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Francisco- Personal story, I’m now on the tail end of a major weight loss journey. Down 72lbs since last November, and 97lbs from my heaviest point. Basically back to where I was in high school. I managed to do this by largely going carnivore and then slowly restricting my eating window down to one meal a day. No extra exercise, no counting calories. My energy levels are great and overall I feel better than I have in at least 15 years. One of the weird things through all this is that I’m now less hungry than I was when I was fat. So it certainly is possible to lose weight and not be hungry all the time if you do it the right way.
As is often the case most of what we’ve been told about nutrition, how we gain and lose weight by the “official” authorities is either wrong or completely backwards. The reason society is getting fatter is because they actually do listen to these “experts” and do what they say regardless of what their own personal outcomes might be.
no carbs , pure protein , cave man diet . did it with 4 cans of tuna a day 20 years ago. Ive done it for years to burn off the excess xmas.
i used to have the body of a damn greek god and now i have the body of a god *amn greek
Hey! Greek guy here. That’s my line!
Eat what you want and die like a Spartan.
That said, I am about 5 pounds less than my high school weight.
I attribute that to muscle and bone loss in my late 60s.
Otherwise, I stayed my basic 140 pounds at 5 foot 8 throughout my life and I think it was due to a combination of mysterious metabolism, eating sparingly, and being active.
Anytime that I gained 5 or more pounds was attributable to heavy physical jobs and thus building muscle mass.
Also, I have never liked sugary shite or overly processed crap food.
Oh, and I smoke like a Greek and don’t care.
OPA!
Um… Bacchus?
Or Dionysus.
Imperfect, inebriated lovers of freedom from the overlords who lack clothing befitting those of us who know how to garb our own selves.
Learn to live with less! Not because you want to, but because soon, you’ll have to!
Unfortunately, meat proteins are the most expensive…
We would all be better off eating right and living healthy, active lives, they don’t want us to do that..
Can’t stand these “gosh, gee whiz” sorts of videos. Cherry picking the scientific literature to make some compelling point while ignoring the considerable amount of “yes, but”s in the literature.
Well done Francisco.
Indeed, what government and health ‘officials’ have told us for years has been incorrect and biased. Largely based on politics and lobbying efforts in the US to create the “Food Pyramid”. Just look at the subsidized farm efforts to grow egregious amounts of corn, in order to produce ethanol(gas mix) and HFCS (artificial toxic sugar)
Simple carbs and sugars are terrible for our bodies. Complex carbs, not much better.
Some veggies are worse than others. Ditto fruits and berries.
Shame of it, is I love the berries, but, when you reach your goals, moderation is the name of the game.
We’ve done various iterations of low carb in the past, but there’s still problems. Bloating is a factor still for eating veggies, so we’ve gone carnivore (at 60) over the past month. I’m down 10, wifey is down 15. Can’t argue those results of an all meat diet. But being younger, you’ve had bigger success, metabolism is better. Its harder to drop when you’re older, but its still very possible.
I’m on Doctor ordered Carnivore at the moment. Noticed a huge difference already, it is nice to have a family doctor whom is willing to try things outside the box, to help! Funny he’s from out of town and not indoctrinated into the Canadian Bull Shit
That explains a lot Canuck. Our Dr. PillPopper moved out to BC, and was replaced by a Dr. PillPopper from England. He can’t understand why I ask questions. It’s nice to know that there are still some good ones out there.
“One of the weird things through all this is that I’m now less hungry than I was when I was fat.”
This may be because of two reasons:
1. Your stomach has shrunk. Never eat a large meal when you’re trying to lose weight. As soon as you start to feel sated, stop eating, even if you have leave a ton of food on your plate.
2. You’re eating a lot of animal fat, which makes you feel full.
It’s because the process of getting fat makes you hungry. The body goes in to fat storage mode when your insulin is high. Everytime you eat carbs and protein your insulin goes up, with process carbs sugary drinks (juice too) being the worst offenders. When your insulin is way up there and you are are storing fat the drain of energy to your fat cells actually makes you more hungry. Getting fat makes you hungry.
Staying lean by eating a proper human diet means you can break this cycle. I can now fast for 3 days easy and then gorge on pounds of meat after, and fell great – caveat, I have learned you need to eats lots of natural probiotics with the meat, literally raw sauerkraut or ACV with almost each mouthful of meat.
Like we have been doing for over a million years. Grains have only been in our diet for a few thousand years, and machine milled grains (processed carbs and processed seed oils) have only been around for a couple of hundred years.
