Lchf Diet

[carina62]

can someone who is on this diet please let me know what your diet consists of mainly on a day to day average basis. I have fatty liver as well as T2 diabetes and am trying to address both these conditions and someone said that eating HF is actually good at reversing fatty liver (I thought it was the opposite, that HF would cause fat in the liver and pancreas).

Can someone explain it all to me, much appreciated.

 

[Shar67]

LCHF diet, your body uses carbs for energy, if you don't eat carbs your body will look for another source of energy, the fat in your body, hence you will loose weight and fatty liver will get better. You should try to do exercise as well as another source of energy is muscle fibre.
You want to eat lots of protein, meats, fish, eggs, nuts, (some people find some nuts can cause high bg) full fat yogurt, cream, green vegetables, sweet potato
Cut out rice, bread, potatoes, sugar, lots of ready made and processed food contain sugar
There is lots of recipes on the site, have a look
With my other health issues, I find rather than following the idea breakfast, lunch and dinner should be made of certain foods, I eat what I fancy, so if I want cod for breakfast then I have it then.

 

[Kristin251]

We only need enough protein for maintenance and repair. LCHF is not high protein.

 

[chalup]

I personally cannot eat sweet potato but others can. This would be a eat to your meter food.

breakfast: hard boiled egg, piece of cheese (I don't drink coffee but a coffee with heavy cream works here if you do)

Lunch: Big salad with full fat low carb dressing or a low carb tortilla wrap with ham, full fat mayo, and lettuce or sprouts.

Dinner: Big salad with full fat low carb dressing and ham/chicken/tuna etc in it or meat of some kind with steamed veggies and butter or stir fry using wilted mung bean sprouts instead of noodles or if I did not have a wrap at lunch a tortilla with mayo, a very thin veggie omelette laid on top and some ham and cheese then rolled up.

snacks: I don't feel the need to snack much but if I do it's usually a few nuts or a bit of cheese

This is just what I tend to eat and I probably eat a bit too much protein but that's better for me than carbs. If I am frying I always use butter, coconut oil, or olive oil and all my dairy is full fat. When I buy any cured meat such as ham or bacon or sausage I always check the package as some are quite high carbs due to added sugar and fillers.

My weight is slowly reducing, my A1c has come down from 10.4 to 6.7 in 3 months and I expect it to be in the 5s at my next blood work based on a meter average of 5.9. My cholesterol is firmly in the normal range. I do not believe that you can reduce fatty liver without losing any excess weight you may have. I hope this helps.

 

[KevinPotts]

Cut the carbs as has been described, normal protein (about 1g per kg of body weight per day), good fat (nuts, seeds, oily fish, avacado,,Olive oil etc), exercise and for me Intermittent Fasting, sorted me out in 3 months. For some it might take a lot longer but most can get there with persistence and determination

 

[Larissima]

I'm a bit late to the thread, but I wanted to share that I was also diagnosed with fatty liver at the same time as T2D. After a year of LCHF my liver was back to normal (as was my HbA1c). It works!
Edit: my blood glucose was better within a few months, but they only checked my liver a year later.

 

[Kristin251]

BF 8 am. 1/2 avocado smashed with sea salt and eaten with celery or a piece of lettuce with full fat mayo and mustard and a piece of deli turkey

12 pm a few nuts or pumpkin seeds

3 pm either a chopped salad consisting of finely chopped onion green onion celery and radish and some chunked avocado with about 2 oz protein like tuna salmon beef or lamb slices chicken turkey or egg and drizzled with Evoo or sometimes mayo.

6:30. Same as lunch with different protein. Sometimes on a lettuce wrap.

I like small meals and snacks. I'm actually less hungry that way. If I do get hungry between meals I will dip low carb veggies in a mayo based dressing/ dip.


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