But when I reduced carbs (incl sugars, pastas, breads) and increased fats (salmon, olive oil, avocado, butter, good quality cheese), my stomach fat and love handles went away. My personal experience may be different than others. But at 40 years old with an 8 pack compared to 30 years old with love handles, I’m much more satisfied.
The real question is did you properly count calories before and after?
A lot of these "I changed my diet..." anecdotes don't really tell us much because they come with a change in average calorie consumption..
I suspect the low carb success storiers end up consuming fewer calories because the low carb diet makes some fraction of people feel more satiated with less (but I don’t seem to belong to that fraction in that I need carbs to feel satiated).
When you say things like this it shows you know nothing about diet. You come off like a flat earther throwing ice cubes at the sun.
There is no performance benefit to a low carb high fat diet. Ask any dietitian, not a "nutritionist" who took an online class and argues anecdotally.
So here is the result of 15 years eating about 2lbs fatty meat, 6-8 eggs and 3-4 sticks of butter and/or cheese (plus nowadays all the fruit I want) per day
Feel free to post your results. Good luck finding a dietician with anything like those results (not even going to to mention performance levels)
I'll be over here with ice cubes :)
Three to four sticks of butter a day? Why on Earth would you do that?
Anyway with all due respect your photographic results are not that impressive. I mean sure you're lean and in good shape but there are literally thousands and thousands and thousands of people that could post similar results on all sorts of different diets including ones 100% opposite of yours. So what does it prove? It proves if you work out really hard and don't overeat calories one can have a lean physique on all sorts of diets. In no way does it prove that you're chosen diet is superior to others or ultimately good for your overall health.
[Man you really drank the low carb/ paleo/ Taubes Kool-Aid huh? They suckered you good!]
When you say things like this it shows you know nothing about diet. You come off like a flat earther throwing ice cubes at the sun.
There is no performance benefit to a low carb high fat diet. Ask any dietitian, not a "nutritionist" who took an online class and argues anecdotally.
So here is the result of 15 years eating about 2lbs fatty meat, 6-8 eggs and 3-4 sticks of butter and/or cheese (plus nowadays all the fruit I want) per day
So here is the result of 15 years eating about 2lbs fatty meat, 6-8 eggs and 3-4 sticks of butter and/or cheese (plus nowadays all the fruit I want) per day
Feel free to post your results. Good luck finding a dietician with anything like those results (not even going to to mention performance levels)
I'll be over here with ice cubes :)
Three to four sticks of butter a day? Why on Earth would you do that?
Anyway with all due respect your photographic results are not that impressive. I mean sure you're lean and in good shape but there are literally thousands and thousands and thousands of people that could post similar results on all sorts of different diets including ones 100% opposite of yours. So what does it prove? It proves if you work out really hard and don't overeat calories one can have a lean physique on all sorts of diets. In no way does it prove that you're chosen diet is superior to others or ultimately good for your overall health.
[Man you really drank the low carb/ paleo/ Taubes Kool-Aid huh? They suckered you good!]
Blah blah blah >> produces no visual or tangible counterevidence. Typical bloviating keyboard koward. Back to your cubicle, vole.
So here is the result of 15 years eating about 2lbs fatty meat, 6-8 eggs and 3-4 sticks of butter and/or cheese (plus nowadays all the fruit I want) per day
Feel free to post your results. Good luck finding a dietician with anything like those results (not even going to to mention performance levels)
I'll be over here with ice cubes :)
So, I am assuming that you added in the fruit due to following Paul Salidino. Did the fruit make a huge difference in how you feel?
I feel great, but it is also sunny and full outdoors season is in swing. Jury still out until a few seasons of this. I do seem to sleep better, less muscle cramping despite the warm weather. I certainly enjoy plucking the unsprayed fruit from feral trees all over town.
I evolve my training and diet constantly, slowly and consistently. Most people are gullible and jump on and off bandwagons, but I control one variable at a time whenever possible, or withhold judgment until the overall results are clear.
The real question is did you properly count calories before and after?
A lot of these "I changed my diet..." anecdotes don't really tell us much because they come with a change in average calorie consumption..
I suspect the low carb success storiers end up consuming fewer calories because the low carb diet makes some fraction of people feel more satiated with less (but I don’t seem to belong to that fraction in that I need carbs to feel satiated).
To answer both of you, I wasn’t counting calories, no. But to your point, I feel MUCH more satiated with a higher fat diet. I don’t remember if I am eating any more or less food, just that I feel less bloated. Another note: I don’t run long distances anymore, I do quick 2-3 miles + gym instead of long, slow distance training. So I’m sure my carb needs will be lower than most on here.
Again: YMMV, everyone is different. Find what works for you.
Eat whole unprocessed, mostly animal-based, high nutrition foods. Don't count calories but read your body, just as you do with running when you run properly "by feel". This how our ancestors did things through millions of years of evolution until modern technology f---ed everything up.