Also, stay away from anything that has been touched by round up. I have changed my view on this 180 deg in the last two years and am now suspicious that long term round up and ammonia use on our food system is also contributing to the mental break down of society.
What we need a large herds of grass eating animals.
Eating plants instead of animals makes people on average more stupid, depressed and mentally ill.
I eat, basically, this:
-cook one pound of bacon (reserving the fat)
-one meal a day: steak, cooked in bacon fat with a fried egg(yes, bacon fat) on top **if** I need a snack, I’ll have a slice of bacon
I went from 260 to 160.
Everything was out of range (glucose-pre-diabetic, triglycerides, LDL, HDL) and blood pressure was dangerously high.
Now, everything is in range and my blood pressure is 138/72.
You don’t have it this backwards unless there is evil intent.
Any diet will make you lose weight so long as calorie expenditure exceeds calorie intake.
But some have health risks such as malnutrition. Where, for example, are you getting calcium and vitamin C?
Organ Meats contain Vitamin C. 100mg of Beef spleen contains 50mg of Vit C.
Bone Broth or small fish consumed with bones provides Calcium, like anchovies. Dairy and eggs as well.
I don’t see any organs or fish in Phil’s diet. That’s why I was wondering.
The human body will produce it’s own antioxidants and will not require vitamin C on a proper diet. The carnivore diet OMAD diet does not have the same oxidative stress on the body as a carb based diet, so it’s not as important a function. Eskimos have been doing it for as long as they have been around and they don’t eat the seal organs, just blubber and meat.
“The human body will produce it’s own antioxidants and will not require vitamin C on a proper diet.”
Yeah, not buying it. This is why I avoid fad diets. Many are based on dubious theories.
And Inuit did eat fresh plants. But they got much of their Vitamin C from fresh raw meat, like fish and whale blubber. Cooking meat tends to destory the Vitamin C.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/science/20qna.html#:~:text=Raw%2C%20fresh%20seal%20and%20whale,ate%2C%20yielding%20additional%20vitamin%20C.
After watching numerous YouTube videos on intermittent fasting, I decided to give it a go; nothing between 6PM and 9 or 10AM. Coffee or tea excepted. Additionally, with an avg of 3 per day during the pandemic, I gave it all up for Lent. Add in 2*week of 30 minutes of resistance training (nothing more than 70 lbs) , tippling just on weekends post lent and cycling 45km to and from work beginning end April and I’ve dropped 15. Add in an 50+ multi vitamin 1 year ago and lots of legumes in the instant pot just before Covid and, now at 63, I think I’m in the best condition of my life (5’8, 155) I credit the timing of my meals and the dramatic reduction in alcohol for the most part.
(If IF interests you, I recommend Dr. Berg )
I was having trouble with sinus issues for years and decided to cut white sugar and white flour out of my diet. The first couple weeks I was craving snacks but after that I completely lost my urge to eat sweets. I lost 35 pounds in the next couple months and have felt better than I have for years
That was over 2 years ago and I’ve started having the odd treat but it makes me hungry for snacks for the next couple days
I had birthday cake, cookies and ice cream in the last month and my sinus troubles are creeping back. For me, sugar just isn’t good.
I limit bread intake but do eat pasta
I can sustain a healthy weight and eat as much as I want ( which is as much as I didn’t when I was 25)and don’t gain unless I have desserts or sweets
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Just stay busy, and eat healthy, and you’ll be like me!
Hey Satan!
A pox on all these diet theories. Eat a balanced and varied diet without excessive sugar or alchohol, get regular exercise, and you should do all right.
Best ever comment by KM. And yes, Francisco deserves a ‘well done’.
When the theory and the empirical evidence don’t match, you’re supposed to reject the theory, not insist that all the empirical evidence must somehow not demonstrate what it clearly demonstrates.
Seriously, dude, your fetish for mUh pEeR rEvIeW is blinding you to basic scientific method here.
1. What precise theory and what precise evidence are you referring to?
2. Although I think peer review is better than no peer review, I’ve never claimed it’s infallible, nor do I obsess about it. You’ve built yourself a stawmen.
For a sure-fire way to lose weight. do the following for 3 months.
1. no snacking (candy, cookies, chocolate bars etc)
2. stop drinking alcohol
3. no potatoes, rice, pasta, bread or pizza
4. go 12 hours between dinner and breakfast
5. go easy on the exercise as it just makes you hungry
To make sure you lose weight, eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch. This reduces the amount of variability you have to manage.
