Week 23 Day 6

I was chatting with my friend today about the diet and what it does, so I thought I would post something that I found. Granted I found this on wikipedia but still it helps me to understand (and hopefully you too) what it is that I'm doing.



----If the diet is changed from a highly glycemic diet to a diet that does not provide sufficient carbohydrate to replenish glycogen stores, the body goes through a set of stages to enter ketosis. During the initial stages of this process, blood glucose levels are maintained through gluconeogenesis, and the adult brain does not burn ketones; however, the brain makes immediate use of ketones for lipid synthesis in the brain. After about 48 hours of this process, the brain starts burning ketones in order to more directly use the energy from the fat stores that are being depended upon, and to reserve the glucose only for its absolute needs, thus avoiding the depletion of the body's protein store in the muscles.
Ketosis is deliberately induced by use of a ketogenic diet as a medical intervention in cases of intractable epilepsy Other uses of low-carbohydrate diets remain controversial. -----


Interesting right?  Apparently I'm controversial, which is fine by me! No controversy over the fact that I've lost 93 pounds!!! Only two days from another results post :)

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