Eat Fat Lose Fat

Like most Americans, I want to lose weight, so I picked up the book, Eat Fat, Lose Fat. This book is by the same authors as Nourishing Traditions, and uses the principles of Traditional Cooking to help you lose weight. The book uses a lot of coconut products, because of the health and possible metabolism raising powers of Lauric Acid, which is the main Acid in Coconut oil. You start off on a 2500 calorie a day plan for 2 weeks, and if you don't lose any weight in the first 2 weeks, you go down to 2000 calories a day. You take a 1-2 Tablespoons of Coconut oil 20 minutes prior to eating, which is supposed to help you feel full faster and longer, and only eat 3 meals a day, no snacks.

I started today with Phase 1, the 2500 cal/day plan. I have eaten breakfast and lunch according to the plan. So far the food has been pretty good, I feel a little bit hungry, but not starving by any means. My only complaint so far is the expense of the food, I'm hoping it gets a little better now that I have purchased a few things like spices and oils that are expensive but last a long time. I hope to keep on the plan for the full 2 weeks, and see how things go.

First Day

Yesterday I prepared by starting my Sourdough, making Yogurt Cream Cheese, and collecting the whey for soaking, and making Ginger carrots. I also soaked some steel cut oatmeal in water and whey overnight. All of the recipes can be found in Nourishing Traditions (NT).
This morning I heated up the oatmeal that I prepared last night. I was pleasant surprised to find that it smelled wonderful, I was expecting it to smell sour like yogurt. It didn't taste much different than conventionally prepared yogurt, although I am not used to the texture of steel cut oats. Bug must have liked it because she kept asking for more and ate almost half my bowl, and she had already eaten her breakfast. After breakfast I started soaking some brown rice for dinner tonight in water with whey added.
For a snack we had Wasa Toast with the Yogurt Cream Cheese. The cream cheese was a little sour, but no bad. I've made this 3 times now, I found the recipe in another cook book as well, and to think I tossed the nutritious whey before!. The first time I made it it worked fine, the second time it didn't turn out at all, and this time it worked, but the taste is a little off. I may just have to get used to it. Wasa toast was recommended in NT, and I found it on sale at my Supermarket, so I figured I'd try it. The ingredients are pleasantly surprising, and I can see why it was recomended:
Whole grain rye flour sourdough, water, whole grain wheat flour, whole grain out flour, whole grain barley flour, oat kernels, yeast, oat flakes, malt extract,and diglycerides(all natural emulsifiers) salt.