LCHF

jbailey3557
jbailey3557 Posts: 17 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Any lchf dieters/way of lifers out there willing to share what worked for them.

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  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,426 MFP Moderator
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group

    You might find that group very beneficial if you want like minded low carbers.
  • jbailey3557
    jbailey3557 Posts: 17 Member
    Thank you for all the great advice and I agree it's not a diet it is my new life style and way of life n thinking and eating.
  • vingogly
    vingogly Posts: 1,785 Member
    Make sure you get enough fiber. Just sayin'. :*
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    jbailey3557 wrote: »
    Thank you for all the great advice and I agree it's not a diet it is my new life style and way of life n thinking and eating.

    I found making LCHF my eating lifestyle for nearly two years at age 63 helped reverse some major health issues. I ate at just under 50 grams of carbs and moderate protein daily staying in nutritional ketosis. I cut out sugar and all forms of all grains cold turkey Oct 2014 and have no real plan to add them back.

    Now I am experimenting with two days of high carbs but still no sugar or grains. Two days of higher protein followed by three days of LCHF to help insure my metabolism is flexible burning either glucose or ketones.

    Currently I think 100% of obese people as I was are obese because of underlying health issues from some origin. Nearly two years of LCHF helped fix my major health concerns without question giving me better health markers at age 65 than at age 45.

    The first 90 days was a lot of learning in my case and even the second 90 days. LCHF worked for me so I stuck with it. I dropped 50 pounds and then maintained at 200 pounds eating 2500 calories daily and walking at least a quarter mile daily. Now I can do it in 9 minutes but it took twice that long at the start because I had to rest often. Now I can get out of the car or theater seat unaided.

    Best of success. It is not magic but it seemed liked it in my case.

  • gonetothedogs19
    gonetothedogs19 Posts: 325 Member
    GaleHawkins wrote: »
    jbailey3557 wrote: »
    Thank you for all the great advice and I agree it's not a diet it is my new life style and way of life n thinking and eating.

    I found making LCHF my eating lifestyle for nearly two years at age 63 helped reverse some major health issues. I ate at just under 50 grams of carbs and moderate protein daily staying in nutritional ketosis. I cut out sugar and all forms of all grains cold turkey Oct 2014 and have no real plan to add them back.

    Now I am experimenting with two days of high carbs but still no sugar or grains. Two days of higher protein followed by three days of LCHF to help insure my metabolism is flexible burning either glucose or ketones.

    Currently I think 100% of obese people as I was are obese because of underlying health issues from some origin. Nearly two years of LCHF helped fix my major health concerns without question giving me better health markers at age 65 than at age 45.

    The first 90 days was a lot of learning in my case and even the second 90 days. LCHF worked for me so I stuck with it. I dropped 50 pounds and then maintained at 200 pounds eating 2500 calories daily and walking at least a quarter mile daily. Now I can do it in 9 minutes but it took twice that long at the start because I had to rest often. Now I can get out of the car or theater seat unaided.

    Best of success. It is not magic but it seemed liked it in my case.

    Did you count calories?
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    gonetothedogs19 wrote: »
    GaleHawkins wrote: »
    jbailey3557 wrote: »
    Thank you for all the great advice and I agree it's not a diet it is my new life style and way of life n thinking and eating.

    I found making LCHF my eating lifestyle for nearly two years at age 63 helped reverse some major health issues. I ate at just under 50 grams of carbs and moderate protein daily staying in nutritional ketosis. I cut out sugar and all forms of all grains cold turkey Oct 2014 and have no real plan to add them back.

    Now I am experimenting with two days of high carbs but still no sugar or grains. Two days of higher protein followed by three days of LCHF to help insure my metabolism is flexible burning either glucose or ketones.

    Currently I think 100% of obese people as I was are obese because of underlying health issues from some origin. Nearly two years of LCHF helped fix my major health concerns without question giving me better health markers at age 65 than at age 45.

    The first 90 days was a lot of learning in my case and even the second 90 days. LCHF worked for me so I stuck with it. I dropped 50 pounds and then maintained at 200 pounds eating 2500 calories daily and walking at least a quarter mile daily. Now I can do it in 9 minutes but it took twice that long at the start because I had to rest often. Now I can get out of the car or theater seat unaided.

