The Rosedale Diet Paperback – September 6, 2005

Dr. Ron Rosedale's book takes us past today's barrage of scientific diet books to a new level based on lower carb, lower protein, and higher "healthy" fats. Healthy fats are: olive oil, avocado oil, almond oil, ghee, coconut oil, and butter. Current changes in Dr. Rosedale's book can be read on his website: drrosedale.com. Write this down inside your book so you can refer to it when you have a question not answered in the book. There is even a PDF file titled: Here are some basic rules to follow that will keep you on a path to ultimate health and longevity". It's 4 pages that I had laminated, front and back, at my office supply depot. I had my book converted to a spiral bound book so the pages lay flat....cost under $5.00 at the office supply depot.You can view other updates on his website drrosedale.com. He is keeping his work current on the website. There is a second area to the website for a support forum: go to: [...]. Sign up for it so your questions can be posted there, but be sure to do a search of the already asked/answered questions before posting your question. It may have already been answered.I like the fact that we change our fats to "good fats". We can eat whenever we are hungry....that is a foundation of the diet. Yet, it still works w/o counting calories, carbs, fats....we are free to enjoy magnificently healthy food. It is a bit of work to prepare these foods. But, after awhile, I began to prefer my home prepared Rosedale foods instead of eating out. I am still learning how to make food in advance and keep a supply on hand so I don't need to cook so often. Hint: bake 4 to 6 packets of individual fish servings in heavy-duty aluminum foil to eat later....add a couple teaspoons of healthy oil to the packet, and some herbs/seasonings, and voila!Gently re-heat food - for example, the packets of fish above - in a 2 quart saucepan double boiler (buy a double boiler insert for your saucepan) rather than using a microwave. Works beautifully/reheats quickly.The protein amounts suggested by Dr. Rosedale are lower than what I had thought were acceptable. For me, my ideal protein at a meal is about 4 oz uncooked or 3 oz cooked. Before this book, I would eat anywhere from 4 oz to 6 oz or more at a meal. This contributed to my not being able to easily lose the weight.Please be aware that he says "Limit saturated fat for the first three weeks". Some of you have 'dissed' the book because you say the book and recipes don't adhere to the Rosedale principles of "no saturated fat'. Be sure you read everything in the book! That isn't entirely true! After the first 3 weeks, we are allowed to eat more meats with saturated fat, but be sure to not eat them excessively. Moderation. For me, I allow myself bacon once a week at breakfast. Maybe a hamburger patty or pork sausage once/twice a week. Always with a teaspoon or two of a good fat. I keep reminding myself to limit my fat to a teaspoon or two - possibly 3 teaspoons once in a while - of good fat....and not to add fat by the Tablespoonfuls. At dinner, I do allow myself a full Tablespoon of a healthy oil --- olive or avocado oil in my salad dressing.Bottled dressings generally are made of bad fats, and often contain sugar. Every other week, make a couple pints of a fresh Rosedale homemade salad dressing, pages 216-219-220-226-230-232-240-242-244-249 - store in a Ball canning jar with lid, and have it all week on your salad.Something about my hunger has shifted where I'm feeling more normal around food. The handful of almonds works very well for me when I need a nutritious snack.I can tell my leptin is at a normal level that took away the "crazy hunger" I had been having for many years. I couldn't stop eating junk foods. Now I have what I would call normal hunger. The Rosedale Diet allows us to eat when we are hungry. I do that easily now, and do not experience the "crazy hunger" any longer. In fact, sometimes it takes quite a while to feel physical hunger. That is fine with me. I am indebted to Dr. Rosedale for this change in my way of eating. I trust what he has written in this book. I only wish he was still here in Denver where I live as I would like to be able to go to a doctor who understands the science of "low carb, higher fat". My current primary care doctor's quite scary suggestion, when I visited her for diet advice, was to put me on the latest prescription drug for weight loss. No, thank you. She doesn't practice holistic or integrative medicine.Since I work in healthcare, I understand diabetic patients and their diets. As well as the stories they tell themselves about what is "acceptable" for a diabetic to eat....based on the very outdated diabetic food plan that many senior citizens still follow...full of sugar and carbohydrates of all kinds. Dr. Rosedale busts out of the past generations of diabetics being told they can eat what they want, eat sugar, etcIt also isn't as expensive as you might think. I've stopped eating out very much and prefer to prepare my own meals, which are pretty quick for me. I'm not following the recipes so much any more, I keep it very simple. Try it for a couple weeks with an open mind. The supplements can make it more expensive...but, the way I see it is: we take these recommended supplements to "fine tune" our body and get it into optimum fat burning mode, and get our leptin levels in a normal range, so that we can continue burning fat. Many of us are highly desirous of getting to an optimal weight. The food plan and supplements help us do that. We can use the supplements for a month or two and taper off if you find it too expensive. Experiment to see what happens for you, and to your body.Highly recommend this book. Wondering why it never became a best seller?

