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Especially smothered in butter!
Remember Jersey new potatoes? In season for a few weeks and tasted amazing!
If you've reduced carbs and moderately increased fats then by definition you are doing LCHF, you've just tailored it to suit. There's no set numbers or levels. No diet can be that restrictive or it wouldn't work. It's more a lifestyle choice, not a set in stone regime.Thank you.
I do have well controlled glucose levels, but still have weight to lose. When I tried to have HIGH fat I gained more weight, and was quite ill. So I found a happy medium, of using full fat yogurt, and going really low carb by not having bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, etc. never have bothered with sugar carbs. Can manage fruit, and I do have small amounts of cheese, but mainly veg and fish, nuts, lean meat. It works for me, but I don't think some LCHF advocates agree that is LCHF.
If you've reduced carbs and moderately increased fats then by definition you are doing LCHF, you've just tailored it to suit. There's no set numbers or levels. No diet can be that restrictive or it wouldn't work. It's more a lifestyle choice, not a set in stone regime.
Cream of milk, yum, but in them days it was hard to get as the **** birds would nick it 1st, had to get up with the milk delivery to get the milk fat, lol.Thank you. This has been most helpful.
It is the HIGH fat definition that causes confusion.
The way you describe is similar to the pre 1960s way of eating. My parents' generation believed in having cream of milk, bacon, eggs, butter. This was also the diet recommended for anyone recovering from illness. Much less obesity in their day.
Thank you.
I did try extra cheese and butter and cream. That eating until you have had enough bit was what tripped me up. Digestion cannot cope with much fat.
Not everyone can get away with fat bombs etc.
Perhaps it's easier to say Not Low Fat. When Dr. Malhotra was interviewed on BBC Breakfast he said that if the packaging says low/no fat then put it back on the shelf.
Also I remember from Dr. Briffa's book that eating fat releases a hormone (was it called Leptin?) and this is the hormone that releases fat from the fat cells. It seems it helps you to lose weight.
When I was a kid chocolate was a treat not an everyday thing.
Remember peeling back the foil and pinching bits out of the xmas tree chocolates?
Remember when Easter eggs were something special?
Because chocolate was something special.
Remember when tomatoes were seasonal?
Lettuce and spring onions too?
Now you can have a salad on Xmas day.
There's little that's special any more.
Meaning theres not much magic or wonder left in family life for many .... not much to look forward too.
Everything just is.
Many people have taken on the advice to eat low fat for a long time. If you want to eat more fat, you may need to increase the amount slowly, so your gall bladder has a chance to adapt. If you can't eat fat bombs now, you may well be able to after slowly raising your fats over time.
Yet here I am having lost weight without much effort by changing my life to LCHF.If you are trying to lose weight then personally i don't think adding fat will help at all. Fat has 9 calories per gram so has twice the calories of protein and carbs and weight loss is all about eating fewer calories.
I am not suggesting that you avoid fat, but if you are tying to lose weight then certainly don't add any more.
Any excess food you eat over and above your daily needs will be laid down and stored as fat, whether that food is made up of fat, protein or carbs.
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