run. If not, you're not sprinting hard enough. Give it a shot, and see what you think. To make it harder, lower the rest time.
   
   
3. If you've made any changes to your diet at all, you're probably going to lose weight simply because now you are exercising as well. Really, people obsess way too much over diet, and since you already have a proclivity to anxiety, I would say that it's not something worth obsessing over. Exercise is going to have a positive effect on you. You might not lose 40 pounds this month, or even 10 pounds this month, but you will feel better, your anxiety will be less overwhelming and you will be in a better mood. The simple diet plan is to shop around the edges of the grocery store (where all the fresh food is) and avoid the middle aisles (where all the processed food is) as much as possible. Being a vegan, I imagine you're relying a lot on pasta/breads/potatoes to get your calories. I would submit that you should rely more on nuts and healthy fats like avocado (fruit or oil), olive oil, coconut oil, etc.
   
   
4. I also have an anxiety problem, and I want to tell you that caffeine makes it worse. Exercise is a great tool for overcoming anxiety, and another is sunlight. If you live in a place where it's too cold to work outside, please do yourself a favor and buy a desktop sun lamp. That has helped my anxiety SO much, I can't even tell you.
   
   
5. Focus on what you can change, and take care of the rest when you have no doubts about what you're pinching between your fingers.
   
   
6. Eggs are awesome. They're the perfect food. A person can live on eggs and avocado alone. I'm totally serious. A great book you may want to read (it's a hefty tome, but worth it) is Good Calories, Bad Calories. Your views on the idea that eating cholesterol is bad for your heart, and that fats are bad may change. I highly recommend the book and I highly recommend eggs.
   
   
7. You didn't ask a seventh question, but I have an additional thought for you. Hypnotherapy has gone a long way in helping me overcome my anxiety. You might want to look into it. At the very least, you can download some anti-anxiety hypnosis sessions from the internet and try it out for a low cost/free.
   
   Good luck!

I've been a vegetarian for about 5 years now. I think my reasons are similar to yours, being that I am not against killing animals but I wasn't satisfied with the quality of most meat being sold to you in stores.

I switched to vegetarianism immediately (I was in college and just learning to cook and had to make all my own meals). It wasn't that hard to do, although I admit that occasionally meat smells good to me. For perspective, I have found that becoming a vegetarian is much easier than quiting smoking, which I often relapse on especially when I'm drunk. I've known other people to ween themselves off of meat, and that is the appropriate method for them.

If it is a problem with your family cooking meat focused foods, offer to cook some of the meals. If you don't know how, then learn. It is an extremely useful skill in life, especially since you seem to be garnering an interest in the source and quality of foods you consume. A friend of mine writes a great blog on the topic of learning to cook: http://inbountycherish.wordpress.com/

Now I have a few extra pounds on me, although I'm not huge. To anyone considering vegetarianism solely as a weight loss technique, it will not work well unless you also exercise or become more active. Also don't just cut out meat, but unhealthy foods in general.

People will judge you, and usually will try to argue with you like you are a stereotypical, animal-loving Petard (don't trust what Peta says by the way, their vegetarian pamphlets are disgustingly inaccurate). There are as many different reasons for adopting vegetarianism as there are vegetarians.

I read this book when I started: http://www.amazon.com/Eat-More-Weigh-Less-Abundantly/dp/0060959576 The author has conducted scientific research on the best diet for patients with heart disease, and as a result he extols the virtues of Vegetarianism for everyone. Also it contains a lot of great recipes. The title makes it sound like a weight-loss diet, but it is not (vegetarianism is a lifestyle choice). Dr. Ornish is merely saying that counting calories is bullshit, because different sources of calories are processed by the body in different ways, and that you can eat higher quantities of food that are processed more as instant energy than sent straight to fat.

I've also heard very good things about Michael Pollan's books (http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Pollan/e/B000AQ74HQ/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1). He is known for "In defense of Food" and "The Omnivore's Dilema."

Go For It. At the least you will reduce your consumption of meat. Our closest living animal relative, the Chimpanzee (btw did you see the pic of the hairless chimp? http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/bacdh/here_is_a_pic_of_a_hairless_chimpanzee/), has a diet which consists of 30% meat (if they are the lucky ones). Our stomachs are not that much different, and the importance of meat in our meals has increased substantially since the industrial revolution when we figured out better methods of storing meat. That's not that long in evolutionary terms, and our stomachs haven't evolved to compensate with increased consumption.

I may one day go back to eating meat, but I doubt I will make it the forefront of my diet. As a rule I won't eat an animal unless I am prepared to slaughter it myself.

Father of a daughter with PKU here. Do you know how much phe she's allowed to have? There are a few hundred different mutations of Phenylketonuria, all with varying levels of phe tolerance. Some people with PKU need to measure pretty much everything they eat on a gram scale, for example, while others (such as my daughter) can get away with eyeballing it as long as they stay away from meat and other high-phe foods.

If your girlfriend doesn't have a copy of it already, I would highly recommend Virginia E. Schuett's Low Protein Cookery for PKU. The author is a nurse who has worked with PKU patients for several decades and one of the most respected advocates for the PKU community.

You might also want to check out the National PKU Alliance website for more information about PKU in general. For such a rare disorder there's a pretty robust virtual community out there, which is great for families who like us found themselves blindsided by our daughter's diagnosis and were scrambling from day one to make sure she was able to live a happy and healthy life.

As for recipes in general, well, our daughter loves potatoes, especially when roasted Greek-style with lemon juice. We'll roast an entire chicken so that she gets some of that flavor as well. Although meat itself is off limits people with PKU often have enough phe tolerance for a nice chicken soup (just remove the meat so you can add it to your own bowl when serving).

Indian recipes are very PKU-friendly, as our many vegetarian Chinese stir-fries- just omit the tofu, or leave it in and eat it yourself. Does your girlfriend order special lo-protein grain products? Cambrooke Foods is a mail-order company that specializes in quality lo-protein food supplies and ready-to-eat meals- they have a lot of delicious frozen entrees that may help inspire your own cooking muse. Also, Shirataki noodles are really low in phe (as well as carbs), so they'd be a good replacement for regular wheat pastas.

And also remember the good news about PKU is that it isn't like a food allergy- if your girlfriend accidentally eats something a little higher in phe than she should nothing horrible is going to happen (as our daughter's nutritionist always used to quip, "So don't call the clinic in a panic if she drinks a Diet Coke"). So don't be afraid to experiment. If there's a silver lining to living with PKU, it's that you're always willing to get out of your comfort zone and try new fruits and vegetables for the sake of variety, so especially this time of the year hit the farmer's markets and eat fresh.

Good luck to the both of you!

First of all, thank you and congradulations for supporting your daughter on her vegan journey! I wish more parents were supportive.

Check this out first: The Plant-Based diet food guide

Beans and greens should be the cornerstones of a healthy vegan diet. You want to cook lots and lots of legumes (beans, lentils, peas). They're the best vegan source of protein, as well as an excellent source of folate, calcium, and iron. Super important! Also, greens. That's where vegans are going to get most of their calcium (unless they drink a lot of fortified plant milk). You also want to make sure she's getting a tablespoon of either chia or ground flaxseed every day, for adequate intake of Omega-3. I put mine in a green breakfast smoothie to start the day with a kick!

I recommend you watch the documentary "Forks Over Knives." It will change the way you think about food. It's on Netflix. They have a companion cookbook that's pretty decent. I also like both of the China Study cookbooks, and the Health Promoting Cookbook. As you can see, I have a bias for the whole-food plant-based version of veganism. I'm going to assume that as a mother, you want the healthiest diet for your kids. She'll find plenty of delicious vegan junk food when she's out with her friends, so cooking whole foods at home is a great way to set a solid foundation for life. Good for the rest of your family, too!

Some great vegan dishes: beans & rice; bean burritos; chickpea curry (watch the coconut milk, it's high in fat and that's actually a much bigger risk factor for diabetes than carbs); lentil stew (which is awesome when you're short on time, because lentils don't require soaking; of course you can also use canned beans when you're in a hurry); tofu and veggie stir fry. You can also take almost any recipe and veganise it by swapping out the meat for tempeh or tofu, and using extra marinade or sauce. For snacks, raw veggies with hummus, nuts and seeds, raisins, and green smoothies are all really healthy and delicious. I start every day with a breakfast smoothie of kale, mixed fruit and berries, and flaxseed. I use a high powered blender (Vitamix or Blendtec) to break down the tough fibres and cells walls. That helps nutrient absorption as the food is already masticated.

While they're tasty and popular, I try and stay away from the fake meats and cheeses. They're vegan junk food. They might provide some protein, but you're far better getting that from whole plants like beans, chickpeas, and lentils.

As for the pasta-diabetes link, don't worry! A low-fat plant-based diet has been shown to halt and even reverse diabetes in even the most advanced cases. Check out the book "Starch Solution" by Dr. John McDougall. He's actually reversed diabetes in his patients by feeding them a low-fat vegan diet based on rice, pasta, and potatoes. He's got tons of videos on YouTube. My mom has been plant based for only a month, and her fasting blood sugar has already come down from 12 to 8 in just that short of time. But that being said, pasta made from refined white flour is complete garbage, it's basically table sugar with a multivitamin ground in. Yech.

>if even half of what it said was true then im dropping all animal products.

Yes it's all true. (The movie was dramatised, but the facts are all real). If you don't want to be associated with animal rights don't worry about it, just call yourself "plant-based" and do what's best for you (it still helps the animals anyway) :-)

>also do vegans eat durum wheat noodles, and what is your view on peanut butter?

You can eat any wheat products, but check that they have no egg or powdered milk in the recipe.

Peanut butter is fantastic! It's best to eat the 100% peanuts one, without the oil/fat/sugar/salt/preservatives. But you might want to combine it with jam or maple syrup if it's not sweet enough for you. (and then just use less, and less jam as you get used to the taste).


>how much fruit is too much if that random thing i heard is true?

The only time you could have too much fruit would only be if it stopped you from eating other healthy foods. Ideally you want to eat from every food group (fruit/veg/grains/beans/nuts) to get the best of everything. E.g. wheat noodles, with tomato/basil/lentil pure sauce (basically bolognase) and then have some diced apple and walnuts (they go really well together) for desert :-)



Try being plant-based/vegan for 3 weeks and see how you feel. You can always go back.
For more information go to pcrm.org/kickstart or any one of these books below are great, they are written by doctors(most of them were in What the Health), so you won't have to worry about missing anything, complete with recipes :-)

• https://www.amazon.com/Starch-Solution-Regain-Health-Weight/dp/1623360277
  
  
• http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7509230-the-get-healthy-go-vegan-cookbook
  
  
• http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3359298-the-engine-2-diet
  
  
• https://www.bookdepository.com/Forks-Over-Knives-Gene-Stone/9781615190454
  
  
• http://www.booktopia.com.au/the-end-of-dieting-joel-fuhrman/prod9780062249333.html?source=pla&gclid=CjwKEAjwsqjKBRDtwOSjs6GTgmASJACRbI3fVJLcA3KLprpPhk0X91TExviYldBux5vA1xJSSfc2uRoCxV3w_wcB
  
  
  >but then i thought about how steve jobs was crazy and ate only fruit or something then got pancreatic cancer.
  
