End Your Carb Confusion: A Simple Guide to Customize Your Carb Intake for Optimal Health

by Eric Westman

Overview

Move from carb confusion to carb confidence!

Overwhelmed by the avalanche of information out there about diets and health? Tired of spending time and money following complicated and expensive plans and protocols that don’t deliver the results you want? Would a strict ketogenic diet be best for you? But what if you can’t imagine life without fruit or bread? Why won’t someone just make all this diet stuff simple?

They have! Eric Westman, MD, has more than twenty years of experience as an internal medicine doctor and obesity medicine specialist. He’s helped patients at his Keto Medicine Clinic at Duke University lose more than 26,000 pounds and reverse conditions like type 2 diabetes, PCOS, high blood pressure, and more. In End Your Carb Confusion, he shares his time-tested and science-backed strategy with YOU!

If you’ve spent years doing “all the right things” but you’re still dealing with excess weight, diabetes, heartburn, joint pain, fatigue, skin problems, or other issues, End Your Carb Confusion is the GPS you need to help you navigate your way from frustrated and disappointed to empowered and successful. Find the level of carbohydrate intake that’s right for you now and then learn how to switch gears to a higher- or lower-carb diet when the time is right. Dr. Westman gives you the information you need to start reclaiming your health today—no complicated and confusing scientific gobbledygook, only exactly what you need to understand how you got to where you are (hint—it’s not your fault!) and, more important, how to get to where you want to be.

You shouldn’t need a PhD, a private chef, and a million dollars to lose weight and get healthy. The simple, straightforward plan laid out in End Your Carb Confusion fits into any lifestyle, whether you shop at an organic co-op or a discount chain and will help you reach your goals whether you prefer gourmet meals or fast food. No matter where you’re starting from, End Your Carb Confusion can lead you to your destination—a renewed body, mind, and spirit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628604290
Publisher:	Victory Belt Publishing
Publication date:	12/15/2020
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	102,696
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dr. Eric C. Westman, MD, MHS, is an associate professor of Medicine at Duke University. He is Board Certified in Obesity Medicine and Internal Medicine and founded the Duke Keto Medicine Clinic in 2006 after eight years of clinical research regarding low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets. He is past-president and master fellow of the Obesity Medicine Association and fellow of The Obesity Society. He is an editor of the textbook Obesity: Evaluation & Treatment Essentials and author of the New York Times bestseller The New Atkins for a New You, Cholesterol Clarity, and Keto Clarity. He is co-founder of Adapt Your Life, an education and product company based on low-carbohydrate concepts.

Amy Berger, MS, CNS, is a U.S. Air Force veteran and certified nutrition specialist who specializes in helping people do “Keto Without the Crazy.”™ She has a master’s degree in human nutrition and writes about a wide range of health and nutrition-related topics, such as insulin, metabolism, weight loss, diabetes, thyroid function, and more. She has presented internationally on these issues and is the author of The Alzheimer's Antidote: Using a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory Loss, and Cognitive Decline and The Stall Slayer: Seven Roadblocks to Keto Fat Loss and What to Do About Them.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4

Part 1 How we got here 8

Chapter 1 Why the Current Approach to Diet and Health is Failing 10

Chapter 2 Sugar: Robber, Wrecker, Wrestler 18

Chapter 3 Insulin: More Than a Blood Sugar Hormone 30

Chapter 4 A Crash Course in Carbs 42

Part 2 The Adapt Your Life Diet 50

Chapter 5 Intro to Carbohydrate Control 52

Chapter 6 Finding Your Carb Threshold 58

Chapter 7 ADAPT Your Life Diet Phase 1 70

Chapter 8 ADAPT Your Life Diet Phase 2 124

Chapter 9 ADAPT Your Life Diet Phase 3 140

Part 3 The Adapt Your Life Diet for Real Life 164

Chapter 10 Course Correcting 166

Chapter 11 Frequently Asked Questions 176

Chapter 12 Meal and Snack Ideas 192

Chapter 13 Following the ADAPT Your Life Diet When Dining Out or Eating on the Go 204

Appendix A Finding Medical Care 212

Appendix B ADAPT Your Life 218

Appendix C Food Lists for Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 222

Acknowledgments 230

Index 232