thanks. i looked up the guy's name, saw his website, checked a video. will explore more.
if: im doing a bit of if right now but in the evening. big breakfast around 9, moderate lunch, last snack around 5. no dinner helps drink less wine
thanks. i looked up the guy's name, saw his website, checked a video. will explore more.
really? ive known plenty.
i believe thathorsewoman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 4:38 pmOk, let me rephrase - all the vegans I know are slim better?
unfortunately his carnivore prescription is not sustainable for a global population of 11 billion humans which is where we're heading. plus he's got a dog, and i think a cat too? so add that to the predator footprint. our biosphere will go bankrupt.grant petersen wrote:For thirty years I’d avoided junk food, eating mostly oat bran, whole grains, egg whites, lean meat, fresh fruit, nonfat dairy, salads with no dressing. For thirty years I beat myself up and got all sweaty for one to three hours a day. I rode my bike hard every day, wore out a NordicTrack, and got frustrated on a rowing machine because I couldn’t get my heart rate high enough. And I was still gaining weight. I wasn’t fat by American standards, but I wasn’t as lean as I should have been with all that “ideal” food and obsessive cardio. It got to the point that I was exercising just to avoid gaining weight faster, and no matter what, I was always the hungriest person within a hundred yards.
What about regular grains? I also don’t eat whole grains often but do eat things like white rice, regular pasta, and tortillas frequently. I think for pure weight loss whole grains are slightly less palatable and slower digesting which may make them useful tools, but for maintenance I’m not a huge fan of eating them with every meal for the reasons you point out.Alphaville wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:46 ami'm hereby ditching "whole grains" and tubers and beans as main staples.
they're ok for weekend fun, but not for daily dosage, for me--much less multiple times a day.
my digestive system can't take any more beans & whole grains at this rate. if greger can compost whole buckets of roughage in his intestines, more power to him, but i'm just not equipped that way.
you mean refined? they're higher glycemic and make me hungry. e.g. an hour after eating white rice i want more white rice.
i've done that before, but it stops working after a while. then i'll be sitting around looking at the clock waiting for my next carb snack, ever more desperately. it's not s good way of life for me.white belt wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 11:18 am@Alphaville
Sounds like you might benefit from going to the “dark side” and tracking/weighing portions. It’s a more extreme step, but I think is useful for folks who still struggle with weight when they’ve exhausted the “simpler” diet advice like don’t eat x, eat more y, etc.
i'm familiar with that school of thought, but i've found it to be an oversimplification in my experience. of course calories matter, but the whole system includes hormones: insulin and cortisol and human growth hormone and so forth. we're complex animals not reducible to a a simple numeral.white belt wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 11:18 amI’ve said it before, but weight loss only happens when energy intake is less than energy expenditure. There are a million ideas of how to make this equation work from a behavior perspective, but there is no magic about certain foods. You could eat a diet of exclusively twinkies (or Big Macs, or whatever) and lose weight if you were tracking calories and controlling the intake to be less than expenditures. Of course, I wouldn’t recommend doing that since you’re likely to have all sorts of micronutrient deficiencies and feel terrible, but it is possible.
yeah it's physics of course, but it's also chemistry. life is chemical.
Weight loss stability is an oxymoron to me. Weight loss is a temporary process and is by nature not "stable" because you are pushing your body out of homeostasis. It also extremely unlikely that a person is going to be able to lose weight without any hunger unless they are perhaps very high body fat to begin with.Alphaville wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 11:43 ami've done that before, but it stops working after a while. then i'll be sitting around looking at the clock waiting for my next carb snack, ever more desperately. it's not s good way of life for me.
then only way i can achieve weight loss stability with no hunger or suffering is via no sugar /no starches.
once i lose the weight it's easy to maintain weight with some carbs-- e.g. before the pandemic i'd come home from an intense bike ride and have a beer, and no problem. i'd eat bread on weekends too. but day in/day out starches mess with my insulin and promote hunger. starch is very moreish.