Stryker
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Thus, it is not the calories that need optimising. You need to address lifestyle factors, sun/light exposure. Timing of meals - calories eaten during daylight hours and not dark hours. Stress reduction to lower cortisol plus many other strategies to stop stress hormones.
Elimination of PUFAs and eating sugar and fruits + milk instead of starch.
I lost 27 kilos this way. No exercise, except up and down stairs in my house and putting the washing on the line outside the house. I have quite a step slope to get to that clothes line.
I am a post-menopausal woman, living an extremely stressful lifestyle. The weight loss scared the ***t out of me. I had convinced myself that I was not producing any insulin and had become a type 1 diabetic. I reintroduced starches, bread and grains to see if it was the diet that was causing the weight loss or my inability to produce insulin. I don't restrict and eat according to appetite - which is huge. Weight has stabilised - no longer losing or gaining. Exercise now increases muscle mass where previously body was in catabolic state - breaking down too fast. Temperatures are up and experiencing hunger pains which I was not experiencing when gaining weight.
180 degree turn in my thinking. Would never have believed eating lots of calories, being sedentary you could lose weight if I had not experienced it myself. The biggest problem with this way of eating is getting people over the sugar, fruit and milk phobia. Wish I had known this tweak pre-menopausally. I might have prevented all the weight gain in the first instance. Shunned sugar all my life - ate healthy and got fat??
Mind you it is not all about the food. Instead of exercising more, I will be focussing on getting more sun and light to keep my hormones in check. Imagine, nude sunbathing at noon and losing weight. Life is stressful enough to want to further punish our bodies. I think calorie restriction if not excessive and eating a pro-metabolic diet helps the weight come off faster, however, there is always the risk of FFAs to contend with. Keeping fat in the diet as low as practical goes a long way in lessening the burden on the system.
Not sure how this strategy would work for someone that had a physically strenuous work situation. For example, landscapers that had to shift rocks, dirt and push heavy wheelbarrows all day long, day after day, week after week. They may require more fat than someone who is sedentary.
Any landscapers out there?
I am a bricklayer and i eat very similar to this , <50g fat a day , i dont "eat" between the hours of 5am and 2pm but will consume sugary/salty drinks with some glycine during work hours..
Honestly im starting to think the problems i had when i was VERY low fat wernt caused by not eating enough fat at all .. instead a lack of potassium for all of the sugar i was trying to guzzle down.
One day id like to try and spend a few weeks back around the 10g of fat a day range which is about 2-3.5% of my daily caloric intake
I agree with your previous statemenst aswell.. i usually have 10-12 days off at the end of the year and i am for the most part sedentary during that time. I consume more calories because i have more time to eat and prepare food but yet my weight does not fluctuate.
Over the course of 10 years experimenting with different eating habits and having it rattle my brain on a daily basis its good to finally have a template that works and i dont have to stray far from.