thebigpeatowski said:I gained about 25 pounds when I started Peat eating. I have not eaten ANY PUFA at all in nearly six months, but prior to that I lived on nuts and nut butters, fatty fish and fish oil supplements as well as TONS of flax seed oil in my smoothies and next to ZERO carbohydrate.
I had a horrific time with processing all forms of sugar when I first started. It is so much better now, fruit, milk and sugar no longer make me sleepy and brain dead and I have lost 8 of those 25 pounds.
To the average person watching me, not knowing my context or situation, it would appear that all this OJ, milk and fruit made me fat...but the REAL reason why I gained weight is what I did to myself beforehand. Very hard to convince people of that tho....
Indeed is this more or less an impossible task. People always believe they know their bodies and how they work best even if it means believing in some stupid diet-fad like Vegan, Low-Carb or Raw Food. First when they experience the damage you can do yourself first-hand will they ever change opinion (as I did). There might be some more open-minded people out there though, but I haven't met them. People tend to believe what the authorities tell them to; the schools, doctors, "experts", scientists (often poor studies out of context, built on faulty conclusions, blown out of proportion by the medias), medias etc. Since I'm not a medical doctor or whatever people tend not to listen to my opinions on nutrition and health, despite the extensive research I have done and my first-hand experiences. I do understand it though, with the amount of conflicting information out there regarding nutrition and health I didn't know what to believe either when I first started out