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No, it really isn't (for me, at least). When I was limiting my calories and exercising more I was gaining weight, feeling like crap, and was miserable and hungry much of the time.
Now that I stopped trying to keep calories down and eat as much fat as I can handle (about 4/5 of my calories come from fat), I lost 30 lbs from my maximum, feel much better (in addition to having more favorable biomarkers), have significantly improved cognition, and almost never feel miserable because I'm hungry. This is precisely the opposite of the advice I received from virtually all the diet authorities I had encountered like my high school health textbook and doctors.
At what point do we start considering the hypothesis that different people have different things that work for them, and that a diet that is healthy for one person may be terrible or even life-threatening for another person?
So much focus is given on "Dietary advice X is good!" / "Dietary Advice Y is bad!", instead of asking how dietary behavior X interacts with metabolism Y?
I wonder if there's a market for a company that uses blood samples to examine various metabolic markers and meal logs to examine dietary behavior, and then correlate them over time with health markers and use that to craft a personal diet plan?
Keeping meal logs is itself a fairly significant intervention into someone's diet.
It relatively hard to keep one that's accurate if you don't standardize your diet.
Can you explain how this happens? Is a variation of the Atkins diet?
Eating Less + More Exercise = Gained Weight
Eating More ("as much fat as you can handle") + Less Exercise = Lose 30 Pounds.
Can you give more specifics? Time frame? Average calorie levels? Workout regiment?
In the first scenario, did your low mood and hunger cause you to break the diet often and binge calories?
Congrats, by the way. 30lbs is a lot of weight, and it sounds like you have improved your life all around.
Will you agree to update your report in a year or so?
You mean at the 3 year mark? It has already been 2 years.
Yes, although my erroneous impression from reading your post was that you hadn't been on the high-fat strategy for all that long.
Thanks for cooperating!
What kinds of fat have you been eating?
In addition to the fat in my food (which tends to be fairly fatty like eggs, salmon, lamb, etc...), I usually add large amounts of butter, coconut oil, MCT oil, or olive oil. Also, I take way over the recommended dosage in cod liver oil supplements.
A word of warning here- long term use of large quantities cod liver oil can result in vitamin A toxicity.
Why was I downvoted on this?
Thanks. I'll look into that.
Do you take Bulletproof coffee? (Coffee+butter+MCT)
Yes.