Hi there. This is Monica Reinagle, The Nutrition Diva, here with your quick and dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous.

A couple of weeks ago I spoke at a nutrition and fitness event organized by my colleague Ben Greenfield who is hosted the Get Fit Guy podcast. On the plane

ride home I was mulling over the conference in search of a take-home message to share with you.

There were a couple of speakers who described their own dramatic and life-changing weight loss experiences.

Both had lost a large amount of weight in a... and life-changing weight loss experiences.

Both had lost a large amount of weight in a short period of time.

Even more noteworthy, both claimed that they experienced no hunger or food cravings

despite fairly restrictive diets.

As compelling as each of their stories was,

I was more struck by the contrasts between them.

Jimmy Moore of the popular L and Laveida Low Carb

podcast told the audience about his recent experience with nutritional

ketogenics. Jimmy has lost 80 pounds in about 10 months on a diet that's 80% fat and less than 5%

carbohydrates and features extremely energy-dense foods.

But the previous day, attendees heard speaker Ray Crones talk about his experiments with

hypothermics. Ray has lost about 70 pounds on a diet that is almost the inverse of Jimmy's.

He gets most of his calories from carbohydrates, eats very little fat,

and emphasizes foods with a very low energy density.

Now, Ray's regimen also includes cold showers and walking around without a coat to

force the body to burn fat in order to maintain your body temperature.

Now both of these topics, nutritional ketogenics and hypothermics really deserve episodes of their own, and I promise to work on that.

In the meantime, if you'd like to learn more, I've got links to both Jimmy and Ray's sites in the show notes for today's podcast. But in this episode I want to focus on a slightly

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