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| Rule Seven: Use Your Smarts! |
| 2008-10-10 06:44:57 |
It's almost impossible to miss the recommendation to read labels on food packages these days. It's good advice no matter what dietary approach you decide to follow, and is front and center in the Rule of Induction (Atkins) too, found in rule number seven.Rule 7:Don't assume any food is low in carbohydrate - instead, read labels. Check the carb count (it's on every package) or use a carbohydrate gram counter.This rule establishs a lifelong habit that, as you continue along with a controlled-carb diet, will be invaluable to you. You're expected to make it a habit to read labels and take responsibility for ...
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| Rule Eight: Keep it Real |
| 2008-10-10 06:44:02 |
A low-carb dietary approach is easy to maintain almost anywhere you can eat - at home, on the road or in a restaurant. The key is to carefully consider your options available and understand where carbs are most likely to be found in things "allowed" when they're prepared by others. When you're cooking at home, you know what ingredients you're using; on the road or in a restaurant, odds are high that the chef is using ingredients you won't be including in a controlled-carb diet.Rule 8:Eat out as often as you wish but be on guard for hidden carbs in gravies, sauces and dressings. Gravy is often made with flour or cornstarch, and sugar is sometimes an ingredient in salad dressing.In an effort to keep it real, rule eight establishes that it's perfectly reasonable to eat out, with a caution to ...
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| Rules to Drink it Up! |
| 2008-10-10 06:42:52 |
Three rules specify the importance of adequate hydration and choosing beverages wisely.Rule 9:Avoid foods or drinks sweetened with aspartame. Instead, use sucralose or saccharin. Be sure to count each packet of any of these as 1 gram of carbs.Rule 10:Avoid coffee, tea and soft drinks that contain caffeine. Excessive caffeine has been shown to cause low blood sugar, which can make you crave sugar.Rule 11:Drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water each day to hydrate your body, avoid constipation and flush out the by-products of burning fat.Starting with the last one, drinking eight 8-ounce glasses of water, provides direction to make sure we consume enough fluids each day. It's universally accepted that water is important; with disagreement as to whether fluid intake must be water itself...
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| Rules to Maintain a Balance |
| 2008-10-10 06:41:49 |
Sometimes when we first start a low-carb diet, our bodies react in ways that might seem off, so the next rule addresses the "potty problems" that some find when they're starting on a new low-carb diet.Rule 12:If you are constipated, mix a tablespoon or more of psyllium husks in a cup or more of water and drink daily. Or mix ground flaxseed into a shake or sprinkle wheat bran on a salad or vegetables.This rule compliments rule 11 - that is it helps with strategies to avoid and counteract constipation. Water and high-fiber supplements are recommended to help maintain regularity. With any changes to your daily diet your body may experience short-term bouts of constipation and the above rule helps get you through this. It also reinforces for the long-term what works for constipation naturally ...
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| I've Been Tagged - Again! |
| 2008-10-10 06:39:49 |
Online Christian over at Low-Carb Lolygagging tagged me last week to post 8 random things about me. Once I've posted that, I'm supposed to tag eight more people to do the same. Here goes:1. I love to cook, but hate cleaning up afterward....anyone who knows me, knows I can cook up a storm - but leave a kitchen disater in the wake - in preparing one meal, I can use every pot, pan, knife, bowl (you get the idea) available....and cleaning up will take longer than eating the meal did!2. My newest nickname was born through my nephew; when he was learning to talk he'd babble at me "rah rah"....now, almost six years later I'm "aunt rah-rah" to him and my neice, and "rah-rah" has pretty much stuck with my husband, sister, brother-inlaw,...
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| Catching Up! |
| 2008-10-10 06:38:22 |
I've been completely swamped here and the time crunch has impacted my timeliness for posts here. After almost a week of preparing for our big summer party and pulling it off yesterday with more than 50 here, I have quite a bit of clean-up today to prepare for houseguests arriving tomorrow!So, rather than leave things as they are here, and have nothing new...I'll post some places where others have written about studies or things I've had on my pile to get to, and then, hopefully will be back in full swing before the end of the week!First up - Dr. Jay Wortman i...
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| Dr. Gil Wilshire on PCOS and Infertility |
| 2008-10-10 06:37:09 |
Life here remains hectic and crazy! I do apologize for my scant posts in the last couple of weeks...and hope to catch up with everything this weekend and resume my regu...
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| Update |
| 2008-10-10 06:35:59 |
I'll be back to my blogging duties o...
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| How Do You Feel on Low-Carb? |
| 2008-10-10 06:34:32 |
An interesting short-term study published in this month's American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Low- and high-carbohydrate weight-loss diets have similar effects on mood but not cognitive performance, sought to assess differences in mood following a high-carbohydrate diet compared with a low-carbohydrate diet.In the study, ninety-three subjects were randomized into two groups:The high-carbohydrate dieters consuming a calorie restricted diet with 46% carbohydrate, 24% protein and 30% fat. Women consumed approximately 1429-calories each day, or 164g carbohydrate, 48g fat and 86g protein. Men consumed approximate...
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