Everyone told me coconut oil was good for me

You need to take the bad stigma away from "fat". SOME fats, like coconut oil are GOOD for you. I drink coconut milk and I eat a lot of nuts. ALL healthy fats, and my cholesterol is in GREAT shape.

Please research the difference between "good" and "bad" fats, and how they can impact your life. And enjoy your coconut oil in the process.

I will go ahead and reinforce this one more time.

Also, your doctor's an idiot, and crisco had trans-fats the last time I looked. Gimme saturated over trans-fats any day, and twice on Mondays.

Another thought. Have you tried roasting your vegetables instead? I roast mine in the oven on a sheet of non-stick reynolds foil so I don't have to use much oil. I just lightly mist the vegetables with EVOO from my "misto" oil spray can and sprinkle the vegetables with a few fresh herbs or salt and pepper.

Maybe she's a troll. But I do know many doctors push a low-fat, high carb diet onto diabetic patients, including my own, so it's possible she's a real person who has been told she MUST eat this way or else, and that's causing the extreme, irrational fear of cooking some damn mushrooms.

I don't think she's a troll to be honest and I think you're probably right.

Yes, there is a view that the traditional method of treating insulin resistance by the controlling of sugars and starches may be wrong and so a low fat diet is recommended. However, that is not very common and runs contrary to the accepted advice. 10 % from fat sounds particularly low depending on how many calories per day she is eating...

I fry mine in chicken stock, although I love coconut oil....all my sauteeing is done with some kind of stock.

I've been eating 60% of my calories as healthy fats from coconut oil, evoo, avocados, etc for the past two weeks, and I am steadily losing fat and feel great.

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/high-fat-diet-healthy-safe/#axzz2YSgp6VKg

Whatever you do, try and avoid the Crisco, the coconut oil works much much much better with the biology of the human body.

Best wishes!

Wow. See, I'm the opposite. My macros are 60 carbs, 30 protein, 10 fat. so I don't allow very much. Mostly just from meats.

Took a quick look at your profile, and it looks like you've got a long way to go to your goal, so I'm going to offer up some heartfelt, kind advice, and hopefully it hits home..

Give 20/60/20 c/f/p a try for 3 days. It won't harm you, if you choose healthy fats. Take a look at my diary if you need ideas, and feel free to add me. You seem like a spunky person, and I KNOW you will have so much more energy and enjoyment from giving this a go.

Take a minute and think about your typical day. Do you feel ready to go when you wake up? How are your hunger and energy levels throughout the day? When I was eating mostly carbs, I would be STARVING and HANGRY by 10:00. No longer an issue. Do you feel energized and excited to be home when you're off work? How are you sleeping? Now I eat as many veggies and fruits as I please, but no grains.

It really does make a world of a difference.

You need to take the bad stigma away from "fat". SOME fats, like coconut oil are GOOD for you. I drink coconut milk and I eat a lot of nuts. ALL healthy fats, and my cholesterol is in GREAT shape.

Please research the difference between "good" and "bad" fats, and how they can impact your life. And enjoy your coconut oil in the process.

^^This is absolutely true Well said!

I don't use coconut oil, but I do use olive oil in moderation. I have a kitchen spritzer from pampered chef- no chemicals, just add the oil of your choice, pump and spray. Also saw your comment about vegetable broth- have you ever made your own vegetable stock?

I just got my recommended daily allowance of SASS from this thread alone!

The best thing to fry your mushrooms in is butter, because it is by far the best tasting combination. Barring that, olive oil.

Stay away from hydrogenated products (like Crisco) but other than that, just learn to use small amounts and figure it into your overall calorie math for the day. You need fat. You will feel much less hungry and your skin and hair will thank you.

" I might as well be using butter or crisco vegetable oil. "

No. Coconut oil is much richer nutritionally than those things. And like the others said---it's a matter of "good" fats & "bad" fats. Also, 90 calories is a drop in a bucket of your overall calorie intake for the day. As long as you aren't globbing coconut oil on everything, it shouldn't be a calorie suck.

There are 0 calorie cooking sprays & whatever, if you REALLY are that scared of coconut oil, but those sprays are full of chemicals & don't have any nutritional value.

I don't need nutritional value, just something to fry my mushrooms in that is low fat and low calorie.

Yes I wont use the sprays, who knows what is in those.

You don't care about nutritional value, but won't use sprays? Get over the crap you've been told about fat. Coconut oil, and all healthy fats, are not the devil. I put coconut oil in my coffee, cook with it, get 60% of my calories from fat, and am losing about 3 pounds per week. Insulin. Insulin is what drives fat gain and loss.

Im insulin resistant so my doctor has me on a very low fat diet. I can get no more than 10% of my calories from fat.

Yup... gonna say troll... pretty sure you don't need to consume 60% of your diet from carbs if you are insulin resistant.

Maybe she's a troll. But I do know many doctors push a low-fat, high carb diet onto diabetic patients, including my own, so it's possible she's a real person who has been told she MUST eat this way or else, and that's causing the extreme, irrational fear of cooking some damn mushrooms.

:noway: Say what?! IF that is the case the OP is telling the truth, then I'm with others... Get a new doctor ASAP. My mother is prediabetic and we are having diabetes education pushed on us hardcore at work via our wellness program.... and I have not heard anyone say to consume a high carb low fat diet ever. Hell, I haven't ever read that in fluff articles on the interwebz. In fact, they all advocate and drill into everyone to limit carbs. Not to mention that good fats are essential for keeping things running and feeling satiated.

I love coconut oil! Crisco is nasty stuff and I would be very careful about consuming that.

I thought that coconut fat was controversial and that there was not enough research on it to tell if it was good for us or not.

That was because they used refined coconut oil for the studies. It's different when you are using virgin coconut oil since that is not processed.

I want to know more about this "unicorn oil" stuff! Does it come in colors? Can I add edible glitter to it? Oooooh, I wants me some!

Yes. I sell a 3 oz package along with edible glitter in 2 colors. If you send me $18,000,000 cash, I'll send you 2 packages.

What nobody has told you so far in the thread is that coconut oil can be thought of as a carbohydrate - not as a fat.

I understand you're trying to cut down on your fat macros - but you may as well subtract these from your fat total.

Take a look:

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http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/coconut_oil.htm

Medium-Chain Triglycerides (MCT)

Coconut oil contains ~ 64% MCT (Dayrit, 2003; Fife, 2004). This is more than any other food in existence. Research has clearly shown that MCT's are thermogenic (Scalfi et al., 1991) and that less is stored away as body fat (Papamandjaris et al., 2000; St-Onge & Jones, 2002; St-Onge & Jones, 2003).

The reason for this phenomenon is that the MCT's are rapidly absorbed from the intestines directly into the portal system and sent to the liver instead of through the lymphatic system like all other fats; they also do not require carnitine for transport and they are quickly oxidized and used for energy much like carbohydrates (Amarasiri & Dissanayake, 2006; Aoyama et al., 2007; Bach & Babayan, 1982; Hashim, 1967; Manore et al., 1993; Pehowich et al., 2000).