Sara Joy wrote: > > > > "Drop weight quickly" is different than "drop *FAT* quickly." That's > > where you gotta be careful. Between fluid and muscle loss, you can drop > > a lot of "weight" really fast, but that's not going to make you > > healthier. > > > > As an Atkins dieter/fan, I have to tell you that following the atkins > diet, both regular and the "fat" fast - eating cream cheese or other > high fat foods, 5 times a day, under 1000 calories, both do put and keep > you in ketosis. This is not water loss, muscle loss, JUST weight loss. > This is fat loss. The perfect thing about Atkins is that it is ONLY > the fat you lose, if you follow the diet as prescribed. The fat diet > that was previously described is done for a max of 10 days, for those > who have a very difficult time to get into ketosis. It works. Staying > under 15 grams keeps you in ketosis, even the hardest cases. Most of us > can do quite a bit more - start at 20 grams, go down if you have to, up > if you're able. You measure on a ketostix, to be certain you are > staying in ketosis. And as long as you are in ketosis, you do lose FAT, > and only fat.
Doesn't ketosis only indicate that fat is being converted to glucose? Or does it mean that stored fat is being burned. Because if it is just fat, and you are on a high fat diet, could it not simply mean that the fat being burned is the fat in the diet? Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
