SuzanneJ's Journal, 24 September 2010

There is no problem eating healthy low carb foods. But not taking in enough calories over a long period of time can become detrimental to you health. When you don't get the proper nutrients, your body has to find a way to take from your bodies storage of nutrients. That's how we get depleted of vitamins which can cause health problems. Not getting enough dairy in your 20's can lead to loss of bone mass in you 30's and disease as you get older. What you do now effects your body down the road. Also not eating enough can slow your metabolism, creating more problems in the future when you want to lose weight again. It's all about balance. Finding a good caloric intake that will help you lose, but allows you to get the nutrients your body needs. A multivitamin might help.  

Everything comes down to sugars. Take your bagel, if it is whole wheat or high fiber it adds bulk that is not digestable, meaning it cannot be broken down into sugars which are actually what he body uses. If it is a white bagel it is just starches, which can be broken down butbut take more work then breaking anything that ends in "ose" like fructose, or lactose (fruit sugar and milk sugar). glucose is the simpelest sugar you can get to so that is where everything leads. When it comes to protiens and fats they have a higher calories count, BUT, they take more calories to breakthem down into glocose then starches do. Keytosis is the process of breaking down fats and protiens, it's because of the time it takes to break them doen that they make you feel fuller longer. Having too few calories means that you body may have to scavenge for for colories else where, if you don't have enough calories to absorb nutrients then tehn you cant run some of you bodies vital systems, like moving oxegen around, or keeping your skin intact, your eyes working, mor even your muscles moving. every type of food, regardless of calorie, does a service. soluble fiber absorbes cholesterol, non-soluble is like a brillo pad and cleans out your gut. Protien, if not broken down for energy (not all protien is used for enery) it goes strait to reparing muscles because the body like to be efficient. Fats do the same thing to an extent, they are modifies slightly and used to repair some necissary fatty structurs, like mylin, the protective couting iver nerve cells, but these rarily get damaged so every fat molicule that is not needed for that goes to energy. Even though we are getting enough calories in a high yummy but low bulk diet, our bodies don't nessiceraly use hte calories count to guage whether you are starving or not, it uses bulk and type.  

Pardon for the spelling and grammer errors. 

It's called "The Atkins Advantage"... I have to eat at least 2100 calories a day to lose weight I actually stalled at 297 lbs from not eating enough! 

ChshireKat - I agree. I am just not that efficient. Myree - wow, even my doctor said that if I ate that much I'd gain weight. Suzi - I've had a LOT of people say that to me, but honestly - I asked around and no one in my family eats over 1000 calories except my dad. I asked a lot of my friends and they rarely eat more than 500 - 1200 but most of my friends are size 9 or under, and weigh less than 130lb. I think the problem with that theory is - everyone says it - but no one can actually prove it.