It is generally recommended that for at least the first
month after birth that you do not follow any radical breastfeeding
diets for weightloss so that you don't interfere with this healing and growth
phase, or with your milk production.
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.
Have started hitting the gym for a little more than a
month now, still in noobgains
phase, and trying to cut out some of the excess fat (started with 20 % bf, but lost some waist size already... Actually, as soon as I started fasting I started losing waist without any caloric variation to the
diet)