unclemick
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Omnivore here.
Also I think?
heh heh heh - Resident of the land of BBQ.
P.S. Where does ice cream and chocolate fit?
Omnivore here.
High carb diet is what causes high triglycerides. Fat causes the opposite. Great progress for you!Thank you! I agree and TBH I was completely amazed. I suppose that some of the improvement was due to weight loss, but still. All my lab test results were well within allowable limits, except my A1C which was down to 6.3 and that's a huge improvement for me. And for the first time in 12 years, despite eating fat instead of a low fat diet, my triglycerides were within allowable limits instead of being so high.
That's the first diet that came to my mind too!!!Seefood diet
Thank you! The before and after pictures are an embarrassment. I can't believe I got so far out of shape...Wow! 100 lbs! Kudos! Losing that weight did more for your retirement than any amount of financial planning!
complete elimination of constipation.
Right now, Paleo would be the closest, but it's actually the Keto diet.
High in fats, proteins but with milk products allowed. Low in sugars and carbs.
Started 2 weeks ago when my clothes quit fitting and I saw a photo of myself at grandson's graduation and I thought I looked overweight. I'm 6' tall, weighed 206 when I started 2 weeks ago. I now weight 190. I eat as much as I want of the foods I can; any cheeses, meat, veggies but not root veggies, olive oil, coconut oil, etc.
More important is what you can't eat; grains and that includes corn, sugar or the larger fruits. Berries and such are o.k. as there's nowhere near the sugars in those as in say, an apple.
No calorie counting, eat as much as you like. My daily diet consists of;
coffee with real cream in the morning with a few blue berries and strawberries that have unsweetened heavy whipped cream in the morning. Eggs and bacon or sausage any style.
Anitpasti mid day consisting of cured and stuffed green olives (stuffed with cheeze, hot peppers, etc.), marinated mushrooms and artichoke hearts, cottage cheese, grape sized tomatoes, a couple different cheeses off the wheel and hard salami sliced thin.
Dinner I have beef, chicken, fish or pork, usually BBQ'd as I'm good at it. Also have a smoker. Green salad with oil/vinegar dressing, sauteed mushrooms in butter with a few onion slices in there too. Steamed veggie, usually broccoli or fresh green beans.
After maybe three or four days, my appetite really decreased on it's own. Now that my body wasn't craving sugars and carbs, I just wasn't as hungry as I used to be.
My goal is to get down to the low 170's, about 30 pounds of weight loss, then relax a very little on the starches. I plan to keep sugar cut out of my diet.
There ain't much cleaner eating than elk and jackrabbits I personally whacked combined with backyard quail eggs and veggies I grew.
We started watching videos by a doctor who is the grandson of one of Pritikin's first patients, Frances Gregor, and are giving a plant based diet a try -
“Frances Greger…arrived in Santa Barbara at one of Pritikin’s early sessions in a wheelchair. Mrs. Greger had heart disease, angina, and claudication; her condition was so bad she could no longer walk without great pain in her chest and legs. Within three weeks, though, she was not only out of her wheelchair but was walking ten miles a day.”
https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/heart-disease/
One other side note: I know the LCHF has won the narrative. Most say carbohydrates are not good for you. Or at the least, carbs should be minimized. And there's even mention how people lose over 100 lbs on a Keto or low carb diet. The facts are, that after 5 years, 98% have gained all their weight back (and then some). Check out the NWCR National Weight Control Registry. People who've lost weight and kept it off for over 5 years and see what drives their success. Not one does it via Keto or low carb.
https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2013nl/feb/pritikinpdf3.pdf
I know I could look at this and read through, but do you know in their summary why this happens? Also, Does ANYONE lose on a diet and keep it off?
I surely want to know, as the LCHF/Atkins for maintenance approach has worked for me so far (albeit only 13-14 months), and I don't want to go back to where I was and how I felt then. Is it just too hard for most to maintain the dietary restrictions? I actually have found it not so difficult to date.