Fat&Furious
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Hello everyone!
I am a female (mother) in my 30s and just discovered Peat and this style of eating. Won’t waste time on too many details but started Low-Carb about 8 years ago after having Pre-eclampsia with my first child, and reading some weird literature on how going low-carb may possibly prevent this, (I was scared, I was desperate!) so I upped my magnesium and took the journey towards a lot less carbs and more meat, dairy & good fat. Apparently there were lots of health benefits, apparently sugar was bad anyway, right?!
Well, I was fine with my second child, had them naturally, and although we both sighed a huge sigh of relief, perhaps this was dangerous in another way, for ‘encouraging’ me in what I thought was the ‘right’ dietary direction, but I would always diet Yo-Yo, as would my husband. We just couldn’t maintain it for longer than a few weeks and would end up on a weekend binge of carbs, pizza & sugar, and so on, like we’d not been fed in a week. (My children were exempt from my own dieting fads, thank goodness!) Long story short I began to doubt (aren’t whole civilisations are built on carbs?!) so I began to eat a varied, normal western diet about 4 years ago, after being tired of diet obsession and what in my head was ‘failure’ whenever I reached for a candy bar or even a carrot or apple!
Let me just add that I also (stupidly!!) substituted sugar for artificial sweeteners. Yes, I could have used honey or maple syrup, but in a way I was brain-washed, even though, looking back, who knows what is in these sweeteners, and they probably didn’t agree with me (or the human body as a whole) one bit. Around the time when I first did low-carb hard, & cut out all fruit & sugar, I began to develop arthritis type symptoms and inflammation too, which I couldn’t find relief from! What?! I was in my 20s! Instead of Drs and drugs, I just considered it another diet failure, like I wasn’t eating ‘clean enough’. I was mad at myself. I also just put it down to how pregnancy ‘changes some women’ and that I was unfortunately one of them, who would never be the same or get a decent figure back... I even lost a lot of my breast tissue after one child, due to under feeding myself, determined to lose weight, which was crazy! It was that which finally tipped me over into eating ‘normally’ because I was shocked at how three tiny meals a day of L.Carb could mean my actual breast tissue disappeared, (not just decreased,) instead of leading to weight loss elsewhere (thighs, tum). I now have a belly I cannot budge, and both my husband and I are more unhealthy than when we had first tried this Atkins style diet... surprise, not...!
Recently my husband discovered Ray Peat and thought we would try this way of eating (or drinking, as most if it may be) but I am unsure how to proceed. Does anybody else here feel terribly hungry after having minimal solid food, even if they drink their orange juice and milk? I am used to a higher fat diet than what is suggested for those people who wish to lose weight, (this will be a hard habit to break) although I have strangely noticed that I crave less if I have more sugar. I haven’t lost weight, but I haven’t gained either so far, about a month in. I feel like it’s all guesswork.
I have not been a high energy person in years, but I do ‘life exercise’, I’m busy in my own way even though I don’t do sports. I’m glad that I read somewhere that you shouldn’t over exercise while your body is under strain because I feel terribly weak and I have had bad knees since childhood. For a short period while eating a ‘normal western diet’ and ditching L.Carb I did exercise like mad, thinking that this was the missing component, but all it left me was exhausted and extremely grouchy! Can anybody relate?
I would like to know other people’s experiences with raising metabolism, which I pretty much think I wrecked, and how long it took their body to recover from feeling constantly stressed or pushed. I am also convinced that my overnight increase in grey hairs (I now have a whole bunch of them) was due to somehow placing unnecessary strain on my body or the wrong type of foods. I have been through some stressful things in the past decade, illnesses, deaths of family members, house moves, etc, while all the time ‘searching’ for how to get back to my old, healthy self. Funny how when I was younger and slim I ate what I wanted, like a tonne of sugar, but didn’t think anything of it because I was healthy. The second I grow up and have kids I’m set on dieting to change myself and I go in what seemed to be the totally wrong direction! Is this why people have a ‘middle aged spread’? Because they don’t think about dieting until they’re older? Plus the PUFAs I guess...
Does anyone have any ideas on how to proceed with diet without overdoing it? I don’t have the willpower to be overly strict anymore, but I want to be convinced that I am doing my body some good, instead of just reaching for the ice-cream or mashed potatoes because I don’t really believe anything will work anymore. I suppose you could say I am ‘Peat-leaning’ but I’m taking it one week at a time. I have given up cruciferous vegetables (or however you spell it!) which I used to rely on in L.Carb, and finally am enjoying things like carrots and squash and turnips again.
Happy 2020 people! All the best in your dietary ventures, may we never take health for granted again!
