Sugar Saved My Life

[stargazer1111]

Stargazer, how are you feeling?

Have your health problems continued to improve? Do you have any skin issues eating this way, like dandruff or dermatitis?

Still on the same diet?

Have you tried adding in occasional beef Liver for extra nutrition? Curious if you react okay to that.

Have your POIS symptoms continued improving?

Really very curious about your diet and health journey, and thinking about framing my diet similar to yours. But want to know if you’ve found any adjustments were needed over time.

thanks!

My diet took a radical shift recently when I realized that I probably have a severe gastrointestinal condition called eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorder that makes me allergic to like 95% of foods. I react to most foods like celiacs react to gluten and it causes very severe problems. Even pulp-free fruit juice and beef cause problems. The only foods I have found to cause no gastrointestinal symptoms are chicken, shrimp, crab meat, skim milk with no added vitamins, beef tallow, and white sugar.

My diet now consists of chicken, shrimp, skim milk, white sugar, beef tallow, and caffeine-free soda.

Chicken isn’t as bad as you might think. The amount of PUFA, even in the fattier parts of the meat, isn’t too much. I get probably 4-6 grams of PUFA per day which is about 2% of calories for me and is just slightly higher than Peat’s 4 gram cut off.

I have tried going low to very low fat several times and each time I have to stop because my brain shuts down. I get severely depressed, have memory problems, and can’t problem solve. I seem to require about 100 grams per day at least and it has to be animal fat. Coconut oil does not help even in large doses. This is why I have switched to beef tallow and eat around 80-100 grams of that per day.

I get about 300 grams of sugar daily. 100 comes from lactose in milk and 200 comes from white sugar. Sometimes I add extra white sugar to deal with stress.

As far as the POIS goes, the symptoms are partially due to porn addiction and partially due to my gastrointestinal disorder. I've finally given up porn for good and haven't looked back. Sex in moderation, followed by large amounts of sugar to compensate for the stress, causes zero problems now as long as I stick to the few foods I'm not intolerant to. I believe the gastrointestinal disorder throws off my immune system which causes a lot of my POIS symptoms. If I'm eating properly, this response is inhibited.

 

[stargazer1111]

One other thing I should mention is that I dropped starch entirely back in April. Although I still have some belly fat and think I have actually gained a little weight, my fat distribution seems to be shifting gradually. It seems like I'm putting more fat (or something) in my chest area and my legs and my stomach is flattening out ever so slightly. Perhaps this is due to reduced cortisol?

When I was eating starch, I was horribly pear shaped and looked old and saggy even though I'm only in my mid 30's. Big belly but thin chest and legs. My body seems to be evening out little by little as I go on doing only sugar. But, it is very gradual and will likely take years if the trend continues.

I may have developed an age spot or two on my scalp but I'm unsure if they are new and am unsure what caused this. I was eating beef at every meal for months and it might have had something to do with too much iron, assuming they are new. But, they may be old and I just never noticed them before. They may also be freckles. It's hard to tell.

As far as liver goes, I avoid liver like the plague. I am hypersensitive to vitamin A and after having taken too much a few years ago, am eating a relatively zero vitamin A diet for now because it takes years to clear out an excess like the one I took (moronically). I also think liver is toxic because it's too high in heavy metals, particularly copper. It smells bad and tastes bad to me and that tells me I shouldn't be consuming it.

 

[accelerator]

Relevant to the topic at hand, and n=1 proof that sugar is the champion of weight loss (14 day aka 2 week averaged plots to average out daily fluctuations):

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(That's why I eat 600-700 gram sugar a day, summed up in one picture). Only thing that makes me lose weight. Note that some of the lower sugar days actually made me gain weight. So much for low carb/keto.

... and this is why I don't eat starch anymore...

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This is you're personal tracking you did?

 

[Indicatrice]

This post will be very long, so I apologize in advance.

Speaking of Nofap, I have come to a pretty unusual observation about myself over the last decade or so.

I believe I am bipolar and suffer from manic episodes. However, I also believe that my bipolar is entirely caused by the gut. If I eat anything starchy or fibrous, it turns on like a light switch and I become a completely different person. If I eat a very strict diet of sugared milk, meat, fiber-free fruit juice, soda, and these maple syrup candies I found online, I am normal and have no such problems. It starts with gastrointestinal distress and several hours later moves to the brain.

One of the symptoms of mania is hypersexuality. When this light switch flips for me, I become obsessively focused on sex and I begin craving sex that does not match my actual sexual identity. I begin engaging in very risky behavior and compulsively look at porn. I have no such problem when I'm eating my strictly limited diet and have no desire for porn despite having a normal libido.

I have struggled with porn addiction and sexual issues for years and it has taken a very long time for me to understand what exactly is going on. It all goes back to the gut for me and I understand now that this has been a problem since I was an infant.

When I was very young, I struggled with hallucinations and severe emotional distress. Of course, I didn't understand what was happening and couldn't articulate it so my parents didn't know anything was wrong. I discovered several years ago that I could turn these hallucinations on and off. If I eat dairy and nightshade vegetables simultaneously, I basically become a mild paranoid schizophrenic. If I eat nightshades by themselves, I go into a bipolar manic episode. If I eat dairy by itself, I have zero problems whatsoever. So, the nightshades are probably the true problem in this scenario.

The reason I believe the causality goes: gut problems --> hypersexuality --> porn addiction --> post-orgasmic illness, is that I had compulsion issues before puberty in response to these foods only it led to compulsively eating certain foods because they gave me a chemical high like drugs. Once puberty hit, orgasms gave me a much greater high so these replaced the food addiction when eating the problematic foods. So, the real problem I think, is that eating starchy/fibrous foods eventually leads to an imbalance in neurotransmitters and the brain's compulsive seeking of orgasms and porn is an attempt to restore homeostasis by flooding itself with dopamine and endorphins.

If I eat problem foods only one time, the mania and hypersexuality will usually lead to an insatiable craving for one orgasm. If I eliminate the problem foods and eat my strictly limited diet after this, the hangover is much less severe. Combining the avoidance of those problematic foods with lots of sugar speeds up the recovery from an episode even more. I believe this is because the sugar is balancing the neurotransmitters (particularly the fructose component of sugar).

I ate a zero carb, all meat diet for about 7 years. Prior to this, I was eating potatoes, cheese, meat, and fiber-rich veggies daily. I was struggling with weird hypersexuality and manic episodes. This completely disappeared on the zero carb diet for its entirety. When I reintroduced carbs back in the summer of 2016, I initially followed Paul Jaminet's Perfect Health Diet which meant I went back to eating potatoes at virtually every meal. The manic episodes and hypersexuality immediately returned after that 7 year period and it was frightening to say the least. This is why I believe the problem originates from an intolerance to starchy/fibrous foods because they are causing problems in the gut (probably endotoxin-related).

If I continually eat the problematic foods at each meal, the orgasm leads to EXTREME problems of muscle pain, fatigue (to the point at which I can't get out of bed), inability to make eye contact, extreme pain in the gut (particularly stomach ulcers) and bleeding which I have seen in stools, and I was will just stay manic indefinitely.

So, my plan from now on is to stick to my peat-inspired, very very strict diet of meat, sugared milk, fiber-free fruit juice, and soda with no exceptions.

My experience makes me believe that Peat is right about the gut bacteria. Especially the estrogen and serotonin component because these manic episodes make me crave sex that does not match my actual sexual identity. I never tell anyone about this in real life because I am afraid that the LGBTQ community will chastise me for my experience.

Interesting post, I was wondering what led you to changing your all meat diet after all those years on it, did you gradually become worse?