Has anyone tried this...sugar and carb free for ten days? After which the cravings have supposedly vanished?
http://www.chopra.com/ccl/how-to-detox- ... in-10-days@wildmissus how are you? X i love yr signature from way back... " if not now,when? "
Also what you wrote on page one of the low carb tent...
"Thanks @Azureblue for starting this tent. I've been doing a bit of reading over Christmas - @FatDog's thread, The Low Carb Revolution by John MacLean and stuff on the internet about Glycemic Index.
This is my very simplistic understanding -
We eat carbs, along comes Insulin which ultimately converts it to fat.
We eat low carb, along comes glucagon to turn fat back into energy for our use.
Leptin tells us when we are satiated but our leptin levels can become low when we diet/reduce calories and low carb, which causes the famine effect. So to counteract that we have a day of non low carbing.
So we want to encourage glucagon for fat burning, to keep leptin levels high and to keep insulin levels low/level.
Also carbs by the way of sugar and refined whites have no nutritional value whatsoever, we do not need them to survive (but why do they have to taste so good
). We do however need protein,fat and fibre "