Wow well done everyone!!! Hope to follow in your foot steps... what's the secret to your success? Are you all type 2? I'm trying the Low carb diet with probability a switch to the meditate Dan diet. I'm not high fat as trying to loose weight
@Richram The weight I lost was 7 years ago after being first diagnosed I was put straight on insulin and it terrified me so I was determined to lose weight.
I ate 60g of carbs a day but did not add any extra fat as like you I understood that fat has twice the calories of carbs and protein and whenever I did add extra fat ie cheese every day my weight loss stalled.
It is quite possible to eat low carb and normal fat and dietary fat definitely can and will cause body fat as any extra calories that are not burned will be laid down as fat. The dietary fat not causing body fat was a fallacy first written in a book by Gary Taubes or Barry Groves who later edited the paragraph out of his book as it was proven to have been total rubbish. Unfortunately it was often repeated and many people seem to still think it is fact but it is not. Many members here have found what I found that adding extra fat stalled their weight loss or caused weight gain.
http://reason.com/archives/2003/03/01/big-fat-fake
I also gave up alcohol for about 5 months and as my weight started to fall off I was using less and less insulin and weaned myself off it completely after 12 months and then I started to eat a few more carbs daily, probably upped them to around 100 or so although I stopped counting them when I stopped using insulin.
I lost 4 stone (56lb) in the first year and another stone (14lb) in the second year and have managed to maintain that weight loss as well, I still eat low carb and normal fat and would estimate my daily fat intake at around 100 to 130 grams a day on average.
I now generally eat a lot less food than I did before my T2 diagnosis and I guess my stomach has now shrank as I used to eat like an Olympic athlete but without the training