I think what is great with the Ray Peat paradigm is not that you have to eat a lot of calories, sugar, nutrient dense foods etc, but rather that it works as a good indicator of how well our physiology is functioning. Many people get stuck because they eat all the Peaty foods and a lot of calories and get fat, and then think of it as another diet that didn't work. I don't remember if it was Danny or Ray who spoke about certain women who could gain fat on extremely low calorie diets because their metabolism was incredibly slow. Technically those women were on a calorie surplus, otherwise they wouldn't have gained the weight. All while being in what's called a calorie deficit by normal standards.Sick of gaining weight. What am I supposed to do? Folks said a 500cal deficit is horrible. Will my body magically morph into not being fat if I eat enough calories? This is something I can’t understand.
I’m considering going lower carb again and increasing exercise. The mental health aspect of not being fat is worth it to me.
The usual Peaty foods are obviously good nutritious foods but if you just follow the standard dogma of milk, sugar, fruit, liver, carrots - you probably aren't too specific about how you go about your nutrition. I think it needs to be tailormade by you, and that's obviously the hard part about it, because the only way to truly know what works is to think - perceive - act, a thousand times over, making mental notes, building up experience and knowledge about how you feel and react to foods, stimuli, supplements etc.