Why Did I Start Losing Weight After Eating Full-fat Products And Meat?
I used to be a vegetarian, but noticed that I was feeling quite weak. I was also always hungry and shaking when I did not eat for a while. I saw a dietitian and he put me on this high-fat, high-protein, low carb diet.
It is not like I cut out carbs completely. I still eat fruit everyday, along with a serving of bread each day, and I eat veggies, but not as a main source of food like I used to. I now eat more meat and have been noticing that I feel better and have lost weight.
I was originally 5′5 and 135 lbs, and am now 127 lbs.
Why is this? Does my body just run better on high fat foods? For instance, I can eat a serving of salmon and feel SO full, whereas I would have to eat 5 bowls of ceral to feel full. I feel like an oddity.
It’ll all come down to calories. Carbs will actually leave you feeling hungry as you notice when you can eat 5 bowls of cereal and not feel as full as when eating a single serving of salmon. Fat is not evil – only the amount of fat many people are getting from fast foods is bad. Eating full-fat and high-protein closely resembles the diet our ancestors used to follow everything from several generations ago right back to the stone age – and you can bet our ancestors didn’t have to worry about their waistlines, so maybe they had a lot more right than we give them credit for.
Your body is responding to the higher protein diet – protein makes you feel fuller and it fuels and helps repair your muscles. Most wt lifters eat higher protein diets because of this.
Also, your body needs fats. I suspect that you are equating “full fat” products as bad foods, but it sounds like the fats you are getting are healthy fats; such as the fats found in salmon.
Finally, you don’t mention what exactly your vegetarian diet consisted of, but I suspect there was a lot of sugary and starchy carbs in it. These foods will make you feel hungry shortly after eating, and they mess with your blood sugar levels.
Glad to see that you have a dietician looking over your shoulder.