> Sandra wrote: > > The Ketosis Gruss is referring to is also known as Benign Dietary Ketosis. > Basically its when your body burns fat for energy rather than carbs.
Yeah, the beauty of ketosis from a fat burning perspective is that you essentially "train" your body to prefer fats for fuel instead of carbs. This is nice because if you have extra carbs not needed for fuel, your body turns them to fat. Thus the freshman 15. If, on the other hand, you have extra ketones in your body that you don't need for fuel you just pee them out (or exhale them). And since your body prefers fat for fuel, if you eat a deficit of calories, your body burns your own fat. Ketosis is a great way to lose fat quickly and safely - and you can monitor it with "ketostix" that you buy from CVS or some-such. Tells you exactly where you are and if you should increase of decrease carbs. The problem is, it's not easy. Eating at 25-50g of carbs / day will take some getting used to (foggy brain!) and at about the 10 day point most people will have digestion problems. But if you power through it you'll be all set to really lose some weight. Anyway, since you're already doing that, if you have fat to lose it might be a great time to do it however I"m not sure how diabetes affects that, so, as always, check with your doc : ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:297812 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
