Paleo Man goes Wheat Free

Thursday, September 20, 2012

9 grams of carbs an hour

An interesting perspective:

There is no reason to ever go off a low carb way of eating, you slowly re introduce carbs to your way of eating and as long as you don't exceed 9grams of carbs an hour (144 carbs a day) you won't trigger insulin (the fat storage hormone) no matter the calories. Most of us do low carb most of the time & if we cheat & slip back into low carb the next day. I still cheat with sugar occasionally. It's just not a regular part of my life (as it was preAtkins, 6 years ago, when I felt it controlled me & I had no control)

... and later on,

this ...

You will lose more body fat eating protein and fat (don't eat protein alone) than not eating AT ALL. To lose weight fast eat all you want but nothing but meat, eggs, healthy oils, mayo, butter and half an avocado a day (you'll need added potassium). Keep the calories high and the fat percentage high, at least 65% of calories. Adding in green vegetables & some cheese will continue weight loss but at a slower pace

From Yahoo Answers

I recommend reading the whole answer. But as with everything we read, don't take it as true. Do your own research too :)

And to think, I just wanted to know How many carbs in a carrot!

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

What Losing 280 Pounds Looks Like: An Unbelievable Before and After

From: Food Is Fuel And he did it by eating bacon, eggs and pork belly!

A few other tidbits I thought worth commenting on:

Carb Dieting Levels

Carbs	Diet Name
< 100g	Low Carb Diet
< 50g	Ketogenic Diet
0g	Crazy-assed how-do-I-achieve-that! No-Carb Diet*

* - Ok. I had to guess at that last one because he couldn't remember the name that had been used

About seeing it through

Don't need goals. Don't need perfection. You can chase perfection without trying to be perfect!
When you screw up, don't get hung up. Just look at what went wrong and try to fix it
Don't look to the time it will take. Look to the things you will have/do when you're done

And whilst we're on the subject...

... of using the Paleo/Low Carb, High Fat/Wheat-free diet to focus on weight loss...

Recently I haven't been having as much success (re: weight loss) as I might have hoped. A friend suggested that I start writing down everything that I was eating and engage in a bit of analysis to see what I might be doing wrong. Well I can say that even before I got half-way through the first day of writing things down, I started to see the problem. I hadn't ever sat down to work out exactly how many carbs I was getting with some foods, but a little bit of google-fu took care of that.

The Conclusion:

Whilst what we were doing was good, it turns out it was definitely in the "Low-Carb" range, rather than the "Ketogenic" range. This was because I was underestimating just how many carbs you intake if you include milk (morning smoothie), coffee* (at least three) and fruit and nuts (snacks). These things are certainly not bad, but if we want to achieve ketosis, we'll have to rethink our approach.

* - again, for the milk intake: I can't stand black coffee

On the other hand, for now we will probably decide that a Low-Carb diet is sufficient: We still get to enjoy many different foods without ever feeling we're going without. Weight-loss will in all likelihood still occur, but over a much slower time frame. In the meantime, I think the best parts of our diet are:

we've virtually eliminated wheat-based products from our diet.
we're enjoying great-tasting banana and berry smoothies
we're enjoying the odd drop of wine and even port

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Nutritional Ketosis

In case you haven't seen it yet, It's possible this refit forum might be encouraging/useful. Its a cross between a self-help/encouragement forum and a recipe sharing forum. I was reading it quite regularly for a while.

http://www.reddit.com/r/keto

Seeing so many other people doing the same thing, sharing their experiences, is quite interesting.

(From a fellow wheat-free/low carb traveller)