Does frying your meats and other types of foods make them have more carbohydrate!

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As long as you don't bread the meats with flour or carbs, then you can fry them. Since fats are necessary in a low carb program cooking in fats is encouraged. I've pan fried chicken with no coating other than seasonings.

You can coat meats with ground flax seed, crushed pork rinds, parmesan cheese or a lil carbquick or other low carb baking mixes (wait a couple of months first)

use a beaten-til-foamy eggwhite, coat the chicken with that, then press it firmly into your crumb mixture, then refrigerate it at least 15 minutes, uncovered, to set the eggwhite and crumbs. That helps keep it on the chicken and off the pan.

try mixing Parmesan half and half with crushed pork rinds or Carbquik.


Unfortunately, anyone who accumulates over 30# of excess fat is more than likely insulin resistant. Long term ingestion of highly refined carbs "burn out" the insulin receptors on muscle cells, so calories go directly to fat cells, leaving muscle cells screaming for nutrition. Exercise forces muscles to accept glucose out of the bloodstream without the need for insulin.

Most people get obese because their bodies just can't process carbs any more. They become insulin resistant & carbs go straight to fat cells. As healthy as fruit may be, it just doesn't promote fat loss. The body won't release fat stores until the blood stream is free of insulin. In someone insulin resistant, the insulin response is too sensitive & produces too much insulin.

Simple carbs are addictive & can be disastrous to health. The best way to break the addiction is NO carbs for 3 days. Make a batch of deviled eggs, eat one every time you want "something" - have huge omelets with bacon, sausage, peppers, mushrooms & cheese. Meats smothered with peppers, mushrooms & cheese - pork rinds & dip or tuna/chicken/egg salad - sugar free cheese cake. Eat so much you won't feel deprived of anything. By the 4th day, the addiction will be gone & the low carb way of eating will create a natural appetite suppression that makes it much easier to make healthy choices.

You can lose more body fat eating protein & fat (don't eat protein alone) than not eating AT ALL. To lose weight fast, eat all you want, but nothing but meat, eggs, healthy oils, mayo, butter & half an avocado a day (for added potassium). Keep the calories high & the fat percentage high, at least 65% of calories. Green vegetables & some cheese will continue weight loss but at a slower pace.

The first 2 weeks eat several cups a day of (mostly) lettuce & celery, cucumbers, radishes, mushrooms, peppers & more variety of vegetables thereafter - add 5 grams per day additional every week (20 grams day first 2 weeks, 25grams 3rd week, 30grams 4th week etc) til you gain weight, then subtract 10grams. That will be your personal carb level (everyone is different & depends on how active you are.)

Start with meat, fats & salads for 2 weeks and then slowly add in more green veg, wk4 fresh cheeses, wk5 nuts & seeds, wk6 berries, wk7 legumes, wk8 other fruits, wk9 starchy veg, wk10 whole grains. You will learn how your body reacts to different foods.

The body won't release fat stores if you lower calories below what it needs. It will slow metabolism to compensate & store every spare ounce as fat. If you continue lowering calories, it will continue lowering the set point, til it can survive off nothing & store fat on anything. The body will only release it's fat stores if it knows there is plenty of nutritious food.

The core of Atkins program is converting the body from glycolysis (burning glucose as fuel) to ketosis (burning fat as fuel). Dietary fat levels need to be at >65% of total calories, if not, the body will still remain in glycolysis by converting 58% of excess protein into glucose (via gluconeogenesis).

It takes minimum of 3 days to convert a body to ketosis, (but only one bite to convert back to glycolysis). People feel sluggish the first week but most feel better than ever thereafter.

Ground flax seed (4 Tbsp) 1/4 cup water, artificial sweetener, mix in a raw egg - let sit 10 min. to absorb liquid, put cream cheese in the middle & nuke 2 min. for daily fiber needs.

As long as you have <9grams carbs per hour, you will maintain insulin control & shouldn't gain weight, no matter the calories because insulin, the fat storage hormone is not activated. Many people gain weight on high carb, do low carb to lose weight & then are shocked when they return to high carb & gain weight.

http://health.discovery.com/convergence/…

low carb recipe websites -
http://forum.lowcarber.org/forumdisplay.…
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/low-ca…
http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/recipes.htm…

Dr.Atkins was a cardiologist, low carb was a health plan easier sold as a "diet" Read any of his books for easily understandable science. Normalizing blood pressure, blood sugar, insulin, cholesterol, triglyercerides & hormone levels are all bonus features of doing a low carb way of eating. Lutz "Life without Bread" & Taubes "Good calories, Bad calories" are excellent books that dispel all the nutrition myths.
http://www.atkins.com/Program/Phase1/Wha…
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazi…

Go to fitday.com and enter your height and weight. It will tell you how many calories you should eat. Try to make those calories a balance of protein, good fats, and carbs. A reasonable low-carb diet is 40% carbs, 30% protein and no more than 30% fat. Fitday.com is free and if you enter what you're eating (or thinking of eating), it will tell you how many of each macronutrients (protein, fat, carbs) you will get from that food.

Frying food doesn't add carbs, it adds fat. The *breading* on the food before you fry it will add carbs though. Yes, you should cook your food. Other than avoiding excessive amounts of any food, avoid processed foods if you can - they tend to contain excess sugar, especially in the form of high fructose corn syrup, and excess salt. Watch out for "low-fat" labled stuff because it tends to be high-carb, and "low-carb" stuff tends to be high-fat. Just eat real food, in moderate quantities. Lots of veggies and fruits.

Also, drink lots of water, and get lots of rest. Water will help your body use your food better, and will also help you avoid eating when you're really thirsty. Rest will help your body be healthier and help you avoid cravings and binge-eating.

Good luck!

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No way. It does give them more calories though.