Fat Fast day 3…
It is astounding how un-hungry I am. I have had 725 calories today so far and I am definitely handling this much more easily than I had imagined. This coconut oil is a winner, better than any appetite suppressing pill or potion.
First meal of the day – Half an Avocado with Toasted Sunflower Seeds.
In between my snack was black coffee with a teaspoon of coconut oil in it. Good for ketosis.
The bone broth is a filling drink and enjoyable too, especially with the marrow, meats and soft tissue that comes off the soup bones. This was my second meal of the day.
Somewhere I read that lemon juice or apple cider vinegar was a great addition to the stock pot because it helps to leach out the minerals from the bones. I have been doing that for about a year now and I am certainly feeling healthy.
Snack in between – a little biltong and some more broth.
Third meal of the day is yet to come and will be the brown meat and skin off a roast chicken. Heaven on a stick! You have to admit, being able to eat chicken skin is the best!
There is still a l-o-n-g road ahead as my weight has ballooned in the last 24 years since I got married. First it was a motor bike accident and 10 kgs, then a hysterectomy and 12 kgs, then it was giving up smoking and another 12 kgs, and finally a car crash and a back operation and 23 KILOS!!! I was truly metabolically resistant by then, and somewhat desperate!
Enter the Real Meal Revolution. Thank goodness. Suddenly all my years of trying low carb started to make sense in this one book. And believe me, I have many books on low carb dieting. Now they are all coming in useful as I decided to make a serious study of the general low carb high fat moderate protein angle. I have gleaned many a good and helpful hint during this time of research and I feel that I have finally found a way to put my own spin on this way of life. The books I favour other than TRMR are GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) which is based on the SCD (Specific Carbohydrate Diet), Nourishing Traditions, and Eat Fat Lose Fat, both by Sally Fallon, Curb the Carb by Amanda Cross, and Rose Elliot’s Vegetarian Low Carb Diet. The latter is so that I can help some of my vegetarian friends.
We all have likes and dislikes and we need to make up our own diets under the LCHF/Banting banner, and that is just what I have been doing. Slowly but very surely it is all falling into place. I can’t tell you how amazing it feels to be 13 kilos lighter. How do I feel after 10 weeks? Great! My poor aching knee is now feeling a whole lot better and I have enough energy to walk the dogs. It really feels good. The best thing? Not feeling any cravings – except for some biltong!
Success feel AWESOME!!!…
