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You may be in ketosis, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you are fully ketone adapted - which can take up to 6 weeks

Thyroid?

A couple of macadamia nuts (if you can afford them) do the trick for me.

Some foods can take a while longer to spike than 1 or 2 hours

You haven't got the 'fat gene' - you're the living proof that IR causes obesity (in the vast majority of cases) and not the other way around - plus the proof that thin does not equal healthy

5.5 Be happy

Same here. I, also, find that if I increase my protein intake much above 0.7g per kg of body weight, my average FBG starts to rise.

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Hi I haven't had sight of the original paper, but the following was posted by someone who obviously has: "One thing that jumps out is from a sample of 19 obese men and women, they seem to have zeroed in on people who are extremely healthy metabolically. These people weighed over 100kg on...

Hi I get around the sweet tooth thing by mixing in 300ml of double cream with a sachet of sugar-free jelly (pre-mixed as per instructions). I add the cream while the jelly is still warm, and put it in the fridge to set.

''Total energy expenditure decreased significantly in the low-carbohydrate group, but not in the low-fat group''. Could this (obviously attributable to 'Carb Flu') account for the stated difference in fat loss? Out of curiosity, do you know who commissioned the study?

The 'comments' on Sephan Guyanet's blog post make for interesting reading....

From Stephan Guyanet's blog: " .... the difference in fat loss may depend on the fact that the composition of the low-fat diet was much more extreme than that of the low-carbohydrate diet. If both diets were equally extreme, Hall's model predicts that fat loss would have been similar"

6 day diet? Who embarks on a 6 day weight loss diet? It take up to 3/4 weeks before the body really gets into ketosis.....

It's got pork and salt......

Sorry, porridge is a no no.

Swede is low in carbs; approximately 2.5g per 100g. Mind you, Swede is low in everything - especially volume once cooked Packet of sugar-free jelly made-up as per; blitz 300mls of double cream and a handful of berries into it; leave to set.

If possible, try to double (or treble) up on his fats. Layer butter on his toast then add an extra slice cheese; use the fattiest bacon that you can get away with; swede on its own with tons of added butter (I, usually, mash my swede with cauliflower); strawberries, raspberries, blackberries...

Some will say before the meal, others after; when I used to check (don't bother now as I'm eating very, very low carb (80%+ fat) I started the clock half way through the meal.

Hi The oats, toast, Bisto, peas, carrots, Weightwatchers yogurt, and the apple would send my readings up to, or past, those levels.