I hope some of this is of use to you David.
Once you have found what works for you
no going back to the old ways of eating sodas, biscuits, white bread, etc.
Dr Atkins got a lot of negative press - and the fad diet label was almost obligatory - but the truth is actually a bit different.I think you'll find that neither of these philosophies advocate high protein. One of the main points of advise on these diets is 'moderate' protein. It was Dr Atkins who started the whole high fat high protein fad. You can eat high fat without loads of protein: butter, coconuts, avocados, olives, lard, nuts.
I also wonder how long it'll be before protein becomes the bad boy in everyone's eyes. Fat has had that label and now carbs. As far as I'm concerned it's simply unnatural foods that are the bad boys.
Can you remember if it all started after some illness. Maybe you had antibiotics? Have you had a stool analysis done? Maybe your microbiome is not very diverse. Did you see one of the recent 'Doctor in the House' episodes on tv where there was a family who ate quite healthily and were very active but their 11yr old was 11st and blood test showed him to be prediabetic. He hardly ate anything but was still gaining weight. They tried him on low carb diet to no avail but when they tested his stool it showed he had a very small range of bacteria. They added more gut friendly foods and it solved the problem. I wonder could this be you or, indeed, others who's blood sugar spikes wildly but are not diabetic. It's just made me think now about when all my problems started and sure enough I'd had 3 courses of antibiotics for re-occurring tonsillitis all in the space of about 4 months in my early 20s. I now eat lots of fermented products so maybe this is in fact what sorted out my problems along with the fasting and generally healthy diet. Just another thought as you really do have quite a conundrum of a case eh. You need a nutritional Poirot on your case!my only point was that I didn't fit into his explanation of where the problem started.
That's normal even non diabetics have high rises after a big meal Some here have tested non diabetic family members and have found their levels can be in double figures if they have had a lot of sugar and starchy carbs they just come down a lot quicker than a diabeticHi , I joined the forum a couple of months ago to help my wife who was diagnosed in 2009, after seeing the "Fixing Dad" story on tv. She has been following LCHF and testing sugar levels to see what affects her.
I have checked my levels a few times out of curiosity as I used to eat a lot of carbs and sugar, although a fasting blood test last July was 5.1.
Went out for a birthday meal last night, not very healthy, Not sure why but I checked my sugar level when we got home 2hrs later and it was 9.9, I don't know what is was before eating, fasting level this morning was 5.5.
Is this really bad?
You are right -Dr Atkins got a lot of negative press - and the fad diet label was almost obligatory - but the truth is actually a bit different.
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Yes I agree that most people do self limit the protein and I was wrong to use the 'fad' word. If it wasn't for Dr Aitkins work the general public may never have got to realising the benefits of ketosis. I think the bad reputation came from those who didn't like eating their veggies and so binged on nothing but processed meat and cheese and then suffered the consequences of that. Interestingly Dr Aitkins started a cancer clinic but gave up on it as it wasn't working. The HFLC brigade theorise that this was because the protein intake was too high.Dr Atkins got a lot of negative press - and the fad diet label was almost obligatory - but the truth is actually a bit different.
Whist doing Atkins I ate the same amounts of protein as my husband and children, because that seemed to do the trick. As Dr A points out, protein is usually self limiting as excess tends to turn off the appetite.
The high fat part is because there are so many low fat variants around that we need to make a conscious effort to add fats or find higher fat foods after cutting out the fried or fatty carb laden foods.
I come from the generation that always cooked real food from fresh and I still do. It was very rare for me to have anything like a burger, pizza or any take away fast foods was never a big sugar or starchy carbs eater and never been overweight. I am not really a believer that what we have eaten has caused our diabetes I think some people are more predisposed to it whatever their life style is and that medication we take for other problems like statins and steriods can also cause itI did wonder when I read your comment. I think the entire point of all of this is that actually humans don't need anything like as much food to live on as we currently do. That is because selling us stuff to eat is profitable. if what we eat is generally limited, all natural, and we only eat the proteins we actually need, then on balance our diet whether as a vegetarian or carnivore, is likely to contain quite a lot of all kinds of fat and a lot of nutrients from vegetables and because the fats part is more nutrient dense that is likely to be quite high fat in all scenarios.