    Best of success. It is not magic but it seemed liked it in my case.

    Did you count calories?

    @gonetothedogs19 I did count the calories a few times trying to compute my macro at first but no I did not count and log per se. Weight loss was not my objective. My objective was managing my joint and muscle pain with food so how much I ate just did not matter to me.

    The funny part was after a hellish two weeks my craving for carbs just faded away so staying < 50 grams of carbs was not hard at all after I learned how to detect hidden carbs. With no cravings I just ate until I was full then stopped eating until the next meal. Another funny thing was I ate a huge breakfast and did not want to eat until about 4 pm which would be my last meal most days.

    Another funny thing was my only objective was to recover my health yet the weight just melted away as my health recovers and still is doing so today. I had yo yo dieted for 40 years and wrecked my health in the process.
  • ladipoet
    ladipoet Posts: 4,180 Member
    psulemon wrote: »
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/394-low-carber-daily-forum-the-lcd-group

    You might find that group very beneficial if you want like minded low carbers.

    This!! It's where most of us Ketofiles tend to hang out.
  • gonetothedogs19
    gonetothedogs19 Posts: 325 Member
    GaleHawkins wrote: »
    gonetothedogs19 wrote: »
    GaleHawkins wrote: »
    jbailey3557 wrote: »
    Thank you for all the great advice and I agree it's not a diet it is my new life style and way of life n thinking and eating.

    I found making LCHF my eating lifestyle for nearly two years at age 63 helped reverse some major health issues. I ate at just under 50 grams of carbs and moderate protein daily staying in nutritional ketosis. I cut out sugar and all forms of all grains cold turkey Oct 2014 and have no real plan to add them back.

    Now I am experimenting with two days of high carbs but still no sugar or grains. Two days of higher protein followed by three days of LCHF to help insure my metabolism is flexible burning either glucose or ketones.

    Currently I think 100% of obese people as I was are obese because of underlying health issues from some origin. Nearly two years of LCHF helped fix my major health concerns without question giving me better health markers at age 65 than at age 45.

    The first 90 days was a lot of learning in my case and even the second 90 days. LCHF worked for me so I stuck with it. I dropped 50 pounds and then maintained at 200 pounds eating 2500 calories daily and walking at least a quarter mile daily. Now I can do it in 9 minutes but it took twice that long at the start because I had to rest often. Now I can get out of the car or theater seat unaided.

    Best of success. It is not magic but it seemed liked it in my case.

    Did you count calories?

    @gonetothedogs19 I did count the calories a few times trying to compute my macro at first but no I did not count and log per se. Weight loss was not my objective. My objective was managing my joint and muscle pain with food so how much I ate just did not matter to me.

    The funny part was after a hellish two weeks my craving for carbs just faded away so staying < 50 grams of carbs was not hard at all after I learned how to detect hidden carbs. With no cravings I just ate until I was full then stopped eating until the next meal. Another funny thing was I ate a huge breakfast and did not want to eat until about 4 pm which would be my last meal most days.

    Another funny thing was my only objective was to recover my health yet the weight just melted away as my health recovers and still is doing so today. I had yo yo dieted for 40 years and wrecked my health in the process.

    Proving that for some people, it is changing one's lifestyle, not tedious calorie counting, that is the ticket to weight loss (and better health). And these LCHF stories keep getting more and more numerous.
  • misskarne
    misskarne Posts: 1,765 Member
    GaleHawkins wrote: »
    jbailey3557 wrote: »
    Currently I think 100% of obese people as I was are obese because of underlying health issues from some origin.

    No.

    I'm fat because I ate too much. No medical condition. Just me choosing to eat more than I needed.
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    edited June 2016


    @misskarne do you not see choosing to eat to the point of becoming obese as I did may indicate some underlying health issue be it physical or mental in nature?

    In my case I never successful lost weight in 40 years until I changed my mind to stop dieting to lose weight. When I made eating for better health my only goal I lost my obese status without thought to my calorie intake after learning in my case it was the source of my calories which counted the most to manage my pain and weight.

    In my case the way of eating that dropped my joint and muscle pain levels from 7-8 to 2-3 in only 30 days took me for being obese to being non obese six months later and has enabled me to keep it off for the past year with no cravings or going hungry.

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