LCHF: This woman eats about 20 eggs a week and loads of butter, yet is super slim

A DAY ON CHRISTINE'S PLATE

Breakfast: Three or four eggs with the yolks, cooked in butter, side of tomatoes and mushrooms - both cooked in butter

Lunch: Chicken thigh with the skin left on, vegetables cooked in butter

Dinner: Something cooked in butter or cream like butter chicken

After dinner: Hot chocolate with full fat milk and whipped cream on the top 

At the age of 18, Ms Christine Cronau was hooked on dodging fat.

Though never obese, Ms Cronau started gaining weight in her latter teenage years, eventually ending up at 85 kilograms - tired, unhappy and unhealthy.

However, it wasn't until her twenties, by which time she was suffering badly from IBS, bone loss and had thyroid problems - that Ms Cronau contemplated doing things differently.

Confessing she goes through 20 eggs personally and two kilograms of butter between her family of four each week, Ms Cronau recognises that her diet is controversial, but she says there is science to back it up:

'In the 1800s - when coincidentally obesity wasn't a widespread issue - people ate bacon, eggs and hotcakes for breakfast and didn't have as many health problems,' she reasons.

 My daughter, Anna, is about to be 16, and she's got friends who have been dieting since they were 12, but she's got such a healthy attitude towards fat because she has grown up with it

'Obviously all fats aren't created equally, but in my opinion, the vilification of fat was one of the biggest mistakes in nutritional history.

'When we stopped eating fat, people got fatter.'

And though she says we shouldn't be eating 'industrially processed fats - modern fats' - such as margarine and vegetable oil - all natural fats, including butter, nuts, milk and meat - are good for the body:

'If you put margarine on a plate, an animal wouldn't touch it,' she comments.

'But our bodies aren't designed to eat low fat. We are designed to eat REAL food.'

Christine lives in Brisbane, Queensland, with her husband Randall and her two children, 19-year-old son Zac and 15-year-old daughter Anna. She was born in California, and moved to Australia when she was three.

She believes so much in her assertions that she feeds her two children in much the same way as herself and her partner:

'The kids, Zac and Anna, eat exactly the same as we do,' she says.

- Daily Mail Australia