I got this book subsequent to being diagnosed with high cholesterol, and being put on statin medication, to reduce it. I was appalled when I went to pick up my first thirty Zocor tablets, and was told "That'll be $155 please." I haven't had health insurance for three years now, and couldn't afford this amount. I was abit dismayed anyway, at being put on this medication. I thought I'd be able to bring my cholesterol down by reigning in my diet, I'd been eating poorly prior to my bloodwork. I found generic medication I could afford, and took it for two months, but wasn't convinced that inhibiting an enzyme in my liver was the way to solve the problem; if anything, the medication allowed me to keep eating crappy, and not have bad blood levels! So, after trying it the conventional way, and seeing that, yes, my cholesterol levels had come down, I decided to try Dr. Rosedale's diet, and supplement plan. I found it online, while researching cholesterol. I am in my third month of the diet, and, while I say I "approximate" the diet, I pretty well stick to the supplement plan. I've had some really good experiences with this, and some fear, at the high levels of some supplements he recommends, but have had remarkable results with Vitamin K. I was diagnosed with osteopenia a year or so ago, and put on Fosamx, which I refused to take. It also was expensive, $14 per weekly pill, and its mechanism of action, as well as potential side-effects turned me off. Dr. Rosedale recommends 2000 mcg of K per day for oseteoporosis prevention, 8000 mcg per day for treatment. Since osteopenia is a milder form of bone loss that osteoporosis, I take 5000 mcg per day, of K-1, which is what you get in most vitamin bottles. The chemical name starts with a P. There's another Vitamin K, which is K-2, and whose chemical name starts with an M, which you have to be careful about, because high levels of it can harm you, but the research I did on the internet says that K-1 isn't harmful at high levels, and can be helpful with connective tissue diseases. This I have to tell you. I have suffered from Dupuytren's in my left hand for five years, and mine was atypically painful. I was also getting Leiderhose, and Peyronies. Devestating. I was scared to take 2000 mcg K per day all at once, from the 100 mcg I was taking, so I ramped up to 1000 mcg the first day, then 2000 mcg the next day, and 5000 mcg the fourth day. After the second or third day, I began to notice dramatic changes in my left hand: reduction of pain, increased comfortable range of motion. Now, three weeks out, my Peyronies is all but gone, my Leiderhose almost gone, and my left hand only mildly affected. I was starting to get it in my right hand as well, and althought I still feel aches sometimes, it's greatly reduced over what I was experiencing before I took the increased doses of K. The stuff is cheap, too. I get 100, 100 mcg pills for $1.96. For a supposedly incurable disease! But I tried ordering Dr. Rosedale's supplements online, at his website, and although it took my order, it didn't ship, and my bankcard was never debited. Also, I wrote to Dr. Rosedale to tell him about the connective tissue disease improvements, with the Vitamin K, and to thank him for writing his book, and my mail came back, "Moved, no new address". I didn't know what to make of this, but the changes have been marvelous. I'm learning what it's like to relax. I was in a hyper state for so long, I guess with all the carbohydrates I used to eat, that the unhyper state seemed strange to me at first. I can look, plan, act. Before, and still sometimes, I act compulsivley, always running, like a hamster on a wheel, but this diet slows me down, allows me to be more in the moment, emotionally, which is not always positive, but at least it's real, and I'm learning to tolerate emotions I previously would have run away from. I used food as a place to hide, and, letting that go, I deal with reality more directly now. I just stop, get ahold of myself, wait, and the overwhelming feeling passes. I experience moments of stopping keeping myself in a perpetual motion cycle, and see outside of the corner I'd painted myself into.