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Please would you tell me what fats when you say high fats.

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Been reading up on the low carb foods ( as well as sugar) and starting to understand a bit more, wondering what fats people eat, when they say high fats. My noodles I'm eating are high carb. Fats I eat are olive oil, avocados nuts and seeds. And natural yoghurt. Learnt that a potatoe can spike blood sugar more than sugar. Who knew eating would become so complicated for us.
 
We eat butter, lard, coconut oil, goose fat, olive oil, fats on meats and chicken skin, eggs, cream, avocados, seeds, nuts, oily fish, cheese, full fat Greek style yoghurt and I have 85% dark chocolate. There may be more.
Compared with what we ate a few years back, this IS high fat, because we are not removing, skimming, stripping and avoiding it. No more "low fat". We eat whole, proper food. No more throwing away or avoiding some of the most highly nutritious food stuffs or parts of foodstuffs, packed with vitamins.
The result: we eat smaller portions, less often, never snack, our food bill has gone down and T2 diabetes is history.
Sally
 
_lyn_lyn_1963 said:
Been reading up on the low carb foods ( as well as sugar) and starting to understand a bit more, wondering what fats people eat, when they say high fats. My noodles I'm eating are high carb. Fats I eat are olive oil, avocados nuts and seeds. And natural yoghurt. Learnt that a potatoe can spike blood sugar more than sugar. Who knew eating would become so complicated for us.
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First of all, it's higher fats not just high fat, you could call it full fat!
It's means during each day you eat more natural fats than you usually do.
Eating full fat dairy is one way. Nuts etc.
Some of us eat animal fats and the likes of coconut oil and a good one is 100% virgin olive oil. Avocado is a good one in vegetables.
You need fats when low carbing because of the good nutrition in them.
It also replaces the energy you miss from carbs.
There is more information throughout the forum.
 
Anything that is not "low fat" which has a low carb content, less than 7%.
Butter, cheese, meat, avocado, most veg, eggs, nuts (though watch nuts, some can be carbie), EVOO and rapeseed oil, ground almonds to coat fish/meat for frying in butter, full fat yog, some fruits...
Creams, any and all.
 
I eat/cook with coconut oil, olive oil, beef dripping, goat* butter, goat double cream, goat full fat yogurt, goat cheese, buffalo mozzarella, almonds, peanuts, peanut butter, macadamia nuts, walnuts, avocados etc. (* I have an intolerance to cows milk products).
Watch out for the carbohydrate content of some nuts as it can be quite high - particularly if they are processed/flavoured.
I wouldn't recommend mixing high carb and high fat products - I would ditch the noodles!
 
As @JimH has mentioned, you can't do both high fat and high carb at the same time unless you are trying to gain weight.
 
I agree with @chalup and @Jim H

High or even moderate carbs and high fat will cause weight gain. You have to find the right balance. Fats are more calorific than carbs.

I eat all dairy except milk, (butter, cream, cheese, yogurt) loads of eggs, real mayonnaise, cook with butter, rapeseed oil, duck/goose fat. I also eat red meat and loads of salmon, but as I'm not keen on meat fat I choose the leaner cuts. Bacon and fried eggs with mushrooms cooked in butter, 97% meat sausage and tomatoes are my favourite.
 
As far as I'm concerned "high fat" in a low carb high(er) fat diet means my diet is now high(er) in fat instead of high in carbs - it's not actually a definition of the type of fats themselves, but indicates the higher percentage of fats compared to carbohydrates (and protein) that you eat in this type of diet. You are replacing the one for the other for your energy requirements, and the worst thing you can probably do is eat both high carbs and high fat foods.

All you need to do is replace your high carbohydrate, low/reduced fat foods with lower carb, full fat foods, and the fats can come from meats, oily fish, dairy, nuts and seeds, and some vegetables or fruits (e.g. olives, avocados) - you don't need to sit eating lumps of lard!! If needs be there are nutritional calculators that will help you work out the proportions/percentages of the carbs/protein/fats that you 'll need to eat depending on your particular circumstances. And nutritional labelling on foods can help identify the right and wrong types of food for a low carb diet.

Robbity
 
Salmon and tuna (which I thought I hated for 50 years!). From all the foods that have had to be restricted or removed from my eating.. Well, the reduction in oily fish is a huge loss to me.. As are the nuts.
Almonds and walnuts were my favourite although I counted out only 7 a day.
Amazingly - Olives! Again I thought I hated them all my adult life but when I actually started to add them in, I did like them. I miss these too.

Avocado was another hated food that I started just a little at a time and I'm so glad I can eat as much as I like of this still.

Peanut or almond butter. Yum...
 
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