Another thought on this. If people have come from really severe restriction, and start eating enough, they may get not only some weight gain, but a whole lot of really uncomfortable symptoms that commonly occur during recover from anorexia etc, like bloating and edema as repair is begun, and pain from the damage done previously by starvation, which has been blunted during active restriction. For some people, this would probably happen whatever they ate during refeeding, Peat-inspired or not. If they associate these uncomfortable/painful symptoms with their Peat-inspired food choices, rather than with just starting to eat enough, and aren't aware of the common phases of such recovery, I imagine that could put a few people off.tara said:I suspect that part of the reason that many people gain weight while trying some of Peat's suggestions is that they are coming from restrictive eating practices that have left them malnourished, and for some people, with reduced thyroid function or other damaged systems. Then they start eating to appetite for a while, and gain weight, because this is the normal (and often healthy) thing that happens when people stop starving themselves.