JULIE BLOG May 7th 2017

Giving up Dairy!

Hi there, welcome to all our new members, I hope you are finding things here interesting and helpful. You may not know that I occasionally put up a blog which I then put up on on http://lchf81.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/ sequentially where you can find them when they get lost miles down on this page. This time I am going to talk personally about my own fights with LCHF Way of Eating. 

I have plateaued in weight loss for a long time. I do need to lose about stone. It would help the weight on my knee joints which were replaced about ten years ago. I am not obese but definitely overweight. In one of the videos I put up this week on this subject the doctor in it advised stop having dairy. Aggh! No cheese! I am a cheeseaholic. Milk I can take or leave but cheese and yogurt. It has been said to me before 'give up dairy, and I always answer I have given up enough to eat this way. 

The doctor in the video said try it for two weeks and see if you start to lose weight again. I lost at the start of eating this way. I had a think and came to the conclusion nothing else had worked, less fat, less protein, less carbs, all tried individually. What is a fortnight? What is not having cheese? I gave up sugar, nothing surely is harder than that. I will give it a go. So I finished the last bits of my particular cheeses at lunch and milk yesterday. I allow myself a half table spoon, measured, of cream for my coffee as I have heard its not quite as bad as milk. Yogurt pot half full and shall finish it soon. So an experiment of one N=1.

I have substituted the fats in cheese with walnuts, brazil nuts, only a few, seeds toasted and put on my salad. I shall make sure my meats are fatty and I have olive oil every day. Also have about a table spoon of Coconut oil with a teaspoon of almond butter most days. I don't think I shall go short on fats. What does anybody else think? Open to suggestions. The rest of my diet is all the usual fish eggs etc. Oh but I shall miss our homemade cream cheese sauces. 😢 I'll report how it goes.

I am also thinking of having a go at Cron-O Meter app to measure my foodstuff. Never used it before. Tried My fitness Pal but got lost somewhere along the line. I would really like to know for   advising new people to LCHF,  if it is worth paying for and using so another experiment N=1. Anyone else used it, believe it is very American. Why are there no British apps or are there?

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So this was me last December and I am still about the same. OK front on but turn sideways on OMG. Yes all in the bum, tum and hips.