Ketosis

THE INFLUENCE OF KETOSIS

The information on the Influence of Ketosis will help you understand the importance of utilizing ketosis (rapid weight loss) while one is on a medically followed fast. The New Direction Weight Loss Program prevents muscle loss, while improving your health, while you lose weight quickly and safely through the power of Ketosis.

New Directions meal replacement products create a gap between the calories needed and those consumed, which keeps the level of protein and carbohydrates almost equal. This ratio shifts the balance in the bloodstream, which allows positive changes in how the body burns calories and metabolizes fat.

The specific ratio of protein to carbohydrates in the New Direction Weight Loss Program helps put the body into a state called ketosis, which means your body is solely burning stored fat for energy. Once the body reaches ketosis there will be significant changes such as, increased energy, less hunger, and rapid weight loss. You will experience aggressive weight loss, thereby creating motivation and momentum while staying compliant while on the program. These changes usually begin to manifest themselves after three days.

There are five steps the body goes through when adapting to the low-calorie program such as New Direction. First, since there is a fuel shortage due to the low amount of calories, the body uses glycogen (sugar in your bloodstream) as an energy source. Once this glycogen supply is depleted, the body becomes more desperate for fuel to function correctly. Thirdly, the body looks to fat stores to use for energy. By metabolizing fat, the body walks away with “free fatty acids” that it carries to the liver for help in manufacturing energy. Next, with the influx of fatty acids, the liver produces more ketone bodies for fuel. Finally, the body realizes that ketones provide high levels of energy and uses them for the brain as well as for muscle tissues.

Ketosis is part of the magic that makes the New Direction Medical Fast so effective. It also provides many benefits by eliminating hunger and contributing to higher energy levels. By maintaining a low caloric intake along with ketosis, New Direction helps reduce weight quickly and safely.

STAYING COMPLIANT

Eating even small amounts of the wrong foods may be the body’s biggest hindrance in achieving ketosis. Consuming carbohydrate foods release insulin, which forces the body to return to using glucose for energy instead of its fat stores. While weight loss is still possible, eating decreases the power that comes from having a low intake of both calories and carbohydrates.

Any carbohydrate foods (bread, pasta, potatoes, fruit or fruit juices and most vegetables will disrupt the delicate balance of nutrients, decreasing ketosis and jeopardizing its effects and the patient’s likelihood of staying on the program.

As little as one half a slice of bread or about fifteen grams of carbohydrates can shift the body’s choice of fuel away from the fat stores and back to glucose. For some people, going out of ketosis for one day can cost up to a week of weight loss progress. One must remember that New Direction puts the body into a very specific metabolic state that causes it to react much differently than when on a food-plan diet. If it is impossible to refrain from food, eat a protein choice, such as meat, eggs, or cheese (SPARINGLY). While this will increase caloric intake, it will allow the body to remain in ketosis, which will prove less detrimental to the patient and his long-term weight loss goals.

Whatever happens, make sure to take the proper amount of supplements each day. Also remember that ketosis is the ultimate goal. It will keep up energy and protect muscle tissue. Work hard at staying within the boundaries of the New Direction weight loss program and allow ketosis to do its job so that your goal may be reached.

Keep it up COMC patients!!!

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