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The Right Way to do a Low Carb Diet

Cliff Sheats, PhD., F.R.S.H, Certified Clinical Nutritionist

Everyone seems to love low-carb diets and for good reason - they do work. When you cut your intake of carbs, you suppress the release of insulin. Low insulin stimulates the release of an-other hormone, glucagon. As glucagon goes to work, it signals the body to start burning fat for energy.  But with many low-carb diets, there are penalties.

Carbohydrate is your body’s preferred fuel. During digestion, carbs are broken down into glucose. Glucose circulates in the blood to be used for energy. If your muscles are deprived of glucose, your physical power suffers. You’re low on gas, and feel it. It becomes tough to stick to your eating program, and another attempt to lose weight could bite the dust.

But Parrillo CapTri® can come to the rescue. You can still apply the low-carb dieting strategy, but without the corresponding loss of energy. CapTri®, which is medium chain triglyceride oil (MCT oil), is burned in the body like a carbohydrate and spares glucose fuel for an energy-boosting effect. Thus, by supplementing with CapTri®, you have a pure energy source to help prevent diet-induced fatigue.

At the same time, CapTri® keeps metabolism high, and a high metabolism is conducive to losing body fat. There’s another fat-burning wind-fall associated with CapTri®. Some of the energy from CapTri® is converted into body heat in a process known as thermogenesis. This is the single most important reason why excess calories from CapTri® have less of a tendency to make you fat than excess calories from other foods.

CapTri® is burned so fast that excess calories from it are turned into body heat instead of being converted into fat. This is why I think CapTri® is one of the best supplements ever developed - it’s an excellent way to supply extra calories but has very little tendency to make you fat.  Here’s how to use CapTri®: One tablespoon with each meal; up to six tablespoons per day. Consult the Parrillo CapTri® Manual for more detailed usage guidelines.

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Getting Motivated For Fitness

“Allison Chopra, a fitness expert at Indiana University, encourages her personal training clients to break their more ambiguous goals of say, feeling better or dropping a few dress sizes, into smaller goals that can be achieved in three to four weeks.

She discourages weight-oriented goals because weight loss is a long-term process and everyone loses weight at different rates.

Chopra offers the following tips concerning goal-setting, encouraging people to be SMART about their goals. The industry catch-phrase SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Reward and Time:

Goals need to be attainable and realistic. Challenging yourself to eat no fat for a week could be setting your-self up for failure. Chopra encourages some of her clients to eat breakfast every morning, or at least do so for a week.

Be specific.  A goal of “eating better,” is an example of a worthwhile but ambiguous goal. A more effective or specific goal might be to limit sweets to one a day for the next week or to limit cookies to the weekend.

Keep track. Write down your goals and progress, noting it in a journal, notebook or other medium. Put goals in a visible spot. Fitness goals could include performing some form of physical activity for a certain number of days each week or a certain number of minutes.

- Indiana University (2007, September 22).   Getting Motivated For Fitness. ScienceDaily.

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