Changing mentality towards fats

(Ryan Tuttle) #1

So yesterday i felt like i ate awful and i felt like i ate so much LCHF food. I started to feel guilty and doubt my new diet plan. And with the doubt and guilt i started to “feel fat”.

However this morning i woke up and weighed myself and i was actually at a new low of 178LB. Im ecstatic but also so confused. Im so conditioned to think that all this high fat food is bad i cant help but feel like im eating awful even though my body feels great.

Im finding that its hard for me to judge how much i should be eating and if im eating “right” just because of that conditioned mentality and guilt towards food (and fats)

Another thing is that the fats make me feel so full. And i associate feeling full with over eating and guilt. On my regular diet i always feel hungry and when i feel full its because i ate a TON of carby food.

So much to process with this. Im sure it will just take time to adapt.

(Jules Swart) #2

My biggest struggle with this WOE was to unlearn all the non-sense we’ve been taught for years. It does get easier! Great job so far!

(Erin Macfarland ) #3

Just remember @Ryan_Tuttle you’re just switching the fuel your body uses. Our bodies naturally burn both fat and carbs, you’re just helping it learn to use primarily fats by eating primarily fats. So it’s necessary to eat all those fats so it gets the message, “Hey, we’re using fat now.” Maybe that helps you feel less nervous about piling in the bacon :wink:

(Jeremy Storie) #4

If you pay attention to your body you’ll realize that you feel full off of fat but not bloated. When I used to eat carbage I would feel full and the shortly after I would be bloated and miserable.

(Doug) #5

Ryan, it really can be hard - yes, we are so conditioned. I usually eat too much protein and not enough fat. Don’t beat myself up about it because it’s still light years from my former ways.

“Low-fat” and “saturated fat” etc. - the responses we have to these has been built up over a long time. I learned to read in the 1960s and ‘came of age’ in the 1970s, so it seems like forever to me.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

(Ryan Tuttle) #6

Absolutely. I used to feel bloated after i ate anything. My stomach and even my neck and face would feel and look bloated.

I lost all of the bloat.

#7

Totally understand, and a few days ago I ate nothing but butter just to let it go!
My biggest obstacle now is my hubby, who insists I may be looking good on the outside, but inside must be like crap…
I’m ignoring, and just go off and do some painting, or drawing

#8

This was me too! Now when I feel full on keto-food, I know I have eaten right. I am allowed to live without hunger. An Ive left the guilt behind.

This is why I have been through long stalls without stress, becouse this alone is lifechanging for me.:grinning: