Elimination Diet-strict

audi5odj wrote: »

Anyone had this experience? Do you have any recipe suggestions?

I don't know for sure what you are going for but I, as a less active and short female, have a lot of great results when I completely cut out bread, pasta, sweets, and really sugary fruits.

When I load up on vegetables and focus on lean meats, and try to cook with as little oil as possible most of the time, it really allows my body to burn my stored fat. I used to be a nutrition counselor and the same thing generally worked for men.

When you eat protein primarily as your hunger-curbing source of food, your body will naturally burn stored fat as its source of carbohydrates. It's not the only way to do things but it generally works.

People doing keto diets sometimes go no carb- which I don't think is truly sustainable because a super high fat diet is not good for our cholesterol long-term.
Some folks carb cycle, meaning they go say, day 1 zero carbs, day 2 40 carbs, day 3 50 carbs, day 4 100 carbs, day 5-7 no carbs, repeat. (a form of elimination diet)

Some people set their goal to be 60 carbs or less a day and just stick to it.

Personally do my best avoiding hunger by setting my goal at 88 carbs or less and a minimum of 110 grams of protein.

Everybody is different and it will also depend on how much sleep you're getting and how much exercise you do.

But basically slashing junk food and processed food is always in our favor. It doesn't work for everybody per cravings but I can't eat in moderation--- so that's what I get rid of. Stuff that my body wouldn't chemically identify as ""true food"".