Un articulo publicado en el diario El Pais de Espana.
http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2013/03/14/actualidad/1363266248_862274.html
Friday, March 15, 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Are *** allowed in the LCHF diet?
The questions are many...
Can I eat peas in the LCHF diet?
Can I eat beets?
Can I eat carrots?
......
Whenever I have a doubt I check Fineli, a fabulous site that tells me how many carbs (average, of course) each food has. For example, peas have 9.4% carbs (per weight), beetroot 6.9% ,carrots have 5.6%, tomato 3.5%, and boiled potatoes without skin have 15.5% carbs.
To decide if to eat or not a particular food type, you have to decide where do you draw the line. At 5%? At 3%? I think this requires trial and error for each person, for we are not all equal.
I draw the line at 5%, otherwise the choice of food is really limited. I bought myself a pack of ketostix and monitor the ketone amount of my body if I eat something I believe would get me out of ketosis and adjust 'dosage' accordingly. Also I suppose it depends on the carb content of the meal as a whole (you may add like 1 potato to the whole food and perhaps is fine), and interplays of the foods on each other. What I refuse to do is to monitor hysterically each food I consume. I just have a vague idea of what is not good for me and keep to that. For example I don't put potatoes in the food, or carrots, just because it is easy to go overboard.
The thing this diet has taught me is to listen to my body more. Do I feel well? Do I crave something? Why can that be?
Can I eat peas in the LCHF diet?
Can I eat beets?
Can I eat carrots?
......
Whenever I have a doubt I check Fineli, a fabulous site that tells me how many carbs (average, of course) each food has. For example, peas have 9.4% carbs (per weight), beetroot 6.9% ,carrots have 5.6%, tomato 3.5%, and boiled potatoes without skin have 15.5% carbs.
To decide if to eat or not a particular food type, you have to decide where do you draw the line. At 5%? At 3%? I think this requires trial and error for each person, for we are not all equal.
I draw the line at 5%, otherwise the choice of food is really limited. I bought myself a pack of ketostix and monitor the ketone amount of my body if I eat something I believe would get me out of ketosis and adjust 'dosage' accordingly. Also I suppose it depends on the carb content of the meal as a whole (you may add like 1 potato to the whole food and perhaps is fine), and interplays of the foods on each other. What I refuse to do is to monitor hysterically each food I consume. I just have a vague idea of what is not good for me and keep to that. For example I don't put potatoes in the food, or carrots, just because it is easy to go overboard.
The thing this diet has taught me is to listen to my body more. Do I feel well? Do I crave something? Why can that be?
LCHF weeks 7 and 8
I bought myself some ketostix, so now I can monitor what happens with my ketosis. I often drink during the weekends and I could now monitor that those excesses bring some diminishing amount of ketones in my body. Therefore the slow change on my weight. I am now at 72 kg... The same I was before I ate the cookies and fell off the diet wagon. The thing I learned was that once you fall out of the diet, all the usual carb cravings come back. So you have to re-adapt once more to the diet like you just started it. Tough price to pay for one infraction, but at the same time, this diet is easy to follow (never hungry!) and something is gotta give, I guess. Going out for dinner is truly an art, as many places cannot conceive you don't want fries or potatoes (aren't they the same?), but I just have to bite the bitter pill and pay more (ordering an extra salad, for example). Tapas is the best option for me, as they usually have nuts, olives and some meaty things that I can consume. I feel leaner though, and a bit trimmed, and my ego has taken this with cherish relief. I would love to have my BMI below obese for the summer, just that would make me very happy. My contentment with myself shows: people say I look sunnier than before... even though I often have this sad/sensitive/raw feeling in me. I don't understand it and I think it is a by-product of the burning of the fat on my body. Fat cells store the toxins of the body, and depressive people are full of toxins, so it makes sense that if you are full of toxins you feel prone to sensitivity, sadness, anger.
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