The CarbSmart Podcast

31. People Who Gain Weight Easily and People Who Don't

Remember the old nursery rhyme about how Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean? While the historical roots of that rhyme are misty, it does suggest that people are metabolically different, something that apparently has been recognized for a long time. So let's talk about it. THE DUMBEST WEIGHT LOSS ADVICE I HAVE EVER HEARD WAS JUST FIND A THIN PERSON AND EAT WHAT THEY'RE EATING. When I was a kid, maybe eight or nine, there was a girl in my grade named Gail. Gail was skinny. Not just slim skinny. She got as much razzing for being so skinny as I did for being chubby. Lots of jokes about how if you could just melt us down and stir us together, we'd both come out the right size. Can you hear me rolling my eyes? Gail just couldn't gain weight. It wasn't in her physiology so far as I could see. Just like any other kid, she wasn't turning down cookies or avoiding the ice cream truck. Her body just burned it off at a great rate. In the 1980s, I had a boyfriend named Tom. Tom was six seven and weighed 150 pounds. For those of you in the civilized world, that's 200.7 centimeters and 68 kilos. Tom was very tall. Very thin. Yes, skinny. We were once out shopping for jeans for him when a strange woman took advantage of his being in the dressing room to come over and whisper. How can you be with someone like that? I'd hate him for being able to eat all the time. Charming, but Tom could eat all the time. Indeed. He needed to eat all the time. I used to think he'd gotten a shrew gene patched in somehow, and had to eat his own body weight every 12 hours or starve. THIS IS NOT A CHARACTER FLAW It is a fundamental difference in the way our bodies work. That doesn't mean we can't fight it, and we should, but it does mean that the societal judgment of us as weak-willed. It's oversimplified to the point of being just plain bigotry. Who knows how many more physiological differences we will discover? But for now, the takeaway message is that this is not a character issue. We really are biochemically different than naturally slim people.  Follow CarbSmart on Social Media Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CarbSmart Instagram https://instagram.com/CarbSmart Pinterest https://pinterest.com/CarbSmart YouTube https://youtube.com/c/CarbSmart Twitter/X https://twitter.com/CarbSmart TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@carbsmart Check out more CarbSmart Podcast Episodes: https://www.carbsmart.com/category/podcast-episodes #carbsmart #lowcarb #keto #ketodiet #ketorecipes #lowcarbdiet LINKS AND SHOW NOTES https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast-31-people-who-gain-weight-easily.html [https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast-31-people-who-gain-weight-easily.html] Website CarbSmart.com https://CarbSmart.com [https://carbsmart.com/] Episode 31 Featured Recipe https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast31recipe [https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast31recipe] Find Hundreds of Articles and Delicious and Easy-to-Make Low-Carb Recipes by Dana Carpender https://www.carbsmart.com/author/dana [https://www.carbsmart.com/author/dana] Show Notes https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast-31-people-who-gain-weight-easily.html [https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast-31-people-who-gain-weight-easily.html] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