  There is an excellent explanation about Steve Jobs' cancer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9B-A6X7Y4A
  

Also here's another for vegan soups, all credit goes to /r/freeEBOOKS for their hard work in finding these.


If you don't have a Kindle, you can click on "read for free" or download the Kindle for PC app at:

www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/pc/download


Also I want to give a shoutout to /u/llieaay, for whom I found these e-books for after a compelling argument and after stalking looking at their user history and that they frequent /r/vegan a lot, I figured the community would like it a lot as well.


I hope you guys enjoy these two cook books, and I apologize if posting this here violates the subreddit's rules (although I saw nothing against it. I did read the sidebar!).


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Edit: Some more vegan cookbooks I've found for y'all.


Vegan Cookbooks: 70 Of The Best Ever Scrumptious Vegan Dinner Recipes....Revealed!

Best Healthy Vegan Holidays Recipes (Quick & Easy Vegan Recipes)

Vegan: 365 Vegan Recipes (Everyday Vegan Vegan Recipes Vegan Cookbook)

Gluten-Free Vegan Slow Cooker: Quick and Easy Recipes for Busy People

The Greatest Plant Based, Low Fat Recipes In History: Delicious Plant Based, Low Fat & Healthy Recipes That Will Make You Lose The Weight Fast


Note: I haven't gotten to read or try all these out, so I hope y'all help with reviewing which is good and which is not, and sharing all your recipes!

Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Eat to Live and Dr. John McDougall's The Starch Solution. Both books explain how a whole-food, plant-based diet is the diet for obtaining optimum health.

Dr. Fuhrman has a wonderful "TED talk" on YouTube in which he presents six case studies of individuals who completely turned their health around by adopting his recommended way of eating. Here is the video. It is so joyful, so uplifting--I highly recommend it. (I especially like the last five minutes which features the healthy family he raised on this nutrition plan.)

Here is a post on Dr. McDougall's Web site from an individual who lost 106 pounds in one year by following Dr. McDougall's diet. This post is especially valuable because of the chart the person includes showing how a number of biomarkers like his lipid panel improved over the course of the year. He also includes stunning before-and-after photographs. Even more valuable is the fact that this individual kept an online journal here in which he logged everything he ate during this remarkable year-long transformation. It is really a revelation to see the stunning health improvements which can be achieved by eating such simple, satisfying foods.

Good luck. I hope you find a solution which works for you.

I am a soldier who has to work to keep slim. As a result, I've educated myself some about nutrition, and there are a few things that I've found work.

First off, at 600+ lbs, you should consider seeing a doctor to see whether a hormonal imbalance of some sort is driving your weight gain. A thyroid disorder is entirely capable of driving that sort of gain. You should also consider seeing a physician that specializes in this sort of weight issue, because weight loss at those weights can come with special medical requirements.

You also need to psychologically steel yourself--not for the hunger, or for the work, but rather for how long becoming slim is actually going to take. I am currently helping one of my soldiers lose weight, and it's a constant battle to make this person understand the weight will not all come off in one month. You said you lost weight, but then would gain it all back. As one who has been there, I can tell you it's a result of losing sight of your milestones and goals, and falling back on the habits that got you where you are in the first place.

You also need to arm yourself with knowledge: LEARN HOW YOUR BODY WORKS! If I could recommend a single book that would really get you on the way, it'd be You On A Diet by Doctors Roizen and Oz. A close second would be Why We Get Fat and What We Can Do About It by Gary Taubes. These two books will give you great insight into how your body works, down to details like what foods will sate your hunger pangs and which will cause your body to accumulate fat. One of the most insightful things I learned from these books is that it is possible for your body to be starving, even as you get fat. Please read these two books. Hell, I'll even purchase them and send them to you if you promise me you'll read them.

One key piece of knowledge is calories in, calories out. While there is a lot of nuance to this, at the end of the day I've found that counting calories gives me predictable results. READ THIS, IT'S IMPORTANT:
YOU NEED ABOUT 2,000 CALORIES PER DAY TO LIVE
ONE POUND OF FAT CONTAINS 3,500 CALORIES
IF YOU RESTRICT YOUR DIET TO 1,500 CALORIES PER DAY (NO CHEATING), I PROMISE YOU WILL LOSE FOUR POUNDS PER MONTH

4-8 lbs per month is considered a good rate of loss. Keep in mind, that means that it'll take you a long time to drop. Generally, dietitians recommend not pushing it more than that because it saps your willpower over the long haul to wring your body any more than that. It is entirely possible you may lose more weight on a slight calorie restriction because, pending the diagnosis of a disorder, your body WANTS to lose that weight.

Just remember, though, losing 8 lbs per month is 96 lbs per year. Even making good progress will take a while.

Other things: consider becoming a vegetarian--it is a lot harder to overconsume. Also, get a multivitamin in every day.

It helps to have a support network to keep you motivated. Set those small, achievable milestones, such as "this month I will lose four pounds," and let people know when you meet those goals, and make sure it is positive people that will allow you to celebrate and celebrate it with you.

It will take time, but it is entirely possible to get there. I truly hope that the motivation to see your nephew and niece grow up will give you the strength to put what I've talked about into action. It will take time...years, even, but as long as you can keep the small achievements in mind and within reach, all will be okay.

Godspeed.

Think about what you currently like eating, and then look up vegan alternatives. That was how I went about transitioning (omni to vegan). While I don't eat too much vegan cheese or "meats" anymore, it really helped to have those as a yummy crutch.

Also, make sure that you're eating enough on a vegan diet. It takes more of the good stuff to fill you up, and a lot of people quit because they feel weak and hungry.

For cheapness, check out The Starch Solution (http://www.amazon.com/The-Starch-Solution-Regain-Health/dp/1623360277). It's pretty much the cheapest diet out there, and you can always add whatever leafy greens are on sale on any given week. Edit - Not that you're doing this to lose weight, necessarily, but it's always nice to have dietary guidelines to follow at first to make sure you're getting everything that you need

When I went vegan I spent a lot of time watching things like Earthlings, and while I wouldn't necessarily recommend dwelling on things like that (it made for a very depressed easmsm), it will stick in your mind as a reason to refrain from dairy and eggs and meat. There are definitely more vanilla versions out there (check out Bite Sized Vegan on Youtube, she's an inspiration of mine).

I quit cold turkey and I haven't been back since. Thank you for considering this change! You're awesome.

Another edit - Check out the sidebar as well! The Beginner's Guide/FAQ are a great resource!

(Recipe at the bottom) The safe GF environment is the hardest part. A couple of tips:

• If you use non-stick cookware, tupperware/rubbermaid containers, or nylon or wood cooking utensils, don't. Get some cheap stainless steel cooking utensils, some cheap stainless steel cookware (pot, skillet, saucepan, etc.)
  
• Purchase a new cutting board just for her food. Don't ever use the cutting board for anything with gluten. Ever. Don't store it with your regular cookware.
  
  That's probably the hardest part. You don't say how long she has been diagnosed but she probably can give you some excellent advice as well, assuming she cooks for herself. If she is a generally a processed or deli style food eater she may not know how to cook safely GF. The book "Gluten-Free All-In-One For Dummies" is actually an excellent resource for someone in your situation. I'd strongly suggest getting the paper version, not the kindle. You'll probably wind up wanting to photocopy pages of recipes and such.
  
  Now as for recipies, without knowing what kind of food she likes, it's a little difficult but here is a relatively quick and simple recipe:
  
  Prepare two cups of brown or jasmine rice (no instant rice) or quinoa using chicken broth, not water. This should take about 17 minutes to cook once you add the rice/quinoa to the boiling water and turn down to simmer. While this is simmering, take two or three boneless skinless chicken breasts and slice (the long way) into strips about 1/2" thick.
  
  Toss the chicken breast strips into a medium size skillet pre-heated to medium heat. Immediately add 1/3 cup dry white wine, 1/2 cup chicken broth, two tablespoons butter (not margarine), 1/2 teaspoon curry (hot or not, depending on your preference), 1/4 teaspoon sea salt (not white table salt), and 1/4 teaspoon turmeric (optional). Cook for 5 minutes stirring frequently. Reduce heat to medium low and cover. Cook for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Continue to add enough broth occasionally if the liquid level drops too much. Turn heat up to medium high, add 1/2 cup broth, and bring to boil. Stir constantly for 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
  
  Place a portion of rice in the center of a medium plate, and lay chicken strips across atop the rice. Ladle several tablespoons of sauce over the chicken and rice.
  
  Serve with a side vegetable or salad. Steamed broccoli is a nice complement, as is a simple side of steamed green beans with butter and sliced almonds sprinkled over the top.
  
  
  Flourless Chocolate Microwave Cake in a Mug makes a great dessert. :)
  

As a fellow vegetarian, I personally don't feel that Keto would be the right diet for me. It would require me to eat foods I hate (meat / seafood) and give up foods I love (pasta / bread). The key to weightloss is finding what works for you personally.

I have had a lot of success following Dr. Ornish's diet as outlined in his book Eat More, Weigh Less. Dr. Ornish is a cardiologist who created this diet for heart patients to help combat the effects of heart disease. It is based on a vegetarian diet, and I would describe it as bountiful - I never feel limited in what I can eat, and I never feel like I'm going hungry.

The basics of it is to cut out fat (which I know is the antithesis of Keto), limit sugars, and eat complex carbs. It's totally OK to eat a healthy serving of whole wheat pasta or bread on this diet - which makes it really good for me and my tastes. His book is great, because it has tons of recipes to choose from.

I've combined this diet with a calorie restriction - to help me get my portion sizes under control. As a female, you definitely don't want to go below 1200 calories a day - go below 1200 and your body goes into starvation mode and will store fat rather than burn it. Right now I'm shooting for around 1500-1700 calories a day.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

> Got any cites to legit studies on either side? Would love to read them.

There's two great sources I like because they take a scientific approach in their own ways.

The Ketogenic Diet by Lyle McDonald. It's expensive to buy on his website, but you can get it via torrents. I liked this book because he went into detail on how to do the diet. He doesn't take sides based on ideology and presents the scientific evidence for keto dies, and well as their drawbacks. It gives a very technical way to do the diet with the different ways to do it. "Over 600 scientific references were examined in the writing of this book, and each chapter includes a full bibliography so that interested readers may obtain more detail when desired. Readers who desire further in-depth information are encouraged to examine the cited references to educate themselves."

Summary of The Ketogenic Diet can be found here.

Gary Taubes has written Why We Get Fat: And What to do About it and Good Calories, Bad Calories. I've read the latter of the two and enjoyed it because he also takes a very scientific approach to the matter at hand.

