To think that the fat you eat is the fat you wear?

[florafawna]

New study finds that fat consumption is the only cause of weight gain

medicalxpress.com/news/2018-07-fat-consumption-weight-gain.html

I know carbs are the villain at the moment, but it's only a matter of time before fat is the villain again.

I am on a low-fat diet and am sticking to that, I think, even though I am unfashionable. For the moment!

I went to lunch yesterday with overweight friend.

She insisted on a starter, which we shared. Then she insisted on two portions even though I offered to share one. She ate it all, I left a bit of meat. She had rice, I had fries, but weight for weight, she had more calories, I'm sure.
She didn't eat a dessert because she shouldn't. I didn't have one because I was full.

I don't think there's a big mystery as to why people get and stay overweight. And it's not all due to the fat/protein vs carb issue.

Having said that, I'm naturally more of a protein and fat than a carb person. I don't restrict sugar, but cakes will last very long around me.

I have been happily low-carbing for five years now. I took all the weight off (three stone) in the first year and have been maintaining ever since. I was on tablets for high blood pressure before, but have been off them now for over three years. DH lost over four stone and got out of pre-diabetes. We eat meat and fish but not to excess, avoid sugar and eat lots of salads and veg from our garden. We are in our late sixties, have never felt healthier and have no problem sticking to this way of eating. I don't get why people think that it is not possible in the long term.

I am another one BIWI has helped with the low-carb-bootcamp. :) I am full of thanks.

I've found it works for me in the way that other diets (years of them) didn't and I have lost weight by following two bootcamps. (26lb so far).

I found the first two weeks hardest because they are the strictest and having lived on very sweet high-carb foods for so long, it was a bit of a change, but from there on it has been very comfortable. I've used the many recipe threads to tweak meals I like and fit them into low carb eating.

What is even better is that between bootcamps I didn't put the weight back on! ( I did eat more carbs in that time but found that old sweet treats were too sweet and I didn't want much of them.)

Typical day:
Redbush tea and water
Eggs for breakfast - with 'cloud-bread' (a sort of flour-free drop-scone) and whole earth seed-butter
Or, if in a hurry,
blueberries/raspberries with full fat Greek yogurt

Water and rosehip tea
Home-made broccoli and leek soup (made with butter and olive oil)
with pate/cheese and olive salad
I find that I am not usually very hungry at lunchtime now but this way of life does include substantial servings of green veg - so soup or salad fits in well.

Dinner
Water (and red wine if at the weekend) Homemade casserole:pork/wine/herbs/shallots/garlic/tomatoes/aubergines/courgettes served with Celeriac and Boursin cheese mash.
Coffee with cream. (I could have had cheese with celery and seed crackers but was too full.)

Dinner out this week:
Sea bass fillets fried - tenderstem broccoli with garlic and herbs - black kale in butter - tomato and garlic sauce.

Red wine
Cheese-board
Coffee and cream

We are not science projects and in the real world there are too many variables involved to be sure of the One True Answer to obesity. I think that if a plan works for you, then this is your way of losing weight and your true answer.