My Filipina Wife Does Low Carb

Meantime in Hampshire....
The New Forest group of NHS surgeries in southern England have updated their low carbohydrate website pages.....

https://newforestpcn.co.uk/low-carb/news

“As well as trying to keep up with his toddler, Mark attributed his 10 stone loss to a high protein diet of lean meat and eating less carbs.”

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/the-beast-weight-loss-loose-20263671?fbclid=IwAR0eSQjQyrArnTmoVoMbR4niHskjKT53gMUkJAt7IecQgQJi86n2uflYing

29 stone is almost 3 times my weight, that's mahoosive

He was a big chap, wasn’t he.

Tha Navy Seals have been applying a Keto solution, here’s why....

Starting to get into the health vibe, walked along the Thames then a healthy dinner, I can feel my ribs quite sharp.

Is that pasta in the mix? I am sure it won’t do you much harm if you have a healthy metabolism.

Can't really call him "The beast" now.

I was postman many years ago, and I cycled to work and had a push-bike round plus I played football at weekends and trained 2x a week. I lost loads of weight and was eating everything I don't eat now.
Went down to 11 stone, when I left the Royal mail I went to 15 stone might have been 16 stone. I'm just under 13 stone at the moment. my 'goal' 12 stone. (pardon the pun)

Yes, pasta, but I don't eat white bread,rice, fry-ups, drink alcohol

That's the thing, when your in constant motion the weight seems to stay off

@Jim @oss @Druk1
There is a very poignant story about a Professor Tim Noakes. He was or maybe still is a long distance runner. Half marathons. Certainly was in his younger days. He latched onto the idea that carbohydrates loading of his meals was the way to go to improve performance. He became renowned for his ideas. He wrote books on the topic. He was the expert on the topic. And then he developed T2 diabetes owing to his body processing the glucose in the carbs. He realised what had happened and his thinking was turned completely on its head. So much so that he tried to influence the health authorities in his native country of South Africa. He was put in jail for that. Until he was able to prove his innocence. He is now world renowned for his story.

Of course now we know that for many athletes especially in endurance sports, it is more efficient to run on body fat than glucose. Team Sky did it for example. Bruckner did it at Liverpool. Klopp is a low carber. Etc etc etc,

Here is a video of his. “ It’s the Insulin Resistance Stupid”. In two parts. For that is exactly what it’s all about, especially as we get older. Our bodies took everything we threw at it when we were young including copious quantities of carbs however in the longer term we become insulin resistant. Insulin resistance is the precursor to Prediabetes, T2 diabetes and obesity.



“Noakes has type 2 diabetes (it's in his family history) and developed it despite religiously eating the recommended high-carb, low-fat diet for 33 years that experts told him would prevent diabetes.”

How is your weight and fitness overall John?

My weight is around 84kg right now. I was up at 102/104 kg a couple of years ago. I am not fit in the way I was in my 20s. But for a 65/ 66. yo I am reasonably fit. That is down to two factors. 1) the food I eat and 2) activity levels.

The problem for many is that they just cannot follow the kind of activity levels required and so the way to go for them, first and foremost is to eat the right food.

All my health markers are in the right place including cholesterol and lipids in general. Only because of what I don’t eat. Nothing else.

My risk factors for coronary heart disease are optimal because of what I don’t eat and what I do eat.

I am certain my immune system is working very well right now.

To add to that, Mrs Ash is very active but overweight. She is succesfully reducing her weight now having cut out sweets, sugar, starchy carbs etc. She eats healthy fats, protein and a limited amount of carbs.

We can measure insulin resistance. But we don’t. It can be done privately. One day it will likely be measured at our local NHS surgery but not yet. It is now recognised as an extremely important indicator.

Fry ups are okay. Just watch the oil you fry in. Use, ghee, butter or extra virgin olive oil.

Mrs Ash, me and the nipper have a cooked breakfast most days. ( We also stir fry ). But we don’t eat a carb laden fry up.

Don’t use vegetable oils or margarine.

White bread and brown bread are almost the same in terms of their glucose content.

I am just going to stop eating altogether

Measuring Insulin Resistance. It’s now being carried out widely by an ex NHS GP in Hampshire but in the private sector.

This too is called “It’s the Insulin Stupid”. Dr Donal Collins runs a private clinic in Hampshire but some of his clients are NHS patients at a Hampshire practice. These guys discuss it at length. I believe eventually it will be free to all NHS patients but meantime we have to do what we can to stay healthy.