austin
Well-Known Member
I posted in another thread I had lost some weight. Nearly 3stone in 3 months from a tad over 17st to 14-4. Anne also lost a lot of weight but would kill me if I said how much.
We started early in the new year, not as a resolution or anything just that after the Christmas excesses we definitely needed to lose some weight. We are close friends with another couple and we all decided to go on the “Keto 800 diet”***. Basically a low calorie low Carbohydrate diet. You do 12 weeks eating only 800 calories a day made up of mainly protein and veg with as little carbohydrate as possible. So that’s no potatoes, rice, pasta, cakes, biscuits, etc and also no booze. Well you can drink but at 250 calories or more a beer I would rather eat.
The first 2-3 days were pretty unpleasant until your body kicks into Ketosis and starts consuming its own fat for energy. I could tell when this started as I stopped feeling hungry and generally felt great. The weight fell off us - about 1lb per day for the first four weeks then slowed down to a few pounds a week. I stopped dieting properly when I got the light side of 14.5st as that was my target but continued to lose a couple of pounds and bottomed out at 14-4lb.
Post the 12 week initial diet you start to eat “normally “again slowly introducing more carbohydrate but keeping protein high. You have to accept that whatever you ate before was not good for you as it caused you to put on weight. A Mediterranean style diet is what they recommend. You also have to accept their will be some bounce back and you won’t stay at your lightest, but to put a cap on your weight and do something like 5:2 or 4:3 dieting to try and manage your weight.
A bonus is that one of our friends who was dieting with us was borderline diabetic and 12 weeks on the diet has “cured” this with her blood sugar counts well back into the normal range. The diet has not made any difference to our cholesterol levels though. I’m convinced cholesterol is not influenced hugely by diet. Mine and friend’s levels are both normal. Our respective wives both have high cholesterol yet eat more or less the same food as we both do. Imho it can’t be diet.
*** Keto 800 diet by Dr Michael Moseley and a complementary recipe book by his wife. Buy on Amazon for about £8 each.
We started early in the new year, not as a resolution or anything just that after the Christmas excesses we definitely needed to lose some weight. We are close friends with another couple and we all decided to go on the “Keto 800 diet”***. Basically a low calorie low Carbohydrate diet. You do 12 weeks eating only 800 calories a day made up of mainly protein and veg with as little carbohydrate as possible. So that’s no potatoes, rice, pasta, cakes, biscuits, etc and also no booze. Well you can drink but at 250 calories or more a beer I would rather eat.
The first 2-3 days were pretty unpleasant until your body kicks into Ketosis and starts consuming its own fat for energy. I could tell when this started as I stopped feeling hungry and generally felt great. The weight fell off us - about 1lb per day for the first four weeks then slowed down to a few pounds a week. I stopped dieting properly when I got the light side of 14.5st as that was my target but continued to lose a couple of pounds and bottomed out at 14-4lb.
Post the 12 week initial diet you start to eat “normally “again slowly introducing more carbohydrate but keeping protein high. You have to accept that whatever you ate before was not good for you as it caused you to put on weight. A Mediterranean style diet is what they recommend. You also have to accept their will be some bounce back and you won’t stay at your lightest, but to put a cap on your weight and do something like 5:2 or 4:3 dieting to try and manage your weight.
A bonus is that one of our friends who was dieting with us was borderline diabetic and 12 weeks on the diet has “cured” this with her blood sugar counts well back into the normal range. The diet has not made any difference to our cholesterol levels though. I’m convinced cholesterol is not influenced hugely by diet. Mine and friend’s levels are both normal. Our respective wives both have high cholesterol yet eat more or less the same food as we both do. Imho it can’t be diet.
*** Keto 800 diet by Dr Michael Moseley and a complementary recipe book by his wife. Buy on Amazon for about £8 each.
Puts it into perspective really when loading a bike up for a tour, especially two up. You sacrifice weight elsewhere when all you need is a little self sacrifice on your diet.