What is LCHF

[Jeannie87]

I hadn't heard of LCHF till recently while reading on here, so can anyone who does this, please tell me more about it? I have half a stone to lose and feel this might be for me, but I am concerned about the high fat side of things. My cholesterol is about 6.0 - I can't take statins because I'm totally allergic to them, come out in hives and horrid rashes. But I've been told my good cholesterol is very good and the bad is quite low. Any info appreciated also how to post a new question would be good too . Thanks x

 

[Enclave]

Hi Jeannie, I am eating the LCHF diet ..basically I cut my carb I back to around 30g a day and replaced all my low fat foods with full fat ones . I am T2 and it has helped keep my sugar levels in the non diabetes range. As a bonus I have lost as shed load of weight .. My cholesterol is so low now I am stopping the statins .. My blood pressure is also now in the normal range .. The diet works on the theorie that if you eat fat you don't need to store fat ..and we all know that carbs turn to sugar when we eat them.
But I don't know how a T1 will adjust things to use this way of eating. I hope a T1 will be along soon to advise on how you need to adjust your medication to do this way of eating

 

[robert72]

Hi Jeannie

I was also diagnosed in 72 and have been low carb for the past 18 months. I got there by reducing my carb intake over many months and seeing how to adjust my insulin to LCHF. When you get into dietary ketosis (probably under 50g carbs/day) you will most likely find that you have to bolus for protein and fat too, but it will be individual to you so you'll need to learn as you go. The biggest benefit for me is that my BGs are very level now. My cholesterol is much the same as before, some people find theirs goes down and some up. There are other low-carb T1s here and hopefully they will be along soon.

 

[Indy51]

One of the best resources for LCHF is the diet doctor site: http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf

 

[sanguine]

Hi Jeannie

I don't worry about my total cholesterol - it's a poor diagnostic marker - and just focus on the HDL and trigs and their ratios. Mine have gone into the right zones with LCHF. Also only about 20% of cholesterol comes from food, the main part is produced by the liver - it's essential for health and the body's functions, if it was fundamentally unsafe why would the body produce it?

Cholesterol paranoia and statins all goes back to the discredited seven countries study by Ancel Keys, and now it's little more than a cash cow for the pharmaceutical industry in my opinion - which they will do anything to protect, science has little to do with it.

Have a read of the links in my sig below, and also look up Malcolm Kendrick's 'The Great Cholesterol Con' and Jimmy Moore's 'Cholesterol Clarity'.

 

[jack412]

I hadn't heard of LCHF till recently while reading on here, so can anyone who does this, please tell me more about it? I have half a stone to lose and feel this might be for me, but I am concerned about the high fat side of things. My cholesterol is about 6.0 - I can't take statins because I'm totally allergic to them, come out in hives and horrid rashes. But I've been told my good cholesterol is very good and the bad is quite low. Any info appreciated also how to post a new question would be good too . Thanks x

to drop half a stone, I would just cut bread, pasta, rice, cereal and potato..
I'd have the old meat and 3 veg with a dob of butter for tea,
small tins of fish/sardines with salad for lunch..
breakfast eggs frittata, fried mushrooms, tomato, sausage, bacon etc

this may help your cholesterol lipids too
http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/S0899-9007(14)00332-3/fulltext#bib94