How to lose 150 pounds on low carb – and keep it off for five years!
Here she tells her story and the secrets she’s found to maintaining weight loss – including the emotional side of it.
This interview was done on the recent Low-Carb Cruise. It’s been available on our membership site for a month but I want everyone to be able to see it, so now it’s free for everyone.
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Table of contents
2:19 The weight felt like a moral failing
3:15 Didn’t feel hungry all the time
4:30 Feel better on more fat
6:50 Secret to keeping the weight off
9:15 Emotional burden
12:12 Tips to others?
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Neurobiol Aging. 2015 Jul;36(7):2296-303. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.03.012. Epub 2015 Mar 25.
Caloric restriction increases ketone bodies metabolism and preserves blood flow in aging brain.
Lin AL1, Zhang W2, Gao X3, Watts L4.
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Abstract
Caloric restriction (CR) has been shown to increase the life span and health span of a broad range of species. However, CR effects on in vivo brain functions are far from explored. In this study, we used multimetric neuroimaging methods to characterize the CR-induced changes of brain metabolic and vascular functions in aging rats. We found that old rats (24 months of age) with CR diet had reduced glucose uptake and lactate concentration, but increased ketone bodies level, compared with the age-matched and young (5 months of age) controls. The shifted metabolism was associated with preserved vascular function: old CR rats also had maintained cerebral blood flow relative to the age-matched controls. When investigating the metabolites in mitochondrial tricarboxylic acid cycle, we found that citrate and α-ketoglutarate were preserved in the old CR rats. We suggest that CR is neuroprotective; ketone bodies, cerebral blood flow, and α-ketoglutarate may play important roles in preserving brain physiology in aging.
I hope this Desi can have the same success.
I am thankful for the day I found the Diet Doctor.
Cheers Desi (Desley)
I like how Desi thinks and has found her way. I have friends that are doing Cross fit and food prep etc, and in someway I was comparing myself to them. Why cant I be strong enough to do that as well. (am a bit older too) but I am finding meditation, yoga, and walking to be beneficial. I will focus on first be kind to myself.
Thanks for a great interview, I know it was uncomfortable for you, but it will help many.
Thanks again
Regards
Jade