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3 weeks no weight loss

turvell said:
I've never had to eat fat in my life to loose weight


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But you don't loose weight now, do you? And there is nothing sinister about fat. The difference might be the fact you are now diabetic so you probably have insulin overload. That is why it might work to do it the other way around. I don't know. I often find that if my approach to a problem fails to work I find the solution if I do the opposite to what I thought was the best way.
 
I've been told that it could very well be I've put on more muscle on in the last 3 weeks than I've lost fat. I don't exercise a lot but last 4 weeks I'm running over 5 miles a day And my legs look very musclely now. This could be what it is


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Turvell . I'm in exactly the same boat as you. Rowing my @rse off every day and not losing weight but the waist line is shrinking. As long as you're working the fat off around your organs then things should be good.


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Food is fairly simple.
You eat less than you use, you will lose fat.
There is no magic involved.
Your body can't suddenly change and miraculously somehow manufacture energy. Starvation mode means you switch to fat, protein, and slow down your metabolism. But you still use energy to be alive. Eventually if you don't eat, you'll die. It's not magic.
So eat less than you use, and you will lose weight.
Low carb. low fat, low cal. It'll get there. If somehow 800 calories low fat low cal means you could never lose weight, the Newcastle diet would be a bust, and everyone's liyng, so ignore suggestions that don't make sense to you, and you will find something that does work for you. Go for what you like, what doesn't make you feel ill, exercise, and it'll come off.
I did low fat, 800 to 1200 calories a day, and lost 4 stone. I don't feel the urge to high carb, I feel better without high fat, it works very well.
 
Totto said:
Could be a good idea. Are you extremely tired to the point of fatigued? Poor memory? Difficult to get going? In pain? Loosing the outer part of your eye-brows? These are common signs of hypothyroidism.

Problem is, thyroid care is lousy and it might be close to impossible to get the proper tests done and when they get done the Drs can´t interpret them properly. Your GP will test TSH, a pituitary hormone that tells the thyroid to get to work. If you are very lucky he/she will also test FT4 but it is close to impossible to get FT3 tested while in my opinion FT3 is the crucial test that really tells you what is going on. Then there are the antibodies of course. In any case, get the results along with ranges and post them here and I will help you interpret if needed. I am working on a book on this subject, you see.
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Aren't you on an island off Sweden?
UK health care may be different to yours. My doctor is excellent for any tests I ask for.
I'm sure you'll have to let us know when you publish the book on the lchf diet, hate to miss it.
 
cool what new ideas did you get and what new things are you going to try ?
 
Andy12345 said:
im sure you could review now douglas, no need to read it
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I'm sure there's a good market getting ready for it.
"Fish in a barrel" springs to mind.

I have to be honest, I'm getting tempted to do a lchf diet book as well. Kindle edition, about £2.50, app to follow.
 
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I was advised to put Douglas99 in the Ignore section on the form which I did and I am happy I did so. Douglas was at the same time advised to put me in his ignored section, I have no means to know whether he did so and I don't care, but I did have a peek at what he had written on this thread regarding my post mentioning the book I work on regarding diagnosis and care of hypothyroidism. If Douglas is one of the very few in the UK who gets proper testing for hypothyroidism I would like to hear about how he was diagnosed and what care he has received since.

If Douglas99 don't suffer from hypothyroidism I can not help him. If he is looking for someone who writes books on LCHF I might be able to point him, If he thinks I am writing a book about LCHF he should see someone medical to get him checked for dementia, a far too common side effect of high blood glucose.
 
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