Hello everyone I've just found this site and decided I might make my home away from home here.
Protein Power was my first exposure to low-carbing about 5 years ago and I'm now trying out the purist approach although I can't afford to buy organic. My only concession is cream in my coffee. I am extremely insulin resistant and need to eat whole foods with no additives, processing, etc.
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Welcome Waterlily and best of luck to you. Love your Avi! Hope you will post often.
Welcome!!
Protein Power is my plan too. I guess I'm mostly purist without the organic. I do buy commercial dressings and condiments because I use so little. But otherwise I'm mostly natural and whole foods. Love it!
Protein Power is my plan too. I guess I'm mostly purist without the organic. I do buy commercial dressings and condiments because I use so little. But otherwise I'm mostly natural and whole foods. Love it!
Hey Waterlily and WELCOME to my forum. It's good to see you here and I wish you well as you begin PP. You're in good hands with CindySue! 
Welcome, Waterlily. I'm a PPer too. I'm not purist, because I eat grains and dairy, but I stick to whole foods - I don't need to read ingredient lists these days, because I rarely buy anything that has any. I get organic when I can, though I'd rather buy non-organic from the farmers market than supermarket organic.
Howdy Waterlilly,
Another PPer. I do mostly organic and these days my PP plan is pretty close to purist/paleo (protein, veg, nuts, other oils/fats, minimal fruits) - but I use artificial sweeteners in some things: as a former chef and baker I still like to make low carb versions of carby things on occasion, I still have one diet soda nearly every day, and a drink whey protein powder smoothies (on the run for work a lot - too may temptations otherwise).
Another PPer. I do mostly organic and these days my PP plan is pretty close to purist/paleo (protein, veg, nuts, other oils/fats, minimal fruits) - but I use artificial sweeteners in some things: as a former chef and baker I still like to make low carb versions of carby things on occasion, I still have one diet soda nearly every day, and a drink whey protein powder smoothies (on the run for work a lot - too may temptations otherwise).
Well gang, I'm almost all the way through Gary Taubes book and even though I have a huge library of nutrition books, including Jimmy's, and almost all other low-carb plans, Gary's book puts all the missing pieces together and backs up every theory that I have developed regarding how people should eat. I cannot praise it enough.
What I have been doing is fasting. I try and fast as long as possible between meals, so no 3 meals per day scenario. I had tried in the past to eat only at supper time but that didn't work for me. What has worked however, is eating mid day. I have a window of between noon and about 2 pm and it works beautifully. The only concession is coffee with cream in the morning.
I have also ditched almost all veggies and fruits. My only concession to vegetation is macadamia nuts and maybe a piece of onion on occasion. Concession to dairy is cream for my coffee and old cheddar made from unpasturized milk.
What this has done for me is completely eliminated my hunger because any and all carbs bring it on. I take a daily over age 50 mulitvitamin/mineral supplement without iron and lots of fish oil, including cod liver oil because I'm in Northern Canada and we don't have much sun nowadays.
Anyone else have success with my version of IF?
What I have been doing is fasting. I try and fast as long as possible between meals, so no 3 meals per day scenario. I had tried in the past to eat only at supper time but that didn't work for me. What has worked however, is eating mid day. I have a window of between noon and about 2 pm and it works beautifully. The only concession is coffee with cream in the morning.
I have also ditched almost all veggies and fruits. My only concession to vegetation is macadamia nuts and maybe a piece of onion on occasion. Concession to dairy is cream for my coffee and old cheddar made from unpasturized milk.
What this has done for me is completely eliminated my hunger because any and all carbs bring it on. I take a daily over age 50 mulitvitamin/mineral supplement without iron and lots of fish oil, including cod liver oil because I'm in Northern Canada and we don't have much sun nowadays.
Anyone else have success with my version of IF?
I dabbled in some IF for a while after the Eades posted on it, but I found that although my job is in an office/involves more mental than physical work - I could not function as well on weekdays eating either mid day or at night (I never tried a morning to morning fast). It might be what I ate, or a lifetime of habit, or that my job can involve a lot of walking carrying a 20 pound computer bag about 6 months of the year, but it just did not work well for me and I have not tried it again. I could not ignore the hunger pangs and at time felt very sluggish and dizzy which I never do on low carb where I eat 2-3 meals a day. I do sometimes fast for 16-18 hours on weekends or on days I work from home - but its rarely more than 1-2 days a week and rarely two days in a row.
I'll admit that I never tried it wihtout veggies (eat few fruits as is). This WOE would be tough for me without veggies, although there are days and meals where I eat minimal amounts. I just love them too much - as a former chef I'm not sure I could give up much else in my WOE. As it is I dream about a day when they can get the carbs out of rice an still have it taste edible so I can make pud kee mao again with wide rice noodles. LOL. As hard as I try, in my head cannot make rice into something inedible - I just tell myself its like heroin for me and off limits.
Sounds like IF is working well for you. Have you noticed any other health benefits, or are you doing this just for weight loss? There may be some other fasters lurking around here - If you have already not, you might want to post in one of the question areas to see if any pop up.
Its great to have you on board!
I'll admit that I never tried it wihtout veggies (eat few fruits as is). This WOE would be tough for me without veggies, although there are days and meals where I eat minimal amounts. I just love them too much - as a former chef I'm not sure I could give up much else in my WOE. As it is I dream about a day when they can get the carbs out of rice an still have it taste edible so I can make pud kee mao again with wide rice noodles. LOL. As hard as I try, in my head cannot make rice into something inedible - I just tell myself its like heroin for me and off limits.
Sounds like IF is working well for you. Have you noticed any other health benefits, or are you doing this just for weight loss? There may be some other fasters lurking around here - If you have already not, you might want to post in one of the question areas to see if any pop up.
Its great to have you on board!
Fasting works great for "when I can do it" and sometimes it's difficult with all the pressures of work and working lunches, etc. I am extremely insulin resistant and old and it's very difficult for me to lose weight except when I'm fasting and keeping carbs really low. That's the only way I seem to be able to lose any weight at all. Fasting, very low carb and nothing processed.
After reading the Taubes book I thought "he could be writing about me." I'm the classic "obese" person that everyone is studying, accusing of overeating and not moving enough, and everything else associated with obesity. This book has been a godsend to me and I will keep re-reading it until all of it sinks in.
I have not lost a lot of weight in the 5 years I'm been low-carbing (Protein Power was the first eye-opening low-carb book I read), but I have cured a lot of health issues I had like depression, thyroid problems, arthritis, high blood pressure, indigestion. Now all I have to do is get more weight off.
After reading the Taubes book I thought "he could be writing about me." I'm the classic "obese" person that everyone is studying, accusing of overeating and not moving enough, and everything else associated with obesity. This book has been a godsend to me and I will keep re-reading it until all of it sinks in.
I have not lost a lot of weight in the 5 years I'm been low-carbing (Protein Power was the first eye-opening low-carb book I read), but I have cured a lot of health issues I had like depression, thyroid problems, arthritis, high blood pressure, indigestion. Now all I have to do is get more weight off.
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