I personally haven't seen any evidence that low carb diets are bad for you. People just argue this point on ideological grounds, and only care about proving their particular diet is the best one, instead of being open-minded. I've read books on both sides, from vegan to keto, and I believe that the evidence points to one thing: The main thing to worry about is eating a variety of foods in moderate amounts.

And some people may need different diets to accomplish this goal. One thing that is especially true of both vegan and keto diets is that they force a person to think about what they eat. It makes food artificially more scarce, thus making it more difficult to over eat. And I believe that that simple fact creates the majority of the health benefits that either diet purport to have.

Today is the day you start a wonderful journey to your healthy self!

Here's some advice I wished I received about 5 years ago.

1. If you can afford it - get a withings scale to track your progress. Weigh yourself every morning after you pee.
   
   
2. Watch Forks over knives on netflix - this is just the trailer.
   
   
3. Read this book
   
   
4. Eat a starch centered plant based diet and do moderate exercise.
   
   I started my weight loss plan back in September of last year. The starch solution diet kicked off an initial weight loss that has taken me to nearly a healthy bmi (a slight modification got me to where I am now at 179 lbs 6 ft).
   
   The Withings scale showed me what I was doing was working - and it kept me on the plan.
   
   I didn't starve myself - I just chose healthy food (centered around rice, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pasta, and whole grains - with fruit, and green and yellow vegetables) and ate till I was reasonably full (no gut busting). I exercised moderately - I did what I could and weight trained using machines.
   
   You can see the success stories of a plant based diet here. You'll see that the initial weight loss and energy gain - will be like positive feedback and encourage you to keep going.
   
   If you have trouble learning how to cook - I recommend this dvd

>why do so many doctors stand behind these drugs, the money?

That's one big reason among several, yes. Maybe not money directly, but there are always the nice little gifts, the friendly sales rep with his helpful "research" to save them time chasing down and analysing debate between researchers, and the corporate-sponsored medical conferences in exotic countries etc (I personally know a doctor who loves going on these every year). There's also the little item that if your research funding comes from corporations and "non-profit" organisations with funding links to the corporate world, you are less likely to want to bite the hand that feeds you.

Re the logic, isn't it pretty obvious? You have a drug that is supposed to promote heart health which actually puts it at risk. I feel sorry for the trusting people who suffered or perhaps even died before it was realised that statin-induced Co-enzyme Q10 deficiency causes serious harm. And the problems of statins aren't just related to CoQ10. Statins suppress one of the precursors of CoQ10 and cholesterol, HMG-CoA reductase. That enzyme is a precursor about half a dozen steps prior to cholesterol - which means that about five other substances besides cholesterol are suppressed when a statin drug is present. Cholesterol of course is used to make other things, like the sex hormones estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. Like bile, which helps with the absorbtion of fat and the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Like the "stress hormone" cortisol. Cholesterol is also a precursor for the body's synthesis of Vitamin D (so lowering it not only retards absorbtion of Vitamin D through food, but also retards your skin generating Vitamin D when sunshine hits it). Vitamin D is needed for proper bone mineralisation, and is also believed to have an anti-cancer effect. As well as the liver, the brain manufactures cholesterol but Lipitor can cross the blood-brain barrier and stop production there too. As cholesterol comprises a significant portion of the brain and is necessary for proper mental function, it is no wonder that slowness, forgetfulness, and even transient global amnesia are known symptoms of statin use.

I am related to someone who is taking Lipitor right now. He is taking co-enzyme Q10 and still suffering muscular aches and pains, and cannot raise his arms above shoulder-level any more, the pain is so great if he tries. He also suffers from an overwhelming tiredness shortly after taking his fix, and becomes a little slow at following the thread of conversations. His faith in his personal doctor is absolute, and no matter how many books written by DOCTORS I place in front of him to read, his faith in Lipitor and his Medical Priest sustain him like some sort of cult, even though I see it wearing him down before my despairing eyes. Interestingly, the white-coated Priest has been presented with Dr Graveline's first book on Lipitor, and did not choose to contend with it at all. His response to his patient was that "the choice to stop or continue taking it is yours".

When you learn from members of the international medical community that high cholesterol has not been proven as the cause of heart disease and how the stated reason for using statins is flawed by politics, profit and junk science, and there is no medically useful reason to take these dangerous statin drugs at all, you tend to want to boil over in fury.

Some books for you to check out:

The Great Cholesterol Con, by Malcolm Kendrick MD (2007)

The Cholesterol Myths, by Uffe Ravnskov MD PhD (2000, 2002)

The Great Cholesterol Con, by Anthony Colpo (2006) - forward by Ravnskov & contains nearly 1500 citations to medical journals and research trial reports.

Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol, by Mary Enig PhD (2000) - a bit dry for the lay reader, plunges into lipid chemistry, but highly informative. Enig was among researchers who became concerned about trans fats way back in the 1970s.

The Heart Revolution: The Extraordinary Discovery That Finally Laid the Cholesterol Myth to Rest, by Kilmer Mccully MD & Martha Mccully (2000)

Lipitor: Thief of Memory, by Duane Graveline MD (2006)

Statin Drugs Side Effects and the Misguided War on Cholesterol, by Duane Graveline MD (2008)

Those books have plenty of academic and scientific citations for you to seek further.

Kev, we all try different paths to get us to where we want to go. If this works for you that's great, but for me it wouldn't be sustainable long-term. HcG just seems a little scammy to me, however if you're committed to it, I would throw in some vitamin D too. Breaking 500 is a great first step (it is nice to see the numbers drop!). I do worry that you're not getting enough real food with this diet.

I started well above where you are now so I know where you're coming from in wanting to get it done with (I still don't like to tell others how bad I got). I've tried most of the diets and fads out there, but what finally turned me around was reading Tim Ferris' 4hr body, Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories, Rob Wolff's Paleo Solution, Loren Cordain's Paleo Diet and Mark Sisson's Primal Blueprint. I've culled what works for me from these and have been eating pretty much Paleo/Keto since November. I've dropped over 50lbs since then at about 2000-2200 cals day. I know it's not biggest loser territory, but slow and steady wins the race. Most of all, it's something I can live with long term. So far my only exercise has been walking and some stationary bike.

What made the change easier for me was I found a lifestyle rather than a diet to follow. That's not to say I haven't had the occasional setbacks (god I miss pizza and beer), but I'm getting there and you will too. Best of luck on your quest...

tl/dr - Plan's not for me, don't be afraid to try something else. Knock em dead kid!

Hi there, thanks so much for the contest! :)

I am trying to improve myself by getting healthier. I'm learned that I'm at risk for Type 2 Diabetes and am now trying to embrace a lower carb lifestyle.

I have a book on my wishlist (under Improve my way of life) that would help me. It's called The Primal Low-Carb Kitchen: Comfort Food Recipes for the Carb Conscious Cook. I love cookbooks and I think this would really help me get started trying new recipes for a new lifestyle. :)

Hello /u/mynthe how are you today sweetie? <3

If I were you I would get this book: https://www.amazon.com/Gluten-Free-Wish-List-Savory-Treats/dp/1452138338 all the baked goods are rice based (no corn and no wheat). The recepes are great and taste and look like the traditional wheat items you know.

Most of the recipes in this book can you use as well. The author uses a variety of flour (sorghum/durra, buckwheat, chestnut, almond flour etc.) so it's a bit more complicated starting out, but will give you more nutrients. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1408858479/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1563013231&sr=8-2

Another option is going grain free. The book is great and has a lot of options of baked good, mostly made with almond flour. Baking only with nut flour is expensive though. https://www.amazon.com/Against-All-Grain-Delectable-Recipes/dp/1936608367/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?keywords=danielle+walker&qid=1563013477&s=gateway&sr=8-4

I hope this is useful.

The good news is you're young and healthy enough to avoid health complications the Standard Ameican Diet causes. I highly recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Starch-Solution-Regain-Health/dp/1623360277/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414563015&sr=8-1&keywords=starch+solution

I was over weight, high blood pressure and approaching forty. 2.5 years later my bp is normal, weight is awesome, and have ideal blood test results. This diet/lifestyle is easy, fun, satisfying, and cheap. Do yourself a favor and watch some of his lectures on youtube.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-primal-blueprint-reader-created-cookbook/ need to sign up for his newsletter but pretty infrequent and usually interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/OMG-Can-Eat-That-Indulgent/dp/1740669924 pretty decent cookbook some recopies are not exactly 'keto' friendly but all very low carb just use common sense.

http://paleocomfortfoods.com/ all very delicious.

Hope that helps.

This sub pretends to be a pro-vegan sub but you read anti-vegan sentiment and crap like "do your research before being vegan" here all the time. Which is funny because of how frequently unresearched, unhelpful opinions from dude-bros and kewl grllls get upvoted all the time, while the quality info gets buried.

That said if you ate shitty highly processed junk food before going vegan and do the same upon becoming vegan, while just simply substituting overly processed and over-priced meat and cheese analogues, likely you won't be healthy and even develop health issues on a long enough timeline(if you haven't already). It doesn't have to do with being vegan per-say, but with making really poor food choices, which is something you admitted to while being a carnist anyway. To avoid that, yes, likely you will have to do research on what constitutes better food choices. I would recommend reading McDougall's newsletters or his book the Starch Solution. If you want to find a good dietitian to follow I would recommend Jeff Novick, not ethical vegans posing as those giving good dietary advice like Ginny Messina. A Jeff Novick forum post(his posts are written by JeffN) is usually better researched and backed up than a Messina or Jack Norris blog post.

For the b12 canard of an issue consult this topic and this post.

My favorite recipes come from Skinnytaste. I have her first cookbook and it is definitely well loved. I prefer her recipes over others because she doesn't use artificial sweeteners or processed food items (like blogger Hungry Girl... she LOVES her some Laughing Cow cheese wedges). Skinnytaste recipes are simple, the author breaks down the macros (and converts to Smart Points if you decide to do Weight Watchers), and the food always tastes great. She cooks with a very similar style to my own, so that's another reason I tend to gravitate toward her food.

SparkPeople was an early favorite to me. The cookbook I have is awesome -- I highly recommend it!

Emilybites.com is another resource for tasty noms. I found out about her site from ilostbigandsocanyou on Instagram. She's still a new resource for me, but I enjoy seeing what she puts out there.

The biggest thing pre-op to realize is that you will still be able to enjoy many of the same foods that you do now, but maybe cooked slightly different and smaller portions. A good example for a pre-op dinner for me was 6 oz of marinated salmon, 100 g of grilled asparagus, 160 g of green beans cooked in low fat butter, and 90 g of roasted red potatoes. It is actually quite alot of food, but a good chunk of the volume comes from the vegetables, which have few calories. Typical breakfast was 169 g of low fat/low sugar greek yogurt, 105 g mixed berries, and 39 g of Kind brand granola. For lunch, I would do a 2 slices of no sugar added bread toasted, ~100 g of turkey with a slathering of spicy mayo, served with 3 veggies of my choice. I would get two snacks as well. One was typically more of the greek yogurt and berries. The other was the granola and ~20 g of cashews...I would mix those snacks together. My fiance and I would eat the same things pre-op, and honestly it wasn't bad and felt like I was still eating alot. As for your husband eating unhealthy things in front of you, it will be hard pre-op, but you don't have to be perfect pre-op either. Some surgeons have weight loss goals before they approve you for surgery; mine did not. After surgery though, you won't feel hungry at all...ever. You will have cravings or so-called "head hunger," but I can at least easily ignore it. I can watch my fiance eat take-out Chinese food in front of me and be fine.

