Okay I’m biting the bullet on this one. I’m fed up with being overweight. Been reading posts on this way of eating and it looks, along IF, as it might be my way forward.
Where do I start? I’m one of these people that needs it written down for me to follow 🤷♀️
Welcome to the club 
Did you read the brief intro I wrote on the NHS forum a couple of days ago?
There is actually very little to "follow" here. It's all about handing back control to your own body instead of metering stuff into it. In other words, you need to spend a little time experimenting with what you enjoy eating, within the LCHF constraints. There's absolutely no point in telling you to eat this and that for breakfast and dinner if you don't like eating those things.
Have a look on the dietdoctor.com website to see what you can eat and what you can't (or more accurately, which things you can eat lots of without counting them, and which things you have to be a bit careful with).
dietdoctor.com/low-carb/vis...
Just to be clear, we have no affiliation with that site, but I've yet to find a simpler guide to the do's and do-nots of LCHF. If you click on the 'how many carbs?' link on the same page, it'll tell you how to go "keto", which is the only bit you might struggle with. It's all downhill from there.
Thank you for the info. I think I have reading TOO much and getting myself confused. I’m going to look at the diet doctor link and ease myself into it gradually over the next week.
Hi
I’m new also - in fact a week tomm.
My only bit of advice would be to plan ahead and to make sure you have all the appropriate foods in. As I had a couple of days where I could so have easily caved and eaten the wrong foods because I had not done a proper shop.
All the best - you will smash it 😁
Same here, everyone I know has had great results with LCHF when done properly. I used dietdoctor.com (without paying for anything) and also followed Dr Berg on youtube. I'm 70, just taken up running (fast jog!) again, can't believe it. Don't forget when you start it may make you feel a bit cr4p for a while, a week for me. My breath was terrible, so had to avoid close conversation for the sake of others!
Good luck.
Thanks for that. Well done you for running.
What meals do you normally eat? LCHF meals aren't something special, you just remove the starchy carbs and add more veg
I have a lot of jacket potatoes and eat a gait amount of bread especially toast for breakfast.
I have been trying to eat more lentils, chickpeas etc. So I suppose I have quite a high carb diet. Trouble is I think resetting my mindset.
That "brain reset" is definitely a challenge for most people, because it requires you to accept that nearly all the traditional healthy-eating advice is flat-out wrong. Some just can't cope with this and drift back to calorie-counting etc, but if you can approach it with an open mind, try out some of the recipes, and stick with it long enough to see results (a couple of months) you should find all the cognitive dissonance evaporates. Personal results speak louder than any number of neat-sounding theories.
If you're going to attempt IF, then I would suggest that breakfast is the easiest meal to forgo and that would automatically exclude a lot of bread. I find coffee with cream in more than enough to fill me up, if I'm hungry.
If you find you're too hungry, then try not to think of 'breakfast meals'. You can eat any food at any time of the day. Leftovers from dinner the day before can easily be zapped in the microwave and eaten - no hassle.
Eggs are perfect and scrambled eggs take no longer in a microwave than it takes to boil the kettle.
You need to cut the jacket potatoes and only have the pulses if you're vegetarian/vegan.
Meat, fish, eggs, cheese, veggies, salads, soups are all good for lunch and dinner will be more of the same.
Yes, I love pulses, kidney beans and houmous, and thought at the start of lchf I could have those, they're protein right?? But also very starchy so I don't have them now.
I'm a restart on lchf, and can definitely say when I have carbs now, I feel so ill, lethargic, bloated and uncomfortable! I eat normal portions of protien, 'a chicken breast'. 'A' pork chop, eat loads green veg and salads, Natural fats, nuts, eggs, cheese, cream and few berries.
In my first 2 weeks I lost 6lbs, and felt so much better. However I did have few Xmas treats, which took their toll and I gained a bit. But am back on it now for last 4 days and already feel better.
Give it a go! It's easy when you get started
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Hi. IF is great if it works for you. I find it really good! I KNOW you will get people on here to give you LOTS of advice and suggest videos.
The main thing is to find your own way. That is to say, follow the given advice, watch videos on you tube, but don't let it confuse or panic you!! 😱
Experiment with how you feel and find your own natural limits.
Doing the very basic 5:2 could be the way to start, just cutting right back two days a week. Nothing more complicated than that!!
Or pick a time to not eat ... example between 6pm and 12pm next day. that gives you a 8 hour 'eating window' (you should aim at at least 16 hours food free this way) and pick time that suit you r life, but overnight means you will sleep through most of it! 😂.
You may be lucky and find that you can just skip a days eating right away.
You will soon find your appetite level, and it will start to drop as your body adapts.
Try follow some kind of eating path on your eating time. I do LCHF. which is really good alongside fasting. But there are so many ways you could chose. The fasting just fit along with any of them.
Good luck!!
I generally agree with everything the Awful Toad says, but if you want a rule, put absolutely no sugar of any kind, white flour of any kind, or potatoes in your mouth ever again & I promise you, you will lose weight. Maybe not at record speed, but sustainably & forever.
Keto rewind is a brilliant you tuber. A few days ago she reviewed her 96 lb weight loss since February. A truly motivational video. Everyone should watch it, newbie or not. 2 fit docs and Ken berry are easy to watch videos also. I wish you success in your journey.
Welcome to the group. To add to the excellent advice you have received already, I would like to suggest you understand the brilliant Sugar Equivalence Infographics developed by the wonderful GP Dr David Unwin. I introduced them here: healthunlocked.com/lchf-die... when the were endorsed by NICE in the spring of 2019. Dr Unwin developed them to make the glycaemic index simpler to understand by illustrating the impact on blood sugar when eating different foods.
Several have mentioned dietdoctor.com. I have followed this project almost from the start when Dr Andreas Eenfeldt started it in English around 2011. As this project has had such an influence to bring us information that we can all use freely and had such an influence, I will write a separate blog to give people the background and how it is funded.
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