Eat as much as you want without moving, not only can you lose weight but also beautify yourself... Huaxi doctors said: Really! There is indeed such a way to lose weight!

Slow down!! Be cautious about the ketogenic diet!! You lose weight when you stand up, you lose weight when you sit up, you lose weight when you lie down... You can tell who they are talking about at a glance!

People who want to lose weight can be said to be a group of people who will never give up online or offline. No one is like them. No matter day or night, they are always dreaming of losing weight overnight.

Some people even dream about their friends, which is a perfect example of friendship explosion↓

In addition to dreaming, some people who dare to take action are also hard to describe. They eat vegetarian food (tuberculosis), fast (starve to death), run (give up after 3 minutes), etc. They try all kinds of things that should and shouldn't be tried...

Then, I don’t know when, the “ketogenic diet” weight loss method appeared on the homepage of people who want to lose weight. It claims that eating and drinking without moving can not only lose weight, but also improve skin texture...

Liu Yang, associate professor at the Mental Health Center of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, and Yang Xiuqi, Li Hongjun, Liang Wenyi, and Yang Zicheng, five-year clinical medicine students of the 21st grade, hereby officially respond:

"It's true! But it's not suitable for everyone! Before you try, understand these things first!"

What is the ketogenic diet?

Why can you lose weight?

What can I eat to lose weight? This is probably the ultimate mystery that all foodies want to know, and the ketogenic diet just meets the needs of most foodies (generally they like to eat meat, right!)↓

A dietary pattern consisting of a high proportion of fat, a low proportion of carbohydrates, and an adequate intake of protein.

To put it simply, it means eating less or even no staple food, eating some eggs appropriately, and eating plenty of meat (the fattier the better).

It sounds like this is a weight loss method tailor-made for meat lovers. Is there anything more delicious than this?

Its principle is actually very simple. In a normal diet, the important energy source for the brain is glucose converted from carbohydrates in food.

The ketogenic diet reduces carbohydrates and increases fat to convert them into a substance called "ketone bodies" (the origin of the name of the ketogenic diet). Ketone bodies, like glucose, can enter the brain through blood circulation and serve as the main source of energy.

Some people will ask, why can ketone bodies help lose weight?

In medicine, there is a model called "nutritional ketosis", which means that the blood ketone body concentration is increased through diet;

The purpose of the ketogenic diet is to allow the body to stay in nutritional ketosis longer and to have a higher blood ketone concentration (which means more vigorous fat burning), thereby achieving the effect of reburning fat in the body.

To put it bluntly, the ketogenic diet is a scam to the body, telling it that it has no carbohydrate energy and needs to consume fat to function!

Just like not charging an electric car and burning oil, the ketogenic diet makes the body habitually consume fat and always be in "fat burning mode"!

The ketogenic diet can help you lose weight, scientifically speaking:

01

It has a certain diuretic effect in the early stage

Ketones produced in the early stages of ketosis can cause osmotic diuresis, which means increasing urine secretion from the kidneys. If the body loses a lot of water and other conditions do not change much, weight will naturally decrease.

02

Increase metabolic consumption

The fat content in the diet is high, and the extra fat can consume a certain amount of energy in the body to regenerate sugar. Simply put, the ketogenic diet can increase metabolism and increase energy consumption;

03

Put your body into ketosis mode

The body adapts to a high-fat diet and achieves a new energy balance, which means reducing fat growth and increasing fat breakdown.

Others have lost weight after using it

Why doesn't it work for me?

It was said above that the ketogenic diet is indeed effective for weight loss, but many Internet trendsetters couldn't help but come out to refute it.

It's normal if it doesn't work! It's not that we are inconsistent and logical~

The ketogenic diet will cause a certain degree of weight loss in the early stages, mainly because of the diuretic effect of ketogenicity. To put it bluntly, the weight lost is all water (even muscle is lost in the later stages).

Even if the body truly enters "ketosis mode", have you ever heard of the law of conservation of energy?

The body's energy metabolism will reach a new balance, and weight loss will enter the so-called "plateau period", and no matter how much meat you eat, you will not lose it.

At this time, even carnivores can't stand it. They have never wanted to eat grass so much. It would be better to have some rice and flour...

However, once you resume your normal diet , remember the converted glucose mentioned above?

There is nowhere to put it, so it can only turn into fat again, and then the weight rebounds again. What is this? Is it like throwing away the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds?

Of course, there are also people who persisted for a long time and found that they did lose weight ~ (should we say congratulations?) But dizziness, physiological disorders, and uncontrollable cravings for desserts also came knocking.

For a long time, the human body has given priority to breaking down and utilizing sugars. This one breath changes the way it operates. It would be strange if the body could keep up!

The physiological reactions that may occur during the ketogenic diet are:

Dizziness

During the ketogenic diet, the body burns fat instead of converting carbohydrates into blood sugar. However, in the early stages of ketosis, the human body cannot adapt to the "ketogenic mode", and insufficient energy supply to the brain causes dizziness.

Abnormal hormone levels and disrupted sleep cycles

Since the ketogenic diet does not contain enough carbohydrates, the body lacks dietary L-tryptophan and other substances involved in the synthesis and secretion of melatonin. The lack of melatonin, a necessary hormone for regulating the physiological cycle, can lead to sleep cycle disorders.

Menstrual disorders

Generally speaking, a balanced diet for healthy adults requires a carbon-water energy ratio of 50%-65%. A low-carb diet can affect hormone release in the human body.

If the intake is insufficient, it will cause female hormone levels to become disordered and even lead to menstrual disorders;

"Carbon explosion" phenomenon occurs

Many studies have shown that when we eat something sweet and delicious, our brain releases dopamine, which helps us get a strong sense of pleasure.

However, long-term ketogenic diet will make the body unable to control the desire to eat sweets, the so-called "carbon explosion" phenomenon. It will not only increase the burden on the digestive system, but also bring about an obvious consequence - gaining weight again.

Talked for a long time

Do you recommend this method or not?

To be honest, I don’t recommend it.

First of all, many people reject carbohydrates for no reason, and they don’t know how important carbohydrates are! They can provide the body with a large number of irreplaceable nutrients, such as magnesium, selenium, and trace elements such as vitamins B and C.

Also, many people regard carbohydrates as "bombs", which is unnecessary! Carbohydrate-rich foods do not only contain carbohydrates, pay attention to this point!

What we eat every day is not nutrients, but meals made up of different foods. As long as we eat food, even if it is rich in carbohydrates, it will also contain other irreplaceable nutrients.

Secondly, the glucuronic acid produced by the body's sugar metabolism also has a detoxifying effect. It can combine with free bilirubin and remove it from the body (high free bilirubin is one of the important causes of gallstones ).

Most importantly, the ketogenic diet was originally used to treat diseases.

Studies have found that epilepsy can be controlled by increasing the proportion of fat in the diet, controlling the proportion of carbohydrates, and reasonably adjusting protein intake.

The scope of application is people suffering from refractory childhood epilepsy, simple obesity, glucose carrier deficiency, pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency, etc.

In other words, ordinary people who are not seriously ill should not try it casually!

As for the claim that the ketogenic diet improves skin , let me summarize it in one sentence:

After following the ketogenic diet which is not intended to cure any disease, I found myself looking radiant, feeling light and in a good mood. This is probably just a psychological effect caused by the good food I ate and my mood improved.

Back to the old saying, control your mouth and move your legs, this is always the best way to lose weight!

Otherwise, you can be fat and happy! Hot pot is so delicious, how can you bear not to eat it!

Let’s chat in the comments section:

It’s winter now, how’s everyone’s weight?

Do you have any questions about weight loss?