Journal de jsfantome, 08 oct. 11

Can't wait to see how this works. I am in the process of researching the Primal Blueprint method also. i think the first thing i am going to do is add more fish oil and magnesium and coconut oil to my current WOE. Hopefully that will help. If not, other changes may be necessary. For me, the less I have to think about food the better. Also, trying to eat so often would be very difficult. But I am hoping that some of the tips will work well with the current WOE. I will be very interested to see how close this WOE is to what you have been eating with Atkins.  

I'm checking it out right now. 

I take fish oil, magnesium, and have just added the coconut oil. Be careful if you use the coconut oil to cook with, it burns very easily. I did some research on the egg yolk thing, and could only find one site that stated that breaking the yolks is bad for you, so not sure how true that is. I always have mine scrambled. Do you have any site sources, Paula...would be interesting to read, since that is also the only way they cook them in the hospital. Even when they have real eggs! lol 

Stef - it was truly a hodge podge of days and days of searching... and without the forethought to save each one... I just cut/pasted, copied, etc... to my own word document, until I put all of this together. Each of these things had specific reasons related to cellular inflammation and the hormonal blockages that stop weight loss - and advice about correcting them. (if that helps you in your own searches.) If I come back across them... I will definitely save them and post. Much Love. 

Whooo Hooo! This is going to be interesting, thanks for taking us with you! 

Thanks, Paula...I eat 3 eggs most everyday and almost always scrambled...have done so since I started Atkins Jan/2010...so was just curious. Seems like every time I turn around there is a new rule! lol  

Stef - I love me a good omelette, and that's not gonna change. You have to draw the line somewhere :). And I love 2 overeasy also! That was the first time I ever read that too - and was surprised... but now if I break the yoke while frying... I take it out of the pan immediately. If I'm intentionally cooking them scrambled... oh, well. Perhaps I could use egg whites for the coming couple of months, and see if it truly does have any impact. But I'm making so many changes at once, how would I know THAT is the thing that mattered? I'm just gonna enjoy my omelette once in awhile and get over it! LOL! Much Love. 

The Omega 3's in the egg are in the yolk so when you omit the yolk you lose that benefit.  

Do you guys remember the dayas when eggs were bad for you??? i do. And because of that, I take all this with a grain of salt. i think each persons body is different and some things work for other folks that don't work for me. The breaking the yolk sounds odd to me but then again, many people seem to do with with egg white only omlets etc.  

Esimmons...I feel the same. I love eggs but I'm always slightly worried when I eat more than one a day. 

I went back online to try to find some research about this. This is all about scrambling up the Cholesterol in the yolk and heating it - which in turn apparently raises the 'inflammation' issue in the cells. Our immune systems (of which more than 60% is in our bowels) is highly sensitive to fighting cellular inflammation. It goes on all day, every day. The worst offending foods are the obvious. Transfats, Saturated fats, fried foods, processed foods, foods w/ nitrates, etc. Basically, whole foods in their natural state (including eggs) are healthy. And they do their own part in restoring the balance in your cellular activity. So again - 90% of what you take in... should be Natural, whole, healthy forms of protein, fat and carbs. (and God apparently made the body to accommodate for the other 10% of not so good choices through the way the immune system fights off this inflammation.) It's just that for far too long I have been eating bacon (daily), sausage (occasionally), higher fatty cuts of meat, etc... which I believe it contributing to SOME of my issues. I don't believe eating eggs is harmful. Way too many people have done it for way too long - generations of people - but some of the other things we eat might be at issue. I think I would like to try to call this the Farmer's Diet! (is that name taken? LOL!) I want to eat as close to plain old natural, unprocessed Whole Foods. 

I would advise against coconut oil. It's much more like an animal fat (polysaturated) than like a vegetable oil (polyunsaturated). Cooking with it is like cooking with tallow or pork fat, and it adds a taste that takes some getting used to. You may like it, or you may not. In general, tropical oils (coconut oil, palm oil) are not healthy additions to the diet. 

Fledgist, I think that it depends on who you ask....I have been told that coconut oil is fine, it is the palm kernel oil that they recommend you avoid. On Primal Blueprint, you use lard, butter, coconut oil, olive oil, nut oils, but not "vegetable" oil. It has had no adverse effects on me.