I suspect it doesn't actually matter all that much which actual foods we choose to meet our goals i.e.whether meat, diary, and fish or nuts seeds and pulses or some combination of the two, once we have cut out industrially refined oils, and manufactured products - those are the evil things, Sure once diabetic one then has to look to the other things - potatoes, dense vegetables, rice - but in reality those are not the things that caused the damage - its frying processed garbage in toxic oils and eating industrially manufactured foods full of hidden sugar whilst not eating natural foods because of our fears that they are fattening, leading to ever higher consumption of stuff that just isn't food really that did that.
You are right -
Yes I agree that most people do self limit the protein and I was wrong to use the 'fad' word. If it wasn't for Dr Aitkins work the general public may never have got to realising the benefits of ketosis. I think the bad reputation came from those who didn't like eating their veggies and so binged on nothing but processed meat and cheese and then suffered the consequences of that. Interestingly Dr Aitkins started a cancer clinic but gave up on it as it wasn't working. The HFLC brigade theorise that this was because the protein intake was too high.
I come from the generation that always cooked real food from fresh and I still do. It was very rare for me to have anything like a burger, pizza or any take away fast foods was never a big sugar or starchy carbs eater and never been overweight. I am not really a believer that what we have eaten has caused our diabetes I think some people are more predisposed to it whatever their life style is and that medication we take for other problems like statins and steriods can also cause it
You need a nutritional Poirot on your case!
There are plenty of people using the high carb diet.
Just been trying to work out by what he means when he say he consumes 700 gms of carb a day. If it's mainly veg then he's got to eat a lot of veg. If you start to include pulses and grains, my trusty old FreeStyle Libre tells me exactly what happens and it doesn't quite tie up with his experience. I need to read what he's doing to get a grip really. I'm just a bit confused by what he means by 700 gms of carbohydrate.
Really struggling with the calculations to get to 700 gms carb.
If you have broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, mushrooms, peppers, courgette and aubergine and had 1kg of each, that's still only 300gms of carb. Even adding 100gms of rice only adds 30 gms.
I've subscribed to his mail thingy so will discover more as I go along.
The veg I've chosen are typical for me, perhaps I'm restricting myself. I could have added tomatoes. Any more for any more. LOL
Really struggling with the calculations to get to 700 gms carb.
Yeah, I think the hard core high carbers eat a lot of sweet potato, bananas, buckwheat etc. I just bloat up if I eat loads of that kind of food so if I'm on a high carb low fat cycle I just keep the macro correct and eat to my fill without eating masses of starch. I think it is just keeping the fat real low that improves the insulin sensitivity, just as eating high fat low carb means you don't need to produce as much insulin. To me it's the fat : carb and protein ratio that is crucial in that it has to be extreme one way or the other. Well that's the way I understand it, maybe I'm wrong?
My go to savory starches are buckwheat, quinoa, brown rice, lentils & legumes but only about half a cup with a meal, sometimes up to 1 cup or else it's too bloaty. I eat a LOT of veggies with this, usually with a home made sauce or dressing of some kind as I'm not keen on dry food.Which carbs do you eat in your high carb periods and in what quantity?
My go to savory starches are buckwheat, quinoa, brown rice, lentils & legumes but only about half a cup with a meal, sometimes up to 1 cup or else it's too bloaty. I eat a LOT of veggies with this, usually with a home made sauce or dressing of some kind as I'm not keen on dry food.
My go to sweet starches are dates, bananas, apples, apricots although I do eat most other fruits too but these are just my main preference. I'll eat 2 or 3 pieces of fresh fruit and 2-4 dates for one of my meals (I only eat 2 meals a day max). I always have dates as they are my favourite. Sometimes I even just eat dates and nothing else all day (probably about 12 dates max) - known as a date fast.
just as eating high fat low carb
No you don't just gaze on in admiration for one determined dude.3 kgs of sweet potato is still only 600 gms of carb. Can people really eat that much? I really need to find out how he does that.
What a lot of fructose and sugar in those fruits!
Not sure what this means. Google didn't help. Could you please explain? Thanks.permanent kerosine
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