I'm using coconut oil for cooking. I found a study done in Germany on rats and the comparison of lard, olive oil, fish oil and coconut oil showed the healthiest results were in the coconut oil fed lab rats. Olive is best used in salads, not cooking. Coconut oil is not damaged by heat.

I'm not having any of the die off, or hyper energy, or lethargy.

What saddens me is that having begun 2 mos ago I have absolutely no weight loss to show .

I may have to abandon Schwarzbein and start 'Banting'--i.e., meat and eggs and cheese, Atkins, Inuit--whatever label you choose.

Day's intake:

B-egg, cream cheese cooked in vco;1 slice of very low carb bread (5carbs), Irish butter; organic decaf w/ whipping cream

S-hard boiled egg, mayonnaise

L-beef cooked in vco

S-egg, little onion, 1 tomato cooked in vco

D-beef cooked in vco; cream, 1 sq bitter choc, saccharin