If you read the history of low carbing, there is a complete, footnoted explanation of why a low fat low carb diet is BAD for you. I just wanted to encourage anyone else who is having trouble with the mental transition from KK in any form to please read this book. I found it at my library. It explains why you need the fat in your diet and the chemistry behind it in REALLY easy terms. I found this book very reassuring and re-affirming. Since I hadn't been LCing for a couple of years, I didn't know about this book or about Bowden. I am very impressed with what I've read so far. (I have studied nutrition as part of a natural health course I'm taking and I was happy to see Bowden lean on some of the experts I've come to trust, like Mary Enig. All that study and I still fell prey to the lure of Kimorexia.
)I have been struggling to overcome my fear of fat and have been a little panicked that I was either going to hit the plateau from Heck or gain. Well, I've lost another pound in the past 2 days, so no stall. I still find myself balking at eating beef, and I still use Walden Farms dressing, but I'm pouring some high quality olive oil on my salads, using cream in my coffee, plus adding ground flax seeds, and enjoying a bowl of yogurt every night, real, whole milk yogurt, sweetened with vanilla stevia and doctored with some high quality powdered probiotics. Yuuuuuummmmm.
And if I play my cards right, my hair will stop falling out.
) WhenI was a Threetopper, pretty clothes, great shoes, and jewelry were non exixtant in my wardrobe. My taste in clothing was "whatever goes around me." Cut outs on shoes were an obese woman's version of foot binding, with marshmallows of fat painfully strangulated through the decorative holes, and heels a death wish. I wore tennies and flats. And rings, bracelets, necklaces--not on this body, or my circulation would be cut off.
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