Newcastle and LCHF diet

[Jaypee247]

Hello

I'm thinking of giving the Newcastle diet a go but instead of using meal replacement sachets to get my 600/800 calories, would the diet still work if I made up my calories by eating LCHF foods?

Will I lose weight or will my body go in to 'fat storage mode'?

Thanks for any help/comments


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[SunnyExpat]

Have a read through the previous posts, anecdotally it does seem to work better if you at least keep the ratio's of fats/carbs/proteins similar to the shakes.

I used real food, but didn't LCHF, (in fact it was virtually fat free) and it worked well

 

[AndBreathe]

@andcol had magnificent results using real food. I seem to have achieved the end result just by trimming carbs and a bit of portion control. Professor Taylor stated the key appears to be fat loss not method which is the key.

 

[dawnmc]

Michael Mosley has a book with 800 cal meals - not dear on Amazon.

 

[RexTiberius]

Hello

I'm thinking of giving the Newcastle diet a go but instead of using meal replacement sachets to get my 600/800 calories, would the diet still work if I made up my calories by eating LCHF foods?
Will I lose weight or will my body go in to 'fat storage mode'?
Thanks for any help/comments

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Jaypee247

I don't think it's really necessary to follow the diet word for word so long as you approximate the calories consumed. If your input/intake is more than the total energy expended, then you won't lose weight and/or bring down the BG level. Reverse the situation and you’ll get the opposite effect – basic common sense, really. Which is why the Newcastle Study (NCS) talks about energy balancing, rather than unwittingly characterizing it as LCHF or HCLF or LCLF or MCHF or MCMF or some other faddish permutations. Notice that protein is not even factored into the equation, so what does one do wrt this missing factor? You will soon see that it is better to use your own gut feeling and do what is practical plus what you are comfortable with.

In case you think I am being facetious, well, this is what I did: I decided to eat just one full meal a day at lunchtime. For breakfast and evening, I eat only half a grapefruit at those times. Within a few days, my BG dropped 3mmol/54 ml. I was targeting a goal of 12 weeks instead of the 8 weeks in the NCS. Presently, I am at halfway mark and have dropped a total of 6.7 mmol/120.6 ml, which is phenomenal as it has never happened to me before in the 15-18 yrs of being T2. The grapefruit has a surprising effect – it seems to draw out all the spent diabetic drugs I’ve been taking but which had trouble being excreted by the body. The chemical odor in the bathroom is incredibly strong and sickly!

I’m now thinking of extending it to 17 weeks in all so that I can attain the ideal 120-day mark, and hopefully succeed in breaking out from what appears to be a vicious circle of hyperglycemia.

So go on, make your mark and post the momentous results you’ll achieve here as well!! No point calling it Paleo, Atkin, NC, LCHF when you succeed... but if you really want to, you can name the lifestyle change after your own name!