One Step At a Time.

[MikePollard]

If you are wondering about this and that - the ‘best way’ to lose weight, reverse diabetes, feel better about your body image etc. you might like to reduce complexity (and the anxiety it engenders) by adopting the KISS principle (Keep Things Simple Stupid).

Essentially it boils down to this:



Change just ONE thing.

What I mean is, when everything else stays the same, changing that ONE thing HAS to make a difference one way or another, positive or negative, depending on whether you take a little out of your diet or add a little something in. Obviously we are aiming for the former but it’s very easy to introduce the latter. 

The main point is to do something DIFFERENT whilst keeping other factors the same. 

It could be something small like swapping cream in your coffee for milk, of something relatively big, like skipping breakfast. The former will make a small difference, the latter significantly more, but also, into the equation, you will have introduced a psychological change.



When you get used to that one change, you might like to then make another. Most people want swift and rapid results by reversing a lifetime of a bad diet whether going low fat or LCHF, but by relaxing, taking things slowly and being kind to yourself the results are more likely to be permanent.



[over61andstilltrying]

Hello Mike, I appreciate you just gave two of many possible options of something to change, but are you suggesting that changing from cream to milk is a positive or negative change? That is for someone is continuing to try to lose a few more pounds and eating very low carb, but not actually weighing ingredients\counting carbohydrates.

[MikePollard in reply to over61andstilltrying]

Nothing the matter with full fat milk. Say, swapping coffee with cream for tea with milk?

Whatever your thing. The point of the post is to encourage people to look at their particular circumstance, to make a small change, get a result and build on it..

[over61andstilltrying in reply to MikePollard]

Perhaps I didn't make my question clear. Would weight loss be helped by changing from cream (lower in carbs, higher in fat) to milk(higher in carbs compared to cream but lower in fat compared to cream)?

[Adaboo in reply to over61andstilltrying]

Hi, it would help to have cream but only if you are on a LC diet as milk has more sugars in it. 🙂

[over61andstilltrying in reply to Adaboo]

Hi Adaboo,

Thank you for your reply. I am following a LCHF way of eating and would like to lose a few more pounds around my middle. Really my weight has stayed more or less at 8st 2lb for the last 4 months. I am 5 foot 4 inches so not overweight and have now lost 11 lbs. Shifting the last few pounds seems to need some tweaks that I have not yet discovered. In the jargon of the British cycling team from a few years back, I need to find some marginal gains, which is why I was interested in whether I should switch back to milk in my coffee having been using double cream. Any ideas most welcome.

[Adaboo in reply to over61andstilltrying]

Your weight is great, we all tend to get a bit plumper round the middle as we age though so maybe some sit ups or Pilates might help trim you. Your weight loss will slow because you’re at optimal weight. It may still come off very slowly though, but it never comes off in the right places for me. 😅.

[over61andstilltrying in reply to Adaboo]

Thank you again for your reply and your kind comments about my weight. I have been very pleased to have discovered LCHF through these forums and as a result have seen my weight go down. And, happily it has gone from areas I wanted it to. 😊

I currently have a habit for running three times a week and then strength and flexibility type exercises on two days. My exercises include sit ups and I have noticed that having lost weight around my middle, they are much easier now. I have heard many positives about Pilates, but haven't explored that yet. Always so/too many things to do in the 168 hours a week that we all have!

I am not convinced about that we all get plumper around our middle as we age, although would agree, of course, many do. I now weigh less than I did as a teenager, which I attribute to having learnt about carbohydrate (watched loads on the Dietdoctor website). Perhaps I am being unrealistic, but I would really appreciate losing the last of the unwanted mass around my middle and then learning how to maintain. It really is a journey of discovery after so many years of being heavier than I would like to be. My heaviest was 11 stone, but that is a long while back.

Are you wanting to lose weight, I wonder.

So I shall carry on knowing that any weight loss will be extremely slow. Beginning to think that 1 lb in 3 months will be the rate! Good for learning to improve my patience!

[Adaboo in reply to over61andstilltrying]

I have lost all the weight I want to now, and unfortunately have lost my once shapely backside. It’s now like a ski slope haha.

I do fast for 14-16 hours a day too, after dinner till the following lunch time. Maybe doing that a couple of times a week might speed things up. Worth a try 🙂

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I've wondered if going slowly like that will avoid that "keto flu" effect some people report? Assuming they're going cold turkey in dumping the carbs.

[Blue-Anglia]

I am a 75 year old female been on blood pressure meds for years, after years of side effects became a problem so gp took me off one med and left me on diuretic, which depleted my potassium level and I had a small tia. Had mri scans I was then given a blood thinner and bp Meds again but have had various side effects also given statins of various types but could not tolerate them. Now doctor has decided I should take Ezetimibe which has a pile of side effects and I am reluctant to try anything else for cholesterol. Have you heard of this type of treatment. One doctor told me to take benecol but they don’t check you level on this only on statins. I watched the video you suggested and found that interesting re cholesterol.