High fat low carb diet

[SweepTheLeg]

This topic has been inspired by the meatless monday's thread. I'm currently grilling some burgers for lunch as I type this. Since the 2nd week of September I have been going on a major over-haul on what I eat, and how I work out. The work out isn't so important, but I will tell you with my diet I have more energy, can run faster, longer, more efficiently- I've taken 2 minutes off my best 5k runs, and on the days where I would run a 10k have added two more miles just because I can keep going.

The diet is quite simple, eat your meat. I've cut out my carbs and try and stay under 50g a day- this means along with no candy, snacks, or soda also means a very low to no amount of bread and fruit. And in the 2 months that I have been on this diet I have dropped 20-25lbs. A lot of my tshirts hang off me now and for the first time in over 10 years I am having to buy a size other than XL when it comes to shirts. The diet may not be for everyone, but the "no meat monday" I highly disagree with because meat isn't the villain in this damn it!

 

[Just Me]

This topic has been inspired by the meatless monday's thread. I'm currently grilling some burgers for lunch as I type this. Since the 2nd week of September I have been going on a major over-haul on what I eat, and how I work out. The work out isn't so important, but I will tell you with my diet I have more energy, can run faster, longer, more efficiently- I've taken 2 minutes off my best 5k runs, and on the days where I would run a 10k have added two more miles just because I can keep going.

The diet is quite simple, eat your meat. I've cut out my carbs and try and stay under 50g a day- this means along with no candy, snacks, or soda also means a very low to no amount of bread and fruit. And in the 2 months that I have been on this diet I have dropped 20-25lbs. A lot of my tshirts hang off me now and for the first time in over 10 years I am having to buy a size other than XL when it comes to shirts. The diet may not be for everyone, but the "no meat monday" I highly disagree with because meat isn't the villain in this damn it!

You have rediscovered the Atkins diet. :thumbleft: Though generally it is thought of as high protein and low carb, as fat is still generally considered bad for you. You can still do "no meat Monday", plenty of food that is high protein low carb that is not meat.

 

[SweepTheLeg]

In the research I did before starting this diet the reason I want a high fat over high protein is with fat my body would lower it's dependency of glucose as my source of energy and instead use my fat so my weight loss would increase even quicker while protein would still convert to glucose.

There are other sources than meat, I just didn't want meat to be seen as some sort of villain because it's unhealthy and bad for you or something. It'd be like me supporting no fruit wednesday. though I do support such a thing.

 

[southsamurai]

yeah, that diet works well for short term weight loss, but its not meant for long term use.... too many health drawbacks for that. last i heard you shouldnt stay on it more than a 3 month run at maximum.

 

[AmberCutie]

I noted in one of my blogs that Jawbs and I were doing this. "Keto" baby.

There's a huge subredit about it that has tons of recipes.

 

[SweepTheLeg]

You have a blog? I'll have to check out these recipes.

I decided to try it out after meeting friends of friends and finding out how much weight they've lost without really working out. So I figured with my working out and this diet could be worth trying and the effects were immediate and a great motivator.

 

[southsamurai]

i did drop about 30 lbs on that dieat at one time... didnt work out too well for me personally though, other health issues interfered with it being worth using it for more than 2 months

 

[SweepTheLeg]

I don't know when or if I'll ever suffer any health issues. I will act accordingly if it does.

 

[AmberCutie]

Subtredit. On reddit. Lol. http://www.reddit.com/r/keto and http://www.reddit.com/r/ketorecipes

When I was doing keto I was in less than 12 net carbs a day (approx) and I would get weird little headaches from being in ketosis. That's a side effect I guess. I think a low carb diet can still work with more net carbs, so I'd recommend not going as low as I did, lol.

 

[Evvie]

I'm totes jelly of people who can think of diets and then do them. I always generally prefer to eat only what I want. :violin:

 

[AmberCutie]

I should mention that we stuck with this diet for like three months and then decided to go back to eating more normal. Cutting carbs so dramatically is really hard to stick to and I felt too limited eventually. It was totes fun at first. But now we focus on protein and healthy fats, smaller portions, and few carbs, especially cutting carbs later in the day.

 

[SweepTheLeg]

I tried to not go above 50g of carbs, but on a given day I could have next to none. At times I do feel limited on what I can eat or get grocery shopping- My parents told me they'd make stuffing without the bread for me on thanksgiving (this was a joke, you should laugh "stuffing without bread? but that's....") But as for any side effects I haven't been hit by anything negative so far.

This is the first diet I've been really able to stick to, I'd love to eat what I want when I want, but I want to lose weight and look awesome.

 

[Just Me]

Long term study of high fat low carb intake. An easier to read article about it.

 

[IsabellaSnow]

It's really good to cut out starchy carbs and up on protein. Which means no pasta, potatoes, rice or bread. What you should do is replace it with veg and plenty of it! You are NOT going to get fat off boiled veg (except potatoes), things like peas/carrots etc, there's no point in counting those as calories as they're so good for you. Fat is alright, but you want to get rid of sugar, seeing as starch breaks down into sugar that's why pasta's so bad. Fat in meat/eggs are fine because there are good fats and bad fats, fat in meat, especially fish is usually good fat, essential fat. They discovered that cholesterol in eggs is actually good cholesterol so the worry about it was unnecessary.
Chances are what'll be making you lose weight is because you've cut the carbs.

I've done it before, it's the easiest way to lose weight, as long as you continue eating vegetables and fibre, carbs aren't really necessary unless you're living a very active lifestyle. I don't know what your eating habits were before, but cutting starchy carbs and upping on protein will give you more energy.

 

[PersonalAngel]

That sounds kinda like Paleo. Your source of fats should be grass fed, or like coconut,almonds and so forth. Carbs from veggies are not evil. Trust me there is nothing tastier than grass fed meat.

 

[SweepTheLeg]

I eat steamed vegetables with my meat- Broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, brussel sprouts mostly. I avoid potatoes.

This isn't the first time changing my diet and life style, just the first time I've found something that has worked for me. In the past with just cutting out soda, candy, and other unhealthy snacks my weight would stay the same. I believe it was because though I was eating healthy and not cutting out my food groups I was hungry all the time which would cause me to eat and over eat all the time. With this diet, I am taking in less calories and eating far less often. I have more energy during the course of the day, and especially working out. This diet isn't for everyone, do what ever works for you.