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Losing Weight by Ketosis

The process of burning fat from your body by reducing your carbohydrate intake is known as losing weight by ketosis. In the past 10 years or so we have heard mention of the Atkins diet which is based on the ketosis process.
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A low carbohydrate diet uses ketosis or better said ketosis is how you experience weight loss from the low carbohydrate diet. The low-carbohydrate diet is nothing in comparison to the reduced calorie type of diet, the two are completely different with the weight loss from calorie reduction is from fat and lean muscle tissue whereas your metabolism is actually slowing down which in fact makes losing weight slower and more difficult and gaining weight back simpler.



Ketones are produced by the breakdown of fatty acids in the liver then which results in ketones being created. Ketones once created will not revert back to fat but will be excreted naturally from the body. This process is ketosis and is why the Atkins diet is carbohydrate restrictive, creating the ketosis process burns only fat and not muscle.

When there is an absence of sugar and glucose in the bloodstream your body will produce ketones for energy. This is what the Atkins diet is all about. When your body is creating ketones this is known as ketosis. At the advent of the Atkins diet people were saying that following a ketogenic diet was harmful to your health when in fact it is a natural state when your body is creating ketones for energy because there is no sugar or glucose available.

The reason you are dieting is because there is an absence of exercise and activity in your daily life. Exercise is not really instrumental in the ketosis process, I am inserting this reminder here that regardless of what your weight loss objective is or what goals you want to achieve, you need to have an exercise regime. You should develop this regime as part of a healthy life style which will lead to a longer and meaningful life.

Ketosis and the Atkins diet is just the simple process of reducing your carbohydrate intake. There is the Atkins guide (available in stores or the internet) which will help you through the various stages of weight loss by the Atkins Diet, beginning where you will consume very few carbohydrates, then working up to the maintenance level where you will enjoy a wider variety of foods in your diet. This is the ketosis process in losing weight.




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