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.
Redefine your goals. If you're a man, you should have a goal to build physical strength and be more athletic and physically able. Your absolute body weight is all but irrelevant to that. There are 400 lb guys who can lift trucks, and 150 lb guys who can barely stand up in a stiff breeze. Which would you rather be?
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Sugar is not poison. It is food. It is part of what a normal healthy adult male should eat. If you are very active, you should be consuming quite a bit of it, no matter the source.
If you read Dr. Atkins books, he clearly identifies that sugar is not the problem -- it is INSULIN. More specifically, INSULIN RESISTANCE AKA pre-diabetes. You MUST learn how to manage your insulin spikes. It's really easy to tell if you have a problem: Can you go 24 hours only drinking water without any hunger pains? Then you are fine. If you get hungry a few hours after eating, you have insulin problems. Do the Atkins diet until you learn how insulin is supposed to work.
Once you get your insulin under control, you can go ahead and eat sugar, a lot of it even, but you must not get back on the insulin treadmill. Learn how to manage that.
Now, your health goals, again, should be to be physically capable and then some. In order to build muscle, you must eat a lot of protein. That protein should come from meat, especially beef. You should be eating almost an ungodly amount of beef. I think I eat at least a pound or two of beef a day. If your protein intake is high enough, then you will naturally add muscle. Combine high protein with strength exercises, and you should add a lot of strength.
You also need a lot of fat. Buy a lot of butter and use it. Buy lard and tallow and use it. Avoid vegetable oils if you can, but in my experience they don't make a big difference as long as you are eating butter and lard and tallow. Just buy juicy steaks with lots of fat on the edge and fry it up and eat the fat too.
Otherwise, it really doesn't matter what you eat. Make sure to experiment with various vitamins and minerals to see if eating more of them helps or hurts, and identify which foods are high in the nutrients you lack. For instance, I drink a tiny bit of borax every day, and it helps tremendously with my arthritis and other issues. (5 ml of borax in a 500 ml water bottle, and I put about 1 tbsp (15 ml) of that solution in a drink daily.) I tried increasing my iodine but I found it didn't help and made me a little sicker. I figure I'm getting enough iodine from my diet it doesn't matter. (Eat a lot of salt too. Don't worry about it -- if you crave salt eat salt.)
I have also experimented with H2O2. I don't even use toothpaste anymore. I just brush my teeth once or twice a day with water. I might use 3% H2O2 as a mouthwash after brushing once a week, maybe. If I'm getting sick, I just add 3 drops of 35% H2O2 to my drink and it pretty much goes away in a day or two. Read "The One Minute Cure" -- its' free online and explains how you can use H2O2.
I spend at least an hour outdoors every day doing light farm work, and I don't do much other exercise outside of working the restaurant for about 6 hours or so a day. I can lift stuff, my back isn't killing me, and I haven't been sick for months and months now, maybe over a year. And I'm turning 50 soon.
I'm overweight but I got a cheap body fat test and it came back with remarkably low body fat. You'd look at me and think I am fat but I guarantee you I can lift more than most young people I know. My belt size is much smaller than you'd think too. I lost several inches of waist size over the past few years, despite my body weight staying the same.
Anyway, set your goals, work towards it, and keep learning and experimenting and adjusting. Your body is different than mine. Learn to use it properly.