Does the Paleo Diet Actually Cause Weight Gain? (What the Researchers Did to Get that Result Will Surprise You)

Does the Paleo Diet Actually Cause Weight Gain? (What the Researchers Did to Get that Result Will Surprise You)

Questions??

Can You Gain Weight
Eating Salmon and Fried Eggs?

The latest study on the Paleo Diet coming out of Australia is sending shock waves through the media here in the U.S. Reporters are tripping all over themselves trying to get the word out that a Paleo Diet, defined by the researchers as a very low-carb high-fat diet, causes weight gain even though the Paleo Diet is NOT a low-carb nor high-fat diet.

On the surface, the study published on February 15th in Nutrition & Diabetes appears to look into the benefits that a low-carb high-fat diet has on beta cell degeneration and function in mice, but the methods used in the study are so shocking and contrary to low-carb, Paleo, and even diabetic diets that it's hard to believe that anyone is actually taking the study seriously.

But they are.

War has been declared on the Paleo Diet, with journalists insisting that the Paleo Diet causes weight gain, all because some researchers in Australia came to an erroneous conclusion after feeding pre-diabetic mice a Paleo diet that they defined as being low-carb high-fat.

“We are told to eat zero carbs and lots of fat on the Paleo Diet,” Associated Professor Sof Andrikopoulos told the Telegraph. “Our model tried to mimic that.”

Instead of reading the diabetic journal article for themselves to see what the Australia researchers did to create that result -- and the what is so outrageous that I was literally dumbfounded when I read the journal article myself -- journalists are reacting to the conclusions presented by the article, accepting them on faith.

While I'm used to researchers using their own definition of what a low-carb diet is when designing their research studies, the design of this particular Paleo study will really blow your mind . . .

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12 Low-Carb Breakfast Ideas to Make Your Mornings Easier

12 Low-Carb Breakfast Ideas to Make Your Mornings Easier

Low Carb Styles Special Event Diet The Brutal Way

Egg Fried in the Center
of a Bell Pepper Ring
Makes Great LC Breakfast!

Breakfast is hubby's favorite meal of the day. He loves a hearty, filling breakfast in the morning. In fact, when we used to go out to eat before I went gluten free, we almost always went out to eat on Saturday or Sunday morning. He loves all of the basics you normally find at a cafe:

• bacon and eggs
• sausage and eggs
• ham and eggs
• omelets with salsa
• fried potatoes
• french toast
• pancakes
• biscuits and gravy

When we went gluten free, going out to eat stopped, but eating a hearty breakfast did not. We simply started making a big breakfast at home on the weekends. During the week, hubby didn't eat breakfast. He simply took a large lunch with him to work. However, his latest job change has dramatically affected the way we eat now.

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What is the Easiest Way to Go Low Carb?

What is the Easiest Way to Go Low Carb?

Questions??

Here's the Secret for 
Making a Low-Carb Diet 
More Successful

January always brings a rush of folks to the low-carb fold. Some of them are new and are interested in the quick fat-loss claims that ketogenic diets are known to produce and want to see if they can lose weight as quickly themselves. Others have come back to Atkins Induction for a second or third time because it worked so well for them in the past.

Stories that second-timers tell vary in the details, of course, but most of the stories have the same thread running throughout the tale:

Something stressful popped up in your life, and you didn't know how to handle the challenge without eating all of your favorite foods.

Ketogenic diets work. Maybe not as quickly as you're hoping it will, but it's one of the easiest ways to lose weight due to the way it eliminates the hunger that is so typical on low-calorie diets. Even so, making it work takes a strong mental attitude adjustment. You have to want to change your lifestyle, but the easiest way to go low carb takes more than desire.

Whether you're brand new to a low-carb lifestyle or you've been around the block a time or two, 2016 can be the year that you decide to finally take back your health.

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How to Choose the Best Low-Carb Weight-Loss Program for You

How to Choose the Best Low-Carb Weight-Loss Program for You

Low Carb Diet

Choose the Best 
Low-Carb Diet for You

When searching for the best diet to lose weight, there are a lot of things to consider before taking the plunge. For example, health issues, such as celiac disease, metabolic syndrome, food sensitivities, or diabetes can greatly affect the results you get. Your food preferences, lifestyle, family support or struggles, and even your basic beliefs play a role in how well a low-carb diet plan will work for you.

If your concern is finding a lose-weight-fast diet, rather than choosing a plan that will teach you how to switch to a more healthy lifestyle, then that goal will narrow your choices.

Few really good weight-loss plans are designed to help you lose weight quickly.

That's the bitter truth. Most diets that work well don't work fast unless you are brand new to dieting. Although low-carb diets often allow you to drop several pounds during the first few days, most of those pounds won't be body fat. Weight loss during the first week is typically glycogen, the storage form of carbohydrates, water, and muscle tissue.

Fat-burning diets require a special combination of foods to correct hormone irregularities while eliminating foods that interfere with the body's ability to mobilize fat stores. Healing takes adequate nutrition, and correcting malnutrition and insulin resistance takes time. Sometimes, a lot of time.

In addition, weight-loss diets that work are not temporary. Since you can't go back to your old style of eating, returning to what you used to eat before is not an option if you want to reach goal weight and stay there. Making permanent changes is the only way to shed the excess fat for good.

Over the years, I've experimented with several low-carb diets. They all resulted in weight loss, but some plans worked better than others. If you need help in choosing the best low-carb weight-loss program for you, here's what I've learned from following some of the low-carb plans available today:

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How to Make a Faux Low-Carb Cookie Plate Filled with Healthy Holiday Snacks

How to Make a Faux Low-Carb Cookie Plate Filled with Healthy Holiday Snacks

Low Carb Styles Special Event Diet The Brutal Way

Don't Have to Give Up Healthy
Holiday Treats on Low Carb

When you're on a low-carb diet, the holidays can be rough. Everywhere you turn, there is candy, cookies, quick breads, and other carby treats enticing you to go off plan. Whether it's an office party pot luck, hot cocoa and marshmallows, warm cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning, or the cookie plate the neighbor sent over on Christmas Eve, holiday traditions offer multiple temptations and opportunities to chuck your keto diet and go face down into those unhealthy treats.

As habitual creatures who consistently seek out pleasurable experiences, tradition feels comforting and familiar. In past years, you've understood that the holidays only come around once a year, so there was nothing to feel guilty about if you ate a few too many treats.

Moving into your first low-carb Christmas changes all of that.

You can feel apprehensive and worried. Many past traditions have been disrupted. A low-carb diet is a massive lifestyle change, but switching your mindset from using carbs for comfort to wanting to make healthy snacks for the holidays doesn't happen overnight.

Even if you've been around the keto block for a few years, you might have a tendency to make it through Christmas by white-knuckling the cookie plates and banana bread the best way you can, but that's no way to spend the holidays. Even though you're on a low-carb diet, Christmas can still be fun and exciting!

All it takes is a little creativity and a bit of time to throw together a faux low-carb cookie plate filled with healthy holiday snacks of your own.

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