Post-op our diets haven't coordinated quite yet since I am still fairly restricted on what I can eat. We found a great book called "Eating well after weight loss surgery" (http://www.amazon.com/Eating-Well-After-Weight-Surgery/dp/1569244537/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462453288&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=how+to+eat+well+after+weight+loss+surgery). The recipes are designed so that you can use them at almost any point after surgery and tells you what modifications if any you will need to make. Each recipe is prepared by default for someone who hasn't had the surgery so it would work for your husband.

For going out to eat, you will be able to find things that you can have just a few weeks out of surgery. For example, we went out to a Chinese place less than 2 weeks after surgery. I got the wonton soup and didn't eat the wonton (I also only was able to get down half of it and took the other half home). I was a cheap date at $2.25 + tip. Even longer after surgery, you will be able to go pretty much anywhere and find something to eat, but you probably won't finish it.

The alcohol for me wasn't a dealbreaker, because I rarely drank as it was. It can be especially dangerous in the first year, because you are rapidly losing the weight. I do know several people that have drank after surgery and typically a beer or half a glass of wine is where they feel like it may have been too much. To go by your program's guidelines though, it is one year to make you much healthier to live a longer and more fulfilling life. You will be able to do more than you ever imagined.

Do you cook? If so, get a couple cookbooks - i love the cooking light cookbooks, magazine, and website. This one is my favourite.

Meat is not the enemy but there are also other source of protein: chicken, pork, fish, beans, tofu etc. Mix it up, experiment.

It's ok to be a little hungry. If you're so hungry the cat looks like a cartoon turkey, then eat. If you're, "hmm, i'm a little peckish but dinner is in less than an hour" - wait it out.

Hunger is a new feeling for a lot of us when we begin our journeys, we've never really felt it before so we don't like it and don't know how to handle it. It's ok to not be full, it's ok to be a little hungry.

Think about what you're eating - a low carb protein bar will take the edge off the hunger but not for long (they're also expensive). For those same 200 calories you can have an apple and peanut butter (or pb2), carrots and hummus, cheese and crackers, banana and yogurt, cottage cheese and blurberries - lots of other options.

Don't be afraid of carbs, don't be afraid of meat, don't be afraid of a little hunger.

Track your calories, like you've planned - that's a great plan. Don't do anything to lose weight that you're not willing to do forever, so if you don't want to do keto forever, don't do it now. Develop your new lifelong eating habits now.

Good luck

So I have this book that explains the best way to go about Keto for various preexisting conditions and depression is one of them.

IIRC, they say that Keto helps with depression because it’s gluten free. They mention that in eastern medicine, a similar diet is usually the first thing prescribed for depression and they see a lot of success that way.

My sister and I both live with medication resistant dysthymia, and both go through periods where it escalates into full blown depression. I had the same effects you’re describing on Keto, so I recommended she try it to help her depression as well. She is super skinny and not looking to lose any weight, and also pescatarian so she was struggling to come up with a meal plan that wouldn’t break the bank (can’t afford to eat salmon every day). Anyway, after reading that book she decided to try a gluten free diet first—and it works! She feels great. Even planned and went on an international trip this month which she never would’ve had the mindset to do before.

So through this very unscientific experiment I’m pretty sure it’s the gluten you’re not eating that’s giving you relief from the depression. Pretty cool if you ask me!

This is the book if anyone would like to read it.

I can't believe nobody else has said this yet (though maybe they did and I missed it):

Low-carb. Go low-carb.

Do you eat sugar and starches compulsively? Does it feel as though, no matter how much you eat, you still need more food? An hour or two after a meal, do you already want another one? Does trying to just "cut back" or count calories make your body scream at you to eat?

You need low-carb.

To put it as simply as possible, if you eat a lot of carbs, your body has likely been thrown completely out of whack. You eat flour or sugar, and your insulin levels go rocketing upward; a while later, they drop precipitously, making your body cry out for more in an attempt to stabilize the situation. But eating more only makes them rocket up again, and around and around you go. After years/decades of this, your body is pumping out vast amounts of insulin on a routine basis, leaving you with far too much in your system; however, your tissues have become numbed to it (ie, have become insulin resistant), meaning that it continually takes more to keep your blood sugar under control. Eventually the system begins to break down, leading to pre-diabetes, and later on full-blown Type II. Additionally, all the insulin coursing through your veins is the primary cause of your body's over-enthusiasm to store fat.

That's all terribly over-simplified, but for a more in-depth explanation, read this, and for an even more in-depth explanation, read this. To get you started for now, read this.

I am not shitting you: if you have carb issues (and as a pre-diabetic, you almost certainly do), going low-carb can change EVERYTHING. It can be a little bit of a challenge at first, but after a week or so it gets much easier -- it was far easier for me than any of the standard calorie-restricted, low-fat diets I've done, and I've done more than my share of them. Once you're on track, the compulsive eating vanishes. Your appetite drops off, your energy levels go way up, a surprising number of assorted physical complaints diminish. And most importantly, your weight starts to drop, quickly and without struggle.

I can vouch for this, because this is what happened to me. I've been obese for my entire adult life, and have made so many long, grinding efforts at standard diets -- always failing in the end -- that I was convinced there was just something inherently wrong with me. Then someone right here in r/loseit told me about low-carb dieting, and I decided, what the fuck? Why not give it a try? The worst that happens is that in two weeks, I'm still fat, which was going to happen anyway. So I tried a two-week "experiment," just to see what would happen.

That was nearly seven months ago. Since then, I've dropped roughly 80 lbs (of roughly 150 total that I need to drop) and feel for the first time in my life that I can be whatever size I want to be. Hell, a lot of the time I don't even feel as though I'm "on a diet"... it's more like, in soviet russia, diet goes on you. As long as I don't eat more than a certain number of carbs per day, the weight and everything that goes along with it, that all just takes care of itself.

Low-carb diets aren't a fad, they're not a crash diet, they're not unhealthy, though people will tell you all of these things. What a low-carb diet does is allow your body to regain its equilibrium and begin to correct all of the problems that have accumulated from a lifetime of eating refined carbohydrates. There are a lot of ways to go about it -- it's not all Atkins, although that's a perfectly valid place to start. But even just getting the major sources of carbs out of your diet -- the flour, sugar, and starch -- will almost certainly make an enormous, rapid difference in how you feel and what you weigh. It does require some effort, and it does require some sacrifice. Changing how you live your life is never easy. But compared to the tortures of a carb-based, low-fat, calorie-restricted diet (that doesn't work to address the real problem anyway), it's a walk in the fucking park.

If nothing else, it's worth a try. It's worth considering. For me, it literally changed my entire world. And I'm an Oregonian, too -- would I lead you astray? :)

Good luck, girl. I hear you so loud and clear my ears are bleeding. Think about this, and please, please ask if you have questions.

> My view is that bagels can be a healthy part of a balanced diet. Yes, they're relatively high in carbs, but you just have to eat low carb for the rest of the day and it's fine.

Plz educate yourself. It's difficult to know where to start explaining it when you display that what you know about nutrition is just the popular opinions of uneducated marketers.

"Bagel" doesn't really say much. Were eggs used? Does it have added high fructose corn syrup? It depends. And carbs are not bad. Seriously I recommend learning about what the science says about food or you're gonna get scammed all your life.


http://www.amazon.com/The-China-Study-Comprehensive-Implications/dp/1932100660

http://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Reverse-Heart-Disease-Nutrition-Based/dp/1583333002

http://www.amazon.com/Neal-Barnards-Program-Reversing-Diabetes/dp/1594868107

http://www.amazon.com/The-UltraMind-Solution-Broken-Healing/dp/0743570480

http://www.amazon.com/The-Starch-Solution-Regain-Health/dp/1623360277

You can find these books online for free if you don't have the money as well. They have some clinical data and information which will help you understand what's healthy. You don't have to read all of it, but I highly suggest looking in that direction.

There isn't one universal diet because everyone has different nutritional needs. The only thing I can say for sure is that getting rid of processed food, cutting down on or eliminating sugar altogether, and eating a lot of vegetables (NOT CANNED!), are steps in the right direction. And eat a variety of veg - those colors are useful markers for the nutrients within. That's right. No more Doritos Locos tacos, no more Pepsi, no more Oreos.

If you start there and stick with that diet, your body will get accustomed to eating real food. Then you can introduce your junky foods and see how your body reacts and tailor your diet from there.

The right diet will give you steady energy, a feeling of satiety, and a positive mood.

Nutrition isn't one-size-fits-all, that's why there are so many different diet books out there and a ton of fat people. One of the best things you can do for yourself is to take the time to learn about what your body needs.

These books changed my life:

The Metabolic Typing Diet - eat according to your body's needs. Includes a regimen to follow which can really help with getting to know your individual requirements.

Good Calories, Bad Calories - a fantastic read that gives a good idea of how food works in our bodies.

EDIT: This will also give you a starting point for recipes. I am a hella lazy cook and try to do things in one dish. Most of the stuff is made in the oven so I don't have to babysit. But hell yeah, you can roast some protein and veg in the oven. You can even boil protein and steam veg on the stove. Or sautee it all in a pan. And eat it with a slice of avocado!
That's the other thing about starting a new lifestyle. Forget complex recipes. Learn how to prepare food and learn to enjoy it in its natural state.

The rush of energy you get when you're eating the right thing has nothing to do with the seasonings; a humble salmon fillet on a bed of blanched kale will give you the same muscle pumping RAWR! as a miso-glazed salmon fillet over wilted kale tossed with pine nuts and coconut-wasabi creme. U feel me? Get the basics down first. Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything is a great place to start. It comes with 2000 recipes too.

I can’t speak as much to the vegan side of things way back then but I went vegetarian in ‘98 and it was tough.

I really think it is easier to be vegan now than vegetarian then.

There wasn’t ethnic cuisine availability like there is now and people didn’t really eat “gourmet” style food with ‘exotic’ foods like (kalamata olives, spaghetti squash, capers, tamari, etc) Sourcing ingredients was hard.

Nutritional yeast is something you could only get from health food stores.

Food allergens weren’t required to be listed on labels like they are now either.

There also wasn’t much of an internet back then in general, let alone a vegan based community on the internet- it was the days of aol dialup. You would basically go to a site and then walk away and make a sandwich, come back and see if it loaded.

YouTube didn’t exist yet, so no cooking lessons, recipes, documentaries, product reviews. Amazon just sold books. It was hard to really get a handle on what cookbooks were going to be good or bad. Also, this was before blogging really existed.

Most of the vegan substitutes were soy based. Coconut oil didn’t really become a thing til the late ‘00s; same with a number of other ingredients you’d be surprised about.