30. Three Question Interview with Dr. James LaBelle, Medical Director of Lore Health

Welcome to the CarbSmart Podcast, where your decision to embrace low-carb nutrition becomes a fun and delicious lifestyle! I’m your host, Dana Carpender, here to guide you through the ins and outs of everything low carb – or talk to the people who do! My sister Kim is asthmatic. Between not getting enough oxygen and having taken prednisone way too often, she has had an even harder time with her weight than I. It’s not for lack of exercise; she’s a middle school teacher on a spread-out one-story campus that has her walking fifteen to twenty thousand steps every work day; on her days off she walks around the lake at a local park. She’s worked with a trainer. She eats zero junk. It’s just hellishly hard. (When she signed up with the trainer, Kim was told, “You know, you’ll have to stop drinking soda and eating fast food and chips and stuff, right?.” When Kim told the trainer she didn’t consume any of that junk, the trainer was distinctly at a loss. After all, we all “know” that obesity is due to bad diet, right? Right?) Then last year Kim heard about a new program called LORE in San Diego, where she lives. Dr. James LaBelle, Medical Director of Lore Health, was offering free treatment to teachers needing to lose weight, including a free continuous glucose monitor, dietary advice, support groups, and free Wegovy, a GLP-1 drug. Kim was in. (Interestingly, Kim discovered that her breakfast of plain yogurt with vanilla extract and Splenda was spiking her blood sugar. Who knew?) So far, Kim has lost 22 pounds. Do you or anyone you know have a medical condition that makes weight loss near impossible? Sometimes these are obvious, like Kim’s asthma, but others are hidden – and it seems there are many left to be discovered and diagnosed. Do you keep close track of your blood sugar with a monitor? What do you think of using GLP-1 drugs for weight loss? Let us know in the comments below. It was clear I needed to talk to Dr. LaBelle! So here he is. Like, subscribe, and hit that notification bell because you don't want to miss a single episode. Follow CarbSmart on Social Media Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CarbSmart Instagram https://instagram.com/CarbSmart Pinterest https://pinterest.com/CarbSmart YouTube https://youtube.com/c/CarbSmart Twitter/X https://twitter.com/CarbSmart TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@carbsmart Check out more CarbSmart Podcast Episodes: https://www.carbsmart.com/category/podcast-episodes #carbsmart #lowcarb #keto #ketodiet #ketorecipes #lowcarbdiet LINKS AND SHOW NOTES Website CarbSmart.com https://CarbSmart.com [https://carbsmart.com/] Episode 30 Featured Recipe https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast30recipe [https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast30recipe] Find Hundreds of Articles and Delicious and Easy-to-Make Low-Carb Recipes by Dana Carpender https://www.carbsmart.com/author/dana [https://www.carbsmart.com/author/dana] Show Notes https://www.carbsmart.com/three-question-interview-with-dr-james-labelle-carbsmart-podcast-episode-30.html [https://www.carbsmart.com/three-question-interview-with-dr-james-labelle-carbsmart-podcast-episode-30.html] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

29. Dana Carpender Reads Letter on Corpulence The First Low-Carb Diet Book

This show, we have something a little different. This show. Features something I did not write myself that has not happened before. But let's start with this. How old is a low-carb diet? If you look at the traditional diets of various peoples, including the seal, fish, and Blubber diet of the Inuit, several North American native peoples who flourished on pemmican. And the African Messiah herding people who thrived on milk, meat, and cows blood. Very old indeed. But how about low-carb diet books? So far as I know, the oldest in the English language at least, is Banting's Letter on Corpulence. Having lost weight and dramatically improved his health on a low-carbohydrate diet. Banting wrote and self-published the book back in the mid-Victorian era, and he distributed it for free. By the third printing, he had distributed 63,000 copies and banting have become synonymous with dieting. So here it is, Banting's Letter on Corpulence. Like, subscribe and hit that notification bell because you don't want to miss a single episode. LINKS AND SHOW NOTES Website CarbSmart.com https://CarbSmart.com [https://carbsmart.com/] Episode 29 Featured Recipe https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast29recipe [https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast29recipe] Find Hundreds of Articles and Delicious and Easy-to-Make Low-Carb Recipes by Dana Carpender https://www.carbsmart.com/author/dana [https://www.carbsmart.com/author/dana] Show Notes Coming Soon. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

28. Carbs Count, But How? Understanding Net Carbs vs. Total Carbs

You may be confused regarding net carbs versus total carbs. So let’s demystify it. Shall we. Keep listening. I see it online all the time. Total carbs or net carbs. I also see are you strict keto, lazy keto, dirty keto? What’s your daily carb limit? What are your macros? But particularly Total carbs or net carbs. I am all for anything that works for the individual, but I fear that this kind of focus on micromanagement may scare some people off. Total Carbs or Net Carbs The first commercially successful low-carb diet book was Banting’s Letter on Corpulence first published in 1863 at William Banting’s own expense. It was such a success that Banting became a synonym for dieting and Professor Tim Noakes has revived the term in South Africa. Banting stated, “My kind and valued medical advisor is not a doctor for obesity, but stands on the pinnacle of fame in the treatment of another malady, which as he well knows is frequently induced by Corpulence.” Banting’s diet was four meals per day consisting of meat, greens, fruits and dry wine. The emphasis was on avoiding sugar, starch, beer, milk, butter, and saccharin matter. Here, saccharin matter refers to anything that turns to sugar in the bloodstream. The artificial sweetener we call saccharin had yet to be invented. Notice something, no mention of counting carbs, much less total versus net carbs. Just eat meat, green vegetables, fruits and dry wine. The diet worked for Banting and for many others. I have on my shelf a book I found when I was cleaning out my late great-Aunt Betty’s house called Eat and Grow Thin; the Mahdah Menus published in 1914. It too outlined a low carbohydrate diet. It too calls for no counting. When I was growing up, everyone knew that if you wanted to lose weight, you gave up potatoes, spaghetti, bread, and sweets, and focused on animal protein and green vegetables. Every diner and coffee shop offered a diet plate consisting of a bunless hamburger patty, a scoop of cottage cheese and either sliced tomatoes or a half a canned peach. Enter the Stillman Diet In 1967, Dr. Irwin Stillman’s diet was both very low carb and low fat calling for almost nothing but very lean meat, plus at least eight glasses of water per day. Having tried it as a kid, I can attest to it being effective, but too limited for continued use. Enter Dr. Atkins and Counting Carbs I trust we can take it as read that the Atkins diet works by liberalizing fat and including some vegetables and those in increasing quantities. As the diet progressed, the Atkins diet was and remains far more livable than Stillman’s. LINKS AND SHOW NOTES https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast-28-understanding-net-carbs-vs-total-carbs.html [https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast-28-understanding-net-carbs-vs-total-carbs.html] Website CarbSmart.com https://CarbSmart.com [https://carbsmart.com/] Episode 28 Featured Recipe https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast28recipe [https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast28recipe] Find Hundreds of Articles and Delicious and Easy-to-Make Low-Carb Recipes by Dana Carpender https://www.carbsmart.com/author/dana [https://www.carbsmart.com/author/dana] Show Notes https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast-28-understanding-net-carbs-vs-total-carbs.html [https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast-28-understanding-net-carbs-vs-total-carbs.html] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

