162 lbs
I didn't lose any weight, but I'm happy because sometimes not gaining weight is a win by itself
and what did I do celebrate this?I ate 1 one chocolate candy, bad bad me.
Tonight is a challenge, I'll report tomorow how I did
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If you had to choose lesser of 2 evils, what would you choose: vodka or wine?
I am going to write something I first wrote last year...The concept is not originally my own but it applies to the method by which I understand our weightloss is to occur.
ReplyDeleteYour body gets energy from the starch or sugar or carbohydrates you eat (its 'on the table and easiest to get source of energy'); in the muscles and liver (its 'in the fridge' or more difficult to reach source of energy) and in its fat deposits e.g flabby abdomen, thighs, double chin, and 'love handles/ back rolls' (its 'in the freezer' and therefore hardest to get source of energy because it first has to 'defrost' the fat before it can access the energy)
BUT your body will only 'defrost' those fat stores if it first cannot get ready sugar/ starch from which it can get energy AND if it cannot find the energy in the 'fridge' (your muscles and liver).
When it 'defrosts' the fat sources, it does so through a process called ketogenesis or 'ketone production'. So if your body is using its 'freezer' sources of fat (there for healthy weight loss), your body produces ketones and you are in ketosis.
(This is different from a person who is eating carbohydrates but their body cannot use this because it does not produce the insulin chemical that does that job. Even though they eat carbohydrates, their body goes into ketosis! That is a very serious condition for diabetics because their body will be flooded with ketones and sugar (carbohydrate) and they go into diabetic shock!!)
So as long as a person is not diabetic, they have to deprive their body of carbohydrate to first force it to 'open the fridge' or use the fat in the liver and muscles (a process called glycolysis) then the body is forced to go into its 'freezer' and ketosis starts.
If you eat more than 50g of carbohydrates in a day and you do not exercise, your body has enough carbohydrates and will not go to its freezer. So you may be dieting for nothing if you cheat often BUT if you exercise (e.g. Dr. Dukan's 30 minute walk) then you increase your body's need for energy and it MUST go to the freezer.
However, if you cheat often but exercise often, you go through a cycle where 'keep putting food in the fridge, finish that and then go into the freezer'. So you go into ketosis everyday, but you do not stay there so you lose weight in daily bursts rather than one continuous ketosis.
thanks for such extensive and easy explanation of the process! It makes sense.
ReplyDeleteI walked today for 30 minutes and made an effort not to use escalators and elevators.
Vodka defo
ReplyDeleteI had white wine
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