Kit Rivers
Mon, Dec-15-08, 13:25
I'm Kit, and I live in NZ. I am about 215lbs (97 kilos). I arrived at low carb by the most bizarre route. About 8 months ago I rebelled. I said I didn't care what the experts said, if I ate low-fat I got fatter! The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. So I stopped low-fat dieting. Amazingly my weight didn't change much (I was very heavy on low fat). I put on a couple of extra kilos and stabilized.
3 months ago my dd17 who had been sick for over a year was diagnosed coeliac and lactose intolerant. She also had some intolerance to sucrose. My ds 12 was "pre-coeliac". The whole family moved to gluten free eating. After amazing withdrawal symptoms I never felt better. Although I did not loose weight I felt better than I had in years, no 'brain fog'
, more energy etc. I decided to investigate.
This let me to a book "against the grain" and I heard about carbohydrate addiction for the first time. I followed on with "Life without bread". I could get angry we have been conned for so long, but I am excited.
I am in a difficult position at the moment. We move house in less than a month with Christmas in the middle. My eldest child, an adult living away from home is a committed vegetarian, verging on vegan. She hates to sit at the table if meat is there. We have (next week) to go to her Vegan Christmas party. She has promised gluten/lactose free food, although there may be sucrose, but it will be VERY high carbs. Also I live rurally (in NZ, South Island....just think LOTR and you KNOW how many shops we have here ;)) although we have just killed 2 sheep, so there is lots of meat and we have chooks, and therefore eggs, of course. Then there is Christmas.....
So for the moment I am not counting anything. I am totally grain/sugar free, but I eat fruit and veg (particularly raspberries, we have a glut at the moment), then after we move, and the whole Christmas thing is over, maybe make a proper start? What would you do?
3 months ago my dd17 who had been sick for over a year was diagnosed coeliac and lactose intolerant. She also had some intolerance to sucrose. My ds 12 was "pre-coeliac". The whole family moved to gluten free eating. After amazing withdrawal symptoms I never felt better. Although I did not loose weight I felt better than I had in years, no 'brain fog'
, more energy etc. I decided to investigate.
This let me to a book "against the grain" and I heard about carbohydrate addiction for the first time. I followed on with "Life without bread". I could get angry we have been conned for so long, but I am excited.
I am in a difficult position at the moment. We move house in less than a month with Christmas in the middle. My eldest child, an adult living away from home is a committed vegetarian, verging on vegan. She hates to sit at the table if meat is there. We have (next week) to go to her Vegan Christmas party. She has promised gluten/lactose free food, although there may be sucrose, but it will be VERY high carbs. Also I live rurally (in NZ, South Island....just think LOTR and you KNOW how many shops we have here ;)) although we have just killed 2 sheep, so there is lots of meat and we have chooks, and therefore eggs, of course. Then there is Christmas.....
So for the moment I am not counting anything. I am totally grain/sugar free, but I eat fruit and veg (particularly raspberries, we have a glut at the moment), then after we move, and the whole Christmas thing is over, maybe make a proper start? What would you do?