Keto which is high fat low carb worked well for me for a short while and then I crashed hard.
I later learned that if you consume too much fat and protein, your body shifts out of a more efficient cycle to use the fat more effectively, as if you were on permanent fast.
It's all about balance .. I hear keeping fat calories below 25% of total calories prevents issues.
I appreciate your analysis & the Star Wars comparisons. I am currently working on an organic, whole food approach to my cooking & diet. I would love to lose weight, but my goal is to have a healthy diet, exercise and proper sleep. If I lose weight, great. If not, I’m still doing the right things to age gracefully at 69.
Great summary! Are there not non weight reasons to go low carb though? Does not getting in a state of ketosis offer other metabolic benefits like autophagy?
After age 40, I started gaining a few pounds every year. I have tried Dean Ornish low fat plant based, Barry Sears Zone Diet, Weight Watchers, Paleo, fasting, carnivore, and the PKD from Paleo Medicina. For me, the PKD has been a great blessing. I am able to cut calories without hunger. The belly fat is melting away. I like the food. It is easy to cook and affordable. Low fat diets always made me ravenous. PKD is easy for me. YMMV.
And the original leader and founder of the Jedi order was Westin Price. Price was a dentist in the 1920s and 30s who went around the world and studied all pre-contact indigenous peoples and their diets and compared them to “diets of modern commerce” AKA refined foods. All pre-contact indigenous people had perfect teeth, bones, immune systems and very robust health. All of the same people that began eating “modern diets” were sick, had poor dental health and shortened lifespan. Here is his excellent book:
In a reply to a comment I made questioning the calorie-is-a-calorie theory of weight loss the Substacker El Gato Malo wrote: "the sorts of calories you eat may affect how hungry you feel or how much energy you have, your nutrition, ease of building muscle and recovering from exercise etc, but in terms of actual weight gain, it's literally just thermodynamics: energy in vs energy out. fat (or muscle or bone or whatever) can only be build from calories. run a deficit, you lose weight. run a surplus, you gain it. there is some (very minor) modulation around an equilibrium driven by body temp, but it's basically all just conservation of energy equations."
Keto which is high fat low carb worked well for me for a short while and then I crashed hard.
I later learned that if you consume too much fat and protein, your body shifts out of a more efficient cycle to use the fat more effectively, as if you were on permanent fast.
It's all about balance .. I hear keeping fat calories below 25% of total calories prevents issues.
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I appreciate your analysis & the Star Wars comparisons. I am currently working on an organic, whole food approach to my cooking & diet. I would love to lose weight, but my goal is to have a healthy diet, exercise and proper sleep. If I lose weight, great. If not, I’m still doing the right things to age gracefully at 69.
Great summary! Are there not non weight reasons to go low carb though? Does not getting in a state of ketosis offer other metabolic benefits like autophagy?
After age 40, I started gaining a few pounds every year. I have tried Dean Ornish low fat plant based, Barry Sears Zone Diet, Weight Watchers, Paleo, fasting, carnivore, and the PKD from Paleo Medicina. For me, the PKD has been a great blessing. I am able to cut calories without hunger. The belly fat is melting away. I like the food. It is easy to cook and affordable. Low fat diets always made me ravenous. PKD is easy for me. YMMV.
And the original leader and founder of the Jedi order was Westin Price. Price was a dentist in the 1920s and 30s who went around the world and studied all pre-contact indigenous peoples and their diets and compared them to “diets of modern commerce” AKA refined foods. All pre-contact indigenous people had perfect teeth, bones, immune systems and very robust health. All of the same people that began eating “modern diets” were sick, had poor dental health and shortened lifespan. Here is his excellent book:
https://www.amazon.com/Nutrition-Physical-Degeneration-Weston-Price/dp/0916764206
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In a reply to a comment I made questioning the calorie-is-a-calorie theory of weight loss the Substacker El Gato Malo wrote: "the sorts of calories you eat may affect how hungry you feel or how much energy you have, your nutrition, ease of building muscle and recovering from exercise etc, but in terms of actual weight gain, it's literally just thermodynamics: energy in vs energy out. fat (or muscle or bone or whatever) can only be build from calories. run a deficit, you lose weight. run a surplus, you gain it. there is some (very minor) modulation around an equilibrium driven by body temp, but it's basically all just conservation of energy equations."
Is this inaccurate?