Sunday 17 November 2013

2 month progress

It's been 3 months since I retired but I've only seriously started minding what I eat for 2 months allowing one month before that to settle into retirement. Mid-September to mid-October had me bouncing around with my food choices, cravings, etc. so lost only 5 lbs. Since mid-October until now, I've been pretty strict and have lost an additional 10 lbs, for a total of 15. The object was to get into ketosis and I've been there for a while.

I'm buying cod loins, eggs, free-range skin-on chicken breast, really fatty pork cuts, grass fed fatty cuts of beef, cabbage, green beans, cauliflower and brussel sprouts. I'm going to replace the cruciferous veggies with green beans and peas, as I can tolerate peas better. I sometimes make gravy with the drippings using a teaspoon of coconut flour to give me a bit of variety. I don't tolerate coconut products well and need to find a good source of pastured lard. I make my own tartar sauce for fish using sour cream, diced pickles, pickle juice and horseradish mustard. Every 2nd day or so I have 1/3 cup blueberries with full fat plain yogurt.

 So, in essence, all my food is delicious and mouth-watering. What a way to diet. It's usually 16 or 17 hours between supper and brunch so I'm mini-fasting and only eat twice a day. Forbidden foods are not in my house, so no cheating for me, and, now that it's winter with tons of snow on the ground, it's not easy to just jump in the car and get whatever it is I am craving.

Still I do not feel like I'm fully keto-adapted and need to continue with this for a while yet. But 15 lbs is still progress for an old lady who is very metabolically challenged, although the ideal destination for me is eating almost zero-carb and that is my goal.

6 comments:

  1. sounds like you're doing great! hope you're enjoying retirement! :-)

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    1. Thanks Tess. Yes it's going well but still a learning experience since I've never retired before :)

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  2. "I'm buying cod loins, eggs, free-range skin-on chicken breast, really fatty pork cuts, grass fed fatty cuts of beef, cabbage, green beans, cauliflower and brussel sprouts."

    These would certainly appear on my food buys too.

    Seems retirement is going well

    Take Care

    All the best Jan

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    1. Yes it's going well and I'm tweaking what I eat almost daily. I'm getting excited about buying pastured pork though and am wondering if I'll be able to afford it.

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  3. Great menu! You can ask around about beef or pork fat in the places which sell meat. It is unbelievable how much fat gets cut off and thrown as a garbage. I was given beef fat for free for couple of years in our local natural food store. Could you use a clarified butter as a fat sours? I know it is expensive.

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    1. I don't like clarlified butter or ghee as it always tastes like a chemical to me. I prefer real butter. I can get fatty cuts of meat at a particular butcher. The cattle are grass fed and grain finished. This is Canada, there is no such thing as grass fed all the time as we get no less than 6 months of winter. Getting it imported is not something I can do on my fixed income. But I'm happy with what I can get at present. Our farmers market moves into city hall in the winter so I'll check that out on Saturday mornings, but it's too cold for me to go out until then.

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