Anyone starting eat fat, lose fat? - Page 5

[herent]

Glad your enjoying it.  I need to go buy some more red wine so I can make the salisbury steak again this week.  I had exactly 2 cups left in a bottle in the refrigerator so we were gonna have it the next night, and what do I find my husband sitting at the table enjoying the rest of the wine!!!

How is everyone doing, anymore weight loss?  I'm holding pretty steady but I have started excercising so I plan to see some more results, but I am feeling really good. My kids are really enjoying some of the TF foods as well including the NT pancakes, my oldest could eat them everyday, he is also enjoying sprouted bread with raw honey and fried chicken livers, they think the livers are chicken nuggets!

[IsaFrench]

no more weight loss, I'm stuck at that new weight

but in anycase I already feel much better after the initial loss.

have had a few minor lapses with grains so I suspect that's the reason

[LunaLady]

I've started reading Gary Taubes' new book and it's really good. Same principals as NT and EFLF. Have any of you read it, yet?? I can't seem to put it down!!

[Astrea]

I got really sick after a week of EFLF (not related to the diet, I don't think) so I dropped everything.  I'm just recovering now.  In the meantime I seem to have magically lost about 4 lbs!  I've been basically sticking to 3 meals a day, no snacks, so that's probably why.

I did make the coconut crackers, and they were nasty.  Super super gross.  I didn't much care for the smoothies in the book either (unless I add a lot more fruit).  Makes me scared to try any of the other recipes.  Has anyone made anything that was actually good?

I wonder if I'd be better off just tweaking stuff I already make.  I don't have the energy to do calorie calculations for everything, though.

I'm looking forward to getting back on the wagon,  at least to some extent, in the next week or two. 

Anyone want to share meal plans?  I'm going to make a big batch of baked oatmeal using this recipe for weekday mornings:

http://kellythekitchenkop.com/2009/03/healthy-breakfast-recipe-from-sue-baked-soaked-oatmeal.html

I'm also going to make some grain-free almond-parmesan crackers, and some chicken liver pate.  Lunches will hopefully be mostly leftovers, or smoothies (my own recipe with more fruit than EFLF calls for, and with spinach and nut butters added).  Not sure about dinner.  Probably chicken thighs with peanut-coconut sauce, beef and black bean tacos in sprouted corn tortillas with guacamole, red lentil dhal made with bone broth, and I think I might try roasting my first grass-fed beef roast using the EFLF recipe with coconut gravy.  Has anyone tried it?

[SandraMort]

I truly can't recall the guidelines from EFLF and can't afford to replace my book yet. but have been enjoying a latte type drink many mornings.  I take about 50/50 coffee and heated up milk mixed with coconut cream concentrate, optionally sweetened and spiced with cinnamon or something else.  I also took the ccc, melted it with some almond butter, whisked in some honey (I'd leave it out next time as ccc is so sweet), then mixed in raw cacao nibs, shredded unsweetened coconut, toasted almond slices and Himalayan salt.  Spread in a dish, chill and then slice into portable pieces... unless the kids get to it, and it vanishes.

[SandraMort]

Love Kelly.  Do you read Cheeseslave too?

[herent]

Astrea:  I think tweaking what you already eat to make it more Traditional Foods friendly would be fine.  I'm not really going by the EFLF book anymore either more Nourishing Traditions cookbook.  I make sure I get at least 3tbs of CO a day usually more and CLO each day, and stay away from white flour and white sugar.  If I eat bread it's sprouted bread and I try to soak any rice, beans or oats I eat.  I also eat fermented veggies and drink Kombucha, and I don't eat anything lowfat only full fat milk, sometimes raw milk, yogurt, cheese, butter.   I also excersise at least 3 days a week, just brisk walking for 30min.  I've lost about 10lbs by doing this, it's taken a long time though about a month and a half, I figure the weight didn't come on quickly though either.  My motto is if I can't tell where it came from don't eat it.  I have had lots of slip ups though, I'm human I get chocolate cravings.  I just cheated today and had some Cheetos the kids were eating, I'm so bummed I did because they didn't even taste as good as what I thought they would, my body is more use to whole foods now, raw cashews taste way better

[greenmagick]

I'm just lurking on this thread for now.

