As a woman of a certain age, I have long journeyed through the low carb, no/carb, paleo, intermittent fasting to finally realize all those healthy “diets” wrecked my metabolism. I am now on the road to recovery. Stress reduction, weight training, walking and slowly reintroducing carbs and increasing calories is improving my body composition. The worst mistake for me was the fasting. 🤦🏻♀️
Yes, I feel the same - low carb, keto, intermittent fasting - things I thought at the time would help, but in hindsight made my metabolism and thyroid issues worse. Now it's taking time to turn it all around.
Beware! Vegan will do the same thing. Like a long starvation project depriving the body of what it needs. We need to stop analyzing this stuff and eat good, wholesome, healthy foods (organic, non-gmo and PBWF is strict enough, with organic grass-fed meats the body needs - for whatever its reasons) in sensible portions - more for athletics, less for less activity. I tried the keto/Atkins thing once. Never been a big meat eater. After three weeks, I felt like I was going nuts and called my bf from work about it. He said to go back to my own routine for losing the 5 pounds I wanted to shed. I went back to just paring way down, exercising, and all was well within 4 weeks - 5 pounds gone and sanity intact! You can really screw your body up with all this fad crap. We didn't survive this long analyzing everything, but by eating everything! Of course, back then, food used to be food, instead of now (chemicals). Eat clean and eat food in sensible portions. If it was rocket science, this species would have been gone long ago!
Interesting point about eating for pleasure and conviviality. I look in the carts of my fellow Americans at the grocery store and I’m struck. Can you eat processed GMO corn products that are cooked in Omega 6 oils and spiked with sugar and salt with pleasure and conviviality?
Doubtful. Try raw milk cheeses, grass fed beef, fresh baked breads, fresh vegetables, butter, olive oil and delicious wine. Now you can start to enjoy eating.
Americans are being poisoned by a cabal of big ag, big processed food, big pharma, big government and big media. We need to let those brightly colored packages in the middle of the supermarket rot on the shelves.
I can say that, having removed many carbs I do feel better... But I am an addict to honey (crystalizing honey!). LOL! But yeah, I eat to enjoy, and I enjoy meat, eggs, and cheese! And berries!
Berries, ah, berries ... I have been eating frozen (but thawed !) blueberries with yoghurt for both breakfast and dinner for a year now. This is a real addiction ... :(
Frozen wild berries (they are smaller no large frozen chunks), greek yoghurt (not too sweet so you can taste the berries and nuts) and mixed premium (no peanuts they taste shit) nuts. Add the nuts trust me, they might not be healthy but I reckon this is my second favourite desert.
Imnsho, a LARGE meal of my blueberries with a particular Australian greek-style yoghurt (no sweetening at all) and nuts, as you say, ought to be considered The Perfect Meal; and I would be very happy to eat nothing else. But there are too many carbs in there for a large-ish old broad, and I could have only a small one - which would leave me hungry in a short while. :(
I have been doing low carb for a couple of years now and I have lost quite a bit of weight on it. I plan on sticking with it. However, it is interesting how some Asian cultures can eat a fair amount of rice and remain pretty healthy unlike in the U.S. Maybe it is the volume as you point out. Oh, and what is even more interesting is that the French smoke more than Americans and still live longer than Americans.
See, I want to do carnivore because its adherents say they've come off all medication; and as my GP says only that I can NEVER come off mine (FFS !!!), I see no other way - short of finding that mystical figure, the GP who believes in your and Kendrick's pro-cholesterol take.
It's not as if I haven't considered the matter of never having a squashed chocolate cowpat with my coffee again— what ? Oh, it's a wide flat cookie that Axil has in its collection ... I have. MANY times. :( And the thought is not at all pleasing.
So you may pray that I DO find one of those doctors (the two Melbourne blokes suggested never responded to email from me). Down on your knees, mate ! [grin]
The effects of those 3 drugs are a disaster. But old people can't get off them because their thinking is so fcuked up (from the drugs) they can no longer reason. I've seen it hundreds of times it's very sad.
