Does Exercise Help with Weight Loss?

Posted by Jeffrey Linder, DC at 2:13 pm Weight Loss
Nov 082011
Exercise does not result in weight loss

Exercise has many wonderful benefits but generally weight loss is not one of them.

“In general, for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless,” says Eric Ravussin, chair in diabetes and metabolism at Louisiana State University and a prominent exercise researcher.

Since exercise always results in hunger, a vigorous run on the treadmill usually ends with a visit to the health club’s smoothie bar.  After exercise we end up consuming more calories than we just burned.  Eventually this leads to weight gain.

Also, it seems that we possess a set number of discipline points and exercise significantly depletes our count.  With a depleted daily count, we do not have the wherewithal to abstain from high calorie foods.  We than eat more and ultimately gain weight.

So it turns out that exercise is not a great way to lose weight.  But exercise is a wonderful way to keep the weight off once the diet is over.

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The Worst Drinks in America

Posted by Jeffrey Linder, DC at 10:22 am Weight Loss
Aug 112011

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Losing weight is difficult and requires much motivation and discipline.  A study from University of North Carolina found that we consume 25% of our calories from beverages.  Simply eliminating high caloric beverages from your diet will dramatically reduce caloric intake.

To help us decide the worst beverages, columnist David Zinczenko compiled a list of the 20 worst drinks in America and broke the list into categories.

20.             Light Beer                                 Sam Adams Light                                               9.7 g sugar

19.             Functional Beverage            Snapple Antioxidant Water  (20 oz)           32.5 g sugar

18.             Lemonade                                 Minute Maid Lemonade (20 oz)                    67 g sugar

17.             Energy Drink                            Rockstar Original (16 oz)                                 62 g sugar

16.             Bottled Coffee                           Starbucks Coffee Frappuccino (13.7 oz)   46 g sugar

15.             Bottle Tea                                   Arizona RX Energy Herbal Tonic (20 oz)   73 g sugar

14.             Beer                                              Sierra Nevada Big Food Ale (12 oz)               32 g carbs

13.             Bottled Beverage                     Sobe Liz Bliz (20 oz)                                             77 g sugar

12.             Soda                                             Sunkist (20 oz)                                                         84 g sugar

11.             Juice Imposter                        Arizona Kiwi Strawberry (23.5 oz)                   84 g sugar

10.             Bottled Smoothie                  Naked Protein Zone Banana Chocolate            70 g sugar

9.               Reduced Cal Smoothie        Dunkin Donuts Reduced Calorie

Berry Smoothie (32 oz)                    83 g sugar

8.               Slush                                          Sonic Route Large Lemon-Berry Cream            99 g sugar

7.               Holiday Coffee                      Starbucks Venti 2% Peppermint

White Chocolate Mocha (20oz)       95 g sugar

6.               Hot Chocolate                       Starbucks Venti 2% Saalted Carmel

Signature Hot Chocolate (20 oz)     85 g sugar

5.               Cocktail                                     Red Lobster Traditional Lobsteita                        183 g sugar

4.               Float                                           Barkin-Robbins Large Ice Cream Soda                136 g sugar

3.               Ide-Blended Coffee              Cosi Gigante Douch Otli Arctic (23 oz)                 259 g carb

2.               Smoothie                                 Smoothie Kins’s The Hulk, Strawberry (40 oz)   240 g sugar

1.               Worst Drink                            Cold Stone Creamery PB@C Shake                           153 g sugar

I quickly noticed that all of the beverages are actually junk food containing huge quantities of sugar.

If you are not ready to start our Ideal Protein Weight Loss Program that emphasizes a low sugar diet than cutting high sugar drinks is a wonderful place to start.

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Ketosis and Weight Loss

Posted by Jeffrey Linder, DC at 5:27 pm Weight Loss
Aug 082011

Some of our nations leading weight loss programs take advantage of a metabolic state called ketosis.  But, there is a lot of confusion about this term.   Our hunter gatherer ancestors evolved a system to efficiently store fat during times of famine but they also evolved a process called ketosis to efficiently live off that fat when necessary. Ketosis is the scientific name for the process of burning your own stored body fat for fuel.

Ketosis is a shortening of the term Lipolysis/Ketosis. Lipolysis simply means that you’re breaking down body fat into its components and using its components as an energy source. The by-products of burning fat are Ketones.  When your body spills ketones in your urine, you have ‘chemical proof’ that you’re burning your own stored fat. The more ketones you release, the more fat you have broken down.

If you are restricting the amount of carbohydrates you eat, your body turns to fat as its alternative source of energy. In effect, Lipolysis/Ketosis has replaced the alternative of burning glucose for energy. Both are perfectly normal processes.

Do not confuse Ketosis – a perfectly normal metabolic process with ‘Ketoacidosis’ – a life threatening condition to those individuals who are either insulin-deficient with extremely high blood sugar levels, severe alcoholics or those in a state of extreme starvation.

Ketosis is evolution’s answer to burning body fat for fuel in times of famine!

How do we burn fat for energy?

Our body’s prefers to burn glucose for energy.  However, when our glucose stores are depleted, during strenuous exercise, starvation, or a diet void of refined carbohydrates, our body then turns to ketosis to provide energy.  The fat then melts away.

But any ingestion of starch or refined carbohydrates replete our internal carbohydrate stores and derail fat burning.

Any diet that relies on ketosis requires discipline.  But it is the quickest non-surgical and safe way to lose weight.

At Bryant Park Wellness in NYC, we successfully recommend a recognized weight loss program that is based on using ketosis to quickly and safely lose weight – The Ideal Protein Weight Loss Program.

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