Tips for managers include getting sufficient sleep, taking short mental breaks
during the workday,
adhering to a healthy
diet and detaching from work completely when outside of the office — for example, not reading email or memos at home after 7 p.m.
Adhere strictly
to the
diet during the first month, and then when you see that it acts beneficial, let yourself go from time
to time and enjoy your favorite food — a bar of chocolate, a piece of cheese etc..
Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that
diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate
diet lose more weight
during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced
diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead
to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive»
diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and
during the first phase of a
diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due
to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence
to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.