This is a vegan cookbook I own from ‘94 and can give you an idea of what recipes looked like. https://www.amazon.com/Almost-No-Fat-Cookbook-Everyday-Vegetarian/dp/0913990124/ref=nodl_

Standard restaurant offerings were portobello burgers and salads, if there was anything. Occasionally a pasta dish, but it was usually all cheesy.

Does that help at all? I can give you more info if you ask specific questions, but that’s kinda what comes to mind?

I just celebrated a birthday last week and my sister got me a low-carb cookbook and an assortment of low-carb vegetable seeds (because she knows I love to grow some of my own ingredients). It was a very thoughtful gift, just perfect for me.

Wholeheartedly agree with Color Me Vegan, which has pictures for quite a lot of the recipes and is an amazing book. I'll also have to cast my vote to The Happy Herbivore which has plenty of delicious recipes with beautiful full-page photos. Although, in fairness, most (all?) of the recipes there are also found on her blog.

It is clear, you should do both, help animals and become healthy and fit at the same time, without even lifting a finger. For some, the fact that you're helping animals may not be enough to "stay on course", you need that extra bit of motivation. Shedding all the fat and gaining energy, becoming sexy as AF is a great motivation.

I strongly urge you to order the Starch Solution. Read it and let it change your life. The fact that there's no "counter-evidence" on the starch solution which is common in popular "weight loss" diets such as paleo, lchf, atkins etc. speak louder than words.

The key difference is, you're not guided into "this is good, this is bad" but you get reasoning and evidence so you can make your own judgement calls with ease. I have yet to meet/talk to or actually even heard of anyone who didn't have their life change permanently from this book. I doubt you'd be the first.

FYI: I hate reading books in general, so I started by forcing myself to read just 5-10 minutes a week which I only had to do once. Afterwards, I read it daily and was looking forward to it, similar to watching a daily tv series.. Odd.

You can buy the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Starch-Solution-Regain-Health-Weight/dp/1623360277

You can find free info from McDougall on youtube and here: https://www.drmcdougall.com/

It's not a fad diet. Have you checked out my sources? And of course my sources are those that agree with my opinion on this lifestyle - I'm not going to quote Oprah or something.

> An opinion based on "we used to eat this so it must be good", which is flawed.

Why is this flawed? I'm not making a naturalistic fallacy here, as it's not my sole argument.

> We ate what was available and some of it was good, some of it just kept us alive.

Most of it was good. We've twisted our food supply in the interests of money making in the past few centuries.

My information is based on very rigorous scientific studies that challenge the conventional wisdom - and rightfully so. Americans are the fattest people on Earth, despite years of advice from national health institutes. Much of what is recommended is based on Ancel Keys' faulty research on the "link" between cholesterol/saturated fat and heart disease.

If you're interested in the science of nutrition and where I'm coming from, this is the one book I recommend. Even if you don't read the book, read the amazon comments - it's quite illuminating.
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Science Journalist Gary Taubes

First, Dr. Bernstein is great, especially for T1DMs.

Second, low carb is great for T1DMs and T2DMs, such as myself. But just as I was able to reduce then discontinue my Metformin as my carbs dropped, you'll have to adjust your insulin as your own carbs drop.

Third, there's a revealing photo in Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories, showing the upper thighs of a woman who injected insulin there over many years. There are HUGE fatty deposits there, which grew slowly over time. Insulin does encourage the growth of fatty tissue. The less you take, the better.

It also allows glucose to enter muscle cells and helps the brain use glucose as well. So you're not going to live w/o it. But slowly, safely reduce it as you are able.

BTW, as the brain is adapted to using mostly ketones, less insulin is required there as well.

i've heard a number of IBS sufferers finding relief through a well-balanced vegetarian/vegan (keyword: well-balanced) diet. it may be worth trying for a few weeks since you're experiencing so much discomfort.

the happy herbivore is an excellent cookbook to start out with, and veganist is great for straightforward, to-the-point-information about a balanced plant-based diet and how it can help.

Right along the same lines, I would wonder if a video by author Gary Taubes would be also what your looking for? He has been giving lectures to the medical circuit and educating doctors on the actual science and research for a few years.


Here he is a Ohio State University Medical Center:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/bTUspjZG-wc?feature=player_detailpage

Or here he is at Bastyr University:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/Cm_EjJXCjhw?feature=player_detailpage

Or here he is a New Brighton School:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/lDneyrETR2o?feature=player_detailpage

Or here he is at University of Texas:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/KH9079LV4tY?feature=player_detailpage


And there are lots more on youtube.

BTW, if you have not read his books and are really interesting in learning some of this stuff, you MUST do so, they are great books.

Of the best two books he wrote, "Good Calories, Bad Calories" is very technical and very much aimed at the medical community with extensive technical details and many many footnotes and reference data.
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462

"Why we get fat" is the layperson version of the same book.
http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259/

My advice:

1. Drink coffee with a sugar substitute (I like Splenda, it functions and tastes exactly like sugar) and a dash of heavy whipping cream (you don't need much to lighten the coffee up a lot).
   
2. Diet soda - any kind - is fine.
   
3. Watch this video for an "Explain Like I'm Five" approach.
   
   Bonus advice:
   
   

• Only weigh yourself once a week.
  
• If you weigh yourself two weeks in a row and you haven't lost any weight, make sure you're counting your carbs. 50g is the max, 20g is the ideal. So maybe say, "Okay I will only have 35g of carbs a day" and try that for two weeks and see if it starts the weight loss back up again. If not, lower them.
  
• If you've lowered your carbs down to 15 or 20g and you're still stalled, try limiting the diet soda. Maybe two cans/day for two weeks, then one can/day.
  
• If you're still not losing, cut the soda out completely. For some people, it triggers insulin secretion even though there aren't any carbs in it, and high levels of insulin can stall fat burning.
  
• If cutting the soda out doesn't help, cut all artificial sweeteners.
  
• Next step would be to start limiting dairy. Then perhaps caffeine and/or nuts.
  
  I'm a big fan of the "slow and steady" approach. Make little changes, take some time, observe how it affects you. There's no rush to dump weight off; it's more likely to be permanent if you're not obsessing and just "keeping calm and ketoing on".
  
  Bonus resources, if you want to have a deeper understanding:
  
  
• Why We Get Fat is my favorite intro book.
  
• The Art & Science of Low Carbohydrate Living is a very thorough explanation of the diet.
  
• The Big Fat Surprise explains why scientists and public health officials act like fat is bad for you, even though the scientific evidence doesn't support that belief.
  
• Good Calories, Bad Calories is a more detailed & scientific version of Why We Get Fat
  
• New Atkins for a New You is a very easy-to-follow instructional guide if that's what you need (written by Eric Westman, the doctor in the video I linked above).
  
• Here is a list of great keto videos to watch.

r/PlantBasedDiet - Great sub with good active members always willing to help!

The Starch Solution - I have read this and follow this. Losing weight constantly.

The Forks over Knives Plan - I have not tried this but the documentary they made is what changed my way of eating (hopefully for life)

Edit: I don't count calories, I eat what is allowed in the diet until I am full (ad libitum). I follow visual guidelines of how much food should be of each group. I try not to cheat except for special occasions. My lipid and Hb1AC numbers have come down to where I have never seen them before since I have started tracking them and lost 24 lbs in 3-4 months or so.

You want a weight loss and health-promoting diet which also is disease-preventing.

Good luck!

There are definitely better introductory books, but I would recommend reading Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes at some point for a (well researched) contrary take on conventional nutritional wisdom. The first part of the book especially is pretty solid. The second half is more speculative, but Taubes is very open about this.

First, let me say, I cannot really provide a solution for you, but I can share what has worked for me. I have not been as overweight as you but I have at times in my life been significantly overweight (not in mass but in % body fat) and as I am becoming older, I had found it increasingly difficult to control. My point is, you need to try things to see what works for you. Keep a daily journal of how you feel (energy, attention, brain function, etc) so you can do some experiments on yourself.

What has worked for me is adopting (what appears to be the latest fad) the paleo/evolutionary fitness model for diet and exercise. I eat little or no processed foods (e.g. read Pollan, and other rules of thumb...if it doesn't spoil, don't eat it, never shop in the inside area of the supermarket, if it comes out of a box, don't eat it, etc.). I don't drink soda, juice, or anything with sugars (just unsweetened coffee or tea, water). I eat a lot of meat, eggs, fish (no worries on fat content...my favorite lunch is a sandwich from the local deli called the Three Little Pigs, without the bread, it is smoked ham, pork bbq, and bacon). I eat some dairy, primarily full fat and fermented, like Fage Total plain yogurt (with a little fresh fruit and shredded raw coconut). I eat all my favorite vegetables slathered in full fat butter (from the farm if I can get it). This may sound like a low-carb, Atkins type diet, but it isn't. That isn't to say going low carb won't help you lose fat quickly. Nevertheless, it isn't the main point. The main point is to eat as our ancestors did some 10,000 or more years ago, as evolution has not caught up with our recent use of grains in our diet and certainly not processed foods. Another thing I do is intermittently fast. At first somewhat forced, but now just because I am not hungry. I can typically eat dinner (say around 5pm) and not eat again until around lunch the next day.

As far as exercise, I avoid long aerobic activities unless in pursuit of yard work, handling the kids, or sport (like tennis). No treadmills, distance running, or biking. I do walk or ride a bike for transportation, but I am not getting winded. I do lift weights, usually once a week, using only large muscle groups and free weights, and very intensely. It takes about 20 minutes, but given its intensity it is brutal...but over quickly. I introduce a bit of randomness into the exercise frequency and variety of exercises (e.g. maybe twice in one week, maybe I will do a bunch of pull-ups one night or push ups). Sprints are intermingled with this, sometimes just as part of playing with the dog. Again, the point is to expose the body to stresses in an irregular but intense pattern, as perhaps were encountered by our ancestors.

The result is that I am probably a month away (after approximately 9 months total) from having washboard abs, I have great energy levels, stamina and focus. I no longer wake up with aching joints. I don't get low energy levels after eating (unless I really stuff myself). Keep in mind, I am in my 40s. I was 210 and very soft and pear shaped when I started, now I am 185 and back to a youthful V shape.
The only negatives I can speak to is a diminished ability to find quick and convenient food sources and missing bread, pasta and a pizza once and a while. I really don't miss sweets, but I don't think I was that hooked on them in the first place.

Finally, let me give the sources that drove me in this direction. Take a look and see if you are interested in trying it. As I said, I can't say that it will work for you, but it has worked for me.

Websites:

Art Devany http://www.arthurdevany.com/ Evolutionary Fitness

Keith Norris http://theorytopractice.wordpress.com/

Mark Sisson http://www.marksdailyapple.com/

Richard Nikoley http://freetheanimal.com/

Seth Roberts http://blog.sethroberts.net/ (more about self-experimentation and the value of fermented foods)

Weston A. Price Foundation http://www.westonaprice.org/

Books:

Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories

Little, McGuff Body by Science

Weston A. Price, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

Mark Sisson The Primal Blueprint

This is not true at all. What you eat is by far the most important factor in body weight and overall health. Your body responds to and uses different foods in different ways. Some foods promote fat accumulation and some do not.

