Has anyone tried high fat low carb eating?

Were you sucessful?

What were the pitfalls/negitive aspects of it?

Did you do it for a long time or for a 'short fix'?

What did you like about it?

Did your medication change because of it?

Kate

I have been following a low carb/high healthy fat/moderate-to-high Protein way of eating since the beginning of my journey (six month pre-op, food stages, and after). You've seen my posts over the past many months, so you know that I have been super successful (100 pounds lost pre-op, almost 75 more in the 5 months post-op). Other than the early days of settling into ketosis, I have had no issues. The food is satisfying (even pre-op), my labs are great, and this way of life is easily accommodated for travel and other disruptions to normalcy. I highly recommend it!

1 hour ago, blizair09 said:

I have been following a low carb/high healthy fat/moderate-to-high Protein way of eating since the beginning of my journey (six month pre-op, food stages, and after). You've seen my posts over the past many months, so you know that I have been super successful (100 pounds lost pre-op, almost 75 more in the 5 months post-op). Other than the early days of settling into ketosis, I have had no issues. The food is satisfying (even pre-op), my labs are great, and this way of life is easily accommodated for travel and other disruptions to normalcy. I highly recommend it!

Thank you blizair09 for answering.

I have been following this for a week and have found it very easy although a bit sickly with all the fats. I might continue for another week and re-assess.

Kate

Clinically, HFLC diets are used for non-WLS gastrectomy patients who need to avoid weight loss and ultimately regain unwanted loss and indeed, this does present one of the challenges for WLS patients who adopt this approach. During the early weight loss months (when we are relatively insensitive to diet due to the enforced restriction courtesy of our WLS,) many will proudly proclaim that they "do full fat everything". This works fine when we are largely consuming "condiment" amounts of fats early on, but often bites people when they carry that practice into maintenance and allow the higher calories to get away from them. It can be done for whatever reason you may want to do it, but you do need to be watchful of your overall consumption to avoid regain.

Philosophically, in the absence of a specific medical condition that warrants it, I'm not a big fan of diets that are "low" or "high" of anything as that implies deficiency or excess. One might do a short term very high or low diet to counter an existing imbalance (such as treating insulin resistance with a very low carb diet,) and then moderating that extreme to a more balanced state as the body's chemistry corrects itself for the long term.

I'm trying HFLC (Atkins/ Keto) to see what happens. I'm only 10 weeks out so maybe I shouldn't be doing that, but I was already pretty much doing it anyway, except for the high fats. I just want to make sure that I stay in ketosis and stay away from non-vegetable carbs because starchy foods have always been hard for me to eat in moderation. Today I had 660 calories/ 11 net carbs/ 32 grams of fat/ 73 grams of protein. I've been eating up to 1,100 calories most days, though. I lost 2.5 pounds in week one. I weigh again in the morning. Fingers crossed!

I did that before surgery (Adkins 1970's book basically was high fat, low or no carb eating). It worked, the only problem is, as soon as I had any cards (whole wheat bread, brown rice, healthy carbs) I blew up! I lost 8 lbs in 2 weeks but gained it all back. So, I gave up on it. It was very tasty though.


Height 5'0"
Weight for WLS consultation: 216 lbs.
Surgery date: 2/13/17
Goal: - 71 lbs for healthy BMI (about 145 lbs).
Current weight: 185.2 lbs
My profile picture is not me. It's my "FitSpiration" body.

I'm trying HFLC (Atkins/ Keto) to see what happens. I'm only 10 weeks out so maybe I shouldn't be doing that, but I was already pretty much doing it anyway, except for the high fats. I just want to make sure that I stay in ketosis and stay away from non-vegetable carbs because starchy foods have always been hard for me to eat in moderation. Today I had 660 calories/ 11 net carbs/ 32 grams of fat/ 73 grams of protein. I've been eating up to 1,100 calories most days, though. I lost 2.5 pounds in week one. I weigh again in the morning. Fingers crossed!

What kinds of things are you eating to hit those numbers?

HFLC or keto ( definitely NOT Atkins) is great..
Eggs and spinich in the morning cooked in butter
Keto chicken crust pizza for lunch
Curry mince and cheese in the arvo
Chicken avocado with salad or veg sprinkled with olive oil at night..

Before I started my preop diet a few weeks ago, I never had gallbladder type pain. I always ate lots of fat. Ever since starting this low fat, low carb preop diet, I have been having twinges in the gallbladder area. I am having an ultrasound done in 3 days to see what is going on.

I am interested in going LCHF after surgery, so want to keep my gallbladder if possible.

How soon after surgery could I start LCHF? Anyone know where to find a meal plan? Of course most of these postop meal plans are low fat.