snarlingcoyote
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I quite serendipitously discovered that Ketogenic diets (where your body is burning fat for energy rather than insulin) can help manage the symptoms of various neurological disorders. Since I have a form of facial neuralgia, including atypical trigeminal neuralgia (But involving other nerves, Go figure. Healthy as a horse most of my years, now this.) I decided to give it a whirl.
I decided the Dukan looked closest to how I naturally like to eat (other than giving up my carb fixes), so that was the plan I went with.
I had lost about a pound after 7 days on a dietician prescribed low-carb, high protein diet before this. It was hard work, I didn't enjoy it, but for me one pound in 7 days is AMAZING. On Weight Watchers I typically lose .5 lbs or less a week.
Well, I was on the first phase, the "attack" phase of the Dukan for 7 days. Neuralgia pain was mostly gone and I lost about 4.5 lbs in those 7 days. I would think it was just water weight, but my love handles/back fat are about 85% gone.
I'm now on the second phase, the "cruise" phase; started that yesterday. I was still down .5 on the scale this morning.
It is very strange. I don't feel like I'm dieting. I don't feel any urges I can't control. We went to a family restaurant yesterday and I ate all the tuna steak and grilled vegetables I wanted.
I've been trying to find some problem with this, and still can't find any real studies that say that there are problems. I did find that my risk of getting kidney stones has gone up, but if I add a supplement (some form of potassium - it's in my purse) to my daily multi-vitamin, that risk goes back down to normal.
The only long term study on health is just a one year study and it was done on Atkin's not Dukan, but didn't find any health risks. The long term 20 year Nurse's study doesn't seem to have any conclusions on any possible health risks.
Any one else tried this? The more I research about this, the more I think this might actually be good for me. Someone was asking on a forum somewhere if there were any indigenous populations who eat like this, because he was certain there weren't, which got me to thinking about the US Gulf Coastal tribes. Before they were agricultural, when they were mainly eating meat, fish, nuts, and wild plant matter, they were fairly healthy, outside of parasites. After corn was introduced, there is a marked decline in the health of populations across the board, thanks to the starch and sugar of corn. So maybe lean proteins (which would mimic wild meats, which are much leaner than most domestic meats) and plant matter are healthier across a population.
But anyway, just thought I'd share. I am a HORRIBLE slow loser, always have been, always had to work my rear off to see the scale move at all, and yet, right now, it is just falling off.
I decided the Dukan looked closest to how I naturally like to eat (other than giving up my carb fixes), so that was the plan I went with.
I had lost about a pound after 7 days on a dietician prescribed low-carb, high protein diet before this. It was hard work, I didn't enjoy it, but for me one pound in 7 days is AMAZING. On Weight Watchers I typically lose .5 lbs or less a week.
Well, I was on the first phase, the "attack" phase of the Dukan for 7 days. Neuralgia pain was mostly gone and I lost about 4.5 lbs in those 7 days. I would think it was just water weight, but my love handles/back fat are about 85% gone.
I'm now on the second phase, the "cruise" phase; started that yesterday. I was still down .5 on the scale this morning.
It is very strange. I don't feel like I'm dieting. I don't feel any urges I can't control. We went to a family restaurant yesterday and I ate all the tuna steak and grilled vegetables I wanted.
I've been trying to find some problem with this, and still can't find any real studies that say that there are problems. I did find that my risk of getting kidney stones has gone up, but if I add a supplement (some form of potassium - it's in my purse) to my daily multi-vitamin, that risk goes back down to normal.
The only long term study on health is just a one year study and it was done on Atkin's not Dukan, but didn't find any health risks. The long term 20 year Nurse's study doesn't seem to have any conclusions on any possible health risks.
Any one else tried this? The more I research about this, the more I think this might actually be good for me. Someone was asking on a forum somewhere if there were any indigenous populations who eat like this, because he was certain there weren't, which got me to thinking about the US Gulf Coastal tribes. Before they were agricultural, when they were mainly eating meat, fish, nuts, and wild plant matter, they were fairly healthy, outside of parasites. After corn was introduced, there is a marked decline in the health of populations across the board, thanks to the starch and sugar of corn. So maybe lean proteins (which would mimic wild meats, which are much leaner than most domestic meats) and plant matter are healthier across a population.
But anyway, just thought I'd share. I am a HORRIBLE slow loser, always have been, always had to work my rear off to see the scale move at all, and yet, right now, it is just falling off.
