I saw our local dietician yesterday. I was well aware I was substantially overweight and need somehow to drop about 4 - 5 stones - hence the dietician. I was hoping for some advice on how to lose weight by diet since I am no longer able to exercise. About 6 weeks ago I was at the same clinic and was given a diet sheet for weight loss. I commented at the time that the new diet was more than I eat normally but I was told to try it anyway. Well, I did but put on half a stone in the first 3 weeks so gave up on that and decided to try my own ideas with thoughts of low carbing. I cut out potatoes, rice, oats, pasta and drastically cut down the bread to one, or at most 2, slices of home made wholemeal bread in the morning. I ate more fat (despite no gall bladder) and cut down on meat - just bacon for breakfast and vegetables for the rest of the day. I put on another half stone in the last 3 weeks! For years now I have had to get up a minimum of twice a night for the loo - usually 3 times and quite often 5 times. I take Furosmide to shed the fluid and although I can't go far from the loo, it doesn't reduce the swelling. My legs and abdomen are swollen and I have some sort of rash on my lower legs which I am sure is something to do with fluid. My doctor recently said he thought it was eczema but it isn't reponding to his treatment.
Anyway, back to the dietician with a food diary covering the last week. Not eating enough, she said. Calories are well below the recommended 1400 per day. But my 7 or 8 cups of tea is too much. Not so much too much fluid but too much caffeine (I take my tea like dishwater) and my small bottle of sparkling water per day is a no no - it should be plain tapwater. Can anyone explain to me why 8 cups of weak caffeine should be so bad, or my minor indulgence in fizzy water?
I know the powers that be don't like talking about LCHF and will not advise on it, but why my fluid intake and output should be of so little interest and why there seems to be no connection to the 4 stone of extra weight I m carrying, I can't make out.