Has anyone tried the Rosedale Diet?

CactusCat58
CactusCat58 Posts: 19 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
After a serious illness and being bombarded with Rx drugs I developed Leaky Gut and a serious metabolic disorder several years ago which caused me to gain almost 150 lbs. I have been on no Rx drugs for over 3 yrs now, eating "clean & healthy", watching my portions & calories, working out 5x a week for 1-2 hrs with a combination of cardio and weight training but struggle to lose every ounce. In 2 yrs I've lost about 40 lbs, but my scale has not budged in the last 4-6 wks. My Naturopath recently diagnosed me with Leptin resistance and suggested I try the Rosedale Diet. I've read the book and even though it goes against all the traditional wisdom I've seen over the last 30 yrs it actually seems to make total sense. I'm just wondering if anyone else uses this diet and has it worked for you?

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  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-rosedale-diet-here-we-go-again/

    How accurate is your calorie counting? Do you pick the right entries from database? Do you use a food scale to weigh everything?
  • CactusCat58
    CactusCat58 Posts: 19 Member
    I do weigh my food when I cook at home (which is most of the time) and I believe I am picking the right database entries. I also enable the negative adjustments from my fitness tracker b/c MFP seems to highly over estimate the calories burned through exercise.

    So, back to my question..... have you used or are you using the Rosedale Diet? If so, what kind of results did you get with it?
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    Rosedale diet is low carb? I've done low carb and I did okay for awhile but I like to exercise, I was having huge issues with energy and fatigue.
  • CactusCat58
    CactusCat58 Posts: 19 Member
    edited April 2017
    As I'm understanding it I wouldn't actually say it's low carb.....just no simple carbs or added sugars, moderate protein from lean meats, higher in "good fats" from tree nuts, avocado, and oils and little to no saturated fats. Of course, that's the extremely condensed summary.
  • ocrXfitter
    ocrXfitter Posts: 123 Member
    CactusCat58 wrote: »
    As I'm understanding it I wouldn't actually say it's low carb.....just no simple carbs or added sugars, moderate protein from lean meats, higher in "good fats" from tree nuts, avocado, and oils and little to no saturated fats. Of course, that's the extremely condensed summary.

    So, like paleo? I don't do gluten (end up with poops when I do) so my diet is essentially like you described. It's great to eat healthy food, but when it comes to weight loss it's all about the calories.
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    You could try it and see how you feel. Sometimes just focusing on lean meats and vegetables gets you going again in the right direction.

    Do you eat your exercise calories back?
  • CactusCat58
    CactusCat58 Posts: 19 Member
    ocrXfitter wrote: »
    CactusCat58 wrote: »
    As I'm understanding it I wouldn't actually say it's low carb.....just no simple carbs or added sugars, moderate protein from lean meats, higher in "good fats" from tree nuts, avocado, and oils and little to no saturated fats. Of course, that's the extremely condensed summary.

    So, like paleo? I don't do gluten (end up with poops when I do) so my diet is essentially like you described. It's great to eat healthy food, but when it comes to weight loss it's all about the calories.

    I have histamine intolerance so I have to be gluten free as well. I'm not familiar with paleo so I can't really compare the two, but I can tell you for sure that when you have insulin and leptin resistance weight loss is about much more than just the calories. I have never been an over-eater since I noticed the 1st 15 lbs that I put on for no real reason. In fact, all my doctors and my personal trainer have all told me I wasn't eating enough and I have tried everything that they recommended to no avail. The final straw was getting stress fractures in my feet from over-training so much and still not being able to get the scale to budge....which is when I realized that the conventional path just wasn't working for me and sought out a Naturopath.
  • CactusCat58
    CactusCat58 Posts: 19 Member
    Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »
    You could try it and see how you feel. Sometimes just focusing on lean meats and vegetables gets you going again in the right direction.

    Do you eat your exercise calories back?

    That's the way I had already been eating for the most part, but started following the recommendations of my personal trainer who touts the 21-Day Fix (which had me eating higher calories and more carbs than I normally would) as gospel and seems to have halted even the slow progress I was making before.

    I don't eat the exercise calories anymore. I did to an extent in the beginning, but even when I was leaving 800-1000 calories I was still gaining weight back so I stopped.
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