I am a female (mother) in my 30s and just discovered Peat and this style of eating. Won’t waste time on too many details but started Low-Carb about 8 years ago after having Pre-eclampsia with my first child, and reading some weird literature on how going low-carb may possibly prevent this, (I was scared, I was desperate!) so I upped my magnesium and took the journey towards a lot less carbs and more meat, dairy & good fat. Apparently there were lots of health benefits, apparently sugar was bad anyway, right?!
Well, I was fine with my second child, had them naturally, and although we both sighed a huge sigh of relief, perhaps this was dangerous in another way, for ‘encouraging’ me in what I thought was the ‘right’ dietary direction, but I would always diet Yo-Yo, as would my husband. We just couldn’t maintain it for longer than a few weeks and would end up on a weekend binge of carbs, pizza & sugar, and so on, like we’d not been fed in a week. (My children were exempt from my own dieting fads, thank goodness!) Long story short I began to doubt (aren’t whole civilisations are built on carbs?!) so I began to eat a varied, normal western diet about 4 years ago, after being tired of diet obsession and what in my head was ‘failure’ whenever I reached for a candy bar or even a carrot or apple!
Let me just add that I also (stupidly!!) substituted sugar for artificial sweeteners. Yes, I could have used honey or maple syrup, but in a way I was brain-washed, even though, looking back, who knows what is in these sweeteners, and they probably didn’t agree with me (or the human body as a whole) one bit. Around the time when I first did low-carb hard, & cut out all fruit & sugar, I began to develop arthritis type symptoms and inflammation too, which I couldn’t find relief from! What?! I was in my 20s! Instead of Drs and drugs, I just considered it another diet failure, like I wasn’t eating ‘clean enough’. I was mad at myself. I also just put it down to how pregnancy ‘changes some women’ and that I was unfortunately one of them, who would never be the same or get a decent figure back... I even lost a lot of my breast tissue after one child, due to under feeding myself, determined to lose weight, which was crazy! It was that which finally tipped me over into eating ‘normally’ because I was shocked at how three tiny meals a day of L.Carb could mean my actual breast tissue disappeared, (not just decreased,) instead of leading to weight loss elsewhere (thighs, tum). I now have a belly I cannot budge, and both my husband and I are more unhealthy than when we had first tried this Atkins style diet... surprise, not...!
Recently my husband discovered Ray Peat and thought we would try this way of eating (or drinking, as most if it may be) but I am unsure how to proceed. Does anybody else here feel terribly hungry after having minimal solid food, even if they drink their orange juice and milk? I am used to a higher fat diet than what is suggested for those people who wish to lose weight, (this will be a hard habit to break) although I have strangely noticed that I crave less if I have more sugar. I haven’t lost weight, but I haven’t gained either so far, about a month in. I feel like it’s all guesswork.
I have not been a high energy person in years, but I do ‘life exercise’, I’m busy in my own way even though I don’t do sports. I’m glad that I read somewhere that you shouldn’t over exercise while your body is under strain because I feel terribly weak and I have had bad knees since childhood. For a short period while eating a ‘normal western diet’ and ditching L.Carb I did exercise like mad, thinking that this was the missing component, but all it left me was exhausted and extremely grouchy! Can anybody relate?
I would like to know other people’s experiences with raising metabolism, which I pretty much think I wrecked, and how long it took their body to recover from feeling constantly stressed or pushed. I am also convinced that my overnight increase in grey hairs (I now have a whole bunch of them) was due to somehow placing unnecessary strain on my body or the wrong type of foods. I have been through some stressful things in the past decade, illnesses, deaths of family members, house moves, etc, while all the time ‘searching’ for how to get back to my old, healthy self. Funny how when I was younger and slim I ate what I wanted, like a tonne of sugar, but didn’t think anything of it because I was healthy. The second I grow up and have kids I’m set on dieting to change myself and I go in what seemed to be the totally wrong direction! Is this why people have a ‘middle aged spread’? Because they don’t think about dieting until they’re older? Plus the PUFAs I guess...
Does anyone have any ideas on how to proceed with diet without overdoing it? I don’t have the willpower to be overly strict anymore, but I want to be convinced that I am doing my body some good, instead of just reaching for the ice-cream or mashed potatoes because I don’t really believe anything will work anymore. I suppose you could say I am ‘Peat-leaning’ but I’m taking it one week at a time. I have given up cruciferous vegetables (or however you spell it!) which I used to rely on in L.Carb, and finally am enjoying things like carrots and squash and turnips again.
Happy 2020 people! All the best in your dietary ventures, may we never take health for granted again!
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