High Fat-Low Carb eating

I'm doing really well resisting carbs but this is the time of day when I could kill for a with my

I've had to satisfy myself with a teaspoon of crunchy peanut butter.

I tried it for a while and it was very successful but I missed my carbs too much so I've gone back to a calorie controlled eat a bit of everything and do more exercise diet.

Thanks, Brahaspatinda, I might stick this on my kindle.

I've dug out all my Atkins recipe which cheered me up no end because they reminded me that a good substitute for is a G&T with slimline tonic.....zero carbs!

I can highly recommend India Knight & Nerys Hughes' modified version of Atkins, gloriously entitled the "Idiot-Proof Diet". Includes lots of sensible psychology and is very funny in places! There are some recipes in it (also a separate cookbook) which offer variations to offset carb cravings. Cauli mash with lashings of cream is a belter! Best of luck to everyone.

Lupus!! or Systemic Lupus Erythmatous - many experts say avoid dairy and wheat for this too.

It is intriguing. I saw an American programme where two consultants battled the' its the sugar that's killing us' against the ' its the fat that's killing us' and both arguments were very persuasive. I think on balance as I have a high percentage body fat probably not the best idea to add to it. I am interested in the Paleo diet and am almost there I think although others have said you only do this if you want to build muscle! It is getting very complicated isn't it. On the whole our diet is about 75% fruit and vegetables and some say this is wrong as its too much fruit sugar. I'd love to consult the nutritionist Sandi Toksvig saw to lose her weight to get something especially tailored to me which takes account of my Lupas but I expect it very expensive.

Teetime I know it feels counter-intuitive, but exponents of LCHF would say that it is the low-carb, high-fat combo that causes the weight loss. So if you are eating low-fat then it won't work.
Have a look at Zoe Harcombe's blog here
www.zoeharcombe.com
We didn't use her diet plan, but to me, so much of what she says makes sense.
We don't go mad with fat, but we eat fatty meat when we want to, we cook with butter and olive oil and we eat cheese. We don't have potatoes (apart from a couple of new potatoes very rarely), and in the initial stages we cut out rice completely.

granny that sounds like a lovely diet but I am pretty sure I would gain weight. We are sugar free (Davina McColls book is very good on this) but have only lean protein and low carbs - brown rice, wholemeal bread in small quantities, potatoes and very low fats- even then its very slow going.

We love cauliflower mash with butter as an accompaniment to roast meat and on top of fish pie. I tend to blend it to make a real puree. We also like celeriac mash on shepherd's pie. I have made risotto with pearled spelt (not on a very low carb diet) and it has a lovely nutty flavour. It would be great to exchange ideas on here.
I think the point is that it isn't a diet, it is a different way of eating for life.

I have been doing a modified version of this since before Christmas and find it really easy because I can have things I enjoy. Still have porridge am but have cut out bread, rice, potatoes etc. DD is following modified paleo diet which has worked well for her as she is a committed carnivore and I have incorporated bits of that too. Am only losing around a pound a week but it is sustained and don't feel deprived. Use My Fitness Pal ap to track intake which is quite useful.
Courgettes can make lovely noodles and cauliflower mashed makes a good rice substitute. Just a question of thinking outside the box a bit.

I did the Atkins diet years ago and lost two stone without any effort at all. I put it back on when DD came back to UK when her marriage broke down and I bought a breadmaker because I had the two little DGSs after school every day.

Big mistake. The dratted thing blew up last year so now I've got over all the winter ills and chills I'm going to dig out all my recipes.

I've got such an addiction to sugar that I find I get on much better if I cut out as much as I can. I do believe that as far as my health is concerned, sugar is the enemy, not fat. I don't eat meat but have reintroduced a little fish to my diet. I never eat low fat anything and eat full fat Greek yoghurt with a little double cream and a handful of berries every morning. lots of vegetables every day along with some nuts and eggs every other day. Cheese and oatcakes is another favourite.

I just seemed to naturally increase the amount of fat as I decreased my sugar intake.

This way of eating suits me, I feel well on it.

We have much lower cholesterol with this diet Jings. People eat far less saturated fat now than they did in the seventies and rates of obesity have gone up enormously. There is certainly a view around that dietary fat does not turn into fat in the body. Sugar is the enemy.
Phoenix have a look at the low-carb section on Mumsnet. Plenty of info there. I also find Zoe Harcombe good, though we made up our own version of the diet which never involved giving up fruit or dry wine.

Arteries?

Any chance of a link, please, for some more info?

On first reading it sounds like something I might be able to stick to, for a while at least!

Happy to answer jingl.
Actually everything is working brilliantly well. I sort of stumbled across this HFLC diet through following an epilepsy link and was, to put it mildly, unbelieving. It looked like all my wishes had come true; I love cheese, cream, fatty meat etc. and thoroughly enjoy lots of veggies - so I decided to wait until after Christmas and give it a go. I'm still bemused that I can eat so many things I've either denied myself or eaten guiltily for years and be healthy and lose weight. I'm sure I'm still not exactly following the 'macros' (the proportion of fat, to protein, to carbohydrate) as I should, but I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner most days (sometimes I have to skip either lunch or dinner because I'm still feeling full).
It's a real change of lifestyle, so I eat very little fruit and no sugar at all, which I know would be a major difficulty for many people, but I don't feel hard done by at all - yet! Not having had any sugar at all for months now I found my home-made almond flour biscuits to be too sweet even though I'd halved the quantity of stevia the recipe recommended.
I'm glad Mamie that you're still positive about this - I'm quite hopeful that I've found a long-term eating plan that really suits me.

Jerusalem artichokes are very low in carbs.

You can ignore that question if you so wish. Of course.

Wholemeal bread is very good for you.

How are your bowels *granny-a?

It sounds like the diet programme promoted by Professor John Yudkin in the 1960s which involved eating no more than a certain number of 'carbohydrate units' each day. It was very easy to follow and I did manage to lose about 10 lbs for my wedding.

You can have veggie carbs though. If you do it strictly there is an initial phase when you cut out the very high-carb ones out, but we have pretty much everything now except floury potatoes and parsnips.

I think I'd miss veggie carbs, cakes etc I could live without but lovely new potatoes, beans and so on

The type of diet depends on the individual. The only way I can stop DH from developing diabetes is to keep him on this type of regime. Trouble is he craves carbs.

I'd certainly endorse your comments about real food and low-fat sugary stuff Mamie

Jane, we have gone low GI in small portions, so occasionally have new potatoes (but not floury), durum wheat pasta, spelt, pearl barley etc. We only have about 35g each though and only two or three times a week. I think the other main message of the diet is about eating real food which has not been mucked about with by the food industry. So none of the low-fat added sugar stuff.