As a cheat, once a week you can eat anything you can close your hand around. Once a month you can eat anything for 1 day.
A little tip on potatoes and rice. If boiled and then cooled a significant portion of the carbs turn into a resistant starch which the body cannot digest. The resistant starch is “processed” in the bowel and changes to butyrate, a Gut Microbiota Derived Metabolite which is easily digested and good for you. Research shows that butyrate can be absorbed into the portal vein and interacts with the host body’s important processes like glucose homeostasis, lipid metabolism and gut inflammation. Several in vitro and in vivo studies have demonstrated that butyrate exerts anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-obesity and metabolic regulation effects. Each time the rice or potatoes are heated and cooled a greater load of resistant starch is created.
Well done Francisco!
I’m way behind you. I still can’t convince my wife “I want to eat healthier” doesn’t mean “lots of bread and starchy root vegetables.” So I’m on a guerrilla campaign. The lack of beer and pasta is the hardest part for me.
I’ve had the most success with a no-plant keto diet. I’ve reversed osteoarthritis symptoms in my foot by eliminating plants, for example. Keto got me 80-90% there and eliminated the need for a orthotic (after several years) but going carnivore (with dairy) eliminated all discomfort in a few weeks.
There are all sorts of metabolic advantages to keto (mitochondria and NAD+ especially), as well as much more favourable epigenetic signalling. Much better for brain health and performance as well. Keto is the most effective approach for mental conditions, covered well by Chris Palmer in his recent book Brain Energy.
Plants have toxins to ward off animals, so no-plant is basically a detox diet. Cultures forced by circumstance generally learn fermenting and booking techniques to mitigate the effects.
The calorie approach is fundamental bad biology. Bodies have varying hormonal and epigentic responses to the biological signalling of food. The calorie approach assumes a priori that cells react with 100% efficiency to the “caloric” content regardless of biological state. An overweight person generally has insulin resistance and inflammation within fat cells which means they can’t release fat from fat cells. So if diet keeps insulin elevated, one cannot lose fat. Thus one can cause obese mice to starve to death while remaining obese. If one is insulin resistant, better to cut insulin-signalling foods significantly.
I describe my diet since January as “carnivore adjacent” — meat, eggs, cheese make up the majority of my calories, of which I can eat as much as I wish. Stopped sugar and bread. A few green veg on the side, and occasionally a cheat of a small serving of potato, ice cream or a handful of raisins.
I’ve lost nearly 20 lbs and the planters fascitis that nearly crippled me for the past year is for all intents and purposes resolved. Until it stops working, I’m sticking with it. It’s the easiest weight loss diet I’ve ever been on. Ditching sugar in my morning coffee for cream (at 3 times the calories!) was the hardest step.
I’m doing a lot better physically and mentally since I cut out carbs as much as possible. No more bagels and donuts every workday morning, no pasta for supper and thus no leftover pasta for lunch. I eat a lot less now and I don’t need to eat as soon as I wake up, I sometimes don’t eat until well into the afternoon. I’m getting slimmer and gaining muscle too.
Go to youtube and look for “the glucose goddess” and “Dr Lustig”.
Brother and I are both doing Carnivore. Starting 4th week. Stubborn belly and waist fat is coming off, energy up. Have not had a fry, rice, pasta, any sugars of any kind. Dr. Ken Berry has a good 20 minute introductory video on Carnivore. Dr. Shawn Baker MD also has good info. Joe Rogan and Dr. J Peterson also have a good podcast video. Carnivore is the real deal. Get rid of the junk.
I’m doing all sorts of things that I never thought I would. Used to be a cream and sugar guy, now I prefer my coffee black. Thought it was nuts going down to two meals a day, same when I went down to one. Figured I’d see if I could do it for a week and then just never stopped. Its amazing what you can get used to.
That’s impressive Francisco! Lots of great comments and information above, thanks to all.
Came from a family (on one side) that all got very fat, males too. Then onto Diabetes Type II, early deaths. Eating one meal a day has been my go to since being on my own and haven’t had weight issues, even with pregnancy. What I did notice was that these large people in my family, who ate huge meals, were the ones always hungry, so I assumed they had stretched their stomachs to the point they constantly felt ‘hungry’ even after they just ate a huge meal, or they craved something ‘sweet’.
Now I’ll investigate the condition that Richard mentioned above – high insulin a bit further.