While the law of thermodynamics dictates that if you're getting fatter you're expending less energy than you're taking in, this information is so obvious that it's useless. As Gary Taubes points out, it's like saying the room got more crowded because more people came in than left. This tells us nothing about why the room actually became crowded.

In terms of diet the law of thermodynamics definitely applies: a necessary condition of getting fat is expending less energy than you take in, and a necessary condition of expending less energy than you take in is getting fat. The problem is that this does not provide a direction of causality! Popular opinion says that more energy in than out causes fat accumulation, but rigorous empirical research says that the reverse is much more likely to be true.

The bottom line is that the body is a complex system where what you eat plays a major role in determining whether or not you accumulate fat, and therefore whether or not you expend less energy than you take in.

I know theres a couple of books out there that have a full 30 day meal plan in them. I know nothing about macros really and don't know if these books would help you. :-(

Beginners Guide

I have another one in this series for insulin resistance- it's not keto, but the recipes are phenomenal. My sister's had the same experience with the migraine relief one.

[Most popular one I sell daily] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1628602821/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_vp3YAbK6H8MZN)

Another one I sell a tonne of

I don't know if this helps AT ALL, but I hope it does!

Yes dear, I knew exactly which article you were referring too. Now how about you go read about him from his own website and compare notes? He is very clear about everything he has tried, when it was and the science behind it.

But honestly if you would like a science backed book instead of just one man to tell you calories are not that simple then I would recommend -
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1400033462/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_.IW9AbGXQ1PMM

The Happy Herbivore website and cookbooks are extremely simple. I personally find these recipes little too basic/bland for my taste, but when I'm in a crazy rush, they really make it super easy to create quick tasty meals with basic pantry items.

Have you actually read Good Calories, Bad Calories? And I mean, read it, not let someone else tell you what's wrong with it without you having to bother cracking the cover.

Even if it doesn't end up convincing you, it is one of the best science books I have ever seen; there are hundreds of citations and no, they are not all just the "in favor" ones, the best of the conventional mainstream thinking are cited as well. If only every book were as well done.

If you are actually scientifically inclined, you should read the best counter-case you can, and that's probably it. If you can actually come away from that with your opinion unchanged, then at least you'll have come by it honestly.

Shocking as it may seem, it is not merely community-word-of-mouth behind those facts you link. Actual peer-reviewed studies can be brought to bear in favor of those facts, in quantity. If you want the citations, the book I mentioned has them, also in quantity.

I loved this book.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1451624433?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_pd_title

And this one, as well.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400033462?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_pd_title

I haven't read any books on IF, but the transformation my body went through was enough for me on that front. 😊

For an entertaining intro to these concepts, you can check out Fat Head. It's streaming on Netflix if you are a subscriber.

Gary Taubes has done a lot of research on the subject. You can check out his books Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories.

I was originally introduced to these concepts by Mark Sisson through his book The Primal Blueprint. He also has a website full of great information; Mark's Daily Apple.

There is also a ton of information you can find online by googling primal diet, paleo diet or ketonic diet.

I will tell you that I was highly skeptical of all this myself given all I was told about nutrition throughout my life. But I now feel better than I ever have. All my health indicators are now in the excellent range. I have more energy than ever. I am rarely hungry. And I have a six pack now. Never in my life, even as an athlete have I had a six pack. And I only exercise about 30 minutes a week (I just follow the simplefit program.)

I now understand what Hippocrates meant by 'Let food be your medicine and your medicine be your food."

And here is a list of ailments I no longer suffer from after switching to a high fat diet.

• Blood pressure now excellent
  
• Cholesterol ratio now excellent
  
• Weight down 62 pounds, body fat down from 29% to 12%
  
• Hypoglycemia gone
  
• Dandruff gone
  
• Joint pains gone
  
• Inflammation gone
  
• Lethargy gone
  
• And according to friends and family I look about 10 years younger
  
  And don't take my word for it. Do the research yourself. And why not give it a try for 30 days yourself and see how you feel. I think you'll be surprised.
  

> Fruits and vegetables are not remotely filling for me. Bread and rice is, I've been chowing down on that.

So what's the problem? It sounds like you answered your own question. Eat whole grain bread, whole grain pasta, brown rice, potatoes, lentils.

I'm just like you, I literally wrote a similar post earlier today. If I eat just a salad even if it is enormous I don't feel satiated. If I eat some corn or bread with it I'm fine.

It sounds like you discovered "The Starch Solution" on your own. Whole grain carbohydrates are GOOD for you so eat them!

https://www.amazon.com/Starch-Solution-Regain-Health-Weight/dp/1623360277

If you want to know the science as well as anecdotal evidence supporting low carb and against the Standard American Diet, here's a list of books for you to read:

• The Art and Science of Low Carb Living
  
• Why We Get Fat
  
• The Big Fat Surprise
  
• Good Calories Bad Calories
  
• Fat Chance
  
• Keto Clarity
  
  Jimmy Moore is a lot more anecdotal but it's a good place to start if you want a simple way to understand keto, in my opinion. The rest contain lots of studies and evidence to convince you.
  
  Taubes is also bringing out a new book. I've not yet read it but I've certainly pre-ordered!
  The Case Against Sugar
  
  
  
  
  
  

> MRI has increased in use massively and lung cancer detection has improved yet the link remains strong

How do you determine who is (or was, before death) a "smoker"? People aren't born "smokers", or "non-smokers", smoking the exact same amounts, in the exact same way, each day for a lifetime.

> The book itself premises itself to show that smoking doesn't cause cancer.

No. The premise is: "that government statistics on smoking, like those on AIDS, cannot be trusted."

> The same type of studies have been used with obesity

...And got [everything wrong[(https://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462).

> I can't find the part of the book that states everyone is a smoker/nonsmoker.

It's the logical reduction of what he's saying. It's also self-evidently true on the basis that it's impossible to avoid breathing at least a few particles of smoke throughout one's life.

> I don't see how a person who smokes 1 pack a day vs a person who never smokes cant be seperated.

What is the "never smokes" person used to smoke 5 packs per day or grew up around second-hand smoke? What if the "1 pack a day" person used to not smoke?

> smoking doesn't cause cancer

...Then give back the money legally-awarded from tobacco companies, and give back all the taxes paid on cigarettes.

If you truly want to eat correctly (and not correctly as in whatever is the latest fad, but correctly as in what doctors have been saying for ages) and more importantly if you want to understand why you should eat different kinds of food and how your body works I recommend the You-series.

You: The owners manual
http://www.amazon.com/YOU-Updated-Expanded-Insiders-Healthier/dp/0061473677

And (if you want to diet):
You on a diet
http://www.amazon.com/You-Owners-Manual-Waist-Management/dp/0743292545/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1_s9_rk?ie=UTF8&s=books&s9r=8a585b4317a113eb0117f2228ff208e6&itemPosition=1&qid=1220996787&sr=1-1

I have been vegetarian for 13 years. I use the big recipe sites like allrecipes, www.food.com , www.foodnetwork.com , www.epicurious.com , plus some veg-specific ones like www.vegweb.com and www.vegetariantimes.com . Honestly, I would suggest picking up a cookbook. If you don't want to spend any money you could even check out a couple from the library. They usually have some decent veg cookbooks. It is very easy to find low fat/low calorie vegetarian cookbooks. I have a couple of vegan ones that I use a lot because my husband is vegan (I'm not): Appetite for Reduction and The Happy Herbivore Both authors have some good vegan recipes on their websites too: www.happyherbivore.com and www.theppk.com

Another thing that is really simple is just to modify the things you like to eat now and make them vegetarian. My coworkers always ask me what I eat but besides the fact that I tend to eat more world cuisine than the average meat-eating person I eat a lot of the same things that they do. Lasagna, stir fries, casseroles, tacos, most anything you can think of. So my advice is to just think of whatever you want to eat and either modify it yourself or google a recipe for it to make it meatless and low-calorie.

> To be honest, I think it's sugar that causes weight gain more than anything else. You need some fat content.

And science agrees with you, however, milk has lots of sugar in it as well ( maltase, lactase and others )

How about unsaturated fats (with limits), you can use a bit of olive oil if necessary; just try to avoid it because it contains a bit of saturated fat as well (2 g). Oh and Tefal to prevent sticking. Egg whites instead of a whole egg, soy milk, beans, oatmeal, soups and vegetable sandwiches, spaghetti (without the meat-balls), etc. should do.

Oh and you should consider ordering this book. Roy Swank is one of the leading researchers on the effect of diet on MS. While it's controversial if MS is linked to diet (causality wise), there are many studies showing diet helps patients.

Edit: Wanted to add /r/MultipleSclerosis . Best of luck.

These are the ones on my wishlist:


The Vegonomicon


Everyday Happy Herbivore


Thug Kitchen


But I could never go vegan!


Oh She Glows Cookbook


I personally own The Vegan Stoner Cookbook and I like it a lot.

Why kill them? You can adjust your diet for the rest of the day around your cheat meal. If it gets out of hand you can throw in a month or so of cutting to get back on track.

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Otherwise the usual, get rid of the junk, plan your meals and do shopping in advance. For me when I set-up my plan initially I created it for a month out. Gathered recipes, calculated macros, etc. Now it's fairly easy to follow and with a the plan being for a month, I don't feel like I'm eating the same thing over and over.

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Actually need to get back to that because I want to add a shopping list section. The whole thing took maybe 2 hours to setup in Excel and I'm not even close to being an excel pro. (Got the formula for the macros from Bigger, Leaner, Stronger and mostly using recipes out of https://www.amazon.com/Shredded-Chef-Recipes-Building-Getting-ebook/dp/B007FW0PI8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542575243&sr=8-1&keywords=the+shredded+chef)

Carbohydrates, protein, and fat have very different effects on insulin secretion and other hormonal metabolism. Remove protein, no more muscle. Remove fat, good luck with blood clotting, hormone regulation, and neuron development. Remove carbohydrates... well, entire books have been written on that subject; I recommend starting here.

A postscript.

Taubes is excellent. If you would like to read deeper, see if your library has a copy of "Good Calories, Bad Calories". In that he also gives copious references and cites to support his case.

A total aside; just something that made me smile. On the NYT page they have a picture titled:

>An early 20th-century photograph titled "Big Man of MO, 630 lbs"

Above the picture is a button to "Enlarge This Image". I had to wonder why anyone would want to; it is quite large enough already.

I'm a veg! I love Mexican food. Fajitas, taco salads (with beans). Nom nom nom. I'm always looking to expand my horizons. What is Pittsburgh style?

I can recommend a few books that we constantly use to cook from:

The Happy Herbivore

But I could never go Vegan

500 Greatest-Ever Vegetarian Recipes

We use the first two on a weekly basis, although we mix in some traditional vegetable noodle soups, homemade pizza (with vegan cheese), lots of wok-style noodles with vegetables and tofu and more.

