Fats in LCHF

[lizdeluz]

Maybe you need to further lower your carbohydrate intake ?

I didn't actually mean that my own weight loss had stalled, although, rereading my own post, I can see it could read like that. I think I'm still losing weight: I lost another couple of kilos in the last fortnight. The loss is slow, but I think that's probably a good thing. I guess when you stall, or especially if you put a kilo back on, yes, reducing carbs, not fats, is the right way to go.

 

[Brunneria]

So looking at my diet it seems I'm not eating enough fats... Protein is fine & carb amounts are fine too. I haven't lost any weight on the diet but feel like I have & BG are good... So I'm thinking fat needs to increase to also kick me in the necessary ketosis range... The bullet proof coffee seems like an easy step to add fat, just a few questions...Does it have to be unsalted butter? Does it have to be MCT oil? Do that need to be blended or can an old fashioned stir do? Just looking to keep cost & effect down

Hi,

Some people find it difficult to lose weight on lchf. It can be because of a whole range of things, including food choices, carb levels, calories, exercise... You name it. We are all different.

Personally, i can lose weight on low calorie, low fat, but it's a miserable experience, and i always rebound weight gain. Never again.

Also, for me, lchf works better on my bg levels than for weight loss. But that makes me happy. I would rather be fat and eating to satisfaction, than slim and contemplating eating anyone in my vicinity.

But i digress - the way i can lose, on lchf is this: drink more water than you would expect, drop my carbs much lower, fill up on fat, walk more, get plenty of sleep. And eat less than 20, poss less than 10g carbs a day.

I look on the carb/fat thing as a seesaw.

Never up your fat without dropping your carbs (or you will gain weight)
If you want to eat more carbs (no idea why you would, but hey, some ppl want to) then you need to drop your fats (or you will gain weight)

So, if the seesaw has fat on one side, and carbs on the other, everyone has a different, personal, unique tipping point - it is just a question of finding where yours is.

 

[Brunneria]

Oh, and i've noticed there is often a recurring theme on the forum. Women who have struggled with weight, hormonal issues and lifetime battles against their own bodies propensity to gain, have also probably tried many diets and subjected their body to various different low calorie eating.

I think (just my experience/observation) that we end up with diet resistance, where hormones and low calorie diet-abuse, where we have trained our bodies to adjust
to low calories/starvation.

Men have a different set of hormones, more muscle, and are very unlikely to have yoyo dieted, starved and rebound gained in the same way.

So I don't expect men to be able to speak with knowledge, experience or understanding, about the things that cause and affect my weight - or that of many of the women on this forum.

Of course, I also envy those men. If my life really were as simple as 'calories in - calories out', and 'eat less-move more', then i would have been slim and fit since the 80s.

(And I realise that there are men out there who have female-pattern weight issues - yoyo, plateauing, rapid regain, no loss with severe calorie reduction, massive water retention, etc. I bet it is your hormones, too - and I sympathise with you even more! You probably get even less patience, understanding and support than we women )

 

[Giverny]

Let's keep on topic please, ladies and gents. If you wish to debate the pros and cons of low carb diets, please do so via PM rather than derailing an otherwise useful thread.

 

[zand]

Well I am trying to increase fats again now too. I use salted butter with vegetables and cream with berries. I use coconut oil sometimes as well.