Day 7, Post 154

 Goal Weight: 188 pounds 

Today's Weight:        200.8 lbs
Yesterday's Weight:    201.2 lbs
Net Loss/Gain:         - 0.4 lbs

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Yesterday was a pretty good day. I had to fit my 4th meal in at 3am, but... so it goes. I know some people will be surprised that that little high fat, high protein snack (sausages somehow worked out to be the theme of the day yesterday) helped me continue my weight loss, but I'm not.


Some interesting conversations in regards to diet (the most boring topic ever endlessly discussed) happened last night. I got to discuss (and they were very civil discussions, not debates, and not emotional) many of my little pet talking points: 

1. Calories-in/Calories out theory of weight loss.
2. How much exercise a person needs.
3. The pervasive belief in carbohydrates as quality energy source.
4. Eating fat makes you fat.

I'm not going to rehash everything, but my point of view is this:

1. This is a very bad, harmful and invalid idea. Whether any quantity of food you eat is burned for energy or stored as fat depends on a person's hormonal balance, not the amount of calories it contains. You can eat 5000 calories in the form of oil and lose weight. Eat the same amount of carbs (if you can) and you will blow up. A natural balance of hormones cannot be maintained with excessive carb input, and your hormones react quite quickly and specifically to the food you eat.
2. More than none, less than most people think. I think about 20 minutes, 3 times a week of high intensity exercise is sufficient to not maintain and improve your musculature.
3. Carbohydrates are a crap energy source. Do you know how much carbohydrate you have to eat for your body to carry on its processes every day? None. On the other hand, the other macronutrients are essential. Without protein and fat, you will die. 
4. This is not true. It is pretty much the opposite of what we know: Eating carbs makes you fat. When farmers want to fatten up their animals, they feed them carbs, and plenty of them. I have been eating a high-fat high-protein diet for the last 5 days, and I have lost weight and fat every day. 

One more note: My new charts don't have enough data in them to be interesting - which is to say, you cannot see trends and there is a lot of white space. I'll start posting my charts as soon as there is something to see.

   

Food Log

Brunch

Protein drink: 2 whole eggs, 8 oz unsweetened almond milk, 2 C kale, 3 T hulled hemp seed, inulin, stevia.

    Carb count: 10 g. Net

Dinner 

Aged gouda cheese, Spring Mix greens with a vinaigrette dressing, chicken, feta and spinach sausages and spicy brown mustard.

    Carb Count:  2 g. Net

Late Snack

    Hard-boiled egg and a couple of ounces of aged gouda cheese.
    Carb Count:  1 g. Net


Day total carbs:  
    13 g. Net carbs. 
Net carbs = total carbs - fiber


Liquid Intake
    Coffee:  24 oz,   Water: 96+ oz. 

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