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Date Posted: 11:05:14 08/27/02 Tue
Author: Sherry
Subject: CKD
In reply to: Kel 's message, "Lots of great ideas & strategies going on here!" on 17:37:58 08/26/02 Mon

Is based on building muscle at the same time as lowering fat by using a ketogenic diet. It is an intense thing, not just aimed at food, but at excercise as well.

The "carb up" phase on the weekends is intentionally there to put glycogen stores back into your muscles so that they can grow. (not just so that you can enjoy you favorite junk foods).

Weight lifters have this idea that the body needs a lot of carbs to build muscle. I haven't decided for myself if that is true or not, but I assume they probably (to some extent at least) know what they are talking about.

On the other hand my sister's boyfriend tried Atkins and only did it during the week, he took every weekend off, and he lost weight that way. He still wasn't terribly thin when he was done, but he did lose.

I'm inclined to think that there is something to be said for "carbing up" occasionally. Body for Life suggests doing it once a week, (well they don't call it carbing up, but having a free day). The idea is that your body doesn't go into starvation mode. It gets fooled by that one day of eating anything you want, into assuming that life is just normal.

Considering that our minds control what our bodies do, I think that makes sense. Plus I have had days when I was low carbing really well and suddenly had a HUGE cheat and while not losing before, found the next day after the cheat I had dropped a lot of weight. I'm never sure if that happens because of the cheat or in spite of it. It always throws me for a loop when that happens though.

I've always been of the opinion that there is more than "one way to skin a cat". (Though why anyone would want to skin a cat I've never figured out).

This diet of ours is no exception. We can do any number of modifications and still have it work. What has to work with it is our own minds. What we accept and what we don't has to be clearly laid out in our own heads.

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I am liking the CKD plan a lot (starting it next week) -- Joe, 11:42:52 08/27/02 Tue
- So you've decided? Where is the CKD instructions? Maybe I'll join you and forget about Body for Life until I build up a little more stamina in my workout routines. I really don't trust that I could do that much yet. (NT) -- Sherry, 00:19:45 08/28/02 Wed