Cirion
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I decided to make this its own thread because I was kind of hijacking another guys' thread (Sorry Amarsh!) and also to help consolidate information/data/thoughts.
The premise is from personal experimentation, I believe there is a strong link between diet and food choices, and metabolism and weight gain (or loss) also, and I intend to find the links through personal data collection and experimentation. I do not have enough data to make 100% conclusive statements yet, but I have enough data to at least make some interesting plots to spark some further investigation and debate. I also acknowledge that linear plots like these will not be fully conclusive. Later, with more data, I intend to make multi-dimensional plots that account for the interaction effects between parameters and determine what 20% parameters to tweak to get 80% of the metabolism benefits. My main hypothesis is that you can use Water weight change on a day-to-day basis to get a window of stress and metabolism. Ray Peat wrote about water weight and that excess water weight typically correlates to estrogen and other stressors in the body, so that's why this is my working theory. So, I'm using weight gain or loss on a daily basis as an indicator of metabolism.
All plots are from measured data from my own personal dietary manipulations.
Usually, and historically, people would just take a calories plot like this
And take that and say 4000 calories is the cutoff point for weight gain or loss. Well, I propose a different theory, that you can increase your max calorie threshold via dietary manipulation and thus improve metabolism and lose weight more easily and in a more healthy manner than simple caloric restriction methods. That was inspired after noticing the huge scatter of data in the calories plot. Historically people thought that water weight change is completely random and not quantifiable, but I disagree and intend to prove that there is no random-ness in water weight changes, and you absolutely can quantify it. The body is complex, to be sure, but it's not random.
The premise is from personal experimentation, I believe there is a strong link between diet and food choices, and metabolism and weight gain (or loss) also, and I intend to find the links through personal data collection and experimentation. I do not have enough data to make 100% conclusive statements yet, but I have enough data to at least make some interesting plots to spark some further investigation and debate. I also acknowledge that linear plots like these will not be fully conclusive. Later, with more data, I intend to make multi-dimensional plots that account for the interaction effects between parameters and determine what 20% parameters to tweak to get 80% of the metabolism benefits. My main hypothesis is that you can use Water weight change on a day-to-day basis to get a window of stress and metabolism. Ray Peat wrote about water weight and that excess water weight typically correlates to estrogen and other stressors in the body, so that's why this is my working theory. So, I'm using weight gain or loss on a daily basis as an indicator of metabolism.
All plots are from measured data from my own personal dietary manipulations.
Usually, and historically, people would just take a calories plot like this
And take that and say 4000 calories is the cutoff point for weight gain or loss. Well, I propose a different theory, that you can increase your max calorie threshold via dietary manipulation and thus improve metabolism and lose weight more easily and in a more healthy manner than simple caloric restriction methods. That was inspired after noticing the huge scatter of data in the calories plot. Historically people thought that water weight change is completely random and not quantifiable, but I disagree and intend to prove that there is no random-ness in water weight changes, and you absolutely can quantify it. The body is complex, to be sure, but it's not random.