Hello there. I've given up quite a few addictions in the past month or two. I went from video games to coffee and now to sugar. I want to give any helpful advice to someone who may be struggling with weight loss such as I have ever since I was a child. I finally decide to go full throttle and cut my carbs down to near nothing. Sure I have sprinklings here and there that add up to probably 5 or 10 carbs per day. But mainly I've been on a mostly ketogenic or carnivore diet. If you have a body type like me, the counting calories thing just doesn't seem to work. But doing this absolute diet, for just two weeks has proven very beneficial.
Number one. My body odor is absolutely been cut in half or five times. The BO I used to have which I thought was normal seems less prevalent or almost non-existent. This is after just two weeks.
Number two. I am able to tolerate cold more. It's currently 25° and quite windy. But I'm able to stomach the wind and actually almost enjoy it.
Number three. I have lost weight. Although it's too early to tell and from what I can account for, it is probably water weight according to most people. But it is amazing that something that took me weeks of hardcore exercise got me down to the same and just 2 weeks of high fat diet. I have a long ways to go and will report if it actually gets meaningful weight loss done.
I do this diet without adding much exercise. This is especially important when you get older and you're busy with kids and such. If any of you guys are interested in it, just let me know. I'm sure a lot of you do it already. But I've basically been surviving on ribeye, eggs, raw dairy cream heavy, chicken wings, ground beef, beef soup, some raw Greek yogurt. My treats are flavored but unsweetened carbonated water. Think of lacroix. I did have one cheat day so far, and the day after that recognizable body odor was back. But the day I did eat carbs, I had energy throughout the roof that I haven't had in a while.
It's not glamorous.. I don't particularly think meets that delicious without the sauces and all the other junk that gets at it to it. The feeling is intense cravings for these carbs. If you've ever done a fast without eating anything, it is a very similar feeling despite the fact that I am eating tons of fat. If you want to go down the YouTube rabbit hole, it all has to do with your resting insulin level, and depleting your glycogen. I hope everyone stays healthy out there.
You should be counting everything: calories, carbs, protein and sodium.
A low carb, high protein diet will heal you.
You should set a sensible calorie limit, but it's the carbs that will help you lose weight and the protein will keep you from getting hungry.
When you hunger for carbs, it means you haven't had enough protein. Your hunger doesn't understand the difference because in the natural healthy world, there are no things as highly processed sugars and wheat flour.
Exercise is fantastic but you'll naturally feel compelled to exercise and eat low carb high protein meals once you stop eating poisonous toxins.
It may also take time to get your meal portions into healthy sizes, so a small meal of stir-fried chicken, broccoli, corn spears with an oyster sauce will leave you completely satisfied.
If you're eating healthy: low carbs and high protein, you shouldn't get hunger cravings until about an hour before meal time.
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EDIT: Also, congrats on giving up processed sugar because you don't need it. You don't need sugar in your coffee either because it tastes delicious without it (after a short while). You also don't need sweet fizzy drinks or sugary desert after dinner because you are not a fancy child. If you get tired of water, put some lemon or lime juice in some water and enjoy that.