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Please help!!!!! IDK what to eat to lose weight. I especially have problems with breakfast.

I was thinking yogurt with berries and granola, but thats so high in sugar! and I will get tired of it eating it everyday.

IDEAS PLEASE!!!!

I need to lose 50 pounds, I will also be working out.

pleasee. ty.

Fruit is still good. Its all natural sugars which arnt bad for you.
Just keep natural, dont eat foods with added sugars or persurvatives.
Try stay high protein, low carb with foods like tinned tuna or salmon.
Also have slow diguisting carbs like whole meal bread. Things like cereal and white bread turn to fat fast.
Do a lot of cardio.

Not any, none of them work imho. Phentermine, which is prescription, is a decent appetite killer. Alli will help you eliminate some fat but you have to be careful about side effects. Good luck.

-S

I’m looking for the physiological effects on the body

Hi! ok here’s how it works.

eating less fat reduces the risk of developing artheriosclerosis, or hardening of the vessels, the smaller your blood vessels are the more forcefully your blood rushes through them, cuasing your BP to raise. decreasing your sodium intake will lower blood pressure. Water in your body naturally follows sodium. and the more volume of fluid in your body the higher your blood pressure is.

Exercise allows the heart to contract more forcefully and more effectively, its called Starling’s Law. it decreases your HR and BP, becuase it is more effective. exercise is also a good way decrease the fatty deposits in your vessels, making the diameter of vessel wider. Also when you exercise you are sweating and your body in response to that vasodialates (or widens the veins) the wider the veins the lower your blood pressure is going to be.

think of it like a hose, the smaller the tubing the more pressure the water is coming out. the wider the tubing the slower and less forceful it will come out. exercining opens the veins and allows blood to flow less forcefully. loweing BP

hope this helps!

I heard that there are certain diets where they tell you what you should eat and something about the chemicals in the food help you to lose weight. Does anyone know of any for vegetarians? If not could you give some advice on what foods help speed metabolism and what exercises are most effective? Thank you so much! Remember 10 points to the best answer!!!

I know that this website: http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/register.asp?referredby=2195938&from=friend
does have an option for vegetarians, so you can get a vegetarian meal plan.
I don’t think foods can speed your metabolism – that’s a myth. Exercise can, and any kind of cardio (the kind that gets your heart pumping, like a brisk walk, running, jogging, biking, etc) can boost your metabolism though.
I hope that helps you.

i heard the atkins diet is a very effective diet, but there are a lot of severe health risks that come with it. some are dehydration, high blood pressure, and other things like that.
is there any way to lower the health risks while on the diet?

There is no better way to bring the body to the state of optimal health than with Atkins low carb way of eating. Atkins doesn’t cause high blood pressure, high blood sugar or high cholesterol, it cures it. It is actually dangerous to take meds that lower these levels and do Atkins at the same time because the levels will become abnormally, dangerously low. Atkins does cause dehydration the first few months til the body acclimates but that can be controlled with fluid intake.

U.S. government guidelines were changed 35 years ago to suggest we lower our fat intake & increase our carb intake. American society followed these recommendations & lowered their fat intake by 11% & increased their carb consumption. In this same time frame obesity, diabetes, heart disease, thyroid dysfunctions are all at epidemic levels. Most of this is caused by a high carb diet NOT a low carb diet. Through their direct effects on insulin & blood sugar, refined carbohydrates, starches & sugars are the dietary cause of coronary heart disease & diabetes.

Your body requires fats & protein, you will die without them. You will die if you eat protein without fat. You do not require carbohydrates. The body can manufacture all it needs from the protein/fat combination.

A low carbohydrate diet is a high fat diet. The protein should only be a little higher than adequate. Although it is completely possible to live on a fat/protein only diet for long term (as proven by research done in a hospital setting) it becomes boring fairly quickly. Luckily many vegetables & some fruits, nuts & seeds are low in carbs and greatly expand the diet. Most long term low carbers eat as many, if not more non starchy vegetables than vegetarians.

Glucose is the bodies preferred fuel (if you want to get technical, it actually burns alcohol most efficiently, but that doesn’t make it any healthier for the body than carbs), the body can convert 100% of carbs, 58% of protein & 10% of dietary fat into glucose. The body can also be fueled by fat (dietary fat & fat cells) but only in the absence of carbs. Your brain actually prefers (* reference info) to be fueled by ketones (part of the fat burning process), only the heart requires glucose, but glucose can be easily converted from excess protein if needed or dietary fat.

IF a person eats sufficient fat & protein & minimal carbs, they can become very healthy. Free of blood sugar health problems, high blood pressure, health problems associated with high cholesterol, obesity health problems. Anything less that 9 grams of carbs per hour controls insulin and is considered low carb (up to 144 grams per day).

Simple carbohydrates trigger insulin. High insulin levels unbalance other hormones. Controlling insulin levels balances out other hormones & allows the body to function properly.

The link between saturated fats and heart health is based on faulty science. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease, or any other chronic disease.

Plaque build up in the arteries is more attributable to carb consumption than dietary fats, which seems to be the conclusion of the following study. Carb consumption raises triglycerides & VLDL (bad cholesterol). Fats raise the HDL (good cholesterol). High triglyceride levels & low HDL levels are an indicator of plaque & glycation – the precursors to a heart attack & heart disease.

http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/after-eating-effects-carbohydrates-vs.html

study from the Oxford group examining the postprandial (after-eating) effects of a low-fat vs. low-carbohydrate diet. (Roberts R et al, 2008)

Postprandial lipoproteins, you’d think, would be plentiful after ingesting a large quantity of fat, since fat must be absorbed via chylomicrons into the bloodstream. But it’s carbohydrates that figure most prominently in determining the pattern and magnitude of postprandial triglycerides and lipoproteins. Much of this effect develops by way of de novo lipogenesis, the generation of new lipoproteins like VLDL after carbohydrate ingestion.

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The brain gets its energy from ketone bodies when insufficient glucose is available. After blood glucose is lowered for 3 days, the brain gets 30% of its energy from ketone bodies. After 40 days, this goes up to 70% (during the initial stages the brain does not burn ketones, since they are an important substrate for lipid synthesis in the brain). In time the brain reduces its glucose requirements from 120g to 40g per day.

Ketones have been described as "magic" in their ability to increase metabolic efficiency, while decreasing production of free radicals, the damaging byproducts of normal metabolism. The heart and brain operate 25% more efficiently using ketones as a source of energy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone