About a year ago I had some problems with my liver and needed to go on a diet. My GP recommended what I later found out to be a kind of keto diet: no sugar, no white flour, no fruit (has too much sugar), no alcohol (I hardly drink alcohol anyway), no canned foods, no processed meat, lots of vegetables and salads, turkey instead and lots of fish. I am not a huge fish-lover and where I live we can only rarely get fresh fish. So that last think wasn't really an option for me.
I also found out soon that I just cannot do without carbs. However, I exchanged all the white flour things (mainly bread) with full-grain products and cut out pasta (which I had eaten a lot before).
I also don't like most vegetables and am allergic to some as well. I like green salads, so I ate a lot of those, I ate zucchinis, peppers and leek. I also found that couscous has lots of protein and ate a lot of that instead of rice or noodles. For snacks I ate walnuts, pecan nuts and almonds.
After two months my liver was healthy again and I had lost 8 kg. However, I decided to go on with the diet because I actually liked that kind of food and I wasn't really missing anything.
After about 8 monts I'd reached my ideal weight I decided to go on with that kind of diet on weekdays and am cooking "normal food" (including my beloved pasta) on weekends when I cook for me and my husband. On occasions I bake a cake and I find that's not a problem either as long as I go back to my diet on weekdays.
27 Apr 2020, 7:18 pm
