Hard to lose weight? by Annika Dahlqvist

Hard to lose weight? (taken from: http://blogg.passagen.se/dahlqvistannika/?anchor=sv%C3%A5rt_att_g%C3%A5_ner_i )
January 10, at 07:14, 2006

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Now and then I get emails from people who tell me they are eating low carb, but still having difficulty to lose weight as they desire.
My advice is usually to start by reading through my "Diet Programs" correctly. (See the blog margin)
If there is no weight loss when you follow the program:
The first is to reduce the carbohydrates down to what is in a reasonable amount of vegetables (you do not fill your plate) and dairy products.
You can limit themselves to above-ground vegetables if you want to minimize carbohydrates. Root vegetables contain more carbohydrates.  Milk, sour milk and yogurt contains 5% carbohydrate, lactose. Replace happily to cheese and butter, without lactose.
And also nothing of bread, pasta, oatmeal, rice, potatoes, fruit, etc.
Then you can reduce the proteins down too, least you need it for body building.
It is 0.5-1 grams per kilogram of body weight per day. (Meat contains approximately 20% protein)
Excess protein raises the blood sugar.
The rest is fat.
Fat in dairy products, eat absolutely no light versions of cream, butter, etc.
Fat meat and pork. It is saturated and animal fats that the body ideally needs for its building.
Saturated fat in coconut oil.
Monounsaturated fats in olive oil.
Oily fish.


If you eat according to this and still not lose weight as you want, you think you might want to settle for who you are.
As you eat carbohydrate-rich lean and fat, so you can eat as healthy as possible, and you are so healthy you can be.

Inserted 060916th I have received quite a few reports from people who found it difficult to lose weight with the intake of dairy products. It is said that milk products causes the release of insulin, and that there is milk sugar, lactose, no milk protein that has this characteristic insulin. High insulin index, II.
Hints that the victim can try to cut down on, or exclude, dairy products if you want to go down further in weight.

Butter can handle most, and fatty cheeses can handle some. You can try these things out.
If you do not feel the need to settle for, but want to get down lower in weight, you will begin to reduce the calories.
You can watch the food tables, and figure out how much of any foods you should eat.
You can go down to about 1300 calories if you are female, slightly more if you are male.
The proportions which is the same principle. Approximately 50-100 g of protein (depending on body size), just enough vegetables and the rest up to the calories-the roof is fat.
(All the while of course also applies just the right amount of exercise, regularly. It is very good for health, even if it does not do much for weight loss)
Does anyone have other opinions and advice?
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Right now I have a project going on to lose a few pounds, to my old ideal weight.
I try now to eat small LCHF meals, with 3-4 hours apart. The amount of these small portions may have to try different front. So far I have lost a kg. I feel that this method fits quite well for me.

Bad little tomatoes

Earlier this week I made a zucchini lasagna.  It was really good, but I didn't follow the recipe exactly, I put a little more onions and more crushed tomatoes then it said. I did make two lasagnas, one for me, and a normal one for my guy.  We were stuck eating lasagna for three days even though they were small.  I noticed that the first two days my weight went up a little.  The weight does jump around everyday normally.  After we "finally" finished the lasagna, I noticed a day later that the weight went down again.

I know tomatoes are one of the items that we should becareful eating while doing LCHF.  I think next time I will put less tomatoes in my zucchini lasagna.

Third Weekly Weight Update

Three whole weeks have gone by since that first day I went LCHF. So far it's been good, but I had a blah day today. I was really wanting something sweet to eat or drink. I almost felt like just giving in and having a chocolate milkshake or a Pepsi. Thankfully my guy was there to help me stay focused.

Maybe I had a blah day because of the scale. I weigh myself everyday, but I only count Tuesdays as the offical weight. I have to admit it's amazing watching the scale going up and down everyday. Makes me wonder if it's working correctly. I know that I shouldn't check the scale everyday, but it's a bad habit of mine, and at least it's not a sugar filled cookie or cake.

Here is the third weekly weight update:

-1 lbs (-0.45kg)
Total amount since started: -6.6 lbs (-2.99kg)

Dragon Breath and Breath Mints/Gum

One of the worst side effects of LCHF is the lovely Dragon Breath syndrome aka: worst case of stinky breath ever.  I guess it comes from eating alot of dairy based products such as cheese, creme and yoghurt.  I used to hate the after taste and smell of my breath after drinking milk or having something dairy.  Well now I get to have it almost every time after I eat.  My man has pointed it out on several occasions that since I started the diet, in the mornings I have Dragon Breath that would scare even a dragon away.

So what to do about the Dragon Breath, a simple solution is to brush the teeth, gums, and tongue really well.  Another easy solution was to take breath mints or gums.  Though when being on LCHF breath mints and gums aren't your friends, since most of them contain alot of carbs per mint drop or gum.  My favorite breath mint drop "was" Extra watermelon flavour, until I found out that each mint drop has 3g of carb.  There was no way I would waste 3g of carbs on one mint on 20g of carbs a day.

Luckly a friend of mine pointed out that Extra professional Strong Mint gum is really good and strong.  Each gum has about 1g of carbs.  Of course it'd be silly to waste 1 whole gram of carbs on a tiny piece of gum.  So he recommended to chew only half a gum piece at a time, that way you only get half a gram of carbs, and the mint is strong enough that half of one will do the job.

LCHF Burger

LCHF Burger

LCHF Burger
All beef patty
Green leaf lettuce
Tomatoes
Pickles
Mayonaise - ALOT
Ketchup -  a couple of drops for flavor (ketchup has a lot of carbs even the less sugar and salt ones)
Mustard - a couple of drops for flavor (Swedish mustard tends to be on the sweeter side)

You can use the lettuce leaves to wrap up the burger to hold it, or use a fork and knife to eat it. 


We were lazy and super hungry yesterday so we bought frozen beef burger patties.  I was glad I looked at the carb info since the ones we usually buy had 6g of carbs per 90g patty.  I found a Tulip brand American Size all beef 110g patty with 0g carbs in it.  So we went with that one, and it was really good. 

LCHF Breakfast Bread by Lifezone

There's no point in taking a picture of the one I made since I took mine out the bowl too early and it broke in half.  This is the original recipe here LCHF Breakfast Bread by Lifezone, please view the page.  I didn't have coconut flour at home, but have a lot of shredded coconut, so I put some in the food processor and mixed away.  This little easy bread tastes pretty good, even my man who isn't doing LCHF liked it. 

2 breads / 1 portion

1 large egg
3 Tbsp almond flour (or coconut flour)
pinch of salt
25 g melted butter.

Whisk egg, salt and flour in a bowl using a fork. Melt butter and add to the mixture. Divide into two smaller bowls (like a cereal bowl) and microwave for 2 minutes. Remove from bowl and allow to cool a bit.