I want to lose that final 25 pounds because 1) I want to look better and eliminate a MetS factor (waistline), and 2) HBP.

Maybe if I share publicly, I'll be less likely to bail out and fail to reach my target weight. First some background, then the plan.

A THREAD

Well, I'm quite fat-adapted now which is a big advantage compared to every other time I calorie-restricted using a low fat diet (which started in junior high!) to lose weight.

After 6 years of LC/ZC I have found I can't eat until I'm full, no matter what fat:protein ratio I

use, or in what order I eat the fat and protein. I don't "count calories," but I do have to portion control or I'll eat too much. I'll always want to eat more. I think I'm still hung over from years of being so hungry while dieting on low-fat (and even when I'm not)

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@mrc314

12 Sep

A long overdue THREAD

A low-carb diet for ladies and teetotalers too

Gems In "The Drinking Man's Diet" ©1964

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For people worried about cholesterol, we have added a table showing the cholesterol content of foods. This will enable you to plan menus which are low in both carbohydrates and cholesterol.

[Even then, they knew … Also, no mention of smoking cessation.]

🚨To emphasize just how agreeable a low-carbohydrate diet can be, just consider the discomforts of its only alternative, the low-calorie diet.

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🚨You will be eating satisfying meals. Pangs of hunger won't be making you nervous in the middle of the afternoon.

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22 Aug

The ADA exists to encourage you to become and remain diabetic. The ADA's sponsors (companies that sell processed food and medications to lower blood sugar) pay them for this, not to make/keep you well. The AHA works the same for CVD. The sooner you understand that, the better.

The same can be said for nutritionist and dietitian programs. Look who sponsors the learning materials, conferences, swag bags, CE courses. Ask an RD/Nutritionist how many carbs one must eat every day. Then ask them how they know this. It's what they are told. In class. By these:

I hear conversations. Unsuspecting, ill, overweight people being told how much carb to have with every meal. To finger stick to be sure they shouldn't up the insulin. A lady tears and says her insulin is too expensive. Provider says there are programs to help pay for insulin. 1/

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4 Aug

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@angryhacademic Seeking long term studies of ACM/MM of #LCHF diets asks the wrong question, and wouldn't likely ever be done anyway. What would the control arm be, and how would you ever isolate just a single dietary (macro?) difference? The question to ask is given someone is not healthy as 1/

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@angryhacademic are 80%+ of the adult population (e.g., poor bio-markers, low QoL measures, presence of multiple chronic disease dx), do they improve on #LCHF/#ZC intervention? That does happen. As an aside, there are some longer term carnivores around who despite consuming no fiber, fruits, 2/

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@angryhacademic veg for many years are thriving—no signs of survey or GI problems. The evidence is out there if you look for it. But since this would never be a pharmaCo drug intervention, there wouldn't be an RCT because there's no money in it. Last, I don't think many claim ↑LDL is 3/

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25 Jul

#T2RevFoodCGM #keto #CGM #ketoAF

A thread on two diets with differences in WHAT and WHEN to eat.

Low-fat, three meals plus snacks (my HistoricDiet™)

vs

Low-carb, 4 hour TRF (time restricted feeding)

There is a lot of chatter on social media debating whether a low-carb/keto diet can improve health, and perhaps prevent certain disease. Much of this chatter turns out to be covert vegan disdain for consuming animal products, which confounds any discussion of the real question:

Does consuming less carbohydrate improve health and prevent or reduce the severity of long term chronic disease? We can't really know for sure given the prohibitions against conducting RCTs to find out. IRBs won't approve such trials. Subjects would never actually comply.

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