New to TF--a couple weight loss questions

[idigchaitea]

Hi I'm new to TFs and new to this forum!

I just bought the book "Nourishing Traditions" and am so stoked about this "new" way of eating. I've slowly started incorporating coconut oil into many things, and even cooked some veggies in butter tonight. I am never buying regular vegetable oil again, and I don't think there are any processed foods in my pantry right now. There's so much I still need to learn, but I am very excited about it.

Here's my question. I am trying to lose some baby weight right now. Will I really lose weight eating TFs? I realize that there is more to losing weight than just the foods you eat--like portions sizes and exercise. Have any of you lost a lot of weight just by starting to eat TFs? It's been so ingrained in my head that butter and whole milk are fattening, so it will take awhile to change my perceptions. Please share your experiences/tips for losing weight with TFs. I could use some encouragement. Thanks so much!

[Magelet]

From my expeirience and that of my friends, eating this type of diet helps you achieve and maintain a healthy weight for you. This may not be as skinny as you like, or it may be skinnier than you like. It will likely be a weight that is close or closer than you were to optimum health. I don't know that it will help you loose baby weight, it probably depends on whether your body "feels" it "needs" the weight or not (of course, it may make this "decision" based on living as a nomadic huntergatherer who may face shortages tomarrow who may or may not be nursing, etc.... not as a modern human being who can buy enough calories at the store for a pittance every day, and good nutrients as well.)

For everyone I've ever talked to, eating TF made them much healthier, which is what weight loss for most people is about. I think its more like if a part of being healthier is losing weight, your body, as it becomes healthy from good food, loses weight.

Yes, I have lost a significant amount of weight from eating TF. I think the first 20 pounds were from stopping eating ANY processed food, and the last 20 or so were from starting to eat TF. (there was a long plateau in between, before I started TF.)

[PaulaJoAnne]

Originally Posted by idigchaitea

Hi I'm new to TFs and new to this forum!

I just bought the book "Nourishing Traditions" and am so stoked about this "new" way of eating. I've slowly started incorporating coconut oil into many things, and even cooked some veggies in butter tonight. I am never buying regular vegetable oil again, and I don't think there are any processed foods in my pantry right now. There's so much I still need to learn, but I am very excited about it.

Here's my question. I am trying to lose some baby weight right now. Will I really lose weight eating TFs? I realize that there is more to losing weight than just the foods you eat--like portions sizes and exercise. Have any of you lost a lot of weight just by starting to eat TFs? It's been so ingrained in my head that butter and whole milk are fattening, so it will take awhile to change my perceptions. Please share your experiences/tips for losing weight with TFs. I could use some encouragement. Thanks so much!

I have eaten TF for over a year now.
I did not lose weight at first, and it was not until early this summer, that I figured out I had a gluten allergy.
I began feeling 1,000 times better within days of getting rid of the foods that contain gluten, and then it took 2 months before my body was recovered enough to start dropping the weight.
I look very different now.

I am posting before and today pics on my blog today.
Just click on my user name for the link.

FYI, I use www.fitday.com to track what I eat off and on, just to make sure I am staying at a minimum of 60% calories from real fats.