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Yeah, I'm 6', or was. I had been putting on weight when the
Posted on: April 9, 2020 at 14:12:23 CT
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kids were born & no time for exercise. Just raising a different kind of dumbells, I guess.
I didn't worry about it at first, just putting on a few here & there over the years, but I got some literature from some vegetarian group touting how great that diet was & eliminating meat would cause you to lose weight. I didn't want to go full hog that route but tried shifting to less meat. I ate big bowls of mashed potatoes, a lot of pasta & some salads... and put on weight like I couldn't believe. It was going the opposite of what I expected.
It seemed to fit with what all of the magazines & stuff said, cut out fat which had more than twice as many calories (9 kilocalaries) vs 4 for carbs or protein. I was cutting every speck of fat off of all the meat I was eating, but didn't worry about candy, cookies or cake. The mainstream literature said that was better than fat but it was "empty calories", no vitamins or minerals. I took vitamin & mineral supplements & figured that should take care of that for the most part. But I ballooned up to 220.4 at my highest, I believe.
Then I saw an article in the Post Dispatch that Gary Taubes was speaking somewhere. They said he was the author of "Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It." In the article he said to stay away from high carb foods like potatoes and pastas... and I couldn't believe it. That's the exact opposite of the medical advice given in all of the magazine articles I had seen. But following their advice obviously wasn't working so I decided to check his book out of the library. It had a big backlog so I read their electronic version.
I was amazed. He's lauded as one of the top science writers in the country and he had a lot of scientific research, had a lot of historical evidence and made sound arguments as to why a high fat, low carb HFLC diet would work for most people.
I was hesitant, but the mainstream wisdom was obviously counterproductive for me so I looked up the Duke University version of the diet. They recommended a shock treatment to start of holding carbs to <20 grams per day for awhile. You basically have to replace the carbs with fat because eating over 30-35% of your calories as protein can cause kidney problems.
I was again amazed at how quickly and easily it worked. By easy I mean how effectively it worked. I ate just until I was full at each meal. I did have snacks, but high fat low carb ones. Every day I lost .2 lbs or so it seemed. It never bounced back up. I think I lost ~ 35 lbs. But I couldn't lose that last 5 to 10 lbs. Eventually, I started cheating more and more on the diet. Almost everywhere you go the food has a lot of carbs and sugar in it, including family functions.
My weight started going back up again. It seemed impossible to stick to that diet.
Then I saw Uncle Fester's post about Dr. Fung. His main tool was intermittent fasting, though he does like the HFLC type diet. He is a nephrologist, who treats kidney disease. He found most of that was caused by diabetes and most Type II diabetes is caused or exacerbated by being overweight. That's why many call it diabesity. It is terrible for your health.
As he studied it he found a way to not only treat diabetes but to reverse it, which went against conventional medical wisdom at the time. Most treated it as an inevitably progressive disease. Eventually it would kill you. They just tried to slow down the process.
In his studies he read that those who had bariatric surgery to sew much of their stomach shut to lose weight did so. Not only that but they usually reversed their diabetes. He studied ways to replicate that without the surgery and (re)discovered fasting. It worked as well or better. No cost either. Maybe that's why the medical establishment ignored it.
He experimented with it on his patients and they had tremendous success. He did more studies and research and wrote a few books on the topic. He offers his info online all over the place via interviews, videos and so on.
Check it out. There is a ton of rock solid info and it really works. It is very doable. Far more so than the traditional diet recommendations of the mainstream medical establishment.
I didn't worry about it at first, just putting on a few here & there over the years, but I got some literature from some vegetarian group touting how great that diet was & eliminating meat would cause you to lose weight. I didn't want to go full hog that route but tried shifting to less meat. I ate big bowls of mashed potatoes, a lot of pasta & some salads... and put on weight like I couldn't believe. It was going the opposite of what I expected.
It seemed to fit with what all of the magazines & stuff said, cut out fat which had more than twice as many calories (9 kilocalaries) vs 4 for carbs or protein. I was cutting every speck of fat off of all the meat I was eating, but didn't worry about candy, cookies or cake. The mainstream literature said that was better than fat but it was "empty calories", no vitamins or minerals. I took vitamin & mineral supplements & figured that should take care of that for the most part. But I ballooned up to 220.4 at my highest, I believe.
Then I saw an article in the Post Dispatch that Gary Taubes was speaking somewhere. They said he was the author of "Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It." In the article he said to stay away from high carb foods like potatoes and pastas... and I couldn't believe it. That's the exact opposite of the medical advice given in all of the magazine articles I had seen. But following their advice obviously wasn't working so I decided to check his book out of the library. It had a big backlog so I read their electronic version.
I was amazed. He's lauded as one of the top science writers in the country and he had a lot of scientific research, had a lot of historical evidence and made sound arguments as to why a high fat, low carb HFLC diet would work for most people.
I was hesitant, but the mainstream wisdom was obviously counterproductive for me so I looked up the Duke University version of the diet. They recommended a shock treatment to start of holding carbs to <20 grams per day for awhile. You basically have to replace the carbs with fat because eating over 30-35% of your calories as protein can cause kidney problems.
I was again amazed at how quickly and easily it worked. By easy I mean how effectively it worked. I ate just until I was full at each meal. I did have snacks, but high fat low carb ones. Every day I lost .2 lbs or so it seemed. It never bounced back up. I think I lost ~ 35 lbs. But I couldn't lose that last 5 to 10 lbs. Eventually, I started cheating more and more on the diet. Almost everywhere you go the food has a lot of carbs and sugar in it, including family functions.
My weight started going back up again. It seemed impossible to stick to that diet.
Then I saw Uncle Fester's post about Dr. Fung. His main tool was intermittent fasting, though he does like the HFLC type diet. He is a nephrologist, who treats kidney disease. He found most of that was caused by diabetes and most Type II diabetes is caused or exacerbated by being overweight. That's why many call it diabesity. It is terrible for your health.
As he studied it he found a way to not only treat diabetes but to reverse it, which went against conventional medical wisdom at the time. Most treated it as an inevitably progressive disease. Eventually it would kill you. They just tried to slow down the process.
In his studies he read that those who had bariatric surgery to sew much of their stomach shut to lose weight did so. Not only that but they usually reversed their diabetes. He studied ways to replicate that without the surgery and (re)discovered fasting. It worked as well or better. No cost either. Maybe that's why the medical establishment ignored it.
He experimented with it on his patients and they had tremendous success. He did more studies and research and wrote a few books on the topic. He offers his info online all over the place via interviews, videos and so on.
Check it out. There is a ton of rock solid info and it really works. It is very doable. Far more so than the traditional diet recommendations of the mainstream medical establishment.
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Yeah, I'm 6', or was. I had been putting on weight when the - JeffB MU - 4/9 14:12:23