![]() This, she was confident, could take the blood sugar swings and slumps out of my life. Zana urged me to try the HFD to see what happened to my energy levels when I switched from using carbs as fuel to burning fat for energy (ketosis). Why would I want to put myself through it if I had no weight to lose?įat makes you feel fuller for longer so you don’t get those energy dips. Others objected to having to weigh their broccoli. Friends and colleagues who had done the diet had shifted half a stone easily - GTG's own Sarah Vine called it The One - but they'd always told me how ‘hardcore’ it was. While my diet is now significantly better than it was in my twenties, it's still quite carb-heavy and I’m often tired and slave to energy slumps. I mentioned this to Zana Morris, who runs the London’s Library Gym, known for its sculpting 15-minute high-intensity weight training workouts and also for its 12-Day High Fat Diet. Actress (and diabetic) Halle Berry revealed on the platform that she had been on it for years as a lifestyle choice and that it had been "largely responsible for slowing down my aging process." It's well known that sugar causes skin ageing. There are busy #keto discussions on Instagram and celebrities are happy to discuss how it keeps them in shape. These days we know so much more - healthy fat is having a rightful moment to the extent of causing avocado and almond shortages. The idea of eating more fat went against everything I’d been told. But as my weight was healthy, it never occurred to me that my diet was not. Glucose tablets were a favourite during exams. At university, I lived on low-fat fruit yoghurts, which were rammed with artificial sweetener and bulking agents (not that we knew or cared, we only ever looked at the calorie count), my toast was always spread with low-fat margarine and milk was always skimmed. So-called ‘healthy’ eating advice, which we now know to be flawed, steered us away from supposedly artery-clogging animal fats, towards (often highly-processed) vegetable oils and low-fat starchy carbs. Like many of my generation, I grew up believing the line that 'fat makes you fat’. ![]() I didn’t have weight to lose, so why 20 years on, did I spend 10 days on a high-fat diet with virtually not a single carb passing my lips? ![]() Just thinking about it was enough to bung me up. They’d bring their Tupperware boxes full of steak, sausages, bacon, eggs, and butter, have coffee laced with cream and worry about their ‘keto breath’. I remember with slight revulsion the noughties, when people were dropping half their bodyweight on Atkins, the first keto plan to hit the mainstream and which consisted mainly of fat and protein. I always swore I’d never do the high-fat ‘ketogenic’ diet. ![]()
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