Anyone tried the Eating Right for your Blood Type Diet?

[obrigada]

Would be really interested to know if anyone has tried this diet

Right, have had a good scoot around your links and it's very interesting.

Until we moved to Oz I was quite happily low carbing, I was 4 stone thinner than I am now and much healthier. I was wondering whether to just admit that I'm too fat for 'a diet' and go on shakes, but this makes a lot of sense to me.

Sadly when I tried Paul McKenna
So, I'm going to try and write a list of O foods and drinks (sob - no tea) but I can't find the part where it talks about which vitamins are good, is there a link anywhere?

Obrigada fancy doing O group together?

haematologist and blood transfusion scientist, seeker. With 2 degrees and everything.

Great, thumbwich, then you can link me to some good, solid scientific research that supports this theory.

Sorry seeker, did I miss the election that made you High Chief of Diet Control?

Why does it matter to you the particular methods that I or anyone else consider to lose weight? Will our refraining from potatoes cause a major drop in the world potato market leading to major economic downturn?

Or is that you don't see why it should work because you believe in the simple and discredited theory that calories in > calories out = weight gain?*

Either way, this is clearly a supportive thread and as I attempt to follow Pag's lead of PARD, I'd ask you to consider what you have to add to this thread.

I don't need your help to dismotivate or derail me. I'm very good at that all by myself.

*Very useful, peer reviewed studies in The Diet Delusion by Gary Taubes.

YAAY mrsdistinctly!!! way to go !! pr'aps best not to take some people seriously Sorry i didn't catch what went wrong with your trying the paul mckenna?

Sorry, just noticed that

When I tried PM about 5 years ago I found his suggestion that I could eat anything I liked much too powerful.

I did eat anything I liked, much too much of it (even though it was mindfully!) and managed to put on quite a bit .

But am quite pumped at this idea, have written my list out and pinned it to the fridge. Only one thing is worrying me - breakfast! (Been badly out of the habit of eating it since the move and when I was locarbing I'd have bacon and eggs which of course is a no no).

Maybe boiled eggs for a few days whilst I get in the swing!

Yes- I was definitely elected. Your ballot paper must have got lost in the post!

There is loads of research that points to normal dieting doesn't necessarily work for everyone.

That doesn't mean that it's OK for people to make huge amounts of money selling books which have no scientific basis at all. Interesting analysis of th blood group here. It's pretty conclusive. Feel free to ignore- i'm an elected High Chief, not a dictator!

People make huge amounts of money in all kinds of ways I find inethical. Providing hope to the heffalumps among us is one of the less troubling to me.
Perhaps I'm just lucky as the O diet appears to be low carb/paleo by another name, but not eating avocados, plus la change and all that.

I know low carb works, I just need a twist on it to get me restarted.

Surely this is just a rerun of ff vs bf tiff , you say 'no that's rubbish, there's not enough science behind it' others say 'it worked well for me, why not give it a try if you are struggling'. Horses for courses.

As a carthorse I can fundamentally stress that running is over-rated and trudging for 10 hours a day ploughing is where it is at.

Funny seeker I remember you criticising the Paul Mckenna diet in the same way maybe you're paid by WW or Slimfast and don't want people to loose weight by using their common sesnse in a way that might affect their efxxxx vast enormous profits!!

Doesn't bother me, Seeker - no there is no solid evidence and I already said his anthropology was shit - but if it works for me, it works for me. So I'm not going to suddenly stop doing it because of an internet report. I have no wish to go back to the daily digestive upset that I experienced for 30 years - your choice is to rubbish it and the people who find it helps them - good for you. I don't quite see how that makes you feel good about yourself, but obviously it does.

sense!

Absolutely. A healthy diet is a really good way to eat. But saying that it is based on blood groups or hair colour or nose shape is just silly. Science is too important to be cheapened by charlatans.

I can't remember criticising the Paul McKenna diet- I think his self hypnosis thing is probably a good idea.

And as for me being paid by WW or Slimfast- start a thread about them and hear me rant!

seeker but it's not like there's a conclusive agreement on what a healthy diet even is.

'science' doesn't know everything, there will always be new stuff uncovered. when something's not really proven or unproven, i'd just rather keep and open mind and try it for myself.

i'm not even doing this to lose weight - it just seems to make sense instinctively (given it's so close to how i eat anyway) so am trying it to see if it 'works' in terms of other benefits, so far it does seem to be.

pp i'd love to swap cake recipes! is there anything other than the obvious that i need to avoid before i give you recipes which are no good?

Exactly Cakes! i wonder if seeker has ever heard of allergies? What is good for some people is poison to others that's been known for thousands of years, the blood type actually tells you why. Tomatoes and potatoes gave me bad eczema I found out by stopping eating them, If i eat them again i get it again (even if they're hidden in something) In case you're going to tell me it's all in the mind Seeker.

Cakes Don't worry about the recipe being not right i always put my own flour in recipes anyway! I don't put fruit in my cakes because I do Food Combining as well (something else for you to scoff at seeker).

Of course I believe in allergies! However, I don't believe that allergies are specific to particular blood groups.

Anything that encourages people to eat healthily is a good thing I suppose. But there is no evidence at all that different blood groups need different types of healthy food. And the anthropological explanation is so laughably flawed that D'Adamo is discredited before he starts.

and yet still some people find it helps...

Of course some people find it helps. All the different blood group diets are likely to be lower calorie/healthier than the diet somebody was on before they started. They wouldn't have been looking for a change in their diets if they weren't aware that they needed to address a less than perfect life style. And eating mor healthily is going to make you feel better, and even lose weight.

It's the dressing it up in pseudo science that I object to.

Generalist bollocks, there seeker. My diet was fine in terms of healthiness before I removed the offending items. The calorie content didn't change, just the source. In fact, losing tomatoes could be said to make it less "healthy" - but not for me. And I wasn't looking for a change in diet/lifestyle - I was reading it in a spirit of intellectual inquiry and only decided to give it a go because it rang bells.

You don't know enough about it, or us, to make such statements. You don't believe in it, fine. No one is asking you to do it. But do stop telling people for whom it works that it's a load of shite, because it isn't going to stop us so you're wasting your breath/typing.

So, everyone with your bloodgroup is allergic to tomatoes?

no seeker. I am not "allergic" to tomatoes. There is no allergic reaction, no IgE involvement, no mast cell degranulation, no allergy. They do not agree with ME. Unlike you, who seem determined to fall into the trap of making generalistic comments about the whole thing, I do not presume to know that all people with my blood group will have difficulties with tomatoes - they might, it might make a difference to them - but I do.

This thread is about anyone who has tried the diet and whether it has worked for them. I have tried it. It has worked for me. That is all.

EXACTLY thumbwitch!!! If we offend you seeker you don't have to be on here it's a thread for support not negativity.

Saving this space

Breakfast ideas for Mrsdistinctly dh is 0 type; tomatoes, mushrooms, with eggs, or lamb chops etc. (fried in olive oil). he also has rye toast with marmite etc. there's a good selection of pure rye bread in waitrose.

Morning all, internet connection down since Thursday evening so just trying to catch up on thread now

Nice to hear from you obrigada how's things?