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| Can the average person who eats a low/modest amount of non-refined carbs. eat the higher fat and protein diet of TF, without gaining massive amounts of weight? |
Well, I don't know if I'm an "average" person as I've always had a pretty fast metabolism, but I eat a modest amount of carbs and fairly high fat/protein (uh, I think?), and I'm fine. I do find I lose weight on very low carbs, but I still fit into my clothes either way - it's a subtle difference because I don't have that much weight to lose, you know? I've been upping my fats for, what? Maybe a year now? and I'm pretty sure I'm no fatter than I used to be. My skin's better, though!
My semi-average day of eating looks like this:
BREAKFAST: Two eggs fried in butter on a bed of pak choy or spinach (also wilted in the same pan, so covered in butter as well). Small glass of kefir with maple syrup.
LUNCH: Variable, maybe sardines on buttered toast (homemade mostly-whole-wheat sourdough - one slice these days, not two!). If I had yoghurt or something for breakfast instead, I'd likely make eggs for lunch. Once or twice a week we have pan-fried fish in butter with lemon and/or cream and white wine, served with wilted greens. In winter, lots of soup made with chicken stock.
DINNER: Often steak, chicken cooked in a creamy sauce, lasagne, roast chicken, crockpotted shin of beef, shepherd's pie, salmon etc. Usually pretty basic steamed veggies, sometimes roasted with olive oil and butter. If we do a lamb roast or something I don't trim the fat off - roasted fat-side-up it melts through the meat as it cooks (
great for flavour and juiciness, never mind health!). We sometimes have mashed potatoes on the side, but less often than we used to, and I'm more conscious of using "real" veggies as well as starchy ones like peas and corn now. Often homemade ice cream for dessert - yes, sugar, evil, but real cream and egg yolks.
So... I'm sure that isn't the perfect TF diet! But you can see how I get fat into my diet. DD also likes to snack on avocado; DH likes to snack on roasted cashews, although I'm not sure if they're considered good fat? Sometimes DD will ask for little slivers of butter. We all love to snack on cheese. Really, there's no reason fat-eating should mean gagging down spoonfuls of coconut oil (although apparently some people love it!). Fat is YUMMY - there's a reason fast food has it, albeit the bad kind. You can fry French fries in tallow, eat berries with cream, make full-fat custards... release your inner gourmet.
Seriously, most of the best chefs use good fats galore because they taste great - swanky cooking blogs are a good place to find TF-ish recipes.
and before kids I seriously could eat anything and everything without even thinking about it, and I stayed stick skinny--to the point people thought I might be anorexic. Sadly, now I am having to learn all over again how to keep the weight off (and the FDA food Pyramid ain't cuttin' it ladies!).
I've been mulling it over in my head for a few hours now, processing it all.
