5 stone lost from Oct 18 - Mar 19 that's amazing well done but what's the real secret and can it be done without going outside?
Please can you give us an insight into what a normal day of eating is for you?
The secret is getting your body to stop overproducing insulin. Have you looked at Diet Doctor? it is explained there so much better than I can do. For me the best way was to go full keto and stop using carbs as my main fuel source.
Going outside wouldn't seem necessary to me. Exercise, and you can always exercise inside, helps but it is the diet that makes the difference.
I don't have much of a regime for eating these days and try and only eat when I am hungry and usually only once or twice a day.
During the weight loss phase food was a bit scant to be honest, low carb veg and some protein, fish, eggs, lean meat etc. The fat in the diet was largely my own fat at this stage, I did have a lot of it of course. It mainly had to be stir fried or turned into soup or a stew so nothing very exciting.
Post weight loss I needed to add some dietary fat and that has been butter, double cream or olive oil on the whole with fattier cuts of meat. I have some goose fat and plan to use lard and tallow more in future.
So, yesterday I was starving, no idea why but woke up and had some bacon and fried eggs with mushrooms and fried paneer. Mostly I wouldn't bother until lunch but this was at 06.00. I had a strong coffee with double cream later on. Tea was shoulder pork, cubed and turned into a sort of stew with scotch bonnet chillies, asparagus, fresh coriander, cauliflower, mushrooms, a few cherry tomatoes, and broccoli. That should have done me but it didn't so I ate an entire pack of sausages. Still hungry I had some chorizo, cheese and walnuts. Finally I stopped being hungry.
Today I cycled up for my DN appt, got my HbAc1 result and celebrated by cycling out into the country in preparation for a cycling sportive I have entered into in a couple of months. Had a bottle of water and cycled home. By now it's 2pm and I haven't eaten but I am not hungry so wait until 5 and celebrated with a rib eye steak, Bearnaise sauce, cauliflower, broccoli and asparagus (because that's what I had in the fridge). No cream in coffee, no nuts, no hunger.
Tomorrow is probably going to be a fishy day, I have some locally smoked kippers, not sure what I will do with them, but tomatoes and spinach seem likely contenders, maybe some green beans but who knows really. Ooh, it's Friday tomorrow, I allow myself a nip or two of whiskey, I wonder if whiskey sauce goes with kippers?
I am trying not to overthink it and I do not weigh anything or count anything, I just try and avoid carbs. So far, and it has been a couple of months or so now, my weight has stayed nice and stable, my blood work is very pleasing and I feel fantastic.
Hope that gives you some kind of insight? Thank you for your question
Best of luck in your journey.
