So, you're fat too. That's probably how you found me.
That's right, I called you fat, or at least, overweight. Chances are you found this site because you have some health related problem with your weight. Every website you visit tells you the same thing: You need to lose weight and make some changes in your life. What many don't agree on is just how exactly does one do that?
If you are like me, you've tried it all: Very low calorie diets (VLCD), South Beach, GI, The Egg Diet, The Grapefruit Diet, The Cabbage Soup Diet, Carb blockers, Slimming Teas, Food Journaling...any of these sound familiar? Well, today, I'm starting a new diet: LCHF. Will this be the last diet I try out? I hope so. But I'm not holding my breath yet.
Changing how I eat and cook and my relationship with food
The pictrure on the left are of some chocolate apple muffins I baked, topped with the most yummy cream cheese icing and some shaved chocolate. I love food. I love to bake, and I love to cook. This is some of what I'll have to give up. No, not the baking and the cooking...I'll be doing even more of that! It's the sugar/carbs. On the LCHF I will be ditching the sugar and swaping to other things...gone is the low fat margarine and hello to full fat butter. Calorie reduced cream products will be replaced with full-fat 40% cream. I will not longer trim the fat or skin of my meat. I am going to enjoy my fatty macadmia nuts. I will eat those eggs...yolk and all! It won't be easy when I go on holiday this coming July, but I'm hoping that by then I'll have learned how to cope and have also lost some weight by then.
LCHF
Now, for those who are new to the whole concept of LCHF, the idea is that fat isn't to blame for the obesity epidemic, it's fat storing, insulin production. The following is taken from DietDoctor.com, one of the leading websites advocating the LCHF diet: "There are good scientific reasons why LCHF works. When you avoid sugar and starches your blood sugar stabilizes and the levels of the fat storing hormone insulin drops. This increases your fat burning and make you feel more satiated."
Below is a video by the Diet Doctor, Andreas Eenfeldt, MD, talking about the LCHF revolution that's taking Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia by storm.
If you are like me, you've tried it all: Very low calorie diets (VLCD), South Beach, GI, The Egg Diet, The Grapefruit Diet, The Cabbage Soup Diet, Carb blockers, Slimming Teas, Food Journaling...any of these sound familiar? Well, today, I'm starting a new diet: LCHF. Will this be the last diet I try out? I hope so. But I'm not holding my breath yet.
Changing how I eat and cook and my relationship with food
The pictrure on the left are of some chocolate apple muffins I baked, topped with the most yummy cream cheese icing and some shaved chocolate. I love food. I love to bake, and I love to cook. This is some of what I'll have to give up. No, not the baking and the cooking...I'll be doing even more of that! It's the sugar/carbs. On the LCHF I will be ditching the sugar and swaping to other things...gone is the low fat margarine and hello to full fat butter. Calorie reduced cream products will be replaced with full-fat 40% cream. I will not longer trim the fat or skin of my meat. I am going to enjoy my fatty macadmia nuts. I will eat those eggs...yolk and all! It won't be easy when I go on holiday this coming July, but I'm hoping that by then I'll have learned how to cope and have also lost some weight by then.
LCHF
Now, for those who are new to the whole concept of LCHF, the idea is that fat isn't to blame for the obesity epidemic, it's fat storing, insulin production. The following is taken from DietDoctor.com, one of the leading websites advocating the LCHF diet: "There are good scientific reasons why LCHF works. When you avoid sugar and starches your blood sugar stabilizes and the levels of the fat storing hormone insulin drops. This increases your fat burning and make you feel more satiated."
Below is a video by the Diet Doctor, Andreas Eenfeldt, MD, talking about the LCHF revolution that's taking Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia by storm.
Living in Sweden, one sees LCHF books and magazines everywhere. It's also known as The Scandinavian Diet. I had heard of Atkins, but avoided trying it out because I had yet to come to grips with my love affair with carbs. The idea of cutting carbs out of the equation scared me. Now, as I mentioned earlier, I have tried many diets, and through my diet research, I've had some success. At my heaviest I weighed give or take 100 kg. I don't know how much more I weighed because I was too afraid to step on the scale. I didn't want to face that number. I have since managed to lose a fair amount of weight on these various diets, and as of the weekend, I weighed 69.1 kg. Up until this morning I have been on a VLCD, meal replacement diet. I had been ingesting around 600 calories a day, and had lost around 4 kg in 5 days. I am sure that most of that was water my body was hanging on to, but the diet was meant to be a kick start in order for me to work towards some sort of permanent lifesetyle change. I had been researching LCHF for a while and decided to take the plunge. Because of the South Beach Diet, I had already amassed an arsenal of carb reduced supplies in my pantry and so I wasn't so scared this time. I have known for a while now that not all carbs are the same, and that one can definitely lose weight with restricting carbs. Now I was ready to do it. So, today, I have decided to join the growing number of Swedes (though I'm not a Swede) on the LCHF bandwagon and hope for the best.
I am in the high risk category for type 2 diabetes. My mom has it and my grandmother had it. I am obese. As of today (7 May 2012) I have a BMI of around 31. I have to make changes in my life, now, before I too get the disease. The LCHF diet is being prescribed more and more for diabetes/pre-diabetes sufferers. I want to avoid getting this horrible disease.
So, why blog? I've tried blogging many times before. I like talking, but more importantly, I understand the support system one needs when they embark on a life changing weightloss journey. If you are like me, you are tired of being fat and tired. I want to share my experiences so that you don't feel alone, so that I don't feel alone.
I am in the high risk category for type 2 diabetes. My mom has it and my grandmother had it. I am obese. As of today (7 May 2012) I have a BMI of around 31. I have to make changes in my life, now, before I too get the disease. The LCHF diet is being prescribed more and more for diabetes/pre-diabetes sufferers. I want to avoid getting this horrible disease.
So, why blog? I've tried blogging many times before. I like talking, but more importantly, I understand the support system one needs when they embark on a life changing weightloss journey. If you are like me, you are tired of being fat and tired. I want to share my experiences so that you don't feel alone, so that I don't feel alone.