Watched a documentary eons ago, about nutrition and this one scientist stated that one should eat their food as close to its natural state as possible. Not fanatical about it but I’ve adopted this diet and for example we had one store bought meal once this year and that was the first time in about 3 yrs. Like my steaks MR and about once a week I feel I need one. So I do. With steamed veggies drizzled with garlic butter. Meat, fish, eggs, butter, cheese… I’m pretty allergic to milk so I get by with other choices, then veggies and fruit. Not much bread, crackers or cereal but we enjoy our pasta dishes once in a while, especially in winter. Treats are dark chocolate, some cookies or a pie, but only once in a while… not steady.
Also think is that accumulated body fat holds onto toxins causing all kinds of chaos to your system/health.
Congrats on your success Francisco. Use to smoke but quit abt 5 yrs ago and that was tough to do.
To all who like Dr. Berg, Dr. Ken Berry, Dr. Shawn Baker, for health, nutrition fitness etc., I also suggest checking out Sean Omara and his info on visceral fat, and how to get rid of it. Carnivore, fasting, sprinting, ….interesting research and info.
He is a bit exited……but all good
Sean is great. In one video he described himself as a physician with Asperger’s and an MRI. He’s done all sorts of empirical investigation using MRI to find low-tech surrogate markers of lifestyle intervention success. One of my favorites is the visibility of arterial pulse in the arm as indicative of artery elasticity, which indicates healthy glycocalyx and no (or reduced) plaque. In one post he even marvelled that a patient had achieved a visible venous pulse. Holy cow.
One could infer these surrogate markers only through Darwin-like or Weston Price-like field work. The medical-pharma-processed grains complex built their empire on the crude early measuring tools of cholesterol and calories, locking in to a bad biological model and thus bad engineering. One might call it the Ptolemaic model of human biology.
Using Omara’s insights, I’ve fine tuned and titered my routines to maintain highly visible pulses in the crook of my elbow and wrists. On most days I can even discern the subcomponents of the pulse.
Sugar is a poison. If you don’t eat sugar or anything that has something that your body will turn to sugar, you win. You also own the Libs without looking at trannys.
I used to weigh 290 lbs. High blood pressure, loads of aches and pains. And I drank ALOT! I quit drinking for a variety of reasons, and within a year was down to <200 (still 6'3"). I eat most everything, but I'm not as hungry as I used to be. Feel much better. Only health issues are related to wear and injuries.
Not preaching sobriety, just offering up an example. And yes, I smoke too much.
I have never lost a hundred pounds because I’ve never let myself become grossly obese in the first place. At the first sign you’re gaining weight, slow down the eating until it’s gone. This way you only ever need to lose two pounds rather than two hundred.
Rusty, you’ve astutely nailed the point that it’s much harder to lose weight than to keep it off in the first place. However, in the real world, there are lots of reasons for excess weight gain. Consider the fact that in Canada wheat is sprayed with glyphosate-based herbicides soon before harvest, to reduce weeds during combining and to hasten ripening and dessication of the wheat. Even low levels of glyphosate, recent studies show, kill beneficiary gut bacteria. (It’s a herbicide, after all.) The gliadins from the gluten in wheat now induce production of zonulin in the gut promoting leaky gut that allows bacteria to seep through the gut wall. One of the body’s major defences is to increase visceral body fat to seal off the gut area and protect organs, and to provide fat to fuel the immune respone to the leaky gut. The body will prioritize this, triggering hunger and energy conservation (torpor) to develop the fat safety barrier and energy depot. This overrides “willpower”. Once in place, this becomes the last place fat is reduced on a diet. Nearly every fitness coach says abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym. One needs to change diet to enable restoration of the gut biome and the integrity of the gut barrier, and then visceral fat will melt away, as it’s no longer needed. The caloric “eat less move more” approach lacks the intellectual capacity to even conceptualize the problem and solution.
5 years ago, I weighed 265 (5’10”), had to take four insulin injections each day, and my blood work was terrible.
Today, I’m 184, and haven’t had to take insulin in over four years.
All I do is not eat until at least 2 pm, and don’t eat after 10 pm. That’s my standard goal. My stretch goal, which I meet quite often, is 4-8:30 pm.
I don’t watch what I eat, but I try to make healthy meals for the family. I still eat ice cream and cookies, just not as much as I did before. As many have noted, once you start Intermittent Fast, your appetite slowly dwindles, along with your weight.