If you/your wife are worried about heart issues with red meat you should 100% read good calories, bad calories by gary taubes. He goes in-depth about a lot of the "heart myths" out there and covers the "science" we were taught vs real science. http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312467988&sr=8-1

This is by Gary Taubes and it's adapted from Good Calories, Bad Calories which details the insulin hypothesis of obesity. AWESOME book!

I am reminded of when I was in my 20s and I started going to the gym. I did 45 minutes every day on the f-ing stairmaster for a year (before I finally gave up). I wasn't obese back then - maybe 25lbs overweight - but I didn't lose any weight at all. None. I was so frustrated and I felt so horrible about myself. Now I know why, after reading so many books and articles like this, but knowing this back then would have saved me so much heart ache. And gym membership fees. ;-)

The following is a quote from here:

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>"Clogged Arteries" or "Atherosclerosis" is often entirely misunderstood. People compare it to clogged plumbing. Which is an entire wrong analogy to use.

>Cholesterol certainly is a large part of arterial plaque, however, it's not the type people often think it is.

>It's not the big Cholesterol molecules that are bad (HDL), infact those are insanely good. The more the better.

>What bad is the tiny Cholesterol molecules (LDL), and even then, most of those are fine.

>What you really have to worry about are the "small version" of the LDL molecules. i.e. LDL Pattern B cholesterol. (20.5 nm wide or smaller)

>And worse yet, if the LDL molecules get "oxidized", since that makes it so they don't bind to anything anymore.

>Reason for all this, is that if the cholesterol molecules get tiny enough, then they can slip through the naturally forming cracks of a 1 molecule thick inner lining of ALL blood vessels called an "endothelium".

>There's also certain things like Transfats (And some Omega-6 Fats) that cause cause inflamation of that endothelium, causing larger tears to the occur.

>* http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/atherosclerosis/

• http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/hdw/
  
• http://www.news.illinois.edu/news/09/0616transfat.html
  
• http://jn.nutrition.org/content/135/3/562.long
  
  >Now all that said, Keotgenic dieting is intensely GOOD for the above scenario. Because it overall, increases the size of your cholesterol molecules. Similar to randomly filling up a batch of water balloons with "Water" (i.e. Fat) and having less balloons (i.e. LipoproteinLipase). On average you would end up with far fewer "tiny" balloons. Especially since, large cholesterol molecules can absorb the tiny cholesterol molecules. (Which is why having high HDL levels is so healthy)
  
  >Additionally, Carbs are pretty well known to have an oxidizing effect.
  So by avoiding Carbs, you reduce oxidized LDLs as well.
  http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228435.100-a-spoonful-of-sugar-helps-your-skin-age-prematurely.html
  
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  More information from the SomethingAwful keto thread, which is on the sidebar. Scroll down to SATURATED FAT IS SAFE! (or just read the whole thing).
  
  A bit of the additional information they add is how triglycerides are the much, much more important factor in your health, and they are raised by eating carby foods.
  
  >I'm sorry, but I'm weeks 9 in and considering doing this for at least 2 years, and I need to know what is really going on.
  
  In this case, then do what keto4life suggested and grab yourself a copy of Good Calories, Bad Calories. The author is Gary Taubes. Here is a NY Times article he wrote from a decade ago (christ 2002 was a decade ago).
  
  TL;DR: You are doing your heart a favor by adopting a ketogenic diet.

Read The Straight Dope on Cholesterol beginning to end to have a better understanding of cholesterol.

After reading The Straight Dope on Cholesterol, read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes.

Dr. Attia and Gary Taubes teamed up to form the Nutrition Science Initiative, which is actually sponsoring research on fatty liver disease. Their books and websites are a great resource on what's going on in your body when it comes to insulin, cholesterol, etc.

If you have a lot of time on your hands and a very keen interest, read this. If you have a lot less time/interest, then read this.

There's a strong argument that the US Government is responsible for creating the obesity epidemic in the first place, so in so far as it needs to reverse the damage it's caused with incorrect dietary guidelines, then yes.

Here's the gist of the problem: During the 1960s and 1970s, there was much concern about the high rate of heart disease in the United States. Policy makers developed dietary recommendations in the late 70s early 80s based on what turned out to be a very poor understanding of what causes heart disease. These recommendations called for a low-fat diet, which over the last 3 decades has contributed to an enormous increase in the amount of carbohydrates we consume. Studies are beginning to show that fat was not the culprit at all, and that high carbohydrate diets are actually to blame for the obesity epidemic.

Sources: Good Calories Bad Calories,, The Big Fat Surprise, and The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living.

I concur w many others here. Whole wheat bread is fine. There's a significant anti complex carb movement around modern paleo diet people


This is a great book on the subject


http://www.amazon.com/Starch-Solution-Regain-Health-Weight/dp/1623360277/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397935356&sr=1-1&keywords=the+starch+solution+by+john+mcdougall

And this is a great 20 min TED talk @ the same thing by Dr. John McDougall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5wfMNNr3ak

Keto means very low or no carbs in your diet. There are also specific food groups in paleo that you can't eat in keto and vice versa. I'm not super familiar with the keto diet, frankly, so I'm not really the person to ask. I like fruit and sweet potatoes. I tried out paleo for a week after doing some research and talking to a co-worker who has been paleo for awhile. I also ending up reading Gary Taube's Good Calories, Bad Calories. There are definitely some valid criticisms of his science, but a lot of what he wrote seemed pretty compelling, and by the time I finished the 600+ pages, the results of my own personal experiment sealed the deal.

I'm not actually. I don't eat out. I have celiac disease. But, I watch the shows and I know people who are. I am, however, very interested in nutritional science and have done real research.

Start here.

Then read this.

And, if you can swing it, go to a university, sneak in, and read through some of the recent journals.

Then, form an opinion and discuss it intelligently.

Also, it's kind of rude to jump to another post a person has commented on to snark at them about something completely different. LOL.

Kind of an oversimplification though.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400033462?pc_redir=1407351599&robot_redir=1

Certain calories, or diets are more predisposed to being stored as fatty tissue than others.

100 calories of sugar follows a very different digestive route than 100 calories of protein.

Insulin resistance can also play a big role in whether or not a calorie is stored as fatty tissue or not.

yeah... but actually its the way that your body processes the processed sugars/flours vs the way that it processes fat. "fat" doesn't just stay as "fat" that finds its way to your body, its digested and broken down much differently than a simple sugar is. You can't do simple calorie counting because your body releases certain hormones in response to certain inputs.

Pretty piss poor explanation on my part, but if you do some reading on the subject... its actually pretty interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462

Thanks for the channel recommendation, I'll check it out. Please keep this in mind if you start making the videos, I'm definitely a visual learner when it comes to cooking because I just feel so out of my element. I just graduated and until recently, I've pretty much lived on sandwiches and eating out for essentially my entire life. I literally just cooked chicken breasts for the first time ever about a week ago... With starting my full time job, meal prepping has become the vehicle by which I've undertaken to learn how to cook and develop a new long term habit...so let's just say there's been a lot of googling recently, I even read the shredded chef cookbook but that's mainly tailored towards cooking every day and I'm just too busy to do that.

Hi all. I'm currently guiding around 10 people through the diet -- inner core of family and friends and word of mouth is spreading quickly.

I tend to use the following books for them:

1. Why we get fat
   
2. Art and Science of Low-Carbohydrate Living
   
3. Good Calories, Bad Calories
   
   The first one is an easy-to-digest paperback while the second one gets a bit more into the "how" of keto. GCBC is an exceptionally good book for anyone interested in the details.

"Dietary cholesterol isn’t bound to blood cholesterol. Read this, this, this & this."

-Medhi of Stronglifts.com here

Diet change won't hurt, but becoming more active is probably going to have the larger effect.

(1) They didn't ban sugary drinks like NY, so it's not quite legislating choice.

(2) They voted to PUT IT ON THE BALLOT. So it's certainly not legislating choice.

(3) Kickbacks? I didn't see a connection between kickbacks and this story..unless Michael Pollan is paying city governments to ban sugar.

(4) The "Sugar is really bad" theory is now as accepted as "Global warming is real" within scientific circles. Yet, I bet, less than half as many people realize this. If this tax only serves to make people more aware of this, I'll be happy!
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462

As a breakfast, the granola cereal sounds reasonable. Is she eating it with milk? One cup of 1% milk will tack on another 100 kcal, but that's still okay in most cases. Of course, her overall kcal target for healthy weight loss will depend on her height and age. With those you can estimate her basal metabolic rate and then multiply by an activity factor, perhaps 1.2-1.5 depending on how active she is. Then take that number and subtract 500, which should equate to losing about one pound per week. Of course, this is the traditional thinking of calories in = calories out, which I don't believe is entirely valid. Indeed, there are Good Calories, Bad Calories as the excellent book by this title explains.

I recommend all read this book that think all calories are the same. Food affects hormones and have different metabolic efficiencies.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400033462/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_ieBHAbXB86J8B

> She's been chugging down slimfast everyday for the past 4 years

That can't be helping. I find it astounding how much disinformation there is out there about weight control and "diet". You could do your sister some good by informing her of better, legitimate information about these subjects that don't come from companies who want you to be fat so you'll buy their product.

Start with Good Calories, Bad Calories.

Of the many vegan cookbooks my girlfriend and I have used, we've probably used The Happy Herbivore the most. In fact, right now we're baking a gluten-free pumpkin cheesecake. Fingers crossed!

Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories is the most comprehensive popular discussion I am aware of the effects of various macronutrients and their effects on diet and health.

I can't speak for the accuracy of the science behind the book, but I found it interesting and readable.

[The Happy Herbivore] (https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Herbivore-Cookbook-Delicious-Fat-Free/dp/1935618121/ref=gbph_tit_m-3_73db_42ace4da?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=9d963e9f-d755-49d3-9a62-2b04872d73db&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=45&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=VX4C20KJ9510RY8K6JQE) is on sale for $13.77.

I'm not a robot..

Does Peter Attia count as someone you would trust? Or Gary Taubes?

Long-term diet studies are incredibly rare in either direction, because it is incredibly expensive/difficult to know that the test subjects are eating the diet they say they're eating, especially long term.

Gary Taubes' Low-Carb Diet;
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400033462/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8
It's worked for a LOT of people. Fats are OK, meat & protein are good, carbs are EVIL. Here in California, In n Out's "Protein Style" burgers are the perfect lunch.

Calories are not equal. A sugar calorie is not the same as a fat calorie. Eating sugar will spike insulin which causes energy to be stored in fat cells. Eating fat doesn't spike insulin so nothing is being stored as fat. [Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health]
(https://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/)

Further, eating carbs and sugar makes a person hungry 2-3 hours after eating. Insulin clears the body of energy. All the energy is gone in the blood, and insulin blocks the fat cells from releasing more energy. A person has to eat again. When I eat sausage, eggs, and butter for breakfast, I can easily go 6 hours without eating and not be hungry.