For years I have been "planning" on switching to traditional foods and prep but never seem to get around to acutally implementing it.  I am now...well, soon lol.  I am currently doing the HCG diet as I had a lot of weight to loose and it really is working wonderfully for me.  TF actually fits very well with it after the first phase is over.  I have been looking into buying EFLF as a stepdown kind of thing...something for me to use as a jumpstart to the rest of my life eating if that makes sense.

So, I am going to keep reading and following you guys for now and see if my library has the book, or maybe just buy it.

What are your favorite sources for CLO?

I am ordering yogurt and sourdough starter today (have done both before but its been a long time, prekids!) and am going to start water kefir soon. I cant eat the yogurt or bread yet, but the rest of my family can:)

[herent]

I would definately see if your library has them first.  I got EFLF and Nourishing Traditions books at the Library at the same time and it was nice to read through EFLF to get the general Idea of the diet, but If I was to buy one it would be the Nourishing Traditions cookbook (NT).  I really feel like I have changed my lifestyle by implementing NT and I don't really feel like I am on a specific diet, like one would think Atkins, HSG, southbeach etc.  My mantra is if I can't tell were it came from don't eat it!  I don't ever feel hungry or deprived, If I'm starving I know I need more fat in my diet.  It's so weird I was always taught eat low fat and starve to loose weight and now I'm eating more fat than ever and have lost 11lbs.  Yup I mess up sometimes it's hard not to when there is so much processed food out there but I'm still loosing.

Good luck greenmagick.  I've just been getting my CLO from the local pharmacy, but I'm sure theres better brands out there, Luckyvitamin.com is a good place to get cheap supplements.

[greenmagick]

Thanks, I have EFLF requested at my library now:)  I do already own NT and Full Moon Feast.

[CherryBomb]

Astrea, I did make several recipes out of the EFLF book that we all thought were really yummy.  The steak with mustard cream sauce was great (but stinky!!), Indonesian coconut steak, red meat curry were both yummy, the baked chicken with coconut peanut sauce was great.  The coconut crusted salmon and thai coconut pork curry with both good, too.

I fermented some saurkraut with whey, it's really good.  I won't ever bother trying to ferment without whey again, it works so much better.  I'm still trying to get back on the wagon, sigh!

[AshleyRoz]

My husband and I are doing EFLF. It was the only weightless program I was comfortable doing while breastfeeding. We were steady eating fairly Weston price esque so it wasn't a hard jump. I just cut out the grains (even soaked) and increased my fat. I've lost about 8 pounds this month. I have another 50 or so to go. Sigh. But I feel good, energetic and my milk supply is amazing. Actually since I started this my baby boy's diapers aren't ever green anymore and he has a lot less gas. I think it has increased my hindmilk, don't know for sure but my expressed milk looks a lot less watery and the cream line is thicker. Pretty cool! Also this diet doesn't have me worried about DS getting the nutrients he needs from me like something like weight watchers would have done.

(sorry if there are any typos I missed. I'm writing on my iPhone.)

[CherryBomb]

Congrats on the weight-loss, Ashley!  That's great :)

[herent]

AshleyRoz:  Yes congrats on the weightloss, and your baby boy gets to reap the benefits too yay!  I'm glad you didn't do weight watchers, my mom does it and is always bugging me with "how many points are you eating or are you weighing your food!"  sheesh like I wanna do that for the rest of my life and feel like I'm starving myself.  I'ts good to know it helps with breastmilk, we are ttc with fertility issues related to my weight, I'm down about 12lbs so hopefully this will be my bfp month

CherryBomb:You can do it!  I've fell off the wagon at times too, but I seem to be fine if I just keep the grains and white sugar consumption low and keep taking my CO and CLO.  It sure is hard with kids though especially when dinner time comes around and I haven't got anything out thawing, thats when pizza and chicken nuggets come out of the freezer, like last night Little Caesars was just calling me!