Yummy kefir NOW: weight loss

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

this is very interesting. I will tell you a bit about my weight loss

experience:

a few years ago I was asked by a naturopath to follow the Blood type

" A " diet for health issues I was dealing with. I changed to that

diet and lost TONS of weight without even trying. It is a low in red

meat diet, no wheat but spelt and oats are OK. Anytime one

restricts the number of foods one can eat, there is a tendency to

lose weight. But this diet was low iron as well. In the end, this

diet did not work for me as I ended up SEVERELY anemic and extremely

tired.

Then I went on a WAPF (Nourishing Traditions) diet, and the weight

slowly came back but I have felt very nourished as I eat plenty of fat.

Right now, I am followiing the GAPS (grain free diet) and also a low

protein, high fat diet to deal with autoimmune issues. I have a raw

liver smoothie in the morining (iron!) and most of my carbs come from

low starch vegetables. I have re-introduced some fermented dairy.

This time the weight has not come off so quickly. I have to control

the carb content in the veggies to obtain very minimal but steady

weight loss.

Both diets may not be comparable in that the first one was lowish in

fat and the present one is liberal in unprocessed and healthy fats.

Again, weight loss has never been my focus. (It is health) but it is

a nice bonus to get rid of a few unwanted pounds here and there.

Thanks for the interesting discussion.

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>>>>>Anyway, I'm testing the theory on myself: I'm eating foods low

in available

iron and eating foods that block iron absorption, but I'm still eating

plenty of fat, starch, and sugar, and eating as much as I want, in

the same

eating pattern I was doing before. And losing weight, plus I feel a lot

better and my blood pressure is down. I think this has been the " hidden

factor " in all the diets I was on. They would work for awhile, then stop

working, and I could never figure out why, because mostly I was in fact

eating healthy foods.

[Guest guest]

Interesting about the low-iron diet helping you lose weight. Whole grains

really do chelate iron and prevent it from being absorbed. Also meat is the

most absorbable form of iron: saturated fat helps make iron more absorbable

too. So yeah, it would be a low-iron diet. I guess too low in your case!

You might be a good candidate for the " vinegar cure " . Here is the

interesting thing about vinegar, AKA " acetate " . No one has studied acetate

effects in the blood much, but it does seem to have a rather profound

effect. In studies, vinegar lowers blood pressure and also causes weight

loss. It also gets rid of " age spots " , which are basically iron deposits. My

theory is that the *reason* it does all these things is that acetate reacts

with iron a LOT. Exactly what it is doing to the iron I don't know. But

acetate might be part of the " good stuff " in kombucha. Acetate is also the

breakdown product of ethanol, so it might account for some of the

heart-protective effects of booze.

But here it the deal: vinegar does help people lose weight, for some unknown

reason. It also *helps* with anemia. That is, anemic people get less anemic.

I haven't heard any good explanation of why.

So here would be the experiment: Take a bottle. Fill it half full of honey,

then fill it up the rest of the way with apple cider vinegar. Mix it up.

Take 2-3 tsp. of the mix just before each meal (I mix it in hot water to

make tea). See if it helps you lose weight and feel better.

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Meyer <b-healthy@...>wrote:

> Hi ,

>

> this is very interesting. I will tell you a bit about my weight loss

> experience:

>

> a few years ago I was asked by a naturopath to follow the Blood type

> " A " diet for health issues I was dealing with. I changed to that

> diet and lost TONS of weight without even trying. It is a low in red

> meat diet, no wheat but spelt and oats are OK. Anytime one

> restricts the number of foods one can eat, there is a tendency to

> lose weight. But this diet was low iron as well. In the end, this

> diet did not work for me as I ended up SEVERELY anemic and extremely

> tired.

>

> Then I went on a WAPF (Nourishing Traditions) diet, and the weight

> slowly came back but I have felt very nourished as I eat plenty of fat.

>

> Right now, I am followiing the GAPS (grain free diet) and also a low

> protein, high fat diet to deal with autoimmune issues. I have a raw

> liver smoothie in the morining (iron!) and most of my carbs come from

> low starch vegetables. I have re-introduced some fermented dairy.

> This time the weight has not come off so quickly. I have to control

> the carb content in the veggies to obtain very minimal but steady

> weight loss.

>

> Both diets may not be comparable in that the first one was lowish in

> fat and the present one is liberal in unprocessed and healthy fats.

>

> Again, weight loss has never been my focus. (It is health) but it is

> a nice bonus to get rid of a few unwanted pounds here and there.

>

> Thanks for the interesting discussion.

> '

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