What do you think about the possibility glyphosates are causing the weight gain? I had a coworker from the UK who had to spend about a third of the year here in the US the 6 years he and I worked together.
He said he ate the same here as he did there —he loved Mc Donald’s (no accounting for taste) and other globally franchised fast food, and had the occasional bangers and mash at our one really good UK restaurant. But he said he always put on 15 lbs when he came here, and lost it all, without a change in diet, exercise, or stress level, upon going home, back and forth. We both wondered if in the US, our food is so poisoned—so as to bring down the US Superpower, one sickened, fattened person, family, community, city, state and region at a time.
I have to keep my carbs down bc my metabolism has slowed, and I have developed a handful of autoimmune issues (I’m not vaxed), but I wonder if part of that —the autoimmune onset, metabolism sabotage, and weight gain, all combined and independently, are not because of the carbohydrates themselves, but rather bc our grain and the higher-carb produce might be greatly poisoned.
Tony I am doing Carnivore, and I have no problem doing it. It's not in any way hard to do. And really, I don't think of it as a diet, rather it's a certain way of eating. Under Carnivore, I no longer go to restaurants and honestly, I found almost all restaurants very disappointing in the past.
But I still entertain at home and have no problem serving my guests' potatoes and veges.
I feel great and have dropped clothing sizes and am back exercising. I have not weighed myself in 3 months, but everyone is amazed at how much my physical appearance has changed for the better.
As a woman of a certain age, I have long journeyed through the low carb, no/carb, paleo, intermittent fasting to finally realize all those healthy “diets” wrecked my metabolism. I am now on the road to recovery. Stress reduction, weight training, walking and slowly reintroducing carbs and increasing calories is improving my body composition. The worst mistake for me was the fasting. 🤦🏻♀️
Great article Anthony! Thank you 😊
Yes, I feel the same - low carb, keto, intermittent fasting - things I thought at the time would help, but in hindsight made my metabolism and thyroid issues worse. Now it's taking time to turn it all around.
Beware! Vegan will do the same thing. Like a long starvation project depriving the body of what it needs. We need to stop analyzing this stuff and eat good, wholesome, healthy foods (organic, non-gmo and PBWF is strict enough, with organic grass-fed meats the body needs - for whatever its reasons) in sensible portions - more for athletics, less for less activity. I tried the keto/Atkins thing once. Never been a big meat eater. After three weeks, I felt like I was going nuts and called my bf from work about it. He said to go back to my own routine for losing the 5 pounds I wanted to shed. I went back to just paring way down, exercising, and all was well within 4 weeks - 5 pounds gone and sanity intact! You can really screw your body up with all this fad crap. We didn't survive this long analyzing everything, but by eating everything! Of course, back then, food used to be food, instead of now (chemicals). Eat clean and eat food in sensible portions. If it was rocket science, this species would have been gone long ago!
Interesting point about eating for pleasure and conviviality. I look in the carts of my fellow Americans at the grocery store and I’m struck. Can you eat processed GMO corn products that are cooked in Omega 6 oils and spiked with sugar and salt with pleasure and conviviality?
Doubtful. Try raw milk cheeses, grass fed beef, fresh baked breads, fresh vegetables, butter, olive oil and delicious wine. Now you can start to enjoy eating.
Americans are being poisoned by a cabal of big ag, big processed food, big pharma, big government and big media. We need to let those brightly colored packages in the middle of the supermarket rot on the shelves.
I can say that, having removed many carbs I do feel better... But I am an addict to honey (crystalizing honey!). LOL! But yeah, I eat to enjoy, and I enjoy meat, eggs, and cheese! And berries!
Thanks for this! It does help heal perspective!
Berries, ah, berries ... I have been eating frozen (but thawed !) blueberries with yoghurt for both breakfast and dinner for a year now. This is a real addiction ... :(
Frozen wild berries (they are smaller no large frozen chunks), greek yoghurt (not too sweet so you can taste the berries and nuts) and mixed premium (no peanuts they taste shit) nuts. Add the nuts trust me, they might not be healthy but I reckon this is my second favourite desert.