Hello, Thanks!

Is this the book?

https://www.amazon.com/Starch-Solution-Regain-Health-Weight/dp/1623360277

May just buy it since it's not much.

And thanks for the other recommendation!

Why not? I'm not a HCLF vegan. But I think it's important to keep an open mind and explore new information that challenges conventional beliefs. I've heard so many success stories on the HCLF no calorie restriction diet, so I'm genuinely curious like OP.

Also, OP - this book might shed some insight on HCLF diets:
http://www.amazon.com/Starch-Solution-Regain-Health-Weight/dp/1623360277

Either of Taubes' books. Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories. There are dozens of others, but those are my favorites.

Yes. https://www.amazon.com/Great-Cholesterol-Anthony-Colpo/dp/1430309334

Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes go a long way to laying this info out in great detail. A little heady at times but worth it.

I was bought this one as a present: http://www.amazon.com/The-Shredded-Chef-Recipes-Building-ebook/dp/B007FW0PI8

I haven't read it yet, but it's well reviewed.

My own guess is that it's slamming Carl Sagan, who is like the patron saint of a lot of Reddit, and positively quoting Crichton, whom a lot of the more alarmist climate change types have been demonizing for over a decade because he points out how much bad politicized "science" there is out there.

If it makes it easier, take a look at Gary Taubes' writing on medical research and the nonsense that gets published there: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400033462/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?pc_redir=1395587729&qid=1286302951&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1

If it interests you, this book helps wade through 100's of nutrition studies, and give perspective on why popular dietary beliefs exist.

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400033462/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_Du1eAbEHW5A6B

That isn't even a scientific study, it's a survey of so called "experts".

At this point in time there is such a wealth of knowledge around ancestral health and nutrition that it is inefficient for me to try enumerate them. Instead, there are a number of very well sourced books on the topic. Here are two of the big ones. In them you will find abundant references to scientific study.

The Paleo Answer by Loren Cordain

The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf

Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

Very clear and simple instructions on what to do (literally 18 pages): http://www.amazon.com/Low-Carbohydrate-Ketogenic-Diet-Manual/dp/1482781255 (accompanying video: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CEcQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F34645752&ei=7rS7UafjO4vM9gTlzYHwCQ&usg=AFQjCNEbYCU1JergzBLmz7ArB4AUUTzQCw&sig2=Y85CmVrHa0yJ4jgfg9YeFQ&bvm=bv.47883778,d.eWU )

More detailed instructions on what to do if the above isn't enough: http://www.amazon.com/New-Atkins-You-Ultimate-Shedding/dp/1439190275/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371255616&sr=1-1&keywords=new+atkins+for+a+new+you

Why to do it: http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371255572&sr=1-1&keywords=why+we+get+fat

Extremely detailed and cited info on why to do it for power nerds: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ref=bxgy_cc_b_img_b

Some other suggestions (mostly for power nerd): the art and science of low carbohydrate living/performance, wheat belly.

For reference:
The author's Starch Solution website
Book on Amazon

For anyone more curious, Gary Taubes has written a book (in 2008ish) on this topic as well

"Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health"

it's quite a large book tbh. i'm currently reading it.

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ref=sr_1_1?crid=32PFEF4DOSM4J&keywords=good+calories+bad+calories&qid=1562916797&s=gateway&sprefix=good+cal%2Caps%2C223&sr=8-1

Goes through how the scientists started focusing on cholsterol and why and how we ended up where we are today.

I'll note i'm not done reading it. i'm only 80 pages in so far - it's in english and it's not my native tongue

Give Good Calories Bad Calories a read first. Then try reading The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith. She was a vegan for 20 years and it caused her some major health issues. She really points out the fallacies that the vegetarian lifestyle is based on very clearly. In the mean time you can watch all the videos found here, and this post from March 14 by Taubes is great, pay special attention to the second paragraph. Does she want you to watch Forks Over Knives? That movie fails entirely to address the weaknesses inherent in observational studies.

Lol no i tend to type really fast and make mistakes. "Swank" is correct. :)

This is the book i ordered for reference:
http://www.amazon.com/Multiple-Sclerosis-Diet-Book/dp/0385232799/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421099111&sr=8-1&keywords=swank+diet

Definitely read Good Calories Bad Calories

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462

>Grain Brain
http://www.amazon.com/Grain-Brain-Surprising-Sugar--Your-Killers/dp/031623480X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396899463&sr=8-1&keywords=grain+brain

> Good Calories, Bad Calories
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396899524&sr=1-1&keywords=good+calories+bad+calories

> Sweden
http://healthimpactnews.com/2013/sweden-becomes-first-western-nation-to-reject-low-fat-diet-dogma-in-favor-of-low-carb-high-fat-nutrition/

Note: Pretty much type "Sweden" + "Low Carb" and you'll find tons of google results.

The flip side of that is that insulin tells your body to refuse to remove energy from fat cells, and eating a carbohydrate-heavy diet dramatically increases your insulin levels. Thus, people can run a caloric deficit and not lose significant weight, but simultaneously experience starvation at the cellular level if their diet is too carb-heavy.

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted, because it's factually accurate. Sources: Good Calories, Bad Calories; Why We Get Fat; Wheat Belly. There are more, but these are some of the best, fully-sourced books about the subject.

5$ Shredded Chef.

http://www.amazon.com/Shredded-Chef-Recipes-Building-Getting-ebook/dp/B007FW0PI8/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

I'm interested in their guide, but it's just too expensive. I can get 5 cookbooks instead.

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400033462/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_79aCybQMP5QC0

Calories that spike your insulin response will, over time, create a hormonal imbalance (insulin / leptin) that leads to increased hunger, lethargy, and weight gain around the midsection.

Gary Taubes's book Good Calories, Bad Calories is one of the best books I have ever read, on any subject.

Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes also goes into great detail about this subject. Very interesting/informative read.

Sounds like someone needs to get over their SJW-centric rage blackouts.

And possibly ease off on the testosterone injections a little.

Meanwhile, for actual reading on the topic:

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462

(Don't worry, Taubes couldn't be any more dispassionate in his writing; you're safe from any threat of sentiment.)

While this doesn't directly answer your question, I just started reading a book called Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health by Gary Taubes that delves into this exact question and is so far chock full of studies and citations. It's general approach is to provide the reader with a full picture of the relevant research and let them decide for themselves.

I'm only ~10% of the way in, but so far it seems to suggest that the type of calories you consume does have an impact on weight, health, and longevity, and it's not as simple as fat vs carbs. Things like the types of fat consumed, ratios of different types of cholesterol, etc. seem to have an impact as well.

Something else important to note is that it's very hard to do controlled studies of this type because it's impossible to only move one factor at a time. For example, if you want to test the impact of a high fat diet, you necessarily have to either decrease calories of a different type or increase the number of calories all together. That makes it difficult to tease out causation.

Again, I don't know the specific answer to your question, but if you don't get a good answer here I suggest checking out that book.

It's unfortunate that you do not recognize that the nutrition medical professionals get is a blink.

There are people here with literally more knowledge about the ketogenic diet that some doctors.

My friend is a medical student and is about to become an M.D. - she knows from experience the education she and others received and it's lacking.

This is why people see things and balk. If you were more educated on the subject you would realize why that is there.

I suggest starting with this:

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462

Good Calories Bad Calories is an excellent book on the subject.

Step 1:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/1439167346

Step 2: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16541277 - focus on fiber-loaded diets

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/ - the book your video references

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462

Potatoes are food for food.

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book recommendation

This will help...

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462

Don't be snarky.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400033462/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481165177&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=good+calories+bad+calories&dpPl=1&dpID=411ntYj7U%2BL&ref=plSrch

I use this cookbook for the Ice Cream recipes: http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Mode-Frozen-Treats-Every/dp/1616087242/

And then I use this cookbook for Vegan Cheese and Sour Cream: http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Herbivore-Cookbook-Delicious-Fat-Free/dp/1935618121/

This is the Chicken Seitan recipe that I've been using for the last year or so: http://www.thatwasvegan.com/2012/01/30/my-favorite-chicken-style-seitan-recipe/

This is the Gyro Seitan that I use for Gyro's and Ruebens (yeah, it works): http://vegweb.com/recipes/seitan-gyros

I don't think so, for the reasons mentioned by many other people in this thread (i.e. addiction is addiction).

Two things have really helped me with the "longing" aspect:

1. Cut out fake sweet stuff as much as possible. No atkins bars, no fat bombs, just eat meat, eggs, fish, water, etc. The more your tastebuds get accustomed to this style of eating, the easier your cravings will fade away.
   
2. Learn the science behind why sugar and carbs are bad for you. I recommend reading one of Gary Taube's books. Why We Get Fat is more digestible than Good Calories Bad Calories. For me, before I read these books, keto was just a very successful and easy diet plan. When I read them, I started to look at carbs and sugar in the same light I view cigarettes, alcohol, etc.

>a theory exists linking sugar consumption to elevated insulin

This isn't theory.

If you're really interested in the science behind the claims surrounding obesity and diabetes, I'd suggest getting the book Good Calories, Bad Calories.

The cancer claims would be hard to prove without proper scientific research, but as you've read, research on carbohydrates in general is limited and underfunded.

As far as the obesity claims go, I only have anecdotal evidence. I've been doing a low-carb diet (keto) for 10 weeks now (after reading Taubes' Why We Get Fat) and I've lost a little over 38 pounds, starting at 257, as an 5'8'', 23 y.o. male. All my health indicators (triglycerides, cholesterol, blood pressure) have improved in that short period of time -- and that's only part of the advantages I've noticed. I've yet to start a training regimen because of a sciatica.

Actually, nothing to do with what you just said. Fat people have damaged liver and/or endocrine systems (insulin control problems) that prevent them from using stored fat for fuel so they are driven to eat because they are literally starving on a cellular level. They’ve proven this in rats where they starved obese rats to death. They starved to death but were still fat when they died. It’s probably the vegetable oils breaking liver function or something in the modern diet (GMO wheat?) that triggers the breakdown in the metabolism. A Keto diet will cure it, the weight will fall off, but you can never eat like your skinny friends as you’ll gain all the weight back.

EDIT: thanks for all the down votes. Good to know there are Registered Dieticians that are autists too. For those of you who are wondering why you’re fat no matter what you do:

You’ve been lied to and it’s quite profitable

Exercise doesn’t make you lose weight

It’s the Insulin, stupid (not the calories)

“One illustration of the error in a calorie is a calorie can be found in a small but very well controlled study in the American Journal of Physiology in 1992. Healthy insulin-sensitive young males were used as their own controls. After a 12 hour lead-in fast, half the subjects were totally fasted for another 72 hours while the others had 105% of their caloric need given intravenously as pure fat (Intralipid). The results are quite astounding: the two groups showed almost the same weight loss whether they were completely fasting or eating more calories than they needed as pure fat. The other blood values – ketone levels, blood glucose, insulin levels, etc. – affected by the total fast were duplicated in those subjects getting the intravenous fat.”