That is a great book. She is a wonderful writer. I find her easier to read than Taubes, although his books are great too.
I have experienced a benefit from eating saturated fat, through cocoa/cacao butter and butter and butter+stearic acid. I hope you do, too.
I definitely agree with you on that one. It’s a total mystery to me.
I’d love to know why if you take 20 people who are 100lbs overweight, and put them on a 500kcal diet for 8 weeks, they will all lose a different amount of fat, and the spread is probably going to be normally distributed. What makes for a 3 sigma fat burner? It must be some genetic or epigenitic advantage in lipolysis. I think Fung hit on part of it with his insulin hypothesis, but that’s an insufficient explanation, and hasn’t been validated in a clinical setting to my knowledge. There is more too it than that. I think you’re right that it’s “horomones”, but which ones and why? You’re guess is as good mine!
I lose very rapidly at first, and the closer I get to a reasonable weight, the slower the weight loss. The first week I lost 20 pounds. Despite eating fruit and drinking wine. Just no sugar added, no starch. Now I am good to lose a pound or two a week, and I am still 47 pounds from my aspired weight (which is still on the pudgy side). I went from 320 to 250 in some 7 months.
I agree. Your body has gone through tremendous changes, internally and externally. Make sure you are eating enough to fuel it sufficiently, while keeping the carbs as low under 20 as you can. You will still lose weight, but maybe at a more moderate rate. How much more do you wish to lose?
GlasgoKetoKing,
I’ll differ from those below. I am near my goal of 165 lbs after losing 60 lbs, my weight loss plateaued. I was so constipated that I fasted for 48 hours. I lost 4 lbs by doing that. In my case, I fasted to reduce the pain from constipation. My Bk went from 0.5 to 1.7! My brand new pants are lose now. I will add more days to my intermittent fasting. Just my experience and not advice.
Wow. Just wow. I tip my hat to you. You are AMAZING.
I read somewhere on here that switching to carnivore can get something moving again.
Being the human skeleton weighs around 28 pounds if your body weight is around 196 pounds (12-15% of your body weight).
Females may lose some of that 28 pounds prior to losing weight because (unlike most males but not limited to females) of the testosterone advantage in bone mass density, so ‘…it can appear they have gained weight when actually they gained bone mass density and muscle volume and a DEXA scan confirms this…” per - Amy Berger on Megan Ramos[3]? (paraphrased)
Fasting only women?
Keto women?
or
Both?
Weight Lifting & Resistance Training?
Footnotes:
[2] How do you cure osteoporosis?
Weighing less than 127 pounds or having a body mass index under 21 is a risk factor for osteoporosis. Regardless of your body mass index, if you lose weight during the menopausal transition (late perimenopause and the first few years after menopause), you’re more likely to lose bone. …” …More
[3] How does osteoporosis happen?
Osteoporosis causes bones to become weak and brittle — so brittle that a fall or even mild stresses such as bending over or coughing can cause a fracture. Bone is living tissue that is constantly being broken down and replaced. Osteoporosis occurs when the creation of new bone doesn’t keep up with the loss of old bone. …More