nomoreketones
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Hello everyone. I've read posts and sometimes posted on all kinds of forums. Everything from 30 bananas a day, to mark's daily apple, to the 180 degrees forum which is not very active these days. I've tried all kinds of different diets from ketogenic to mostly starch. I never did a fuitatrian diet not because I didn't want to try it but my appetite is too strong for it.
Very brief long term metabolic history
Very brief long term metabolic history
- Age 43 - Male
- Super fast metabolism as a child and in my 20s. Always hungry and cold all the time. I think the amount fed to me in when I was in school was not enough to meet my caloric needs. Back then I had a faster metabolism than most people.
- Metabolic troubles started about 10 years ago when I was on a SSRI (Paxil) for 3 weeks.
- Had a potbelly ever since I tried the Paxil
- Over 5 years ago - Melanoma - didn't spread
- About 5 years ago I got a flat stomach from a ketogenic diet but ended up feeling completely strung out - massive failure.
- About 3 years ago I did a ketogenic diet again but it didn't work this time. Apparently ketogenic diets only work the first time you try it. Plus it seemed to age me. I look younger now than I did when I was on a ketogenic diet.
- I tried Matt Stone's Diet recovery at some point and I completely blew up. My body fought back hard after my ketogenic diet attempts.
- About 2 years ago I tried carb back loading (John Kiefer) but the low carb days gave me terrible insomnia. As a matter of fact any day without lots of carbs gives me insomnia now. My body is in a state where it is not even feasible to low carb anymore even though I enter ketosis very easily.
- Most of my excess fat is in my belly - I look like a pregnant male. Some fat in face and throat. But no excessive fat in my limbs or ****. I have some noticeable subcutaneous fat in the belly area which I did not have 6 weeks ago. But most of my fat is visceral.
- A couple of months ago I had succeeded in trimming down everything except the visceral fat in my stomach with a high starch low fat no sugar diet. All the subcutaneous fat was gone.
- The visceral fat was not budging. I read that the only way to get rid of visceral fat is to burn it off. I started going to the gym and doing interval training to the point of exhaustion.
- Just a few weeks of the interval training triggered excessive hunger and horrible insomnia.
- I've been on a massive binge the last month trying to satisfy my appetite - 2 pounds of various pasta a day, coconut milk, cashews, chicken breast, and cliff bars.
- My extreme hunger is starting to go away but I am fat now. All my hard work over the last 2 years losing weight disappeared in a few weeks.
- Childhood pneumonia many times and prone to bronchitis as an adult
- Lipomas (fatty tumors) that I have surgically removed from time to time
- Asthma
- Low libido - problem originated with 3 weeks of Paxil use 10 years ago
- Fatty liver - confirmed with elevated liver enzymes and a CAT scan 3 years ago - occurred the 2nd time I went on a ketogenic diet. I ended going really high on butter fat because my appetite was on of control the 2nd time I did a ketogenic diet.
- Weak digestion - many foods give me bad gas or bad breath
- Stress Response between meals - my hands will get sweaty for no reason suddenly
- I've had horrible sleep the last month. I wake up in the middle of the night absolutely ravenous.
- Lactose Intolerant - this was confirmed from a genetic test. I did drink a ton of milk during my childhood. The result was lots of farting but otherwise I tolerate milk extremely well. But I like to avoid milk on days when I go on a date for sure. The gas produced from milk is nasty.
- Calcium to phosphate ratio of 1:1 to 1.5:1 in order to make sure that the oxidative metabolism can work properly.
- Keep PUFA extremely low because if the liver has to deal with PUFA at the same time as fructose bad things will happen.
- Starch that makes it into the large intestine is bad because the intestinal bacteria will produce endotoxin in at least some people - me for sure because it makes me gassy.
- Easily digested starch is okay for some calories but the majority of sugar should come from fruit sources, milk, or sucrose. This is because fructose is superior for refilling liver glycogen.
- The liver must convert the fructose eaten to glycogen. If this doesn't work right everything goes to hell.
- Protein must be adequate or else the liver will have troubles
- Saturated fat is not too harmful but all natural sources of saturated fat has a little bit of PUFA so fat intake needs to be moderated to keep the total PUFA taken in low.
- Eggs are okay despite having PUFA because they have great nutrition - don't overdo it
- Eating liver is important occasionally to provide fat soluble vitamins that are important for the liver to do its job.
- Must avoid stress response as much as possible. Any time the body needs to release stress hormones to obtain energy, bad things happen.
- To be able to store glycogen effectively so I can get away with eating just a few times a day without the stress response kicking in.
- To maintain an oxidative metabolism providing plenty of ATP for all my cells consistently day in and day out. I believe that when I reach this state my excess fat will naturally burn off over time.