Rosedale Diet - Another Low Carb Diet?

Hi. Just started the Rosedale Diet 4 days ago. I try to eat 1400 calories a day. If I eat under 1100-1200 I don't have energy and lose muscle. If I eat too much, I will gain weight.Does anyone out there count their calories? On Rosedale how do you know you are keeping your fats under 50% of your total calories? There isn't enough time in my day to eat the amount of veggies necessary to make up the total calories i try to eat. How are you guys doing it?

Hi Sue,

I started the program about the same time you did. Concurrently, I joined my-calorie-counter.com, a free (or $5 per month for extra features) service that has really helped me track the right percentages of fats, protein and carbs. There is a daily journal where you enter everything you eat (selecting from lists so you don't have to manually enter) and you can view a pie chart that shows how your food calories are distributed. I aim for 50-60% fat and about 30% protein and less than 20% carbs. You can see it right in front of you. After each meal, I check the pie chart and can then see what foods I need more or less of to stay in balance. It has been very helpful to me to have this visual aid. The site also has other great tools and resources. The basic (free) membership is good, I chose to pay $5 per month because that allows me to enter my own custom foods, which has been very helpful when following Rosedale.

As for the Rosedale plan, I've lost about 12 pounds since Jan 5. I feel great, have more energy, and am already noticing my clothes are looser. I rarely have cravings, and when I do I have been able to make it through without much trouble. And a diet has never been easier for me to follow. The foods I used to consider "treats"--nuts, olives, avocados, etc.) are exactly what I am supposed to be eating, and they really curb my hunger.

Good luck!

Jill

Rosedale is a god send. It is the easiest and most effective diet I have ever been on. I have fully converted my life around this diet.

I was diagnosed with high cholesterol, gout and type II diabetes before I found Rosedale.

A commitment to Rosedale, 3 months and 30 pounds later, I re-took a blood test and they were so radically different that the nurse thought they had a different patient!

My tip to everyone on the board. Rosedale recommended La Tortilla tortillas are from heaven. I make Turkey hotdog wraps, egg burritos, etc. Anywhere I would have used bread, I use these tortillas including pizza, baked chips, etc. It won't feel like you are dieting!

I started Rosedale in an effort to control my type II diabetes. I didn't need to lose weight but my blood sugar was way out of control. I was trying to follow the diabetic diet plan my nutritionist had given me, but I was hungry all the time and I had to exercise an hour every day plus take a combination of two medications. It still wasn't working. When my doctor prescribed a third med. I decided to try something else [enter Dr. Rosedale.] Within three weeks I discontinued all my medications, and three months later the results of my blood tests where nothing short of miraculous. I have now been following the diet for over 4 years. I recommend it to everyone with type 2 diabetes having trouble controlling blood sugar.

I just read the book and would like to begin the diet. However, the sample menus are mainly from his recipes, which I don't want to use. After figuring out how much protein I need, how do I know how much fat and carbs to eat? Do I simply take the recommended cod liver oil, eat lots of vegetables and snack on nuts, and hope I'm complying?

I started the Rosedale diet on 1 March as a last resort. My type II diabetes was out of control and my insulin doses just kept increasing along with my weight. I have lost 15 lbs so far and feel so much more alert and energetic. I never have cravings for breads and sugar like before. Most of all, my blood sugars have gone down so much that I rarely need insulin to bring it down. This diet has saved my life.

Hi all. My husband and I have just started the Rosedale diet. We have spent 2 weeks reading and shopping and chucking stuff out of the fridge. Last week we began eating along the guidelines until I had a couple of days off to do the grocery shopping needed. I have lost 2 lbs in the first 6 days of pseudo dieting along the guidelines and my husband has lost 10. Just by cutting out cream and simple carbs. Now we get serious.
This morning, we measured and weighed and figured out our grams of protein. Then a question popped up: "does one keep re-measuring and adjust the # of grams of protein as one loses weight?" Might be an obvious question....but not to me. Thanks in advance for any help.

I'm Judith's husband. Neither of us eats a lot of food at individual meals. We did the computations and she needs about 64 grams of protein and I need 97 grams daily. We can't figure out any way to get that much, especially without red meat. How many nuts can a human being stand??? Any help with her and my questions would be muchly appreciated.

I am diabetic, on oral meds. I am very carb sensitive. I lost 20 lbs in 6 months by controling carbs. I came across The Rosedale Diet form an article entitled "Diabetes is not a Disease of Blood Sugar by Dr. Ron Rosedale. My aim is not to lose weight but gain some understanding of how I can better control the disease. I exercise, but other factors affect this disease and most of the information I have gathered is repetitive and not very helpful. If anyone has obtained good glucose control out there I would be very interested in your experiences. I understand this is a very individualized diesase,and you can't compare yourself with anyone else, but there are no support groups and information is limited. The ADA has very elementary information.

This diet is OK but only for a couple of dayz---at least for my body i know for sure---it is good enough to put ur body back in balance so that u can resume eating all types of food normally again and that includes carbohydrates,even da bad ones, yes sir!! ppl r foolz if they can believe that they can 100% give up white flour, white rice, pasta, etc---if u r already twenty yrs old, then u cannot give it up entirely,---however u should reduce da amount of it i do agree--after all eating too much of it made u fat and obese in da first place, so this diet will work for a day or two or maybe three---it will put ur body in a shock enough to start normally accepting da bad carbohydrates---but if u think u can forever give up pasta, pizza, white rice etc then ur just deceiving urself---how long will u suppress urself; after two or three dayz u will not b able 2 control and go after such food like a madman or madwoman and gain even more weight---i have followed the Rosedale diet to the letter as well as couple of my close friends and after three days and for another friend four dayz, that was it----u psychologically becum a zombie and ur bubble bursts---for a day or two is OK for most ppl or maybe three with a few others since it will give u enough shock to ur system to regularly accpet carbohydrates but anything more than that, then ur body will interpret it as some starvation and go into lock up mode and it will caused stress and depression---most ppl know what im talking about---and o yeh, one last thing, moderate exercise is a MUST, not an option, half an hr to hr walking every day for six days a week is a MUST---unless u work as a laborer constructing roads, u need a little moderate exercise everyday and since most ppl in america r doing deskjobs it is a MUST to burn off those modest carbohydrate calories.