Keto diet came 1st on save money, lose weight

[Peanut31]

Watching save money lose weight on ITV tonight and 2019 winner on this programme is the keto diet.

Winning top spot £ for pound weight loss.

Peanut31

[TheAwfulToad Ambassador]

Interesting. I figured LCHF was fairly inexpensive (from my experience) but I'm genuinely surprised it works out cheaper than the alternatives. I assume because you just naturally eat less, and it doesn't require any silly "diet" foods?

I don't really follow British TV, but I get the impression they've gone from complete antipathy to low-carb, to fairly enthusiastic support over the past 5 years or so.

[bigleg in reply to TheAwfulToad]

Yes, the media are getting better now at transitioning to real food. Interesting story on Diet doctor yesterday: dietdoctor.com/pharmacists-.... I managed to access the article in pharmaceutical-journal.com/...

[Cooper27 in reply to TheAwfulToad]

I've just looked up the episode, and it's based on a vegan keto diet

[Peanut31 in reply to Cooper27]

Yes that’s correct the vegan one, then it goes on to do the all the diets for the whole of 2019 and keto is the winner, it’s at the very end of the programme.

Best wishes

Peanut31

[Cooper27 in reply to Peanut31]

Ah, I've not watched all shows yet! Playing catch up

[Cooper27 in reply to Peanut31]

Watched the final episode, and it's interesting - £ for lb, none of the other diets are even close! I'll have to see if the original episode is on YouTube, as I'm curious to see what she ate.

[TheAwfulToad Ambassador in reply to Cooper27]

I'm not sure how "vegan keto" is even physically possible. I'll have to see if I can find the episode online.

[Cooper27 in reply to TheAwfulToad]

I wasn't sure either, but apparently you're allowed things like tofu, vegan cheese, and then lots of nuts, seeds and avocados. It also sounded like carb allowance was a touch higher.

[TheAwfulToad Ambassador in reply to Cooper27]

I did the calculations once because we had a vegan pop in to ask if it was doable. I concluded that the best option was to do low-GI instead.

The problem is that most non-animal foods have a lot of carbs packaged in with the fat and protein; it's essentially impossible to go "keto" unless you eat really weird things (eg., coconut oil by the spoonful) and eliminate otherwise-nutritious foods. I suppose technically it's doable if you're only interested in weightloss, but it wouldn't be sustainable long-term. I'm guessing they literally did eat oil by the spoonful!

I can't locate the episode you're referring to, only a Daily Mail article about the same programme but standard non-vegan low-carb. Let us know if you find the vegan one. I'm curious to know what they did.

[Cooper27 in reply to TheAwfulToad]

I think it was episode 3, it's on ITV player (or STV player in Scotland).

I think they said carb allowance was 75g? I know someone doing vegan keto, she said it's grim but not as bad as it sounds...

[Vale57]

I don't watch TV much (though do watch a lot of stuff on Netflix and the like in the evenings) so I have never seen this programme. I can understand it being low in cost, because, although it is more expensive food in general, because you can't have cheap processed meals, and things like, double cream in place of milk and proper butter in place of revolting margarine, you don't eat as much. Also mist include some form of fasting, which is, in my case ... tap water!

[Stoozie]

I was shocked that they thought it cost £10 per person per day to do vegan Keto. I'd be surprised if they'd get any buy-in at that price point!

[BridgeGirl]

Eggs, cheese, cream ... 😕

[Stoozie]

I just costed-up my most expensive non-vegan keto day and it came to £3.57 (usually a lot lower but this contained duck which I think is a very expensive protein)

[Cooper27 in reply to Stoozie]

Oh you have a point! A lot of these diets were £10 a day! Although perhaps there's an initial outlay for recipe books, keto strips, coconut oil and giant bags of nuts/seeds (that's probably last more than a month)?