The diet of the earliest hominins was probably somewhat similar to the diet of modern chimpanzees: omnivorous, including large quantities of fruit, leaves, flowers, bark, insects and meat (e.g., Andrews & Martin 1991; Milton 1999; Watts 2008). Do know what the calories are in fruit, leaves, flowers, and bark? All carbs.
Are you suggesting Homo sapiens should eat like Australopithecines?
Assuming those citations are paleontologists, it only highlights the silliness. Those same sources would tell you hominids got progressively bigger and smarter by eating more meat.
Eat whole unprocessed, mostly animal-based, high nutrition foods. Don't count calories but read your body, just as you do with running when you run properly "by feel". This how our ancestors did things through millions of years of evolution until modern technology f---ed everything up.
Do you know if that Food Lies guy is brain damaged? I've tried to watch some of his videos on youtube and it seems like he might have had a stroke. Nothing against stroke victims or retarded people, but there is something wrong with this guy.
This article resonates with my personal experience and reads as scientifically more compelling to me than the insulin-resistance-based theories advocating low-carb diets.
Some decades ago, after finally reading about the Atkin's diet, I finished the book with the idea that you can eat carbs, but you should avoid large quantities of highly refined carbs, and you should regularly burn the carbs you eat rather than letting it accumulate as stored fat. (This is in part because in the 4 weeks it took me to read it, I lost a few unwanted pounds with marathon training alone -- so I didn't start any diet.)
For example, if you run 120 km/week, that allows you to get away with eating more carbs, and calories, than the sedentary couch potato. I think it is more about variety and balance and timing rather than sacrificing one or the other macro-nutrients.
Eat whole unprocessed, mostly animal-based, high nutrition foods. Don't count calories but read your body, just as you do with running when you run properly "by feel". This how our ancestors did things through millions of years of evolution until modern technology f---ed everything up.
Do you know if that Food Lies guy is brain damaged? I've tried to watch some of his videos on youtube and it seems like he might have had a stroke. Nothing against stroke victims or retarded people, but there is something wrong with this guy.
I used to wonder the same about Galen Rupp, but I think its just idiosyncratic speech. Regardless, his info is great, some really solid guests, like Mary Ruddick.
Does anyone have a link to the 2022 AAIC paper cited in the article? Any such study would have to have a whole bunch of caveats, but I’m nevertheless curious what/how exactly they measured.
Do you know if that Food Lies guy is brain damaged? I've tried to watch some of his videos on youtube and it seems like he might have had a stroke. Nothing against stroke victims or retarded people, but there is something wrong with this guy.
I used to wonder the same about Galen Rupp, but I think its just idiosyncratic speech. Regardless, his info is great, some really solid guests, like Mary Ruddick.
Now that you mention it, he does sound similar to Rupp. I just don't like his interviews because he tends to get steamrolled by the more fast-talking guests like Paul Saladino.
I used to wonder the same about Galen Rupp, but I think its just idiosyncratic speech. Regardless, his info is great, some really solid guests, like Mary Ruddick.
Now that you mention it, he does sound similar to Rupp. I just don't like his interviews because he tends to get steamrolled by the more fast-talking guests like Paul Saladino.
Oh yeah, I know what you mean. Saladino is like an assault gun of information. Surprisingly, most of it is good info, but he is hype AF. Brian is like on quaaludes by comparison, but he is plenty smart also. The interviews he does with his doctor buddy Dr. Gary are excellent.
Now that you mention it, he does sound similar to Rupp. I just don't like his interviews because he tends to get steamrolled by the more fast-talking guests like Paul Saladino.
Oh yeah, I know what you mean. Saladino is like an assault gun of information. Surprisingly, most of it is good info, but he is hype AF. Brian is like on quaaludes by comparison, but he is plenty smart also. The interviews he does with his doctor buddy Dr. Gary are excellent.
I listen to all of these people. As many different intelligent points of view as possible. At this point in time I am settled on an omnivore diet following the advice of Chris Kresser (who also sounds a bit off) and James DiNicolantonio.
I don't know all of the science, but I do know that carbs sit heavier in your stomach and are relatively new to the human diet in terms of history.
We only began to cultivate crops (grains) about 8000 years ago.
Carbs were never a strong part of our diet until the very recent past.
Personally, too many carbs and I feel bloated/lethargic.
I definitely crave more carbs when I'm exercising more. And when I limit them, I feel lighter in the midsection.
I would say carbs do make you fat. They convert to sugar and cause your midsection to grow.
Humans have been eating carbohydrate-rich diet for hundreds of thousands of years if not millions
There's lots of wild food including potatoes rice vegetables that are all rich in carbohydrates
There's a lot of evidence that the ability to seek out and cook new types of carbohydrates helped develop our brain
The idea that carbohydrates in their natural form as complex carbohydrates is bad is just a myth
Yeah obviously it's bad to eat a lot of processed crap but if you're eating whole grains then you're fine especially wild rice wild potatoes just wild wild
Grains legumes tubers root vegetables, wild oats and rice
Anyway there's evidence we Begin cultivating carbohydrates hundreds of thousands of years ago so it's definitely a myth to think that it's only in the last 10,000 years that we began eating a lot of carbs
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