HUNGRY!

by | Mar 22, 2013 | Cravings, Low carb diet, Weight Loss | 0 comments

 

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This has already been said, this isn’t unusual and there are quite a few people who do go through it but I would like to reinforce the fact that it will pass.

Personally during those hungry times I found eating fat was always the good way of dealing with the hunger and also it gave the body more of what it was needing as it was now trying to or attempting to consume fat for energy.

Above all, know that the short period of discomfort will be well worth it as over the days, weeks and months ahead you start seeing the new slim you in the mirror.

Hope that helps,

 Mark

This was a comment I made on a low carb forum post

 

Mild GI problems on OWL

by | Mar 19, 2013 | Low carb diet, Weight Loss | 0 comments

pink-owlHere’s something that I’ve been suggesting to people for a number of years now simply because I find that it works.

Before, during and after induction it’s a good idea to take both probiotic supplements as well as digestive enzyme supplements as these will help the body deal with the various changes in diet that you go through at the beginning and at the end of induction.

Also by the way, by increasing your proportion of healthy bacteria in your stomach you tend to make yourself much more immune or at least suffer less from any stomach bugs and viruses that are going around simply because the healthy bacteria outnumber any of the nasty ones that get in there.

Hope that helps,

Mark

A copy of another comment I made on a low carb forum post 

Let Them Eat Fat

by | Mar 19, 2013 | High Fat Diet, Low carb diet, Weight Loss | 0 comments

 

???????????????????????????????????????You know the strange thing is even though I’m the most healthy person amongst my group of friends they still marvel or actually complain at the amount of fat that I eat when we’re eating together and even after all these years I still get “Oh aren’t you afraid your cholesterol will go through the roof?” Of course to which I reply “I don’t have cholesterol problems. Why would I be afraid of it going through the roof?” It’s still often met with gasps and half joking and half sincere offers to phone the ambulance when I have a heart attack.

But sometimes you know I don’t think this semi lighthearted banter is really so much out of concern from my health and well being. I think a lot of it is purely out of jealousy because I obviously enjoy what I’m eating whereas many times my eating companions don’t really seem to be doing so.

Don’t you just love being low carb?

Cheers,

Mark

This is just another one of my comments on a forum post about low carb

Oil vs Coconut Oil

by | Mar 19, 2013 | Weight Loss | 0 comments

185px-Italian_olive_oil_2007_smCoconut oil like many things may not look very good but it does taste quite nice if you get a good quality one and when you use it for cooking it does have a certain flavor that can’t be beaten particularly for African, Caribbean and Far Eastern dishes.

Olive oil in the other hand is great for Mediterranean food. That’s’ where it’s been used for centuries in cuisine and most of the dishes that it’s used in really do compliment the flavors that come in  the different varieties of olive oil.

Personally having lived in France for so long I tend to use butter when I’m cooking things whether that’s roasting in the oven or even cooking on the hob top but there again I’m following Northern European standard cooking practice and like olive oil, butter and cream is something that is used quite extensively in Northern French or Belgian or other cuisine from this area.

The key thing here of course is to stay away from the man made ones such as canola and others like it that have a dubious manufacturing process that doesn’t at the end give us a good quality product.

Another key thing here is staying as close to the natural product as you can and like most things the more gently you treat them the better they tend to taste.

Cheers,

Mark

This is actually a comment I made on  forum post about oils

Low Carb Treats

by | Mar 15, 2013 | Food Choices, Low carb diet, Weight Loss | 0 comments

Here’s a tasty low carb and homemade sweet treat: 12395758796JDgVV

Take a pot of full fat soft cheese and set it aside to warm up a little for half an hour. In the meantime take one dried fig and five or six blueberries and chop them up into very small bits. Add two or three chopped walnuts and mix both the fruit and the nuts into the soft cheese. Cover and return to the cooler for 24 hours.

Now for the treat: Take half a spoonful of the fruity cheesy mixture and sandwich it between two pecan nuts.

So if you’re using 100 grams of pecans, a small pack of cream cheese, one fig, five blueberries and 14 or 15 walnut halves, the whole lot comes to 27 grams of carbs and those of you who would like to follow net carbs will come with an even smaller number so it really is a guilt free treat.

This is a response I made on a forum post about low carb diet