LCHF – Day 27 – Helga’s Guidelines for LCHF Eating…

10-51am

Today is my last planned day of LCHF. After having a fabulous hour on Rise and Shine this morning with Prof Tim Noakes answering your questions (and mine), I am going to be tweaking my diet.

Tim, Helga, Wayne Rise & Shine Tuesday 13th November 2012

Prof Tim suggests to speed up weight loss (yes please!), I go easy on the protein and see what happens. This will mean lots of yoghurt, cream, avo, salads, cheese, vegetables and not so much meat, eggs and nuts. All of this is very filling so it will sustain me. It will be worth trying it out, seeing as I am very much on a sugar-free, carb-free role. So for those who are not seeing a reasonable amount of weight loss, lessen the protein in your diet. Let’s try that for 4 weeks.

If you tuned in this morning and are looking for guidelines for this Low Carb, High Fat eating plan, this is what I have done based on Tim’s advice and reading up on it all:-

What you want to avoid:

1. No bread, no potatoes, no rice, no pasta, no cous cous – no overt carbs at all eg cake, pizza, rusks, muffins, etc! No peanuts (see below for other nuts)

2. No sugar in tea or coffee. No chocolate, sweets, no fizzy drinks, no flavoured water or even diet drinks. Avoid artificial sweetners.

What you can eat:

1. Free range eggs, fish eg. tuna, salmon, hake, haddock, yellowtail, sardines etc. chicken, meat, including pork (bacon), beef, lamb and biltong (try for free-range).

2. Nuts and Seeds – macadamia, almonds, cashew (I avoid salted and roasted), pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, flaxseed soil (Tim says it really helps with raised blood pressure). Olive oil.

3. Fruit – limit fruit to one serving a day. Fruit is very high in sugar. I personally favour berries – strawberries, gooseberries, blueberries and raspberries. (They are great for preventing constipation).

4. Veggies – Avocado pear – I can eat a LOT of this. I put it in every salad and eat it on it’s own regularly! I will be very sad when they are out of season.  Lots of veggies are great – leafy greens, like spinach and cabbage. I regularly eat carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, peas, even a little butternut. Gem squash, baby marrows. I eat lots of salad laden with lettuce, cherry tomatoes, red pepper, carrots, mushrooms, feta cheese, olives and avo. Yum!

5. Dairy products – these are going to give you a great deal of satisfaction. Full cream (double if you like) Greek (unsweetened, unflavoured) yoghurt. Once you are off sugar, you will love it. Cream! I put cream on my breakfast and in my coffee. It’s great. Full cream milk. Cheese, Eggs. Butter (ditch margarine).

So you see there is lots to eat!

For those who asked, these are the 9 important tests that should be done at some stage to see just what is going on in your body. Test for Insulin, Glucose, HbA1c, HDL Cholesterol, LDL Cholesterol particle size, Triglicerides, Uric Acid, Homocysteine and C-Reactive Protein.

Further reading:

Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes (He also authored Good Calories, Bad Calories).

www.dietdoctor.com or google Primal Living with Mark Sisson for food ideas. Paleo Diet is another key word to google as is LCHF diets.

That should give you a good place to start!

Have fun!

Here’s the link to our previous interview with Tim..

Professor Tim Noakes on the Paleo Diet

The Bible has lots to say about food: Genesis 45:18 says, “…you can enjoy the fat of the land.”

Thanks for finding that one Joe and Lenore!

God bless!

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