Imnsho, a LARGE meal of my blueberries with a particular Australian greek-style yoghurt (no sweetening at all) and nuts, as you say, ought to be considered The Perfect Meal; and I would be very happy to eat nothing else. But there are too many carbs in there for a large-ish old broad, and I could have only a small one - which would leave me hungry in a short while. :(
Having difficulty getting organic blueberries here lately, do for now it's strawberries. But when the organic blues come in, it's back to them!
Do they HAVE to be organic ?
For Me, they do. You can risk the pesticides and all that They use on non-organic produce... [shrug]
Oh yeah, you're bloody right !! But— no, never mind.
I have been doing low carb for a couple of years now and I have lost quite a bit of weight on it. I plan on sticking with it. However, it is interesting how some Asian cultures can eat a fair amount of rice and remain pretty healthy unlike in the U.S. Maybe it is the volume as you point out. Oh, and what is even more interesting is that the French smoke more than Americans and still live longer than Americans.
Maybe Their tobacco is not steeped in chemicals before being dried and sold...
It's not the reduced carb it's the reduced calories. It's just an easy way to reduce them, for now.
Yes, I agree with everything you say, Anthony !
See, I want to do carnivore because its adherents say they've come off all medication; and as my GP says only that I can NEVER come off mine (FFS !!!), I see no other way - short of finding that mystical figure, the GP who believes in your and Kendrick's pro-cholesterol take.
It's not as if I haven't considered the matter of never having a squashed chocolate cowpat with my coffee again— what ? Oh, it's a wide flat cookie that Axil has in its collection ... I have. MANY times. :( And the thought is not at all pleasing.
So you may pray that I DO find one of those doctors (the two Melbourne blokes suggested never responded to email from me). Down on your knees, mate ! [grin]
Gosh, what sort of medication is your GP saying you can't ditch?
1-blood thinner; 2-beta blocker; 3-hypertension. Or, if you're a smartarse like me, they are rivaroxaban, atenolol and irbesartan.
I hope you find someone that can help you turn things around and get off the meds.
Oh, me too, Helena !!! Who could possibly want to be taking Big Pharma's products for the (limited) rest of her life ?!!!
Not really something anybody would want I imagine - the side effects of those 3 you mentioned don’t look very pleasant.
The effects of those 3 drugs are a disaster. But old people can't get off them because their thinking is so fcuked up (from the drugs) they can no longer reason. I've seen it hundreds of times it's very sad.
What do you think about the possibility glyphosates are causing the weight gain? I had a coworker from the UK who had to spend about a third of the year here in the US the 6 years he and I worked together.
He said he ate the same here as he did there —he loved Mc Donald’s (no accounting for taste) and other globally franchised fast food, and had the occasional bangers and mash at our one really good UK restaurant. But he said he always put on 15 lbs when he came here, and lost it all, without a change in diet, exercise, or stress level, upon going home, back and forth. We both wondered if in the US, our food is so poisoned—so as to bring down the US Superpower, one sickened, fattened person, family, community, city, state and region at a time.
I have to keep my carbs down bc my metabolism has slowed, and I have developed a handful of autoimmune issues (I’m not vaxed), but I wonder if part of that —the autoimmune onset, metabolism sabotage, and weight gain, all combined and independently, are not because of the carbohydrates themselves, but rather bc our grain and the higher-carb produce might be greatly poisoned.
Not far off the mark I would suggest. But I wouldn't just put it all on one thing. Fortified food (with 'vitamins' especially A) is a big part.
Your coworkers diet and exercise etc would have changed but he might not have noticed
Tony I am doing Carnivore, and I have no problem doing it. It's not in any way hard to do. And really, I don't think of it as a diet, rather it's a certain way of eating. Under Carnivore, I no longer go to restaurants and honestly, I found almost all restaurants very disappointing in the past.
But I still entertain at home and have no problem serving my guests' potatoes and veges.
I feel great and have dropped clothing sizes and am back exercising. I have not weighed myself in 3 months, but everyone is amazed at how much my physical appearance has changed for the better.
Why don't you give it a go for 3 months ?
PLEASE Anthony, post the recipe for that cake! I drool over it every time I come here! 😋