Day 22, Post 170
Goal Weight: 188 pounds
Today's Weight: 204.0 lbs
Yesterday's Weight: 201.2 lbs
Net Loss/Gain: + 2.8 lbs
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Do not focus on weight. Do not focus on weight. Do not focus on weight...
Focus on: The fat you eat and the fat you wear
I fear no natural fat. Manmade fats - processed, hydrogenated or trans-fats, petroleum-based fats - those, on the other hand, I find a bit scary. And I won't eat them, either. Or try my best to avoid them (I do live in the real world).
I fear no natural fat. Manmade fats - processed, hydrogenated or trans-fats, petroleum-based fats - those, on the other hand, I find a bit scary. And I won't eat them, either. Or try my best to avoid them (I do live in the real world).
For decades, I thought, like pretty much everyone, that eating fat was what made you fat. I admit, I bought that bill of goods. I tried Pritikin, had some success, then, given the fact that the real world conspires to confound my efforts, the weight came back. And then some.
Actually, I've never tried a diet that didn't work. At first. At some point, I always experienced failure (weight gain). For the last 35 years, I have yo-yoed over a 60-pound range. 20 years ago, thanks to a combination of stress and medications, I reached my all-time high weight, in the upper 250s. Since then, the 240s have been my call to action.
OK, I'm back... But I've found out that I was wrong all those high carb, low-fat days and years. And decades. The simple truth is (at least, the latest truth is) that I was sold a bill of goods, and I bought it, and understood the logic of it, understood the rationale, and became a salesman myself. There were a few guys who said, "This makes no sense. This isn't the way people are supposed to eat. And, when you want something to get fat, you feed it the stuff you're saying will make you thin!"
Those guys were right. It turns out that high carb, low fat eating is a prescription for weight gain and disease. But that is the lie we were told, that was what all the scientific establishment said was true. Despite the evidence to the contrary, despite the lack of scientific supporting evidence (correlation is not causation). So, if low fat eating makes you fat, what would high fat eating do?
There is some compelling evidence that says, you can eat fat to lose fat. The trick? Low carbohydrate consumption. It is the carbs-plus-fat combo that gave fat a bad name, and mistakenly gave carbs a good reputation. Fat does a lot of good things, and one thing that eating fat does is give you a metabolic boost, where eating carbs gives you an insulin response.
How much fat can you eat? I think, if you ate no carbs, you could eat unlimited amounts of fat, as long as you stopped when you weren't hungry any more. In the presence of carbs, and there are always some around, you have to be a bit more moderate. So, moderate.
Last word on the subject today: I am also not convinced of the evils of saturated fats, either. Some Medium-chain Triglyserides seem very beneficial, and are the kind of fat found in human breast-milk. Others are needed to make hormones, and if there is a lack, things get really sick (female runners on low-fat diets have all their sex hormones totally wrecked and un-balanced, for instance). And fats from plant sources may not be the friendly fats they're cracked up to be.
One last thing - not dwelling on it, mind you - but my weight is up dramatically today - I think it is from lack of sleep, because I did not get 6 hours between my late snack last night and waking up (on my own, not the alarm) very, very early in the morning.
Those guys were right. It turns out that high carb, low fat eating is a prescription for weight gain and disease. But that is the lie we were told, that was what all the scientific establishment said was true. Despite the evidence to the contrary, despite the lack of scientific supporting evidence (correlation is not causation). So, if low fat eating makes you fat, what would high fat eating do?
There is some compelling evidence that says, you can eat fat to lose fat. The trick? Low carbohydrate consumption. It is the carbs-plus-fat combo that gave fat a bad name, and mistakenly gave carbs a good reputation. Fat does a lot of good things, and one thing that eating fat does is give you a metabolic boost, where eating carbs gives you an insulin response.
How much fat can you eat? I think, if you ate no carbs, you could eat unlimited amounts of fat, as long as you stopped when you weren't hungry any more. In the presence of carbs, and there are always some around, you have to be a bit more moderate. So, moderate.
Last word on the subject today: I am also not convinced of the evils of saturated fats, either. Some Medium-chain Triglyserides seem very beneficial, and are the kind of fat found in human breast-milk. Others are needed to make hormones, and if there is a lack, things get really sick (female runners on low-fat diets have all their sex hormones totally wrecked and un-balanced, for instance). And fats from plant sources may not be the friendly fats they're cracked up to be.
One last thing - not dwelling on it, mind you - but my weight is up dramatically today - I think it is from lack of sleep, because I did not get 6 hours between my late snack last night and waking up (on my own, not the alarm) very, very early in the morning.
Food Log
Breakfast
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| Breakfast smoothie: 6 oz almond milk, 1/2C yogurt, 1C blueberries, 2C Kale, 2 eggs, 3T chia seeds, 1/2t stevia/erythritol blend. |
Carb count: 18 g. Net
Early Lunch
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| Organic, grass-fed roast beef with home-made mayonnaise on Spinach and Field Mix greens. |
Late Lunch
1 oz raw almonds, 3 brazil nuts, 17g of walnuts and an ounce of aged Gouda cheese.
Carb count: 5 g. Net
Carb count: 5 g. Net
Dinner
No pictures: First I had some cottage cheese. Then I made cole slaw, ate it with the aged Gouda cheese and lots of pepperoni.
Carb Count: 1 g. Net
Snack
Almond butter.
Carb Count: 4 g. net
~30 g. Net carbs. Carb Count: 1 g. Net
Snack
Almond butter.
Carb Count: 4 g. net
Day total carbs:
Net carbs = total carbs - fiber
The approximation "~" includes an amount added for calculation error and unknown (therefore, uncounted) carbs.
Liquid Intake
Coffee: 24 oz, Water: 128+ oz.
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posted by Reverend Ken at
11:14 PM
1 Comments:
I think I agree. But, I'm not sure. Still eating everything supposedly healthy and getting no where. Having a down morning. Oh well, it happens.
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