Fat and Being Not Fat

My mom commented the other day, seeming a bit bewildered by how much fat I am eating.  It made me stop and think about how much my diet has changed and how much fat I am really eating.  When I bought into the fat is bad mantra, I avoided fat like the plague, everything was low fat and low calorie, but I still wasn’t losing weight.  Sure I managed to drop about 15 pounds on the Medifast powder and water diet of about 800-900 calories a day, but even that stalled out.

Since I started the silver-aloe protocol, my diet completely changed as I started researching and finding out more about candida and reading the Body Ecology Diet book.  I started drinking kefir smoothies for breakfast and eating lots of fresh veggies and oily fish, including my favorite salmon.  My favorite way to make it is to brush the filet with olive oil before seasoning and cooking it, as it helps keep the salmon nice and moist.  Then there were the oily salad dressings, usually made with either olive oil or hemp oil and apple cider vinegar.  If I’m not eating meat I usually put a good amount of hemp seeds in my salad which have a good bit of fat in them along with the protein.  For snacks I often eat organic almonds or pepitas (aka pumpkin seeds).

Oftentimes I’ll saute kale or another leafy green in either coconut oil or ghee, especially as I can’t seem to handle two meals with raw vegetables in a single day very well.  (Speaking of which, kale sauteed in ghee with a tablespoon or two of minced garlic and Himalayan sea salt - freaking awesome!)  It’s not too bad when I eat two meals of raw veggies, but my intestines can get a little cranky about all the roughage.  Plus there’s the tablespoon of coconut oil I take religiously every night, as it has anti-candida properties.

So, I’m eating all this fat, and my weight is coming off.  Not at the super fast rate it was at first when I started on the silver and aloe, but a pound or two every week or two.  According to all the conventional dietary and medical knowledge, all this fat should be making my butt swell up like a hot air balloon.  But instead it’s deflating.  Hee hee!

I really don’t understand the dynamics in play here, but in concert with the silver-aloe protocol and the anti-candida diet, eating healthy fat seems to be a major game changer.  One thing is definitely clear.  Fat is helping me be not fat, and that’s a good thing!