27. Eat It Again! How Repetition Rewires Your Taste

EAT IT AGAIN! HOW REPETITION REWIRES YOUR TASTE If you’ve just recently gone low-carb, say as a New Year’s resolution, you may be overwhelmed by the sheer difference from your old diet. Faux-tatoes instead of mashed potatoes. Lunches that don’t include sandwiches, heavy cream and flavored stevia in your coffee instead of creamer. I am here to cheer you on and give you good reason to stick it out. A reason that doesn’t have to do with the scale or your health. Many years ago, when my sister was a private school teacher, her pay was painfully low. She had to scramble each spring to find a summer job. For a few years, she worked for a company that brought over French foreign exchange students. She had to find them host families, and then during the week, she drove them around the San Diego area in a van, showing them the sites and giving them a taste of American culture. Speaking of taste, every single French teenager she worked with simply adored liver pate, but found peanut butter revolting. From this, it becomes clear every taste is an acquired taste. If you’re just starting your low-carb journey, you may find that some things taste…funny. Not bad, just different from what you’re used to, different from what you grew up on. Please remember that all tastes are acquired tastes. Do you know how old I am? “How old are you?” I hear you cry. I’m so old. I walked home for lunch every day. Through elementary school, mom largely relied on simple stuff for our lunches, canned soup, frozen pot pies, or macaroni and cheese, or frozen pizza and wagon wheel shaped noodles with jarred spaghetti sauce and Parmesan. The jarred sauce she used back in the 1960s was Ragu Old World Style. I don’t know if the recipe has changed over the past 50 odd years, but it currently contains tomato puree, which is water and tomato paste, salt, olive oil, sugar, dehydrated onions, dehydrated garlic spices, garlic powder, onion powder. That was the jarred spaghetti sauce of my childhood, and I often had it at lunch. My mother did make awesome homemade spaghetti sauce for family dinners. I wish I had that recipe. Then at 19, I quit sugar and white flour. I started eating whole wheat noodles and I switched over to a jarred sauce that had no sugar. It tasted… funny. Not bad, mind you, I was willing to eat it. It just tasted different. It wasn’t what I’d grown up on, but I wasn’t going back to eating sauce with sugar and it, so I stuck with it. Pretty soon, that sauce was what my taste buds expected, and it tasted great. LINKS AND SHOW NOTES https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast-27-eat-it-again-how-repetition-rewires-your-taste.html [https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast-27-eat-it-again-how-repetition-rewires-your-taste.html] Website CarbSmart.com https://CarbSmart.com [https://carbsmart.com/] Episode 27 Featured Recipe Low-Carb Cocoa-Peanut Porkies https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast27recipe [https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast27recipe] Find Hundreds of Articles and Delicious and Easy-to-Make Low-Carb Recipes by Dana Carpender https://www.carbsmart.com/author/dana [https://www.carbsmart.com/author/dana] Show Notes https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast-27-eat-it-again-how-repetition-rewires-your-taste.html [https://www.carbsmart.com/podcast-27-eat-it-again-how-repetition-rewires-your-taste.html] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.