I would post this on my journal but Mame’s comment here makes it better here.
I was watching a video with Phinney last night. I fell asleep alas. Anyway, at one point, I was suddenly SO irritated. I have seen this with nearly every ‘expert’ in the lowcarb world – except Taubes who, at least as I recall, has never been this cordially condescending.
Essentially, it’s that someone will say they are legitimately lowcarb, and they are not losing weight (or usually, ‘anymore’), nor are their calories crazy.
And the expert will say something to the effect that they are just eating way too much on weekends (Phinney) or they are just eating too many nuts as a snack (Eades) or they are doing X and “don’t realize or remember” that actually if they weren’t being a pig everything would be working for them.
I was once a big Michael Eades fan, as a cardiologist’s ref to me got me to read his book which led to my eventually going LC and it saving my life. But when a guy on his blog – and at the time, me, and also at the time, Jimmy Moore, and some others – were saying publicly look, we lost a LOT of weight, and now we’re eating like sausage and eggs for breakfast and everything’s in the proper zone for macros but we’re having giant blood sugar crashes after that we never did before. And the guy courageous enough to insist this was true for him, and he’d lost a lot of weight on LC and knew what he was doing by now, Eades basically, not very indirectly just called him a liar (in blog comments section). I was SO offended that humans weren’t allowed to have legit experiences, because well that might make science have to ask a question about WHY, and how can we be experts if we don’t know everything already?! FFS man.
This patronizing condescension about keto and weight loss reminds me of that, where some expert is sure that anybody who is not reporting the rainbows and unicorns must be lying, either intentionally or out of blissful stupidity. I was irritated last night and was going to post on it today, but Mame’s comment is precisely what I’m talking about. She’s (?) tracking her stats, she’s always in ketosis, there is obviously more going on than macros.
I know a LOT of people who stopped keto because they were not losing weight anymore – especially older women like myself – I found I did better on a few more carbs and my hair didn’t fall out so much – but that was many years ago before I got sick/heart surgery etc., don’t know if it’s the same for me now as I am only just getting back to an intentional eating plan.
But it’s clear that something is up more than macros. The GKI seems like a big indicator. In part perhaps because by its nature, it does take into account overdosing on protein, since that has blood sugar/insulin side effects.